European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?

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crossy1686 said:
You're telling me you're going to get bored of seeing United against Madrid because we'll play them every season? What the feck must you think about Burnley and Newcastle by now then?
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Everyone wants to be part of the outrage.

In the end, entertainment is my objective and I think this competition is going to be fun.
 
Nani Nana said:
In fairness, the Champions League itself became a rich clubs' closed circuit in recent decades.
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Huh? Just last year Leipzig and Lyon reached the Semi finals, they are not "rich clubs" so thats objectievly incorrect.

How can any person in their right mind support this, 15 clubs that can't be relegated how the fk is that competetive football? That kind of format is a purely souless american invention that should stay on their side of the atlantic. Thankfully i care way more about my local home team in Sweden so i'm not getting as affected as some fans will. I will still be able to enjoy derbies where tickets are 11-12£.

Globalism what a great concept.
 
Red Viking said:
This is a sad moment for European football and Manchester United is dead for me. I will refuse to pay or watch this nonsense league that are nothing but a easy cash generating machine for wealthy owners. I think a total boycott of any club participating in this is necessary. The Glazers have finally destroyed what used to be a working class football club and turned it into Corporation FC entirely.
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This needs to stickied or flagged or whatever. Its an important point. The club is dead.
 
crossy1686 said:
Sorry, must have missed it.

As United fan's we want to see our team compete against the best of the best and win, yeah beating Burnley is great but what about that Paul Scholes goal against Barcelona? For the random fan, is Tottenham vs Juventus not a better game than Leipzig vs some random Turkish side? We're talking elite football here, nothing else like this on the planet in terms of ability and prestige and we're part of it.

The money will be reinvested into the club and spent on players/stadium/coaching staff, whatever. Most of it will probably go on transfers as we'll have to pay a SL tax on top of a United tax when we sign a player so most of that money will filter into the leagues anyway.

This is a win for everyone.
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You're American aren't you?
 
MyOnlySolskjaer said:
Reckon we may as well merge with City and win this.

Ederson
Cancelo Dias Maguire Shaw
Rodri
De Bruyne Fernandes
Foden Greenwood Pogba

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Agreed
One Manchester Club
 
TMDaines said:
Gonna be interesting to see the reaction of the players of various teams and whether the wheels come off for a few sides. Imagine being one of the players and this landing on you?
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There's going to be legal issues with this. Players being banned from playing for their country because of decisions made by their clubs will cause all sorts of issues.
 
No Idea For Nickname said:
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Weren't the clubs in this asking for a bigger share of the domestic pot from their respective leagues? Why ask for that, then say something like this? If Madrid for example wanted to help to out smaller clubs, well charity starts at home. They could have agreed to more an equal distribution of the tv rights.
 
RexHamilton said:
Ya reckon your Amazon subscription will stay the same yeah?
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That’s the risk but it’d have to explode to even get near what you pay for Sky! Prime is what £7.99 a month and if you do simple stuff (vitality health link up)you can basically get it free already.
 
Neo_Mufc said:
Come to what agreement? Answer the question why are you so supportive of this instead of sitting on your high horse.
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Well as we stand UEFA are suing the clubs banning them from domestic and European competitions and also banning them from international duty . It’s in their own interests to come to an agreement or they’re fecked with shit domestic and European leagues .

I’m not sitting on any high horse , you said you’re done I said bye . I’ll still follow Utd whatever happens. If that means a SL so be it.
 
Castia said:
United about to get the big bucks and secure their future for years to come....but in turn completely kills the premier league.

The league will be used like the Carabao Cup now if we’re still allowed to partake.
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:lol: Very naive to think that the Glazers aren't going to pocket the extra money. No chance they use it to pay down the debt the put on the club or invest it in the club.
 
Tom Cato said:
It won't, but personally my respect for these men will go through the roof.

I equally want Ole to hand in his resignation tomorrow.
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Would you do the same in their position? Offered the chance to play in a super league with the best teams, crazy money on offer. Life changing for yourself personally and professionally? All based on Sky sports pushing a narrative and the FA making a threat they can't follow through with?
 
passing-wind said:
UEFA / FIFA appearing to be the hero when they have been absolutely inept concerning the need for centralisation over football is a running joke. I don't think this is a good competition given the lack of competitiveness but football has been a downward trend for the last few years.

It needs a shakeup, a European league isn't the worst idea if it can coincide with domestic football / cups, have a relevant reward / risk system and all the while booting UEFA out as a trademark.
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This is the problem no one that hates the Super League thinks Uefa is the solution, how about this, let the 15 founder clubs organise a draw with no seeding for the 512 top Uefa ranked clubs. Play off, open draw and top 16 make the super league and share the 3.5 billion by being the 16 ESL teams, or remove the relegation clause thats gonna keep Arsenal in there for 20 years.
 
This would happen sooner rather than later. It’s business. In terms of business I say; well played.
 
Castia said:
United about to get the big bucks and secure their future for years to come....but in turn completely kills the premier league.

The league will be used like the Carabao Cup now if we’re still allowed to partake.
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I don't get this killing the league. It seems to me this is like an alternative European competition? I'm truly confused.
 
passing-wind said:
UEFA / FIFA appearing to be the hero when they have been absolutely inept concerning the need for centralisation over football is a running joke. I don't think this is a good competition given the lack of competitiveness but football has been a downward trend for the last few years.

It needs a shakeup, a European league isn't the worst idea if it can coincide with domestic football / cups, have a relevant reward / risk system and all the while booting UEFA out as a trademark.
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It doesn't.

The proposed Super League makes:

Winning your 10 team group meaningless. You go from a series format to a knockout format akin to the Belgian league.
It makes the Premier League meaningless for the "founding clubs - The "race for top 4" which is a massive part of the series charm will go extinct.

Because of the proposed number of games, participating clubs will have to forfeit at least one domestic cup, possibly both.

We'll no longer hear the Champions League hymn.

And the treble is no longer possible.
 
Idxomer said:
Everyone wants to be part of the outrage.

In the end, entertainment is my objective and I think this competition is going to be fun.
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This thread is a live example of why we can't have nice things. We've not even got all the details yet and there's mass outrage. Why don't we just wait and see how it all unfolds?
 
Capitalism strikes again

Will not watch a single match of this Americanized bullshit. Football is dead. Feckers killed the one thing I enjoyed.
Cnuts
 
Jazz said:
I don't get this killing the league. It seems to me this is like an alternative European competition? I'm truly confused.
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Part of the incentive for clubs to focus on the league is placement that qualifies clubs for the Champions League. Being guaranteed a place in the contest removes that consideration. The focus will fall on the contest that awards the most money - The Super League
 
Judas said:
I'm glad looking on here, twitter etc. the number of people for it is tiny, means nothing, but it's good that we're mostly all united.
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It really needs big named players and managers to collectively disapprove of it.
 
Judas said:
If we're not all kicked out of our leagues, will the champions league change its name? Best go back to just calling it the european cup seeing as most of the champions will be gone.
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I hope that there will be a champion next year?
 
This is really happening isn't it?

Prepare for tv subscriptions and ticket prices to increase.

Be interesting to see if the domestic leagues have the balls to impose some serious punishment to the teams involved.
 
macheda14 said:
I swear Agnelli was the biggest proponent of the Swiss model for the CL. So all the time he was campaigning for CL reform he was actually in talks about the Super League..
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New badge, new kit, pushing the Italian FA to be more like the English FA. They're been after the American market for years
 
This is going to get a whole lot messier isn’t it? Football about to change forever.
 
Mickeza said:
No. I’m saying there’s about 10 teams in this league who have nothing to play for during the majority of it.
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I'm talking about the 6 big clubs who participated in this competition and how they're going to treat the league from now on. For them the league will mostly be pointless. If you're out of title race early there's nothing to be bothered about when you're guaranteed a spot in this competition anyway. Love or hate top 4, it left the big clubs who can't win the league with something to look forward and fight for for the rest of the season. Why should any of these 6 clubs care about the league anymore few years later from this system ?

On the long run you'll see United and Chelsea playing each other with bench team in the league to save their strength for this competition as the league doesn't really matter for them if they're not winning it anyway. In fact it'll be better for them to focus on this competition and prioritize it from the start over the league anyway, due to it having more money.
 
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