Champions League revamp

[JLW]

Honestly I'm baffled who will actually watch this cartel 'super league' long term.
Obviously you'll get plenty at the start but they'll all get bored very quick.
Kick them out, they're massively over confident in what they think they have imo.

Exactly my thoughts on this.
the glamour of the big games will become mundane and if they were booted out of the PL they would be back within 3 years with their tail between their legs

 

[Frenk]

I think they do; they aren't going to be left with any option if the 6 don't fold themselves.

Remember what this has followed - years of appeasing them in negotiations, and then the Big Picture negotiations which can now be clearly seen as an attempt to pre-emptively remove the ability of the 14 clubs to stop the ESL. Every "benefit" of the Big Picture proposal would have further screwed the 14 as well, and not fallen anywhere near as hard on the 6.

I seriously hope you right.

 

[mightymoyes]

Would you really pay to watch it ?

No chance I would.

Never

 

[Frenk]

Exactly my thoughts on this.
the glamour of the big games will become mundane and if they were booted out of the PL they would be back within 3 years with their tail between their legs

My thoughts exactly, I think the remaining clubs in the premier league hold a lot of the power here. I just wish they would realise that.

 

[Goat]

Probably wouldn't but wearing shirts hardly does either

Its a hearts and minds approach.

 

[tsubaki]

As always there is a 3rd way. Seems at the moment its a binary in out option. The disadvantage of kicking them out is losing money.
Why not keep them in but on the proviso they have no say in the running of the league. Essentially use them to get paid.

Because they'll trash it. The PL is the most watched, most lucrative national football league in the world; its a rival to them.

 

[COYBL25]

Would you really pay to watch it ?

No chance I would.

How much would they charge boozers to put it on and would anyone go to watch it ?

I wouldn’t and I haven’t spoken to anyone who would either.

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[roydo]

Has any club not made a statement yet? One saying its shabite I mean.

Because, and this has literally just dawned on me, and left me feeling a bit cold.

They need one more PL club in the scab league to defeat any vote to sack them off. Y'know, like an unprincipled business man, who has total disdain for his clubs fans, who might be looking to flog the club to some Saudis........

 

[Toffeeback]

It’s starting to seem to me that the only tenable solution that doesn’t result in either the diminishing of the Premier League’s prestige on the one hand (by kicking those 6 out) or turning over even more power to them in perpetuity (by leaving them in) is to find a way to force the owners themselves out. And obviously any new owners have to shut down the Super League farce.

Should also still result in a massive points deduction and multi-year European ban as punishments for doing this in the first place, but the fans, players, etc wouldn’t be punished permanently like they would be by kicking the clubs out altogether.

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[Tubey]

By the way, those saying the Prem clubs will be too scared to kick them out... Can you imagine the damage this project would cause to the club values of, say, Newcastle? Mike Ashley would have to sell at a pittance. Every club outside these six are worth next to nothing immediately. There's no route for them for success anymore, so what would anyone be investing in?

Yeah, the six leave, they all take a hit. But if the six stay and this abomination is allowed, they're effectively dead.

They have to know this.

 

[toffee-L]

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.

The Super League cannot survive if the clubs involved don't have a domestic league to play in, they only have 12 teams! If it was to go ahead tomorrow and they were banned from domestic leagues they'd be paying their players fortunes to twiddle their thumbs for the majority of the year.

If the clubs don't back out of the SL (which would be the 14 clubs first preference), then they have two options. Allow them to stay in the league, which would lead to the national League getting massacred and a slow, and painful death for all none-Super League clubs would ensue.

Or, ban them. There would be a very painful reneogtiation of TV contracts which would sting every club, but after a period of five years once players current contracts have all expired then the league would start to slowly recover.

It's not even a choice.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Vax]

Pirlo likes the Superleague.
Well. Why would he care, after this embarrassing season I can't see him be the manager of any other team for a long time.