Champions League revamp

[MrGrumpy]

Rummenigge. The convicted tax doger


Without a shadow of a doubt that's the general feeling. Infact it's the total feeling.
I know it counts for nothing but Wycombe, Macclesfield, York away in the old third division
and then this? The club has gone. It's done. We have been crapped on and the club are going to
have to accept that. As if they even care though?

I know your a City fan so I was wondering what you feel should be the punishment for City and the other 5?

 

[Blues Harp]

The big six owners especially the yanks are out and out sociopaths.

They don’t see or care about anything apart from their bank balance.

I would surmise that most heads of corporate big businesses have psychopathic tendencies without feeling the need to forge new careers as serial killers.

 

[Vax]

I just noticed that my neighbour doesn't have the Inter flag at his window anymore.

 

[Tubey]

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Hahaha that's tremendous.

Beauty of it is its so annoying to read that people don't bother and assume it's bloody real hahaha

 

[tsubaki]

Let's look at this purely from an Everton point of view.

If the 6 join the ESL, we'll have effectively been downgraded to permanent tier 2 status with no chance to progress to tier 1.
The Premier League will be diminished as a competition in standing and perception, and future TV deals will be massively inferior to what we've become used to over the last couple of decades.

This is an existential threat to Everton as an institution whatever way you look at it. We'll be in a fundamentally different and permanently-diminished situation. Who knows what that could mean for the future, in our ability to finance a new stadium and a first class training complex and academy. Our ability to grow our fanbase will take a hit.

This state of affairs will be replicated to every non-ESL club in England, Italy and Spain.

In any way you look at this, there is absolutely no upside to for anyone other than the ESL and their partners.

In the short term, yes. Everyone is going to suffer.

In the medium to long term though this might have a positive effect - they were the ones driving wages and transfer fees up, the ones hoarding cash and the ones preventing everyone else winning things. When the SL fails (and it will if up against a better competitor) what money did leave will probably start coming back as well.

 

[Zatara]

SuperChampion

lol lol lol lol lol

You know @MikelsGoat will incorporate that into a name change...

 

[roydo]

What's worked? You've got the most important people in your club saying they think it's a terrible idea. What is working exactly? Former players are going against you, fans are against you, players are against, you, the coach is against you, the media are against you, other clubs are against you, the government are against you. How is that in any way "working"?

They kept it quiet is what worked.

Didnt say it was a good idea to not tell managers and that.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

They kept it quiet is what worked.

Didnt say it was a good idea to not tell managers and that.

Indeed, perhaps if they'd actually spoken to people outside of the boardroom they'd have realised this is utter madness and not gone ahead with it.

 

[Yarrgh]

I still have no idea what's the hell "nobody is listening to us" even is meant to mean

Say it like you were Verucca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

 

[LinekersLegs]

That's not a great reason in my opinion. It's leadership 101 that you bring your people with you on any strategy. If you're deliberately keeping them in the dark over something so fundamental to their job because you believe the shitstorm should it come out is so grave then you surely question whether it's the right thing you're doing? It's staggeringly incompetent.

Tbf it isn’t in mine either and all your other points are valid and are why I’d personally never have signed up to the plan.

However whilst not being a great reason I do think it would have been pretty impossible for the ringleaders of this to get to the stage they are, having signed contracts in their hand, without the secrecy. And that is all they really care about.

 

[IllinoisBlue]

this is grim but who knows, by 2030 we might be laughing as the RS move into the "Anfield Dubai Experience Stadium" or play every match at 3am to appeal to East Asian audiences

The biggest losers in this are the fans of the big 6 who are basically losing their teams to franchises. These franchises move cities periodically in USA, and I can see the Shanghai Reds in a shiny new stadium in 2024, or the New York Spurs vs LA Arsenal. It's madness.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

As I've been suggesting all day...

Villa's CEO;

He added that the clubs could "in theory" be expelled, but "no one wants to perform an act of self harm".

"What we need to find is a way to enable these two tournaments to thrive and they won’t be better off without those clubs," said Purslow.

 

[atypicalusername]

The FA need to send the scab 6 to the counties league so grass roots football can benefit from their betrayal of the sport.

 

[Tubey]

Says it all though that when Boris Johnson, the serving PM, says this will be stopped and won't happen, that absolutely nobody believes him.

 

[Azza]