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European Super League
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I'm looking forward to Sky insisting on masses of free to air games when the PL's broadcasting rights are next up for grabs, only for the Premier League to say they're making even more of them free to air.
Absolutely atrocious idea and can't believe these "top" clubs want to be a part of it. Shameful.
That maybe and I never said he was wrong.
At this stage it's posturing on all sides in my view. There'll be some kind of deal struck in the end, most likely to the detriment of the smaller clubs.
If this happens, people will moan a bit then still renew their season tickets.
They keep making changes but get away with it because, in normal times anyway, the grounds are still full.
They keep making changes but get away with it because, in normal times anyway, the grounds are still full.
I see it turning into the American sports system
Exactly, they have taken great pleasure in being against us.
You're absolutely right mate. I don't think that anything set in stone but nevertheless im fecking trembling, not less because United is sadly all I have and id fecking hate to lose it.
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Or perhaps it’s just a massive football fan speaking openly. He gets slated by cnuts like you for sucking up to the glazers but when he’s condemning them in a passionate speech he’s doing it for his own interest/sky’s interest.
By the way, these super league games will still be shown on TV you know?
Glazers wouldn't care so you'd be punishing the wrong people doing that tbf
This is not going to take off without the TV money, is it? Judging by the outrage after the match today, Sky are not jumping in. So which scumbag network is backing this?
Premier league has clubs like Leicester City winning the League and clubs like west ham fighting for top 4.
I love the diversity of the clubs compared to other leagues. Feeling like the top is fighting the top purely on celebrity status is a bit "meh" for me.
I love the diversity of the clubs compared to other leagues. Feeling like the top is fighting the top purely on celebrity status is a bit "meh" for me.
I mean if they did enacted that punishment then the clubs wanting to breakoff would have little to no option but to go through with it.
Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it to in this scenario. The big clubs believe they are entitled to more of the revenue which they help to bring into the league. The leagues are trying to preserve the status quo in a world that has changed a lot since the premiership's inception. I think a compromise may be reached with the olive branch consisting of streaming rights of x amounts of games through the clubs own media channels.
I actually don’t mind the idea of the format itself (league format, QF, SF, Final), but the idea of 15 permanent clubs is horrible.
It's not even partly, it has nothing to do with them and everything to do with money. So to make it short prior to 2008 there used to be the G-14, aka the football mafia who specilalized in blackmail for more money, here you have an example from 2003. In 2008 the G-14 managed to really scare the UEFA and made them sign a memorandum of understanding, the G-14 became the ECA and pretended to play nice. Since then the ECA threaten to create its own super league whenever a new deal or memorandum is to be signed and every time the UEFA caves and give them something.
PS: The UEFA is corrupt on its own but big clubs are also vile and it has nothing to do with oil money or FFP.
How would the trophy between the super league champion and the CL winner be called? The Hypercup?
Swiss Ramble: The 12 clubs lost a combined £1.2bn in 2019/20 before player sales
feck you talking about? I will not pay a single penny to watch a single match from that league. Nor will i watch it for free on illegal streams like ITV and the likes. Has the whole world gone mad? Nobody has any principles anymore?
It is funny watching Sky squirm about this I must say. Them and BT are the ones who’ve glorified a lot of these billionaire owners like Abramovich and say that foreign ownership has helped the PL become the best league in the world. The PL would happily let Saudis take over another club just to further line their pockets and cement their status as “BESTEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD EVA”
Next step would be relocating teams from its location?
Oh, it rains here to much. Lets move teams to (insert country)
Oh, it rains here to much. Lets move teams to (insert country)
Oh noes... poor multi-millioners and billioners... Meanwhile, millions have lost their lifes, jobs, homes..
People think English football can live without United and Liverpool? Ha. That's 66% of the entire product right there.
What? These talks have been going forever, long before covid.
To be fair, I can sympathize with Arsenal. They're so far off the elite now that this is the only way they can stay relevant 
So what happens to fantasy premier league?
So what happens to fantasy premier league?
I can already imagine the games played in dubai, quatar and saudi arabia
To be fair, I can sympathize with Arsenal. They're so far off the elite now that this is the only way they can stay relevant
So what happens to fantasy premier league?
feck, you're right. Terrible idea this.
The FA wouldn't let something as awful as that happen, the integrity of the pyramid and a football team's place in their community are too important.
Just don't mention Wimbledon.
Did either of those entities attempt to remove very specific clubs from divisions (not based on merit) and place them into a newly formed league?
Because unless they did it’s not the same.
Also, I don’t think the Pl caused enormous damage to the leagues below. The championship is the most lucrative second tier division in the entire world. More lucrative than some top divisions.
Bad and incompetent owners caused the financial ruin we’ve seen in lower league clubs. If anything the Pl and FA were irresponsible in the sense they just allow people to freely take over football clubs in this country.
For all the horror stories of Wigan, Bury etc. There’s many football league clubs with competent owners who have benefitted from the structure and financial merits of the premier league and football league system in this country.
Reminds me of those Budweiser ads in the mid 00s.
There was one that suggested moving Arsenal to the Lake District.
If it happens folk who support these clubs like us and most here will probably lose their passion (yet still follow...)but the majority of football fans are probably casual therefore would gladly tune into a super league weekly. And that's the cash cow. But I'm confident it won't happen.
What with this?
And this is pre covid?!
Why are we/they losing money?
Aren't we like, a profitabile club?
Isn't there a narrative that the Glazers are leeching off the club, not losing money?
Yeah you're right there, the global fanbase won't care. Maybe it'll lose popularity though if the matchgoers stop, and there's no atmosphere. Fake crowd noise to become permanent.
Personally I'll be done with it though, and go follow my new local team. And I'm by no means hardcore.
Nail on the head. The high horse sky are currently sat on spits all over the football league before they came along.
Anything that hurts UEFA and FIFA is good. Two organizations who are only functioning because of decades long corruption. Can't trust them to have a readonable view ob that.
To be fair, I can sympathize with Arsenal. They're so far off the elite now that this is the only way they can stay relevant
So what happens to fantasy premier league?
We will be triple captaining Burnley and Palace players
They won’t care about winning it, if even finishing last will double their profits that’s all all that matters to them.
Why are they announcing it while Line of Duty is on FFS
My thoughts exactly.