European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?

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Just imagine some of the washed up retired players licking their lips knowing the likes of Rio, Keane, Neville, Carragher, Redknapp will be out of a job and this breakaway league will need 'neutral' pundits for its new broadcasting channel, which certainly won't be sky or BT.

Everyone employed by BT and skysports must be bricking it.
 
bond19821982 said:
This is your assumption. Show me where exactly did they mention its a replacement for CL.
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Well, if reports from UEFA and domestic leagues are true, it would be a replacement for the CL because they won't be allowed to play in it.
 
bond19821982 said:
No one is kicking anyone out. They can all scare the clubs like that but it just won't stand in the court. The PL money and CL money of TV rights was signed for these clubs. Imagine the number of lawsuits from the broadcasters (let alone the clubs being banned actually) . Let's say, it just won't happen.

Now having a place, that's a different discussion altogether. Looks like you are the one who is assuming here. I would rather wait for more details on how this is planned actually.
Let's not overreact.
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Mate, you're the one who's actually assuming the UEFA's announcement about this is just to scare these clubs and nothing else. This is your claim and interpretation about what they did say.
 
Guarantee the statement will be a massive disappointment.
 
So is this about right...
Ranchero said:
This only shows that the ownership structures in the domestic game have to change. Bundesliga sides are opposed to the Euro superleague plans because the German model means commercial investors cannot have more than a 49% stake in clubs, so fans hold a majority of their own voting rights.
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Exactly, this was an inevitable end-point once private ownership of clubs became popular.
 
Tom Cato said:
UEFA sells the CL license to broadcasters. UEFA simply awards clubs a fixed pool for participation.

The FA owns and sells the TV rights and distributes it according to the contract.

The clubs don't own the TV deals.
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Point being? You just can't can the best performing or best viewed teams from a tournament for non sporting reasons. Lawsuits would fly.
 
TheGodsInRed said:
Don't get too emotionally invested in this guys. It's just posturing between greedy organisations wanting bigger pie. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the show, it won't happen.
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Well they have been posturing for three years then. Because this concept has been around for that long and has grown arms, legs and a head.
 
It's time, let's see what is said. This is embarrassing for the game of Football though.
 
Presumably players need some sort of formal 'ok' (a licence or something) to play in the current leagues? Either given by the relative countries FA and/or Uefa.

If so, can the FAs and Uefa say to any player playing in a super League team that if you leave, don't bother asking to come back? If they did, it'd be a nightmare for the players ... fine for the top ones (who'd stay with a top club entire career) but the ok ones/squad players could have nowhere to go if their super League club dropped them.

Take Lingard, could go to West Ham now. But same situation post super League and United want to release/sell a player who may have gone to West Ham, Everton, etc... they can't.

Basically Uefa, do whatever it takes to ruin it.
 
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