Football Manager 2021 player deletes the Super League clubs and simulates the next 25 years

The European Super League seems dead – for now, at least. But that didn’t stop one Football Manager 2021 player from using the game to simulate how football might have played out over the next 25 years without the founder clubs in their leagues.

When the Super League was announced, Uefa threatened to ban the founder clubs from all existing competitions – including domestic leagues.

If the Super League had launched as planned, and Uefa had followed through on its threat, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs would have been booted out of the Premier League.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid would have been kicked out of the Spanish league, and Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan would have been banned from Serie A.

Inspired by the prospect, Redditor FlyingPingoo manually removed these clubs from their leagues for the remainder of the 2020/21 season, and then “holidayed” for the next 25 years.

A “holiday” in Football Manager is when a human player lets the computer take control of their duties for a set period of time. In this case, a quarter of a century.

When a manager is on holiday, their assistant manager/coach takes over as manager. Players use holiday mode for testing games because you can let the game progress through several seasons much more quickly than if you played them.

FlyingPingoo moved the Premier League’s “big six” to semi-pro leagues – promoted throughout the football pyramid to fill in the gaps – and then “financially and fan-nancially crippled them so they have no chance to recover”. It’s what they deserve, after all.