That'll happen anyway when the 'big 6' start putting out crap teams for the PL.
The New European Super (borefest) League
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That'll happen anyway when the 'big 6' start putting out crap teams for the PL.
Commissario
I loved Gary Neville's comment yesterday about deducting points from the break away teams.. That would be hilarious if the Premier league did that!
Caporegime
For the casual global fan, it will be extremely popular. Personally, I've no interest in watching a "competition" with this format, it's going to become very stale very fast.
Soldato
Lewis is not complaining about money etc in f1 if thats what your refering too!!
His too busy fighting BLM and saving the world(climate change)
he doesnt give a damm about the politcs/money side of f1.
Man of Honour
Teams like Rangers and Celtic? You mean the SPL Champions who have to play at least 2 rounds of qualifying to get in?
Why shouldn't the Scottish Champions be in the "Champions" league ahead of an English Club that finished 4th?
You could throw the same accusation at PSG, Bayern or even Juventus for most of the last decade.
Not sure why people are really surprised by this at all. Most of the top clubs have owners who only care about money, not fans. Allowing our biggest clubs to be sold to global billionaires, oligarchs etc, it was bound to end this way.
The Premier League and others getting on a high horse about this is fairly funny; look at the TV fees and similar they are getting from the likes of Sky, BT and now Amazon - it has all cost the 'poor hard working' fans even more money.
The Premier League and others getting on a high horse about this is fairly funny; look at the TV fees and similar they are getting from the likes of Sky, BT and now Amazon - it has all cost the 'poor hard working' fans even more money.
Man of Honour
I agree; the lustre of playing Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter twice a year will quickly wear off.
I actually think a "closed shop" English Premiership would keep more interest long-term as there's proper local and regional rivalry there.
Caporegime
-25pts deducted to all the clubs signed into it every season, with -3pts added on every season they are still in it. If they are already in this "super league", then they don't care if they are not actual champions in their own domestic league.
2 rounds of qualifying against teams who have the same situation domestically where they largely have no competition.
I'm not saying Celtic etc shouldn't be there if they qualify as that's the format of the Champion's League, my point is that for a neutral the Champions League is largely boring until you get into the later stages of the knockout phase where the big teams meet and it really means something.
I've always believed that the champions league should consist of only the actual champions. For me its a ronseal thing, Champions go into the Champions League, hence the name, others go into the Europa League. Thats always seemed entirely logical to me
Yeah but greed obviously led to the number of teams being increased and aren't they currently debating whether to expand it even further? listening to UEFA and FA (who formed the break-away Premier League in similar circumstances) take the moral high ground on greed is cringeworthy.
How will you feel when clubs like Liverpool and Manchester Utd eventually relocate to America?
I feel like our game against Southampton should now be replayed as the FA cup final, lets get the ball rolling.
Caporegime
I'm not, i'm referring to people who are benefitting directly from something, complaining about it and claiming to care about it when they clearly don't.
The formula one circus that has a huge global carbon footprint and goes to morally objectionable countries purely for money and he is speaking out on climate change and human rights.
FIFA claiming that they care about football and competition and the little guys when they don't give a ****. They just don't want to lose their power and wealth.
Someone on here was saying that transfers fees have got ridiculous especially in light of COVID. Transfer fees have been crazy for years. The money in football has been crazy for years and in any business where money is the main goal you can't be surprised when A) someone tries to muscle in B) the existing powerbase fights back.
Soldato
This new league will be a glorified version of the scottish premier league. One team playing the same team, every few weeks. It'll get boring really fast.
With 3 up and 3 down every season you're likely to see that, a more interesting number would be the percentage of sides that are relegated that get repromoted within 3 years. But anyway, the point was simply that the idea of football clubs being self serving and wanting to pull the ladder up below them is not new. We see it at literally every level of the game. Nothing made that clearer than project restart when the smallest sides saw an opportunity to block relegation and threatened the restart of the League. It's not even just at PL level, they tried the same thing in League 2 also.
I've literally said I don't want it
That's a random question. Why would that happen?
Funny isn't it. Hypocrites.