West Ham release club statement after Premier League meeting to discuss European Super League

West Ham have come out towards the proposals for a European Super League, with the club making a powerful statement vehemently opposing the creation of the brand new competitors.

The club statement got here after Vice-Chairman Karren Brady met with representatives of the 13 different Premier League golf equipment not concerned with the Super League to discuss their response to the plans of the ‘large six’.

Senior club officers had met on Monday with the Independent Supporter’s Committee who had let their opposition to the plans be identified and West Ham have now publicly condemned the Super League plans.

The statement started: “West Ham United shared its views and people of its supporters expressing vehement opposition to the proposal for a Super League at a Premier League meeting held on Tuesday morning.”

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The club identified that it was based 125 years in the past by “working-class shipbuilders” and to today stays “deeply rooted in its personal neighborhood”.

The statement goes onto say that over a century because the formation of Thames Ironworks FC, because it was then identified, West Ham are “owned by two supporters,” and “stays on the coronary heart of our neighborhood, true to its working-class values”.

The club continued with its opposition to the proposals and confirmed they’ll do all the things of their arms to struggle the “assault on soccer”.

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“These proposals are an assault on sporting integrity, undermine competitors, and ignore these supporters, and people of the 1000’s of golf equipment and thousands and thousands of gamers, from the Premier League to Sunday League, who can aspire to attain the highest of the sport identical to our 150-plus homegrown Academy of Football graduates who got here from grassroots and have been developed into first-team gamers,” it stated.

The statement added: “These proposals go completely towards the ethos and values – the West Ham Way – which have impressed us to these unforgettable successes and can form the subsequent era of Hammers, on and off the pitch.

“West Ham United will proceed to do all the things attainable standing along with its supporters, authorities, governing our bodies and the broader soccer neighborhood to resist this assault on soccer in one of the best pursuits of our Club and of the sport all of us love.

“We consider now we have a social accountability to accomplish that.”

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The West Ham statement was launched shortly earlier than one from the Premier League following the meeting between the 14 ‘non large six’ golf equipment, The FA, and the Premier League.

The statement learn: “The 14 golf equipment on the meeting unanimously and vigorously rejected the plans for the competitors.

“The Premier League is contemplating all actions accessible to stop it from progressing, in addition to holding these Shareholders concerned to account underneath its guidelines.

“The League will proceed to work with key stakeholders together with fan teams, Government, UEFA, The FA, EFL, PFA and LMA to shield one of the best pursuits of the sport and name on these golf equipment concerned within the proposed competitors to stop their involvement instantly.”

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