I agree about the way they're catering the whole of football for a global market. It used to be that domestic fans were the bread and butter and the foreign fans with their knock off Ronaldino shirts and free to air games were just a bonus. Now it seems to be the other way round because there's dollars/euros/yen to be made. Not sure about La Liga though. Tbh it's largely a given that most of the continental clubs see the CL > the league title. Del Bosque got sacked after winning the league but losing the CL. But fck RM and Barca anyway because it'll matter to the rest of the fans of the like of Bilbao, Athletico, Deportivo etc.
Btw lets not forget this aint just billionaire owners. It's FIFA as well. World Cups in South Africa and soon to be Qatar. All about attracting global audiences and TV subscriptions.
Bournemouth holds less than 12k and you'd assume it'd be higher than that. Premier league standard stadium it certainly isn't
I cant find the prem rules on minimum capacity but the efl has a minimum of 4000. So I'm guessing the PL has one too.
Pretty sure it doesn't but happy to be proved wrong if you find anything. I know they require undersoil heating though.
Ive had a little look and can't find the actual PL rules never mind any deeper than that. I only mentioned it cos I had a feeling that Fulham had to expand when promoted to the prem way back, but that was a lot of weed ago so could be chatting **** tbh Im not the dude to be proving peeps wrong anyway I just think you are and its good for me
Fulham had to play at QPR because their ground wasn't all seater iirc and nothing to do with capacity.
Jimmy and Astro think it's a great idea, then again they won't have to travel twice per season to all the away destinations. I say twice because it would be a small league if they formed a Euro league so would probably play each other 4 times per season.
Even they would get bored with that Would make all their spreadsheets redundant, might just as well toss a coin 4 times
Would be interested to see how it affected the actual CL though, would the new league be invited into it and how many places would they get? Some big names missing every year no matter how you look at it.
I read an article where they could not qualify for the Champions League because they would not represent the top league from a European country Also they could not apply to jreoin the Prem but they could apply to join the National League, if they wanted them They would simply cut their own throats
I must confess that I was not previously aware that Fenway or the Glazers had stakes in Egyptian tourism ... thank you for this ... greedy ****ers
The Prem needs a small club to win it every couple of years to generate global interest and therefore income
