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Champions League revamp

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allen said:
It feels strangely desperate to me. Rushed. I think there's a major bankruptcy or two pretty close if this doesn't happen.
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Aye, one of the other pr people said this, pretty crazy that Liverpool thought that Joel Glazer was a good messenger for their fans.
“When news broke on Sunday afternoon, there was no immediate statement, giving pundits the opportunity to express their outrage at the proposals, tapping into the consensus that change is always a bad thing in football and echoing the concerns of fans around the country that their clubs are now focused on money over supporters. The narrative was dominated with fury and opposition, ignoring one of the basic tenets of PR: that you don’t leave others to fill the void with negativity when controversial developments take place. “

“The ESL leaders should have planned a (Zoom) press conference for Sunday afternoon, or at least shared a video news release as soon as the news was broken. The fact that just three ESL executives—Real Madrid’s Florentino Pérez, Manchester United’s Joel Glazer and Andrea Agnelli, chairman of Juventus—are quoted in the release also felt like something of a mis-step. While the outrage is widespread, representatives of each club should have made their own comments, on their own websites, speaking to their own fanbase. How must it feel for Liverpool fans that United’s Glazer is quoted in a press release on their own website? By avoiding the scrutiny of press interviews, the ESL gives further credence to the impression that this is all about money and money alone.”
 

Martin Alvito said:
If they didn't negotiate the right to exercise league rules into the contract without being (directly) penalized, then they're fools.

And as I've stated previously, if you kick the other 6 teams out you can make whatever rules you like regarding investment to weather the revenue storm. You can even make them without kicking them out, if you word them right. But I wouldn't recommend setting the precedent of permitting what are functionally bills of attainder aimed at some of the members to hit the table, if I were advising them. That's a big red line to cross.
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Oh yes can see Sky and others with the billions forked in viewing rights allowing that to happen just as much as this greedy 6 diluting the TV market.
 

Tubey said:
Good luck with that.

You can't compel an organisation of their own tournament to select players if they don't want to.

Playing international football isn't a human right.

Conversely, they'll be sued to oblivion in exchange when they leave for breach of commitment, particularly in relation to things like breaking Rule L9 - and rightly so.
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It's what I found amusing about Perez being all cocksure that the "laws" in place means the players will play in these tournaments.

Yet the people who run the tournaments have said they'll kick them out.

So unless UEFA have missed something they don't know...Perez etc are just posing
 
Daytripper said:
Something as substantial as this and the manager hasn’t been briefed or spoken privately to in the past about a possibility of it happening? I don’t buy it. It affects the team and the manager is in charge of the team.

Look, I could be wrong here , we are on the outside looking in aren’t we and I don’t mean to be a smartarse , there are times I can’t accept everything told to us.
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I assume you don't work in a corporate environment? The CEO of Tesco doesn't tell his branch staff that they're putting the prices up, it just happens and the little people are left to deal with the consequences. In this scenario, the players and managers are the little people, they're not relevant to the billionaires who are pulling the strings.
 

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