'Project Big Picture'

[Alan Whittle]

'They were worried about the plans for the Premier league too and that didn't turn out too badly. - utter tosh. The Premier league was the worst thing to happen to football in its history IMHO. Its stagnated football and created a tedious stratification that is against the very essence of sporting competition and turned the game into a means of a few men collecting money from the masses.

This. The creation of the Premier League has caused the unequal mess that now exists. Now who comes along to “fix” it?
The gross inequality in football needs attention, but not by ensuring that the last vestiges of competition in the top division are destroyed by ensuring that the obscenely rich get even richer.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Always knew he was a snake.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Always knew he was a snake.

Obviously the 25% factor is a positive but at what cost? Why should a plan to rescue the EFL rely on a bigger plan to protect the clubs at the top. It's not a deal it's blackmail

 

[anton66]

Comments on this

Former chief executive of the rs in full support of this idea.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Always knew he was a snake.

There will be all the old Red gobites and kopites rolled out in the media today speaking up for it. The media strategy is to isolate the Premier League clubs who don’t benefit. There will be a plan to buy them off with a slice of the Man U / RS riches.
Buys popcorn, sits back.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Always knew he was a snake.

Not really surprised. He knows United's position in the game is under huge threat because they are a shambolic club right now.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Leicester have won the league more recently than United yet they would exclude them from special status. Just about sums up how pathetic the whole thing is.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Some journalists reporting that Parry has been stalling on a number of EFL rescue plans from the Premier League over the past couple of weeks. Presumably no additional huge tv riches for Utd / RS involved. Now we know why.
Acting earlier might have saved Macclesfield? Nah, sooner the Uber rich get some more to splurge on Pogba et al.

 

[tsubaki]

Never thought I’d be posting a Martin Samuel piece in the Mail, but he is spot on here:

MARTIN SAMUEL: Project Big Picture' is a disgusting Big Six power grab

MARTIN SAMUEL: Rick Parry helped destroy the fabric of English football once, and now he's going for it again. Project Big Picture? Far from saving our game, all it would do is reduce.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Conn should be ashamed of himself

 

[tsubaki]

Always knew he was a snake.

what a scumbag he is

 

[Yid4life]

The final nail in the Premier League coffin for me. In a nutshell the owners of global brand football teams want to protect their investment. No real chance of relegation, no chance for Saudi Oil bllionaires to turn teams like Newcastle into contenders, no chance for teams like Burnley or Brighton to increase their global exposure etc etc.

 

[larbert toffee]

Sickening

The mancs and weasel RS blackmailing the football league with the help of Rick parry. This is all to leverage more power while killing off any competition. All with the long term plan to kill off the premiere league and jump ship to a euro super League.

Two teams that got gubbed 6-1 and 7-2.
Elitism...

FC Socialist at the forefront of money grabbing *shocked emoji

These plus arrogance beyond belief.

 

[larbert toffee]

what a scumbag he is

Ah yes the ok pundit but seriously failed coach/ manager trying to use his influence to look after his supported club's interests
I'll add him to the arrogance list as well, come the revolution brothers.............

 

[DanB90]

Wouldn’t surprise me if in our lifetime we start seeing nfl style franchises within the premier league. Teams getting moved to different parts of the country wouldn’t even shock me the way it’s going.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

The funny/sad thing about this proposal is that it grants a group of teams complete power to keep everyone else at arms length by blocking any takeover that might pose a challenge to them, yet Man City, who simply bought their way into the upper echelon get to be a part of that power structure and Leicester City who actually got there through true team building get locked out entirely. Ridiculous.

Leicester City drove a coach & horses through the financial fair play rules when they made a £21m loss in their 2013-14 season. They paid a multi-million pound settlement to the Football League.