Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel is also tired about the narrative his team can’t beat elite opponents. 

It’s safe to say the Dolphins are a feisty bunch just before their Christmas Eve matchup Sunday at 4:25 p.m. ET against the Dallas Cowboys. 

McDaniel on Monday said he gave permission to his players “to tell all members of the media, to, with all due respect, F off. With all due respect.” He wants his team solely focused on the Cowboys, and not the Dolphins shortcomings.

Tagovailoa on Wednesday pushed back on the talking point that Hill, the NFL’s leading receiver in yards and touchdowns, is the reason why the quarterback has had a successful 2024 season. 

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Hill missed practice again Wednesday due to a left ankle injury that kept him out of Miami’s 30-0 win over the New York Jets last week.

“I understand that my platform and who I am in this league as a quarterback makes me — if you want polarizing, whether I’m the best, whether I’m the worst — like I could care less,” Tagovailoa said.  

“I keep receipts. … Yeah, sure. I am only good with Tyreek. You’re right. That is the only time I’m at my best. You’re right. I’m only good when Jaylen [Waddle] is in.

“I could care less about it. …  I don’t care. I really don’t. So whatever it is, whatever you need on your show, take clips out of what I just said, do what you need to do like that. I’m just here to do my job, and my job is to help our guys win.”

The Dolphins are 10-4, leading the AFC East by two games, but could be playing for the division crown against the Buffalo Bills in the season finale. They have been exposed in losses to the Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans for lack of toughness and off games by Tagovailoa and McDaniel offensively.

The Cowboys are 10-4, leading the NFC East with the tiebreaker over the Philadelphia Eagles secured in a 33-11 win over Philadelphia at home on Dec. 11. But they were dominated 31-10 by the Bills in Buffalo to end a five-game winning streak last week. They also lost decisively to the San Francisco 49ers earlier this year and have a 3-4 road record this season.

The Dolphins are one game back of the Baltimore Ravens for the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoff race, while the Cowboys are one game in back of the 49ers for the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoff race. (Interestingly, the Ravens and 49ers play on Christmas night.)

But their hiccups this season make you wonder if they are truly contenders or just pretenders when the postseason begins next month.

Five-star safety K.J. Bolden changed a local narrative when he went public Wednesday that he had flipped his commitment from Florida State to Georgia.

Those who bought into a recruiting conspiracy theory that Buford (Ga.) High School players were steered away from playing in Athens received more ammunition Monday when Bolden’s teammate, five-star quarterback Dylan Raiola, announced he would play for Nebraska, not Georgia. Raoila spent one season at Buford after arriving from Arizona for summer workouts.

How much NIL money might have contributed to leading Bolden about an hour away to play for Kirby Smart and Georgia is hard to gauge. Bolden, who is the No. 16 prospect (and No. 1 safety) in the ESPN 300, has been at Buford since his freshman year, becoming a two-year starter at safety, wide receiver and kick returner. He becomes Georgia’s third five-star – and 20th ESPN 300 – commitment in this class.

Bolden’s mother, LaKiesha Wright, addressed the curse after a Georgia fan mentioned it on X when Raiola’s official visit to Nebraska last weekend was announced. He committed to the Bulldogs in May.

‘If you don’t know what you’re talking about be quiet,’ she replied. ‘Yall get on social media with craziness everyday.’ She asked what Buford has to do ‘with a player not wanting to attend UGA??? Kirby has a good relationship with our coaches at Buford. We are tired of yall honestly.’

Bolden is the first Buford player to sign with Georgia since offensive lineman Josh Cardiello in 2013.

The Bulldogs signed 28 players Wednesday, the last being Bolden, and Georgia once again flexed its muscles as a national recruiting force, securing the No. 1 class. The Bulldogs landed the top-ranked prospects from Virginia, Tennessee and New Jersey and the No. 2 prospects in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Indiana, New York and Connecticut.

Signing Day’s spot on the calendar as a national holiday of sorts for those that live and breathe college football had been on the decline in recent years, but Bolden gave Georgia fans reason to feel good after the team’s three-peat chances ended when they were left out of the College Football Playoff.

The main event flipped from February to December and now is overshadowed by the constant churn of the transfer portal this month.

Losing Raoila to Nebraska was big news Monday (it was the third subject talked about on ESPN’s PTI), but more impactful for the 2024 Bulldogs was the announcement that starting QB Carson Beck is returning.

Jeff Paxton thought the email was a mistake.

When the longtime Detroit Lions season ticket holder got his renewal invoice for the 2024 season on Monday, Paxton was paralyzed by sticker shock.

Paxton has four seats in Section 103, the first row behind the Lions bench near the tunnel, that have been in his family since the 1950s. He, his wife, Vera, and their 15-year-old son, Joshua, go to about half of the Lions home games every year. He sells a handful of tickets a season for a profit, and gives some to family or friends at face value.

This season, he paid $5,536 for the seats. Next year, the same seats will cost $13,616, according to invoices Paxton shared with the Free Press — a 146% increase in price.

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Paxton checked his invoice over and over to make sure he was reading it right. Then he hopped online and saw other Lions fans complaining about the invoices they received.

He reached out to his season ticket rep, and 24 hours later still hadn’t heard back.

‘I got a feeling his battery’s burned up on his phone,’ Paxton said.

Since 2018, the Lions have maintained relatively flat ticket pricing. In 2019, the team said 92% of all ticket prices stayed the same or saw a slight decrease. There was no public sale of tickets during the pandemic in 2020, and in 2021-22, during a stretch of six straight years without a playoff appearance, the Lions again maintained mostly flat ticket pricing.

This season, coming off a 9-8 record, the Lions increased ticket prices an average of 4% during their early renewal period, but demand has soared for tickets in recent months with the team closing in on its first division title in 30 years, and the franchise is ready to capitalize financially.

Asked about the price hikes, which many fans have pegged between 30%-85%, the Lions said 20% of their season tickets remain under $90.

‘We’ve seen a steep rise in the market value of the tickets which helped inform all of our pricing increases,’ a Lions spokesperson told the Free Press. ‘The tickets in question, front row seats, were significantly under market value in the past, which is why they’re seeing the higher increase.’

Paxton and others say they understand the business side of the price hike, but still feel disrespected by an organization they’ve long supported through mostly bad times.

The Lions need one win in their final three games to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2016. They have one postseason victory since they won their last championship in 1957.

‘It’s like, they’re literally not only trying to weed out the longtime people who have supported them through everything, but it’s like they’re weeding out the middle class, too,’ said Vania Hall, who has had season tickets in her family since the late 1970s and is experiencing a price increase similar to Paxton’s. ‘Because people aren’t going to be able to afford this, so all of a sudden only celebrities are going to be able to afford tickets. Is that what they really want?’

Hall said she has attended all but five or so Lions home games since the Pontiac Silverdome opened in 1975, with the exception of one season when her husband was dealing with a serious illness and the family leased its seats to friends for the year.

She travels from Lansing to Ford Field for games, and has two pairs of season tickets, one in the front row, Section 138, behind the goal post, and the other a few rows back in Row 3 of Section 137.

Last year, the four seats cost $4,056, and she paid another $450 for parking, according to invoices she shared with the Free Press. This year, her invoice was for $8,476 (plus $500 for parking and a $20 membership processing fee), a 109% increase for both pairs of seats. Hall said the cost of her front-row seats increased more than 150%.

‘It’s been a family thing,’ Hall said of going to Lions games. ‘Like for us, there is no Thanksgiving dinner. We go to the game. I used to come back, when my mother-in-law was still well enough to cook, we would just swing by her house on the way back. Now she doesn’t cook as often, so we’re fine with that. This year, I came back and made roast beef and turkey sliders and fries and we sat downstairs and watched the last football game. I mean, that’s just what we do. And we wouldn’t have it any other way except for now this has happened and … I literally feel like a cast-off. It’s almost like finding out your spouse cheated on you because you’ve supported this person all these years but now they have no use for you. That’s really what it feels like.’

Hall said she started attending games with her mother and father in the mid-1970s, and the family was gifted a set of three season tickets a few years later, when her father, a contractor, handled a side job for a friend and wouldn’t take payment for the work. The friend gave the family season ticket vouchers as a Christmas present, and they’ve had seats ever since.

Hall was working her job an assistant custodial director for Lansing Community College on Monday when she received her season ticket invoice for 2024.

She did not immediately open the email, and was Christmas shopping with her husband later that evening when he mentioned how irate some Lions fans were about the price hike on Facebook.

‘He said, ‘Well, did our invoice come?” Hall said. ‘I said, ‘Yeah, but I didn’t open it.’ So I paused in one of the aisles and opened my email and I just stopped walking. He said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘This is crazy.’ He said, ’What is wrong?’ And I just showed it to him. Like, I couldn’t even talk. I said, ‘I don’t see how we can do this.”

Hall, 58, said she has not yet decided whether to keep her tickets, and if she does likely will have to give up one pair of seats because of the cost. One of her friends, another season ticket holder with seats down the aisle in Row 1, already messaged her on Facebook and said he’s so angry he’s not renewing his seats and is done supporting the team.

Hall is trying to be less emotional about her decision, but said ‘to have them go up that much is just really, really a slap to all the people that have supported them for all these years.’

‘There wasn’t even a letter (explaining the price increase) this year, there was just, here’s your renewal form kind of email,’ she said. ‘In the past there’s always been a letter signed by (team owner) Sheila (Hamp) or (team president) Rod Wood … and it bragged about how we had some of the lowest prices in the league. This isn’t how you treat family. This is not how you would.’

Paxton, 60, inherited his tickets from his uncle and has been a regular at games since the early 1970s, when the Lions played at Tiger Stadium and he recalls wrapping newspapers and plastic bags around his feet to keep warm.

When the Lions moved into Ford Field in 2002, they invited some of their longest-tenured season ticket holders to view a rendition of the stadium and pick their seats. Paxton, a director of engineering at Grede who said he makes ‘a decent living, but I’m not rich by any means,’ was there along with representatives from local car dealerships and large legal firms.

While the steep increase in ticket prices will be a write off for some, Paxton said his increase of more than $8,000 is a big dent in his pocketbook.

‘At that price, you look at a game and if I go and take my son and my wife and so forth, with getting just a hot dog and snacks and parking, you’re talking almost $2,000 for a day,’ he said. ‘You start looking at that and you starting saying, ‘Geez.’ I’m going to look at that and say if I go to two games I could go on vacation. If I go to three games, I can go to Hawaii on vacation.’

The Lions are working with season ticket holders to accommodate seat change requests to ensure fans can retain tickets by relocating their seats to a cheaper price tier.

They hope to crack down on bulk resellers by increasing ticket prices – on ticket reseller Stubhub, the asking price for two front row seats in Section 102 (one section over from Paxton’s) for the Lions’ Week 18 game against the Minnesota Vikings is currently $1,318 apiece – and they have a waitlist of more than 9,000 seat requests for those who decide against renewing.

Paxton said the price increase has been ‘tough to swallow.’

‘On the monthly payment plan, it’s $1,300 a month,’ he said. ‘That’s a house payment for some people.’

And he’s torn on what to do. He’d like to keep his tickets, but may have to move elsewhere in the stadium, and he has only a few weeks to decide.

The Lions have given season ticket holders until Jan. 16 to opt in for 2024, and Paxton said the next payment is set to hit his credit card on Jan. 1.

‘I understand the business side of it, but I look at it and the hardship for me is looking at it and say, ‘Well, they finally had a good year and you’re going to try and capitalize,” he said. ‘We didn’t give up on you when you had an 0-16 year. I still had my tickets. We went through COVID. I still had my tickets. Now, they gave us — they did something for us. That’s great. But again, we were loyal. We were there with you. We understand the economics, but to me it’s gauging.’

Contact Dave Birkett at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett.

The transfer portal king has struck again.

After pulling in the nation’s No. 1 class of college football transfer recruits for 2023, Colorado coach Deion Sanders signed 16 new transfer players this time for a transfer class that again ranks No. 1 for 2024, according to Rivals.com and 247Sports.

The signings were confirmed Wednesday by Colorado on the first day of the early signing period for recruiting. It included four offensive linemen — part of a strategy by Sanders this time to fill glaring needs on a team that finished 4-8 in 2023 and gave up the second-most quarterback sacks in the nation last season with 56.

‘I definitely think we have a big, big, big shot at taking it all the way and winning this thing out, because the guys we got coming in — I’m not gonna lie — these are some dawgs,’ former Indiana offensive tackle Kahlil Benson told USA TODAY Sports Wednesday after signing with Colorado. ‘This team is going to be magnificent. Just watch. We comin’.’

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Who else did Deion Sanders sign?

In addition to the transfers, Colorado was expected to sign nine high school players who committed to play for the Buffaloes, including the nation’s No. 1 offensive line recruit, Jordan Seaton. However, Seaton’s signing was not confirmed at Colorado as of Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, he posted a meme on X, formerly Twitter, that suggested he was having trouble making a decision.

But even if he doesn’t sign, the Buffs still reinforced their blocking front with the likes of Benson, a 6-foot-6, 305-pound right tackle who transferred from Indiana with two years of eligibility remaining after starting 24 straight games in the Big Ten Conference.

On Wednesday, Benson posted the news of his signing at Colorado with the hashtag #DT2, which means “Don’t touch 2,” a reference to the jersey number of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders.

Shedeur Sanders, the coach’s son, ended the regular season with a fractured back after being the most-sacked quarterback in the nation (52 times).

‘He’s not getting touched no more,’ Benson said by phone Wednesday.

Benson said he’ll make sure of that, along with Justin Mayers, a transfer guard from Texas-El Paso, Tyler Johnson, a guard from Houston, and Yakiri Walker, a center from Connecticut. Johnson ranked as the No. 1 interior line transfer recruit, according to 247Sports, and has one year of eligibility left as a graduate student.

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What was the strategy this time for Deion Sanders?

Last year, he overhauled the whole roster with 47 new scholarship transfers from other four-year colleges. They helped the Buffs improve from 1-11 in 2022 to 4-8 in 2023, including five losses by seven points or less. This year, he targeted deficiencies on his team such as the offensive and defensive lines. He also added two transfer quarterbacks, part of a plan to add “older quarterbacks,” as he revealed to USA TODAY Sports this month.

“You’ve gotta fill a void,” Sanders said in the interview with USA TODAY Sports. “You’ve got a great quarterback (Shedeur), but if something transpires and you plan on winning, you need a guy to step right in, to fill those shoes that’s a leader.”

He landed Kentucky quarterback transfer Destin Wade and Vanderbilt transfer Walter Taylor. Each has three years of eligibility remaining after not getting much playing time at their previous schools.

Shedeur Sanders also will have new weapons at his disposal in 2024, along with new blockers and new backups. Colorado signed wide receiver Drelon Miller out of high school in Silsbee, Texas — the ninth-highest-ranked player to sign with Colorado since 2000, according to 247 Sports.

He’s joined by Vanderbilt transfer receiver Will Sheppard, who led his team with 684 receiving yards in 2023 and has one year of college eligibility left.

Colorado’s overall recruiting class, including high school players, ranked No. 21 on 247Sports as of Wednesday, behind Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State in the top three.

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Sydney Benes, who lost her legs in an automobile accident in 2021, talked in an Erie, Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday about the embarrassment she had to deal with in March when she was carried downstairs to use the bathroom at Sullivan’s Pub & Eatery.

Then there was the humiliation of finding her wheelchair, which had been pushed from the top of the stairs, sitting damaged at the bottom of those stairs, she said.

Since the accident that led her to use a wheelchair, Benes said everything became a challenge for her. Damaging her chair took that little bit of control over her life that was left, she said.

The wheelchair-shoving incident was captured on video and went viral after it was posted on social media, drawing millions of viewers. It launched an Erie police investigation that led to the filing of criminal charges against two now former Mercyhurst University student-athletes.

The accused — 24-year-old Carson S. Briere, the son of Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Briere, and 22-year-old Patrick Carrozzi — appeared before Erie County Judge John J. Mead on Tuesday morning for hearings on their applications for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, a special program for first-time, nonviolent offenders. The program allows offenders to get probation and have their charges dismissed and their records expunged if they successfully complete it.

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office approved Briere’s and Carrozzi’s applications, and on Tuesday Mead signed off on them. Mead gave each 15 months on a second-degree misdemeanor count of criminal mischief.

Briere, who was cut by the Mercyhurst hockey team after the incident, and Carrozzi, a former Mercyhurst lacrosse player, each apologized to Benes as they stood before Mead Tuesday morning.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Jeremy Lightner told Mead at the start of Tuesday’s hearings that, while there are many evil people in the world, ‘these are not those type of kids.’ He noted, however, that the community should expect better from people who will be future leaders.

Benes told Mead during her comments to the court that, growing up, her parents taught her to treat everyone with respect and kindness. But following her accident, she found out that not everyone feels the same way.

She said following the incident at Sullivan’s, she heard from hundreds of people with disabilities who shared their own stories of the struggles they endured.

‘Disabled people don’t want special treatment or privileges. They just want to be treated like everyone else,’ she said.

Briere’s lawyer, Chad Vilushis, told Mead that as soon as he met Briere, his client wanted to make Benes as whole as possible and provided funds that were passed along to the District Attorney’s Office to pay for the damages to Benes’ wheelchair.

Vilushis said Briere underwent counseling on his own and has volunteered with a hockey club for disabled veterans.

Briere is planning to resume his hockey career in Europe next year, according to information presented in court Tuesday.

Carrozzi’s lawyer, Tim George, told Mead the incident at Sullivan’s was an isolated incident wholly out of character for his client. He said Carrozzi worked very hard at Mercyhurst and served many hours of community service to organizations supporting those with physical disabilities.

Contact Tim Hahn at thahn@timesnews.com. Follow him on X @ETNhahn.

But don’t be fooled: The transfer portal may make headlines this month, but national champions are still built the traditional way — by identifying and developing prospects over the course of multiple seasons instead of relying on short-term rentals.

According to the composite rankings compiled by 247Sports.com, this year’s recruiting class is topped by wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, a longtime commitment to Ohio State. The top-ranked quarterback in this cycle is Julian Sayin, who is headed from his home state of California to Alabama.

While most prospects sign national letters of intent this month, some wait until the second signing period in early February.

But when it comes to this early date, Nebraska, Alabama and Georgia lead an overview of signing day’s winners and losers:

WINNERS

Alabama

Sayin, from Carlsbad, California, chose Alabama over two dozen additional offers, many from the Crimson Tide’s biggest rivals in the SEC. With Jalen Milroe opting to return in 2024, Sayin will have an opportunity to learn the system in a backup role, potentially playing in four or more games, before battling for the starting job in his second year on campus. The Tide also brought in one of the top talents in the state in five-star cornerback Jaylen Mbakwe and could add another star in the making in five-star receiver Ryan Williams, who is reclassifying and plans to sign in February. The class is heavy on talent in the secondary.

Nebraska

No team made a bigger splash leading into signing day than Nebraska, which reeled in one of the highest-ranked recruits in program history in five-star quarterback Dylan Raiola, who flipped from Georgia. In addition, the Cornhuskers made late gains by signing linebacker Vincent Shaver and cornerbacks Amare Sanders and Larry Tarver. But the gem is Raiola, a plug-and-play legacy recruit who will be given every opportunity to earn the starting job from the start and put his stamp on the program. While they fell short of bowl eligibility in Matt Rhule’s debut season, the pieces are coming together for the Cornhuskers to make a major climb up the Big Ten in 2024.

Miami (Fla.)

The Hurricanes closed on a torrid run to seal one of the top classes in the country and a group that rivals Florida State for the best in the ACC, according to 247. This late push included a bevy of additions leading into signing day, starting with the flip of Ohio State running back Jordan Lyle. The biggest get is five-star defensive lineman Justin Scott, who the Hurricanes pulled out of Chicago against competition from every major player. Scott is the star of one of the nation’s top defensive line hauls. But Mario Cristobal and Miami also pulled in several talented receivers, including a potentially dynamic weapon in Moultrie, Georgia, product Ny Carr.

Texas Tech

The Red Raiders inked a pretty eye-opening group thanks in large part to five-star wide receiver Micah Hudson, the highest-rated signee in program history. Hudson will be expected to immediately impact a passing game that ranked last in the Big 12 in yards per attempt and interceptions during the regular season. Beyond Hudson, the class is defined by geography: All but one of Texas Tech’s 21 signees as of Wednesday afternoon came from inside the state, with other standouts including offensive lineman Ellis Davis and four-star quarterback Will Hammond.

Ohio State

Ohio State still signed another top-five class headlined by Jeremiah Smith, another five-star receiver Mylan Graham and the potential quarterback of the future in four-star Air Noland. On defense, the Buckeyes made a big save by keeping five-star defensive lineman Eddrick Houston in the fold and away from Alabama, a late suitor. Missing out on Houston would’ve been a disaster given how Ohio State had failed to close on multiple high-profile interior defenders and edge rushers. Before Houston’s letter of intent, the class included just one high school lineman in three-star Eric Mensah.

LOSERS

Georgia

It’s hard to feel too bad for Georgia and even harder to put them here, given that even without Raiola on board the Bulldogs are contending for the nation’s top-rated class, per 247. Kirby Smart and his staff did add another quarterback in Avon, Connecticut, four-star Ryan Puglisi and had a huge win on Wednesday by pulling the nation’s top safety recruit, K.J. Bolden, away from Florida State. But even with Carson Beck opting to return next season, losing Raiola late in the game is a tough pill to swallow. After just missing out on Arch Manning last year, this marks the second cycle in a row Georgia has come close but missed on a premier quarterback recruit.

Southern California

This is a largely underwhelming class that might be a reflection of the Trojans’ extremely underwhelming second year under coach Lincoln Riley. USC missed on all five of California’s top recruits: Sayin, defensive lineman Aydin Breland (Oregon), offensive tackle Brandon Baker (Texas), linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa (Notre Dame) and cornerback Zabien Brown (Alabama). The Trojans did compile a nice class of interior offensive linemen, which will definitely help, and got a signing-day boost with the addition of underrated four-star defensive lineman Carlon Jones. As with many other Power Five teams, USC is bound to augment this class by dipping into the portal to fill key spots on the depth chart, including the possible addition of Kansas State quarterback transfer Will Howard as the replacement for Caleb Williams.

The Big 12

Texas Tech’s signing class hovered around the top 25 nationally but ranks as the best group in the Big 12, according to 247 with TCU, Central Florida and Kansas coming next. In comparison, the ACC had four, the Big Ten had six and the SEC had a whopping 13 classes ranked in the top 25. The already measurable talent gap between the league and the rest of the Power Four will only grow after signing day.

UEFA and FIFA were found by a European Court of Justice to have acted unlawfully in their attempts to block the creation of a new competition league among the world’s most prominent teams.

Europe’s highest court found that soccer’s highest governing bodies’ rule of new competitions needed their approval and that disallowing clubs and players from participating in the new competitions was considered “unlawful.” 

The court also clarified that this was not a green light on the previous controversial European Super League that attempted to launch in 2021, and the correct avenues will need to be taken when attempting to launch a new soccer competition. The Super League competition came from a project created by Real Madrid’s president Florentino Perez and ex-Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, and the disagreement about UEFA’s role in the Champions League format. 

What was the European Super League proposal?

The European Super League was a proposed as a replacement for the UEFA Champions League. 

Twelve clubs, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Juventus, signed up as the founding members of the new league in 2021. 

However, their decision sparked widespread outrage in the soccer world, leading nine of them to withdraw from the league due to public backlash. This left only three clubs – Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Juventus – and made it impossible to proceed with the formation of the new league.

Will the European Super League try to relaunch?

A22 Sports, a European sports development company, which supports the European Super League, has started working on an updated proposal for the league after the recent ruling. 

The new proposal includes a three-league men’s competition with 64 clubs, which will replace the UEFA Champions League, and a two-league women’s competition with 32 clubs, which will replace the UEFA Women’s Champions League. 

While the original teams that supported the European Super League continue to show their support for the new proposal, other European teams in the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Ligue 1 have made it clear that they will not participate if the league moves forward.