Matt Slater

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3,033 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... the Super League had happened? · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

Bans, you know, anyone involved in this would not be able to play in the competition. voice-verified

So I think he kind of very quickly scanned the room and thought. voice-verified

I'm standing out of this one. voice-verified

I think also to be fair that voice-verified

A lots of people that know him and were talking for him have always said he's a kind of loyal guy. voice-verified

And, you know, I don't know how much people want to sort of um voice-verified

take them at their word on this one, but it was certainly one that was put around very widely at the time that NASA did not want to stab UEFA and UEFA's boss Nasser al-Khalif uh sorry Alexander Seferin in the back. voice-verified

Um unlike uh the Juve guy, Andre Agnelli, who was running the European Club Association at the time and was the ringleader and absolutely, you know, puts took an axe voice-verified

To Seferin's back. voice-verified

Despite Seferin being the voice-verified

The godfather of one of his daughters. voice-verified

And this has become one of the great feuds, a source of kind of modern football. voice-verified

So, you know, there's lots of reasons why NASA Al Khalifi didn't do it. voice-verified

Loyalty might be one of them. voice-verified

I think I would argue that the sort of the bit the be in contract with UEFA and the fact that Qatar were going to stage a World Cup, that this would definitely have put another cloud over that, were the bigger factors. voice-verified

Well look, I mean this is this is sort of one of the s so many fascinating parts to this story. voice-verified

So y when it broke or as it was kind of breaking, I I I actually had heard whispers of it. voice-verified

And I I made a fatal professional mistake in dismissing them because voice-verified

I'd heard them so many times before, I'd read about them so many times before. voice-verified

The idea of a European Super League goes back ages. voice-verified

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