Gabriele Marcotti: "If the rebel clubs stay in domestic leagues, there's an even greater domestic inbalance in already unbalanced leagues due to greater Euro revenue"
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Aren't drafts based on a college system though?
It's totally unrealistic to expect a draft system in football where clubs produce players through their own academy. There would be no incentive to invest in player development.
It's totally unrealistic to expect a draft system in football where clubs produce players through their own academy. There would be no incentive to invest in player development.
Seems like Sky led everyone, including UEFA, up the garden path tonight!
people forget very quickly. Remember project restart? Was that less than 6 months ago?
Are you waiting for an announcement while checking time on a Rado Watch?Thread title
He first admits that the super league is real but also offers an alternative. It's a money grab, they aren't going to announce a thing, they want the UEFA to make a move and cave once again.
I don't like the term "rebel clubs". It makes them sound like good underdogs out to destroy a death star.
Also, Tottenham are totally the Chewbacca of that analogy.
Sounds like a continental version of Brazil.
Bunch of cowards.
But, if you are the traditional big six and generate so much income yet have to share it with the likes of Burnley, Sheffield United etc, wouldn't you want to break away and maximise your revenue?
Nah Chewbacca is way too cool. Spurs are Ewoks with notions.
That was last year when football returned after lockdown.
I think you are thinking of Project Big Picture which was led by both ourselves & Liverpool
Chelsea doesn't own the name of the club, or the freehold on the stadium either. They should probably be a bit fecking careful about what shit they try and force down our fans throats.
"We want to have our cake and eat it too. Why can't you understand this?"
I would say more C-3PO
For those who think this might not be so bad, consider this: One part of this is for sure going to be parity mechanisms - ie, rules designed to ensure that everyone in the SL are comparably competitive, and that costs are kept down. We've already seen a proposal to ban transfers between the top clubs, and apparently fear of such mechanisms is the main reason why PSG has not so far joined the initiative. All the US major leagues have these. Entry drafts in reverse order of finish, giving the worst team first pick of the young talent. Salary caps, ensuring that no one can outspend rivals on wages. Prohibitions on transfers for cash - if you want to acquire someone, you have to pay in players and/or draft picks. The idea being to stop those with the most money from using that for advantage. And the ideal being a league where everyone is roughly equally good, so that everyone has a chance to win. And where you are rewarded for doing badly. And where if you happen to build a really top team, you can't keep it together for any length of time because you'll come up against the salary cap as your players expect improved contracts as a result of doing well. Just look at today's NHL, where Stanley Cup-winning teams have to be broken up, everybody seems to have 4-5 really good players and this year's table might well end up in the reverse order next year. It's just totally boring. Enforced parity turns the sport into a charade, where everyone has a dice to roll every year.
I'm pretty jealous of that. Would love it if there was a way for us to wrestle back out club off the Glazers.
If the clubs are not bailing on the leagues of their respective countries but bailing on UCL. I could live with that to be honest. Although it would mean Liverpool would always be able to lord UCL titles over us.
That's actually pretty true. Lets take PSG for instance. France is hemoraging great players who decide to leave the country because the league isn't good enough. With a superleague, we could get the best players France can produce.
Also, with things balanced, players will be tempted to play for a team located in the best city they can pick and a lot would rather live in Madrid, Paris or Barcelona than Manchester or Liverpool.
For the record, i hate the idea of a superleague even if PSG might be the club that would benefit from it the most because it would erase our main problem : the weakness of our league.
Yeah totally unfair. Has he spoken out about state funded clubs? Also 6/20 PL teams would have that additional revenue...
That’s the one. I suppose I proved my point. Big Picture, that was the one. Don’t remember what that was about, apart from it was a power grab, and it got knocked back.
Sky are blatantly lying about expecting an announcement so we'll all keep watching their ads, broken every 20 minutes by an update on how Stewart Cink and Lee Bowyer are getting on.
It'll cost you 40m to hear their opnion.
A Super League with no Bayern but Spurs is hilarious.
My understanding is that PSG is not interested because their owner has already invested a lot of money into CL media rights via his BeIN Media Group company.
Amazing
People keep talking about a draft, where the feck are you going to draft players from?
In the US College sports are enormous, some games can be viewed by as many as 20 million people for a tournament final, and it takes care of development for the large sport franchises. As you point out, that simply won't work in European football where that model of development does not exist.
I feel they are just trying to topple UEFA here.
A branded sauce tells me that the other clubs wanted at least one team they would be guaranteed to beat.
Announcement delayed potentially because they were arrogant enough to not expect this backlash?
I always liked Chewie.... Tottenham should be the Jar Jar Binks
Yeah it's pretty much my opinion as well. UEFA should go back to the drawing board because their swiss championship idea is terrible.
I wouldnt now be surprised if secret meetings between the various parties have been going on for months and an agreement simply couldn't be made during them and it reached a stalemate.
The 'rebel clubs' have decidely to press and simply made the first move, publicly. Cant see this ending well at all. There's going to be alot of backtracking and legal ramifications.
That's not because Spurs is inherently ridiculous as part of that company though. They were just rated the 10th most valuable club in the world by Forbes.
Yeah, at this point I think people are just going full-on anti-Yankee, which is understandable, but they're taking it a bit far.
As I said, the government are already on it. It's a double-win for them. Murdoch (and Sky) have their ear and it's a great PR win.
https://news.sky.com/story/european...ging-for-football-says-boris-johnson-12279818
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56794673
https://news.sky.com/story/european...ging-for-football-says-boris-johnson-12279818
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56794673
Well they've never ventured into this territory before have they? How could they know?