Champions League revamp

[Terrarian]

All they need to do, as said above is stop the crazy transfer fees and wages, cut agents and start up management teams that don't take 30% of transfers. Greedy people have caused football to get this way, the very clubs proposing this ESL are the very clubs who have been to blame for crazy money. I don't see clubs our size paying £500k per week to players, it was never ever going to be sustainable.

 

[Blueclouds]

All they need to do, as said above is stop the crazy transfer fees and wages, cut agents and start up management teams that don't take 30% of transfers. Greedy people have caused football to get this way, the very clubs proposing this ESL are the very clubs who have been to blame for crazy money. I don't see clubs our size paying £500k per week to players, it was never ever going to be sustainable.

Exactly, they are crying cos mbappe will cost over 150 million so superleague will enable them to do this. The problem is agents and players will want more as its a bigger pie in the SL.

They just want to dominate the league and they don't have the right to do this. This is a sport for the fans not a business and we need to fight back.

 

[Blueclouds]

Plus Cheltenham Town are facing a loss of £1 million due to the lack of fans caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The 12 clubs make me sick.

 

[Thomasc]

100% done with premier league football if these clubs are not punished.
I’ll follow the German league instead.

 

[bluelegend]

The solution to this whole mess is to let Real and Barca go to the wall. La Liga becomes less relevant, investment may occur in Serie A, and the rest. Real and Barca’s outlandish spending was going to catch up on them at some stage. A Super League just kicks the can down the road and in turn kills football for clubs on the outside.

 

[Moomin]

Perez is correct tbf. They're saving football. What's ruining football is Everton spending 50mil on Richarlison.

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DAZN are taking over boxing now with insane contracts. Only a matter of time before football ends up on that platform, you cant fight this kind of bottomless money.
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They were looking to broadcast the super league.

 

[blaze]

It would be hilarious to see the teams leaving losing massive amounts because they're breaking the contract signed but realistically I can't even see that happening unless these clubs accept that a super league will never happen in any form. If legal action is taken against them it will pretty much sour them from ever signing documents for this type of thing again - good news for the fans, but I'm not convinced these clubs would want to go down that route.

 

[Bluestar]

If they cut back then they won't go bankrupt. Simple maths

Spurs are paying for a stadium. Those debts can’t be cut back.

it’s in none of our interests for them to go bust and quite frankly they will learn how much they need us.

 

[Terrarian]

I think some of those clubs didn't think that the players actually enjoy playing in the Premier League as well, the CL is not everything, it's just created an elite

 

[allen]

The solution to this whole mess is to let Real and Barca go to the wall. La Liga becomes less relevant, investment may occur in Serie A, and the rest. Real and Barca’s outlandish spending was going to catch up on them at some stage. A Super League just kicks the can down the road and in turn kills football for clubs on the outside.

You sense this is close from the desperation in Perez’s ramblings.

He actually wants us to feel sorry for the ‘rich’ clubs spending way more than the rest, and way more than they had.

 

[Blueclouds]

You sense this is close from the desperation in Perez’s ramblings.

He actually wants us to feel sorry for the ‘rich’ clubs spending way more than the rest, and way more than they had.

Cheltenham fc
We are up to date with our creditors, but we can’t do it for much longer -it’s getting really difficult."

And we have to be concerned by clubs who pay out 500k a week to players. Alba was giving 300k a week yeterday.

Wow, just wow

 

[Blueclouds]

Is it true that City have played the other 5 clubs?

 

[Jim Hopper]

Football in disarray all for the sake of 12 money hungry, egotistical, selfish clubs who everyone keeps pandering to. If these clubs all went out of business tomorrow football would carry on, we need to stop making these clubs the be all and end all. If they’re not happy in CL then drop out and let someone else who’d appreciate it a lot more take your place.

 

[Jeff Jones]

Apparently he was always going to leave at the end of the season .
So let's not let the Glazer's off the hook . I'm hoping the Utd fans turn up the heat on their American owners .

Why do we care about what the Glazers do, or don't do?.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Those six clubs are screwed.
They are going to be financially ruined. The binding contract will shaft them.

Whilst we do need to punish them in some way, having them go bankrupt is not sensible. It will make their involvement in the league a necessity.

Maybe. To the best of my knowledge, we still haven't seen the contract. The actual provisions are going to matter. The bigger the amount at stake, the more likely it's going all the way up to CAS. I can't see them being sympathetic unless it's all ironclad.

Maybe Perez can get them to settle for all of the legal fees they'd have to pay to run it all the way up there. That'd probably poison any future transfer dealings, which would be an enormous problem, but maybe he has a short time horizon and is really motivated to keep Real's creditors from getting at the part of his personal fortune he had to stump up.

In any event, I don't see "ruin" as a likely outcome from withdrawal. The government, on the other hand, could ruin them. So: easy choice.