Champions League revamp

[Toffee-nerd]

why would you want to punish clubs for leaving the SL (and wrecking it)

if City and Chelsea bail, do nothing to them - at all. Give the rest 12 hours from then and if they don’t surrender, then start with the bans, fines etc

F that. City and chelsea have shown their true colours. Dont give a toss if they felt like they were forced to join. They made a choice. They should face consequences just like the others.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Speaking of which, 8.2 million people watched the FA Cup final on the BBC, which is pretty much the same as the Liverpool Real Madrid CL final.

That’s only because the CL final is usually free to air on BT. The easier knockout games that are subscription only don’t get the same sort of volumes.

 

[Sinski]

Didn’t a bunch of investors buy up some of FSG recently that included LeBron James? I wonder if they new something was up.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Looking at the everton thread on rawk. I know i sound niave. I should have expected it. But I'm ashamed how they're going on over there. Saddened.

They are lashing out cos they know their club has come out of this disgracefully. Typical victim deflection move.

 

[Tubey]

why would you want to punish clubs for leaving the SL (and wrecking it)

if City and Chelsea bail, do nothing to them - at all. Give the rest 12 hours from then and if they don’t surrender, then start with the bans, fines etc

No. There has to be punishment for what's already happened.

 

[Martin Alvito]

The Champions League has all of those clubs, and BT paid £1.2 billion for the rights. The Premier League deal is worth about 3x that.

Fewer games. The individual games are worth about the same amount of money. 380 Prem games, 125 CL games from the group stage on. (16*6 group stage, rounds of 16, 8 and 4 have number of games equal to number of teams, plus a final.)

The TV numbers that are being floated are based on the notion that there will be the equivalent of a lot more knockout stage ties, with guaranteed desirable draws such as El Clasico, Manchester derbies and London derbies in the mix.

GOT's argument is that the bulk of the Prem contract and CL contracts' value is tied up in those derbies and the knockout stage ties.

 

[tsubaki]

Because they've essentially gone and signed a contract with another employer behind their current employer's back

Do you not think there's something wrong with that?

There is, but we need to wreck this SL and putting any impediment in any clubs path to prevent them leaving it now is daft. We want City, Chelsea or whoever to quit.

 

[hallamblue]

There is, but we need to wreck this SL and putting any impediment in any clubs path to prevent them leaving it now is daft. We want City, Chelsea or whoever to quit.

If it was just the 3 American owned clubs (rs, Utd and Arsenal) who left, that would do for me.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Did anything ever come of that by the way?

Not that I can find

 

[Lee Smith]

Any updates anywhere on what's been coming out of this meeting?

Apparently Moshiri is just sitting there going on about Rule L9, shouting “Read the standing orders. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!!”

 

[Martin Alvito]

F that. City and chelsea have shown their true colours. Dont give a toss if they felt like they were forced to join. They made a choice. They should face consequences just like the others.

This is why I am saying that they should not unconditionally throw the towel in - they should barter that coin for every bit of leniency it's worth before making a move.

 

[sageyefc]

Think the Americans completely underestimated the importance and feelings about football in England

 

[trueblue84]

Apparently Moshiri is just sitting there going on about Rule L9, shouting “Read the standing orders. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!!”

"RICK PARRY, YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY HERE!!!!"

 

[mill]

Think the Americans completely underestimated the importance and feelings about football in England

Nah. They just don’t care.

 

[marnie]

Apparently Moshiri is just sitting there going on about Rule L9, shouting “Read the standing orders. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM!!”

Calling everyone Jackie.