Why would the city of Liverpool be excluded?
Why just “maybe” Madrid?
And what about London?
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Why would the city of Liverpool be excluded?
Why just “maybe” Madrid?
And what about London?
Excluded from having 2 teams
Population size and fan bases
It’s all to do with selling TV rights to far flung corners of the world
no way those clubs are going to jeopardize their premier league tv revenue
look at the european rugby cup.
they reformatted it under pressure from the english and french clubs and the revenues in the competition have actually gone down!
look at the european rugby cup.
they reformatted it under pressure from the english and french clubs and the revenues in the competition have actually gone down!
Gwladysstreetlad
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It'll never happen but I'd overjoyed if it did and the whole sky six went. They'd have a nightmare. No chance of ever winning anything ever again along with the very real likelihood that they'd get pumped every week. Barcelona on a sat at 3pm sounds great doesn't it, until the likes of the RS find themselves 6-0 down with twenty mins still to play and it quickly dawns on them that they're the whipping boys who have got nothing to look forward to other then weekly defeats and having their best players snatched by the big boys of the league.
Yid4life
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It always amuses me when we get included in the 'big 6'.
We have spent virtually no money in 3 windows.
Our global fan base is tiny compared to LFC, Man U and Woolwich. Man C and Chelsea won the lottery.
We have punched well above our weight for several seasons.
People say 'big 6' or 'sky 6' as if we have had some sort of preferential treatment.
We have broken consistently into the top 4 on merit and should give hope for the future to similar sized clubs.
Yes in many ways it's a big 5 with one wealthy but exceptional well run club as the 6th.
I would imagine any such league would be deemed illegitimate by FIFA/UEFA so would probably mean associations booted them out.
I hope it goes ahead. I don't think they will be successful and I imagine most will be back with the begging bowl within a decade, where hopefully they are made to start again from the lowest tier and work upwards.
The Premier League is a unique product and generates supporters and excitement. It will continue to be thus if sides go. Fair enough the league may shrink somewhat, but we would be perfectly positioned to be the biggest fish in it.
If the PL had strength, it would call their bluff and re-raise those clearly involved in discussions. Make them illegal and say any club found to be negotiating such a league will be automatically demoted. Call the bluff. In all honesty if 5 teams are what they want (which would be about right) it probably only takes 2 to stay and it will then become a doomed concept in England and likely internationally.
What is stupid though, is to continue to allow these teams to negotiate while receiving the vast majority of the TV money's. Time to go on the offensive. If you want to go, go. If you are caught negotiating immediate demotion with say a 10 year ban on being allowed to re-enter the competition. See how many are brave enough to put their short sighted greed ahead of the common good then.
I hope it goes ahead. I don't think they will be successful and I imagine most will be back with the begging bowl within a decade, where hopefully they are made to start again from the lowest tier and work upwards.
The Premier League is a unique product and generates supporters and excitement. It will continue to be thus if sides go. Fair enough the league may shrink somewhat, but we would be perfectly positioned to be the biggest fish in it.
If the PL had strength, it would call their bluff and re-raise those clearly involved in discussions. Make them illegal and say any club found to be negotiating such a league will be automatically demoted. Call the bluff. In all honesty if 5 teams are what they want (which would be about right) it probably only takes 2 to stay and it will then become a doomed concept in England and likely internationally.
What is stupid though, is to continue to allow these teams to negotiate while receiving the vast majority of the TV money's. Time to go on the offensive. If you want to go, go. If you are caught negotiating immediate demotion with say a 10 year ban on being allowed to re-enter the competition. See how many are brave enough to put their short sighted greed ahead of the common good then.
It's because you're a London club who have done well. It's good for marketing the league abroad.
This super league wouldn't be anything to do with merit anyway. If it were, Leicester have comfortably achieved more than Liverpool in well over a decade. But unsurprisingly they aren't in the discussion eh?
I should also add in this, even if it did go off and make a major success (which I highly doubt it will) and the Premier league proved to have very little resilience to such a threat, I still wouldn't care. Do the trophies won in the 1980's, when football was at a low ebb mean any less to people? Do people really think we will sink that low again in terms of prestige?
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I think the answer to those questions are both no. The product will remain comparatively very strong and we stand a very real chance of adding more trophies in the shakeup. I'd be delighted with that, irrespective of what a super league was or wasn't doing.
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I think the answer to those questions are both no. The product will remain comparatively very strong and we stand a very real chance of adding more trophies in the shakeup. I'd be delighted with that, irrespective of what a super league was or wasn't doing.
Gwladysstreetlad
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I never said that you didn't earn your way into the position you're in mate.
How you got were you have is irrelevant, you're part of the "big six" and there's no question that if a super league was created that you'd be one of the English clubs who'd be given an invitation to join.
And it appeals to fans in other continents (and thus TV companies)...
It would, for example, be interesting to know how many signed up members United or Liverpool have from places such as China or Malaysia, as opposed to Manchester or Liverpool.
In that case Juventus would be ruled out.
Average gate 38,000.....less than us.
Smalish enough provincial, industrial city.
Now I come to think of it, Milan have two major teams and a huge population.....that city would be looking fir two teams in it.
And London certainly fills your criteria in having world famous teams with worldwide appeal and a massive population, Bri.
So no, I think that if this project ever did get off the ground, the organisers would not hinder themselves by limiting it to one team per city, except Manchester.
Besides, as you say, this is designed for viewers in far flung reaches of the world so viewers in Kuala Lumpur or Hong Kong won’t give a stuff about which city the teams are from.
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