Champions League revamp

dublinbluenose · April 20, 2021

You just know they'll want the women's version to be played in bikinis

Tubey · April 20, 2021

GrandOldTeam said:
As I've been suggesting all day...

Villa's CEO

We know this. It doesn't matter. If they go ahead the self harm would be greater by allowing it.

Frenk · April 20, 2021

I guess that’s it then, we look like a bunch of wimps based on the response from that meeting today.

ForeverBlue92 · April 20, 2021

GrandOldTeam said:
If they had a vote to the 14 now, I reckon all 14 would vote against expelling them.

Which is why English football is doomed one way or another. We had the chance with this to press the reset button, rid the league of the gulf state owners and commercial behemoths but we are too scared to take our own collective snouts out the trough.

The 6 clubs will be allowed to do what they want that much is certain. The best we can hope for is a fine and transfer embargo which does nothing after 1 year.

LinekersLegs · April 20, 2021

Bruce Wayne said:
Do we really think they're going to go ahead with this? They've done untold damage to their brands and the only way out of this is to slither back into a revamped Champions League that weights the dice in their favour. I can't see how they can possibly go ahead with this league.

Depends on how much financial trouble they are really in and what the small print on the contracts is.

A bit more lucrative CL might not be enough to keep some of the non-UK teams afloat after their awful management.

Big_nev · April 20, 2021

As if Man City fans have the cheek to try and position themselves as anti establishment ffs, Pep going on about unfair competition.

This is the same club that literally had a team of lawyers threatening all and sundry for suggesting something might be off about their financials. Same side who utterly abused financial fair play and then had the same team of lawyers over turn a ban they fully deserved. Same side with a billion pound squad yet we are all meant to sit here and believe they are the mad rebels and Pep's built them from the ground up.

Koff City you state owned money laundering rats. Same goes for PSG, praised because they can't join the super league due to their owners utterly swindling a World Cup to Qatar with every stadiums foundations littered with the dead bodies of immigrants.

These pricks have ruined the game just like UEFA and we've all stood by and watched it happen.

Bruce Wayne · April 20, 2021

NilSatisOptimum said:
No wonder Utd and Juventus share price is on the upward trend, since this broke.

JP Morgan to finance breakaway Super League

JP Morgan on Monday said that it was financing the new breakaway Super League, announced by 12 of Europe's biggest soccer clubs on Sunday. A spokesman for JP Morgan said in an email that its involvement with the new league which has been set up as a rival to UEFA's Champions League and includes...

uk.news.yahoo.com

United's share price is down 3% today.

USABlue · April 20, 2021

roydo said:
Like I said earlier. Not remotely surprised the Mericans went with it; its what they know. They basically do not care.

Less so with Chelsea and City though. Dont get that one.

Probably just didn't want to be left out at the end of the day. Spanish and Italian clubs want the money to get out of debt

Nymzee · April 20, 2021

dublinbluenose said:
You just know they'll want the women's version to be played in bikinis

Count me in.

GrandOldTeam · April 20, 2021

Tubey said:
We know this. It doesn't matter. If they go ahead the self harm would be greater by allowing it.

If they expel them, the gap will be even bigger because the TV money would go from The Premier League, to the Super League.

That's why the six won't be expelled, there's zero appetite for it from the 14 clubs.

PITA · April 20, 2021

Tin-Tin said:
I understand his point but having a go at the fans, who are trying to show their voice in the only ways they can is a poor angle here.

That frustration should be going to the owners

He’s very protective of his players, isn’t he? Doesn’t give a flying one about others teams’ players being attacked by his team’s scummy fans though.
I can’t believe that not one commentator has picked up on Klopp’s comment about his players being shouted at, as the coach arrived last night, after the bad (for them) press just last week about Madrid’s bus being bricked.

Bruce Wayne · April 20, 2021

LinekersLegs said:
Depends on how much financial trouble they are really in and what the small print on the contracts is.

A bit more lucrative CL might not be enough to keep some of the non-UK teams afloat after their awful management.

Well yeah. The likes of Barcelona are in a right mess financially speaking. I'm a bit confused as to how Barca are signed up to it, as I thought they were owned by their fans in the same way German clubs are, and the fans seem universally opposed to it.

Frenk · April 20, 2021

GrandOldTeam said:
If they expel them, the gap will be even bigger because the TV money would go from The Premier League, to the Super League.

That's why the six won't be expelled, there's zero appetite for it from the 14 clubs.

We are just a bunch of lap dogs. I don’t see the appeal of a league you can never get relegated from and basically play the same teams over and over again.