If there's big money to be made out of something, it usually happens. Eventually.
European Super League
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Yep, that’ll be exactly what happens. Playing games all over the world to the highest bidders.
Problem with the outrage from UEFA and the premier league is that no one cares about the fans anymore, greed has taken control of football a long long time ago. Look how much it costs to just watch on TV. They're just scared about losing money.
If a new super league is formed tomorrow, Sky will jump at the chance to have the rights, and the same pundits will happily cover it.
This is a terrible idea for many reasons, but none of the outrage is about the fans, nobody really cares.
If a new super league is formed tomorrow, Sky will jump at the chance to have the rights, and the same pundits will happily cover it.
This is a terrible idea for many reasons, but none of the outrage is about the fans, nobody really cares.
If we can't win any more Premier Leagues or Champion's Leagues, football will be a bit boring with just a European Super League no?
The same 36 matches a season, every season and that's it.
You need some sort of sporting risk and reward to make competitions interesting.
The same 36 matches a season, every season and that's it.
You need some sort of sporting risk and reward to make competitions interesting.
This for me
I couldn’t support the club anymore if it went down this route and would just follow football as a fan of the game
That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world but no way teams would be able to fit that amount of games in one month. There's 12 clubs signed up and schedules are already bad enough without at least 11 more competitive games in the off season.
Better get the Saudis to not buy the toon and buy us instead. I can see the likes of City and PSG owners going ‘investment’ overdrive and dominating.
What would motivate the Glazers to want to win, or even do well in that league?
The reaction was the same, money will ruin football etc, run by greed
The old, you aren’t a match going supporter so you know shit argument . Why don’t you outline how this is going to be bad for us instead of climbing on a high horse?
MUFC are a club physically located in England but they have fans all over the world. You may not like it but it’s true. All the riches in the PL are due to its global appeal.
Also why you registered to this forum doesn’t matter. You need to share your opinion on the matter at hand.
Big clubs will always find a way. Look at how Bayern ensure players run down their contracts before poaching the best players from the rest of the league. The system should have been corrected years ago but the pure greed of the Premier League has led to further greed later down the line. Fifa, UEFA and the Premier League only care because they won’t be part of the financial pie anymore. And part of me actually thinks that isn’t a bad thing.
I’m going to wait to see the details. If it’s just 12 teams from 3 countries, that is going to get very boring.
The biggest thing is if fans don’t want it then it shouldn’t happen. These clubs are worth far more than money to communities and their fans. Neville was right that these clubs need to be protected. But again the Premier League should have thought about that before they allowed the foreign owners to buy all the clubs.
Yeah exactly, and I feel the same way.
Philosophically speaking, UEFA's reaction has certainly been strong but also its a bit bizarre that they think clubs should be obligated to compete in their competition just because they qualified for it.
Playing devil's advocate, should it not be their right to decline the invite and compete in games they set up themselves? Is it not anti-competitive to use their position of power to blackmail clubs and players and monopolise the game?
As soon as Big English clubs started getting bought by foreign billionaires 15-20 years ago a breakaway like this was inevitable, the likes of City getting financially doped probably hastened it.
The PL and the FA only have themselves to blame if this does go ahead, they should have brought in laws/rules to ensure English clubs remained mostly English owned. Instead of becoming playthings or cash cows for billionaires with no connection to the clubs or the English game.
The PL and the FA only have themselves to blame if this does go ahead, they should have brought in laws/rules to ensure English clubs remained mostly English owned. Instead of becoming playthings or cash cows for billionaires with no connection to the clubs or the English game.
Are you drunk?
I see. Mate it's the UEFA and the PL(you can add all the other top leagues), the fairness that they are talking about concerns their wallets, they gave more spots to certain nations because for years the clubs from these nations threatened to leave and create their league which meant that the UEFA and the leagues would lose money.
As a Real Madrid fan I am embarrassed with the role Perez played in this. I do feel like CL needs some changes and I quite like the proposed new format by UEFA, but his....I'm lost for words, it's like this people live in a world completely detached from regular fans.
Hope all 11 clubs involved get banned from european football and all their players banned from euros and world cup. Disgusting leeches and parasites.
Just another competition we won’t be able to win. Imagine Arsenal in a Super League, it’s laughable.
Feck the people making this decision.
If this goes ahead, FC United will need a much bigger stadium 
Thank you, Gary Neville, for speaking up loudly and clearly.
Hope none of sides back off a bit and let dust to settle, this should be either all goes to hell or break their spine.
Well said
Imagine missing out on a World Cup/European Championship because your shithead chief exec had this horrible idea. You'd be fuming.
I wonder what the players are thinking.
Again, I respect your ideology. You are concerned about the quality of European football but frankly I am not. I want the best outcome for United.
What you are saying is already happening with the oil clubs at the forefront gobbling up all the new fans in emerging markets. This will expedite the process sure but will preserve the old clubs.
feck it, why not? Why is it a bad idea? Are we all excited about the prospect of playing Burnley again next season? What about Norwich? These shit teams only want to be in the league so they can have a free hit at trying to beat us home and away, while we suffer the game under duress.
I'm way more excited about the prospect of playing Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Inter, Juventus etc every weekend than watching another fecking shit 0-0 between Newcastle and Brighton.
Also, we've been shit for years, no one likes us apparently, we're worthless to the PL. Now it looks like we might be leaving for bigger and better things there's a meltdown.
I'm way more excited about the prospect of playing Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Inter, Juventus etc every weekend than watching another fecking shit 0-0 between Newcastle and Brighton.
Also, we've been shit for years, no one likes us apparently, we're worthless to the PL. Now it looks like we might be leaving for bigger and better things there's a meltdown.
The main reason they invest now is to make sure they get the revenue for being in the Champions League, if they're in the Super League no matter what then what incentive is there for the likes of the Glazer's and Kroenke to aim to be competitive in this new competition?
Will never happen - the result will be UEFA / FIFA banning players from participating in the Euros and World Cups
I’d assume the winnings would be huge. The TV rights will be massive which is why the PL have come out against it so much - it’ll take over. Anyway, it won’t happen. There’ll be a compromise.
Regarding the thread title, isn't that what CLUE says?
Either a pathetic wind up or completely off the mark. His speech was perfect and will hopefully show how we all feel from a big voice on a big stage.
I’m ashamed in United
They don’t but the progression is you make your name in the English league and then you make your move to the super league.
What would be point in hovering youth when the attraction is to play for a super club anyway.
My grandad used to tell me money had ruined football. This was back in the mid nineties.
Yeah I see that, but I also think his disgust with United and Liverpool in particular is genuine.
The Premier League and UEFA have had plenty of opportunity to reform their competitions, haven’t taken them through their OWN greed and now they’re not happy they may be left behind.
The PL and the Champions League are bloated, boring and ridiculously uneven. Why do we need 20 PL teams? Why do we need 64 CL teams? Their own greed is what has done them in the end.
The PL and the Champions League are bloated, boring and ridiculously uneven. Why do we need 20 PL teams? Why do we need 64 CL teams? Their own greed is what has done them in the end.
feck off. And without apology for my language
People are overreacting. How exactly is this going to spoil the domestic competition if things are going to stay like this ? PL is going to stay ,right?
There is too much money in football and it's normal people will try to tap it. It's going to come back in one way or other . UEFA and PL is only against it because they aren't getting a slice of it. If they are compensated , they will be the first one to be on boarded.
Come on, CL final is the most watched sports program. Why would they want to lose it to FIFA ?
There is too much money in football and it's normal people will try to tap it. It's going to come back in one way or other . UEFA and PL is only against it because they aren't getting a slice of it. If they are compensated , they will be the first one to be on boarded.
Come on, CL final is the most watched sports program. Why would they want to lose it to FIFA ?