Champions League revamp

[Tramps_mate]

Wow!!!

 

[RomanReigns]

The prem will drag it out so that any sanctions they do give will only come into effect next season

 

[Johnniepk]

Assuming they all joined the Founders club for the SL en masse is there a timeline for pulling out of the plan?
The whole thing seems to have been done on the sly and even resignations slipped out at 22.50 etc
City pulled out first? Etc.
What i will really love is if The Red Pirates were the last of the sly 6 standing , making their change of heart even more hollow

 

[number4.]

I think the clubs have read the room better than you have
Fans want these punished
Even true football fans of the Sly six realise they have to be punished to protect the game
Short term pain for long term gain
Every official supporters club of the Sly Six have condemned the move and will have no problem with them being punished and I doubt the clubs involved will fight back against the punishment as they know they were wrong , they admitted it and will take their medicine to show true remorse

Agree on nearly all of this, but

Not sure you can blanket "the clubs" as one? I think EFC and LCFC for example are outraged and can see the bigger picture, but there will be many of the 14 who wont. All of the reporting today suggests the 14 are split on whether to punish (never mind how much)

Short term pain for long term gain - this is an ideal, not a reality. You really think Brighton are going to vote for something that reduces the value of their TV rights for the next for years on a Principle. There is not a chance of this happening, as much as we all want it as fans

 

[efcfanwirral]

This is the absolute minimum that should happen, but I don't think it will. At the end of all of this the Scum 6 will be in a better position than they were a week ago, with additional protections in place for their continuous admission to the Champions League.

"It's only 2" will turn into all 10 of the proper super league level clubs within a few years if we let them have this. It really does need to be fought against

 

[ForestBlue]

If Uefa do anything it will the equivalent of a suspended sentence

 

[Brisan123]

Agree on nearly all of this, but

Not sure you can blanket "the clubs" as one? I think EFC and LCFC for example are outraged and can see the bigger picture, but there will be many of the 14 who wont. All of the reporting today suggests the 14 are split on whether to punish (never mind how much)

Short term pain for long term gain - this is an ideal, not a reality. You really think Brighton are going to vote for something that reduces the value of their TV rights for the next for years on a Principle. There is not a chance of this happening, as much as we all want it as fans

Sky won’t reduce their TV just because the scum got deducted points and a euro ban
Sky were literally shitting themselves in case the super league went ahead
They will want to make sure it never happens again

 

[barneygumble]

If Uefa do anything it will the equivalent of a suspended sentence

1000% life time bans if they threaten anything again.

But too late, as UEFA, are already peddling this, and the need for any further breakaways won’t exist.

 

[number4.]

Sky won’t reduce their TV just because the scum got deducted points and a euro ban
Sky were literally shitting themselves in case the super league went ahead
They will want to make sure it never happens again

Of course they would & the rights are up for negotiation in the coming weeks - they tried to reduce TV rights because the crowds werent allowed go. Who is going to ban them from europe btw?

As I said, I genuinely hope the get the book thrown at them, but commercial immediacy will overrule it. Severe rule changes and / or suspended sentences incase they do it again the only outcome

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Six truely vile clubs. Hate the lot of them.

None has any credibility. Boot them all out the Prem and the European competitions for the foreseeable future.

 

[StevenSeagull]

Well done everybody. It wasn't EUFA, FIFA, Sky Sports or the footballers that stopped this from happening. It was us fans.

 

[davmaher]

"It's only 2" will turn into all 10 of the proper super league level clubs within a few years if we let them have this. It really does need to be fought against

Exactly. If it's not stopped now it will there will not be another opportunity.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Milan's Curva Sud - absolutely brilliant


“Honestly, it makes us laugh to see all those people in the control room of football suddenly claim we fans are first and foremost.

“The Super League is just the latest in a long line of innumerable manoeuvres over decades that has made football into a business.

“The birth of this new competition would certainly be another shove to the football of old, which is by now a distant memory, and will inevitably obscure the tradition of the various national leagues, robbing football of the undeniable principle of sporting meritocracy.

“But the thing that most leaves us indignant is the hypocrisy of all those who contributed to making this sport nothing but a business, those who today stand up in name of the fans, but only because they saw their remunerative and seemingly untouchable project fall apart.

“Football did belong to the people until the 1990s, when the Champions League was born, destroying the old European Cup. From that moment, an unbreachable chasm has been created between the big and small clubs.

“Football did belong to the people even when nobody lifted a finger to stop the increase of ticket prices that was imposed by some Presidents.

“Football did belong to the people even when nobody stepped in to stop the rise of the super agents, who took player salaries to ever more astronomical figures, which could only be sustained with TV rights, the same TV companies that imposed increasingly chaotic fixture lists, with games on improbable days and kick-off times.

“Football did belong to the people even when rules were imposed to stop any rapport between the players and the fans.

“Football did belong to the people even when Supercoppa Finals were played on other continents or the dates of some games were changed a few days before kick-off, damaging those fans who had booked trains or planes to get to the stadium.

“Football did belong to the people even when some clubs were allowed to circumvent Financial Fair Play, while others with less influential Presidents were penalised.

“Football did belong to the people even when the World Cup was forced to Qatar in 2022, despite moving the entire calendar and disregarding human rights violations.

“We could list numerous other examples to show the absolute hypocrisy of the words we’re hearing from the football chiefs over the last 48 hours.

“The Super League is just the latest disgusting step, but those who took football to this point are no less grotesque, so save us these ludicrous performances of rhetoric and morality.

“Now that the money is running out, feel free to fight it out between yourselves, but don’t you dare name the fans. PIGS!”

 

[Johnniepk]

They might have stopped but i dont actually believe they understand.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The game can't regulate itself. The Premier League/UEFA etc will just breathe a sigh of relief.

This is what's needed.

This is what will make the owners panic.

Looks like the FSA is going to build a challenge, also.

'The real fight begins now' - a statement from Football Supporters Europe - Football Supporters' Association

Following the collapse of the European Super League, Football Supporters Europe, the pan-European body which represents football supporters across the continent and of which the FSA is a member, have released this statement:

thefsa.org.uk