European Super League
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A snake.
Juventus is bleeding money. We were fairly aggressive with costs to stay competitive in Europe (although that did not work out too well) as our league is holding us back financially. There was little margin for error. With Covid-19 significantly affecting revenue, the club is not sustainable anymore.
don’t say that.. sneks are cool
Does anyone know if Athletic suggests Ed was sacked because of ESL failure or if his departure was really and truly on the cards anyway?
Seems odd that he'd strongarm these sorts of changes and then leave as designed.
Not if they are poisonous.
'The guy who's now gone anyway dunnit all'
One aspect I haven't heard mentioned much is the fact that fans are supposed to be happy travelling to just a few places every year, basically ignoring 45-odd countries in Europe. Instead of going to Naples and Rome, Moscow, Kviy, Rotterdam, Istanbul and Athens and so many others, you're expected to go to the same few cities every year for about twenty years. And fans, passionate fans from those afformentioned cities and others, can forget about travelling to the Nou Camp or Anfield for a big European night.
It was of course a kick in the teeth to other English clubs, and threatened their dreams and the pyramid, but it did that too continent-wide. Maybe the biggest clubs and even some of the fans have become jaded with the early stages of the CL, but the answer is a better product for everyone - not a closed shop that widens the gap. It could so easily happen, but big clubs would have to take loss, and we'd have to lose so many qualifying spots for the biggest leagues. Long-term it would have a positive effect on European football, and this is the chance, but who can see it happening?
It was of course a kick in the teeth to other English clubs, and threatened their dreams and the pyramid, but it did that too continent-wide. Maybe the biggest clubs and even some of the fans have become jaded with the early stages of the CL, but the answer is a better product for everyone - not a closed shop that widens the gap. It could so easily happen, but big clubs would have to take loss, and we'd have to lose so many qualifying spots for the biggest leagues. Long-term it would have a positive effect on European football, and this is the chance, but who can see it happening?
So City PSG or Chelsea can win it, what a wonderful idea
Fair point. Keep ‘em out of the board room.
Thanks @Tom Van Persie. Seems weird to step down as designed when you're such a pivotal role for change.
Before inter and atlético dropped out, Agnelli already said that the super league is not happening.
is the ESL still going? I mean have all 12 clubs come out now?
Only 4 teams left now.
More like the Super Group Stage
More like the Super Group Stage
Good and feck off Juve
We are now happy and everything goes back to normal. But in fact, we are stuck with the Glazers and their debt for life, and even worse we are stuck with the corrupted football organisations that allow city and PSG buy their way to titles every year.
Talksport weirdly were the ones to break the news about Woodward leaving so thats a feather in their cap at least. So weird as I dont ever remember them having any scoops before.
What a disaster, who can you even root for in the CL now?
PSG?
Oh still anyone besides City, lets be honest here.
I dont think that has to be true. It's only true if we accept that. They have for me completely ruined their relationship with the fans, and we need every utd fan to unite to get these parasites out of our club. We must do whatever it takes, prtoests, dont buy merchandise, stop the team buses at the stadium, everything we can to cut the cancer out of our club. Ed has gone, that one, now we go for the head of the snake. They will never be forgiven
Thanks, makes sense then. Covid has been awful for the very obvious reasons, but long term maybe it forces clubs to be more careful in their budgets.
That's a normal business thing though no? Make a big change, some good, some bad and then hand it to the next guy for a clean start.
Do you think the ESL will return the European Cup trophy counts to UEFA now or does everyone start from 0 again.
Those 'Mes Que Un Club' seats need ripping out.
And the sacking of Mourinho.Best thing that came out of this for us is the resignation of one Ed Woodward.
Actually the whole thing's been great, hasn't it!!
It’s a shame he’s become such a knob. That show was so unbelievably well written/acted.
Mate, you are at least 30 breaking news behind.
I honestly don't think there's much wrong with the CL as it is. Yes, the very name 'Champions' is a misnomer but it means all the strongest clubs get in every year and you have to beat them to win it.From 2024 the two teams with the highest uefa coefficient will be invited to play which basically means 2 English teams who don’t make it, so basically the top 6 always get in most probably as the better teams from the other three leagues are basically shoe ins.
I actually think this is fair because being one of the better teams in the champions league should count for something.
So basically I hope liverpool
Finish fifth this year.
To me, that's better than the old knockout comp which only allowed the actual champions of each country to enter. Think of some of the rubbish teams Liverpool beat to win their European Cups FFS. They were obviously a great team, but they got some seriously easy runs at times.
What we have at the moment is a nice balance between the traditional 'elite clubs' and teams like Leicester and West Ham, who can qualify if they have a good season.
Not sure what to make of the reform proposals - six teams from the PL seems a lot, but at least it reflects the balance of power in European football and there's an element of competition involved. A million times better than the ESL proposals for me.
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Agree. It's nostalgia. Why would anyone want the best teams of continent spread across three competitions? Also, people forget, that teams from smaller countries were more competitive, because there were strict limitations on foreigners until the mid-90s, so less players moved abroad and smaller teams could build strong teams if there was a good generation of local players. That's not the case anymore. The old European would have few competitive games today.
I didn't have an issue with guaranteed qualification, in part because there already is implicit thinking every year, this just formalised that. It was how those extra five (or more if it evolved) were allocated that interested me. I felt there would be pressure to increase numbers for teams to join. I had issue with UEFA's proposal based on "fixtures against 10 different teams, half of them at home and half of them away.", The coefficient bias is no different than guaranteed qualification. If you've done well previously this is your fall back inclusion.
While the ESL has gone, maybe for now, i suspect it will resurface again. Perhaps post-covid economic meltdown..
It's hard to keep up with this, we're down to 2 now? Clasico every week?
I mean... there really isn't implicit thinking every year, especially given how often United have missed out on it. Or Arsenal. Or Spurs. And now to be Liverpool or Chelsea along with Arsenal and Spurs. Dortmund set to miss out. Juventus with a chance to miss out, barely in 4th after years of dominance. Not so long ago got relegated themselves (for different reasons of course).
Football dominance goes up and down in waves. What might feel like an eternity always ends. Liverpool dominated for a long time. Then United for a long time. Now City has been at the top. Barca have been dominant as they've had probably the greatest player of all time during the past 16 years. Lyon went like 7 years straight of winning the French league in the mid to late 2000's. That ended.
Likewise Real Madrid over the past decade with the impact Ronaldo had there. Nobody's dominance lasts forever.
Juve still there aren't they? Perez and Agnelli will die with it, Barca is waiting on their vote aren't they? But they financially needed it.
Agnelli and Perez are Saddam in his underground bunker by now. Like the old despot they'll have to be dragged out.
Before this whole thing basically collapsed last night, I was reading all the articles and listening to a few podcasts about it all, and one thing stood out and that's how so many people completely overestimated the intelligence of the people involved. That's not to say I wasn't worried about this thing going ahead (i was at the beginning), but the prevailing opinion was that "these people are smart. They know what they're doing, there's no way they would go ahead without having everything in place. There's no stopping it, they will have their lawyers in place to prevent them from being thrown out of any other competition. These guys aren't stupid"
And then after a few hours of demonstrations from fans, the whole bloody thing collapsed in a matter of hours. I was saying earlier on, that as soon as one club drops out, that's it. And they did. When you started to scrutinize it even a little bit, you realized the whole thing was built on sand. And for anyone taking any sort of notice to how these people run their club they will already know this, but hopefully, this will dispel the myth that these people are some kind of super-geniuses who think through everything and have all their bases covered. Obviously, this is absolutely not the case.
And then after a few hours of demonstrations from fans, the whole bloody thing collapsed in a matter of hours. I was saying earlier on, that as soon as one club drops out, that's it. And they did. When you started to scrutinize it even a little bit, you realized the whole thing was built on sand. And for anyone taking any sort of notice to how these people run their club they will already know this, but hopefully, this will dispel the myth that these people are some kind of super-geniuses who think through everything and have all their bases covered. Obviously, this is absolutely not the case.