The New European Super (borefest) League

BaZ87 said:
Considerably more than the £1-5m he put in. And I don't really agree with the "he only profits when he sells" line and that still ignores the fact that it's very likely (almost certain in fact) that he's already directly profited via the sale of some of his shares to the Americans. I have no issue with him doing so btw, I just queried the original point (not made by you) that he's not looking out for self interest. I'm not sure what your views are on Jordan but he certainly doesn't consider Parish a saviour of Palace and directly accused him of threatening to allow the club to go into liquidation if Jordan didn't hand the club over for next to nothing.

I'm not too sure what you mean by this. These plans have been known for quite sometime - UEFA had been working with the ECA (mainly the biggest sides in it) to restructure the CL in a way that appeased everybody, including the changes I mentioned. The general view, regarding the 2 automatic spots for the biggest sides that don't qualify via their league, was that it was terrible. As well as this, domestic leagues didn't want the additional games from the expanded CL as it would devalue their own competition - numerous representatives from PL sides spoke at the UEFA/ECA meeting trying to block this.

Despite all the complaints and concerns, UEFA were due to approve the reformat the other week only for the bigger sides to push for a little bit more - reportedly they wanted greater control of the running of the CL. Currently it's a partnership between the clubs and UEFA however UEFA have a veto, effectively giving them total control. This was said to have been resolved and then at the weekend, a day before the final UEFA meeting to rubber stamp everything, the Super League was announced.

UEFA still went ahead and approved the changes. It's some achievement for the biggest sides to have come out of this looking so bad when they've got so much of what they wanted.
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I will be honest, i fell out of love with football years ago and i was a die hard season ticket holder at the mighty palace, don't laugh :D. It's probably why it's the first im hearing of what you have mentioned... I think that stinks and to be honest my views are the game should be reset somehow and be regulated... I've always been a fan of the underdog but the way football is going it's taking that away... call me a dinosaur :D
 
BaZ87 said:
Considerably more than the £1-5m he put in. And I don't really agree with the "he only profits when he sells" line and that still ignores the fact that it's very likely (almost certain in fact) that he's already directly profited via the sale of some of his shares to the Americans. I have no issue with him doing so btw, I just queried the original point (not made by you) that he's not looking out for self interest. I'm not sure what your views are on Jordan but he certainly doesn't consider Parish a saviour of Palace and directly accused him of threatening to allow the club to go into liquidation if Jordan didn't hand the club over for next to nothing.
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Jordan is a self publicist. He made a hash of running the club and tried to be a little bit too clever. Parish has done a far better job as Chairman and I think Jordan is as bitter about that as anything.

I do think we have gone off on a bit of a tangent so though so happy to leave this topic as it is.
 
labbby said:
I will be honest, i fell out of love with football years ago and i was a die hard season ticket holder at the mighty palace, don't laugh :D. It's probably why it's the first im hearing of what you have mentioned... I think that stinks and to be honest my views are the game should be reset somehow and be regulated... I've always been a fan of the underdog but the way football is going it's taking that away... call me a dinosaur :D
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same, I was a palace season ticket holder in the championship and that one season we went up under Dowie.

Haven’t been for years now
 
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