Champions League revamp
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Really boiling my pish klopp and Henderson are being held up as hero's in all this, they did nothing. Especially klopp, alot of people had hung their hats on him to really strike the 1st blow to this and he was an erratic mess. Swaying from side to side talking absolute nonsensical rubbish about t-shirts and songs. I've no doubts he'll be in full flow next interview with some overblown speech bigging himself up. Absolutely pathetic.
Martin Alvito
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No, I do not like this.
It's pretty clear that what they want is to force those involved out.
They already bagged Woodward. Kroenke purportedly wants out, which I suspected was going to happen anyway given his LA project and current events...he just hoped it would be at a better price following the success of the venture.
Is Woodward's head going to satisfy the clubs, or do they want to go higher? Drive Levy out, or force the owner to sell? Do Abramovich and the Sheikh get brownie points for bringing the pressure to bear to bring this thing down, or were they even responsible for the endgame? Are FSG going to rue not having a Comolli figure to take the fall?
Are the English clubs going to push in UEFA for similar measures with respect to the Spanish and Italian clubs? Do they get them? If so, how are they going to handle the curious case of Laporta, who inherited the mess and did not apply the brakes but perhaps could not do so without burning the relationships with the very clubs he has to do business in the transfer market with?
Everything seems to be coalescing on: we don't want the clubs punished. We want the principals - the owners and presidents - gone.
Will that even work? Aren't the next owners and presidents going to face the same realities, and be motivated similarly to make similar moves? What safeguards can be put into place to protect the existing system? Is it even worth saving, or is the issue that these men had a valid point but went about making it in a classless, self-centered and destructive way?
There's a lot of story left to be written here.
But who is going to write the open letter?
I've noticed on Twitter people are already attempting distort how events unfolded and laughably reframe Chelsea and Man city as noble entities who took a stand against and dealt a death blow to an unjust system even though without their complicity the project wouldn't have advanced to this stage. This world is so dumb
As if they would ever wear T-shirts to make a point?
Oh those keepy-ups.
NathDogg
Player Valuation: £60m
Sourness talks some absolute wham, but this rubbish takes the cake. Absolute drivel. Victim card already in play?!
Nice of him to be bothered about the legacy reds - shame the club and its owners weren't!
They are shameless - is he still on the payroll by any chance?
Anyone notice what looked like Carragher's daughter in his background tonight. Imagine if someone had gobbed at her!
Have no issue with Milner getting kudos but find the lauding of the other two as downright odd.
Still think Patrick Bamford gave some of the best comments I’ve seen anyone make about the whole situation - genuine and thoughful.
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
He’s not wrong though... the vast majority of even the Scab 6’s fans hated this from the very beginning. Even slapping a giant points deduction or something on them wouldn’t help. Look how fast Juventus recovered from being sent to Serie B after their scandal. They were back in the Champions League knockout rounds a couple years later.
The owners need to be driven out of these clubs and then the rules need to be changed so no one with eyes on creating a global brand or whatever can get their hands on a club in the future.
Zezti
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Yeah, far from over.
In press conferences and meetings they'll be pushing the narrative that 'the system is broken' (the 'system' being the fact years of underperforming on the pitch can damage their revenues, meaning they can't keep paying players/fees higher than the rest). Slowly and surely people will cave. Some journos to start, a couple managers here, some fan groups there, eventually enough will believe these poor clubs need special dispensation and they will get their luxury league.
Unless this is stamped out now and these clubs are brought back down to earth.
Fixed that for you.
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