Premier League clubs set for fresh split as Super League tensions resurface ahead of crunch meeting

Premier League clubs are prepared to bring up the failed European Super League plot at Tuesday’s crucial shareholders’ meeting as they look to put pressure on the so-called “big six” sides to contribute a greater share to the £130m rescue package for the wider pyramid.

Six Premier League clubs - Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Manchester City - formed part of the breakaway European Super League plans in April 2021, which collapsed spectacularly within days after a fan revolt.

The so-called “other 14” feel the current model for the “New Deal for football”, which proposes a new financial distribution model between the Premier League and EFL, will see them paying a proportion of their revenue that is felt much more by those with lower incomes.

There is an increasingly emotive will to renegotiate this at Tuesday’s meeting, as the 20 Premier League members attempt to vote through a package that has been long awaited in the wider game.

That would potentially include a push for a transfer levy. The prospect of the future independent regulator imposing such terms on the competition without any negotiation is one of many factors sharpening the tension, along with a general sense of shock at how punitive the 10-point deduction for profit and sustainability breaches was for Everton.

It has temporarily reshaped discussion around divisions that have not been seen since the European Super League plans first surfaced, effectively splitting the old “big six” and the rest.

That wealthy group had previously worked as a bloc to try and influence economic issues like revenue-sharing, but it was fractured after the failure of the European Super League.

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