Champions League revamp

[Bohemian Toffee]

With all the excitement we mustn’t forget the game tonight. Cockney Blue Scabs v Br*ght*n. Now it is quite likely that the south coast bottlers will try some anti ESL PR with T shirts or dancing gigolos or some such and whilst that is all very laudable please don’t forget that they are vermin. Well intentioned vermin tonight possibly but nonetheless, still vermin. Thank you.

For the first time in my life I want Brighton to win.

Sorry, sir. I could probably even get behind Millwall if they were playing one of these scab 6.

 

[Azza]

maybe it’s like Margin Call, except Gunnersaurus is in the Stanley Tucci role

Saka furiously driving around Camden trying to find him now

Is the dog being put to sleep and buried a metaphor for football itself?

 

[Twinkletoes123]

 

[BlueToff]

To these owners, the word 'fans' is synonymous with 'customer'.

And they don't have to care because they know there will be 'customers', whether from Liverpool or Manchester, or Hong Kong or New York.

But, there'll only be customers if there's a product. And there'll be no product if the players and managers take a stand.

 

[BillBrasky]

Everyone just needs to start thinking of them purely as corporations rather football clubs. The staff inc players are just capital. The fans consumers.

Once you accept that, none of this is surprising. At all.

It also make it easier to smile when one of their prized assets gets injured. If you play for a Scab 6 club you are no longer a human being. Just an asset. As a fan of rival club I want that asset devalued.

 

[Martin Alvito]

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.

They played it close to the vest because it was poison if it leaked.

Perez's thought process is clear enough, and sound insofar as it goes - this only works if we all sign on to a deal with a penalty clause so astronomical that there's no going back. The only way to broker that deal is to keep it quiet, and the only way to do that is to keep it at the top. So they told next to no one, because it's the only way.

The problem is that it's an all-or-nothing play that doesn't account for the unforeseen. Clearly, they had attorneys telling them that it's legal enough. I suspect they anticipated the fan outcry. I don't know if Chelsea told them about their weakness with respect to the stadium lease, or if they felt it was even germane. I suspect that they believed that the players would never in a million years walk away from the money if enough was stumped up, and they might be right on that one.

I think they misread UEFA/FIFA and the government. I think they thought that UEFA would roll over like they always do once their lawyers looked at it, and I think they thought that there was no way Boris Johnson's government would intervene. I mean, if they can't coordinate a response to a pandemic, how are they going to do anything about football, am I right?

 

[Azza]

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

It's not an argument at all mate, just differing views on a forum, which makes it interesting! So please don't be put off from giving your view!
I agree with you, there will be a lot of litigation, but lots of people. I just think they're case is going to be a lot less favourable from a legal perspective than City's was.

I'm no legal expert (my experties was essentially shagging a lawyer when I was at university). She was quite qualified so by some osmosis I picked certain things up. I always regret not keeping her number when we stopped seeing each other haha.

well played for shagging a lawyer, my experience(s) have always been the other way

 

[number4.]

a cynic would wonder was this the plan all along?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I would say he is becoming used to it by now ......being wrong that is

The lad is confused and lost. It all went wrong when Pickford assaulted his hero.

 

[Azza]

 

[Jim Hopper]

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[Alan Whittle]

.....and this is good because.....?

 

[barneygumble]

Cant help but feel whatever the result of this is we'll get shafted as a club.

Either UEFA cave in and give them a bigger slice of the pie for staying OR we go down the road of 50+1 German style ownership and Moshiri/Usmanov put in less money as they own less of the club.

Either scenario we lose out despite sticking by the rules.

See the one thing I’m definitely taking from this is the remaining 13 sides see Everton as the leader of the pack.

The message we delivered was clear, inclusive and damning. Every side since has backed it, and it’s a weird feeling.
Honestly let the finance and the quality go down slightly, at the end of the day, let the glorified Indian Super League do its bit and let us as a whole l, build up English football and make it brilliant without the traitors, and make sure things are in place to ensure nothing like this EVER happens again.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Bramley Moore is BACK on!