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Champions League revamp

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duncs pigeon said:
Agreed mate, but they still protected the football league clubs. Yes, the rich got richer and this is why they want the break away now,because the 'smaller' clubs are catching up and they dont like it. Leicester are a prime example of this, the last two seasons the have been knocking on the door to CL football, above the likes of Arsenal a nd Spurs.
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I get where you’re coming from - there was an opportunity in ‘92 to set up a model not too dissimilar from the German model - fans own/run 51% of the clubs - could have had reasonable ticket prices and stayed a working persons sport - Bayern Munich haven’t signed up to this latest power grab I’d imagine because their fans would get to vote on it and they’ll vote no.

We’ve let any Tom dick and Harry buy into our clubs and who can blame yank investors for wanting to ape the nfl model of no relegation, salary caps and guaranteed profits. I bet John W Henry is currently bricking himself at having to foot the Bill if the RS don’t make top 4.
 
Tubey said:
You over rate individual brands and underrate the league.

The Premier League made Manchester United as it is today, not the other way around. All that would happen is other clubs would fill the void.

The Premier League have more to lose by not putting their foot down on this.
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Them leaving would destroy the appeal of the PL, without a doubt.
I’m very confident the clubs would blink though, if PL hold the line
 
There were rumblings that the 'big' teams wanted 6 clubs to qualify for the champions league- Arsenal and Spurs being invited to the conversation- and no more than 6 English clubs involved tells me that this is something they want.

There were also rumours that some clubs were unhappy with regards to the TV rights being share out amongst the competition.

For example, if Liverpool played Atalanta, they feel they would be entitled to a bigger share of the pot as they have more viewers watching compared to Atlantic.

This is just a show of force from these clubs so that they can get what they want.

No coincidence its come about now after the revised Champions League format.

It won't happen.
 

Tubey said:
Which would make them even more of a farce. Football is built on local fans first and foremost - Liverpool turning into the Beijing Red men and having 70,000 CCP mandated fill houses will fill the coffers but world football will continue spinning on its axis, laughing at them in their echo chamber.
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Absolutely, but the money would be flowing and that is all that counts.
 
ALL English football fans from ALL clubs should protest against these plans.

Feck the money and so called glamour... this is OUR National game and tradition these Yankee Doodle Dandies are fecking about with.
 
Tubey said:
You over rate individual brands and underrate the league.

The Premier League made Manchester United as it is today, not the other way around. All that would happen is other clubs would fill the void.

The Premier League have more to lose by not putting their foot down on this.
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Not convinced but I hope you're correct
 

tsubaki said:
Absolutely, but the money would be flowing and that is all that counts.
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Liverpool can be the new Microsoft in terms of revenue as far as I'm concerned - as long as their nothing more than a gimmick football club in their own bubble while doing so and have absolutely zero influence on actual world football then I'm all for it.
 

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