Yes the EFL clubs will want the money on offer and won't care if there are less teams in the Premier league. Whereas the lower Premier league clubs won't want the risk of 5 teams going down in a season! And I doubt sides like us and Bournemouth are too keen on being promoted again then finding ourselves at greater risk of going down.
Well I presume once this is all agreed they won't be able to back out but as it's the big boys they could come out with some excuse.
They want total control Reducing to 18 teams and scrapping the league cup so they can play more preseason friendlies Why should the EFL have THEIR cup competition scrapped because the EPL don't want to take part
The next step would be to scrap the FA cup or rig it sn the top 9 don't have any awkward away games at League 1 and 2 teams
Issue seems to be the EFL clubs appear quite happy to accept all that (not the FA Cup bit) and I bet a few would rather do without the League cup as well sadly. You are right though - 2 less games so 2 more weeks for friendlies abroad.
Americans should never be allowed to buy clubs/teams in sports they did not invent, they do not understand the ethos
A bit like the 'seeding' that goes on in Euro competitions and World Cup - all aimed at trying to ensure the 'big boys' make the finals so that we get the spectacle that someone thinks we all want to see. I've often thought that participants should all just go into a hat and take pot luck - as with the FA Cup - and that's even after having watched the mis-matched spectacle of Australia beating American Samoa 31-0 in a World Cup qualifier in 2001.
Premier League clubs have rejected Project Big Picture but have agreed to create an emergency financial package for clubs in League One and League Two. The decision to create an emergency bailout fund for the EFL, taken during a meeting of all 20 top-fight clubs on Wednesday, was not unanimous.
Matej Vydra in the starting team for Czech Republic against Scotland tonight. I'll have my fingers crossed that his form has dipped...
Harry Maguire probably wishes we were still in Pre-season or lockdown! Certainly had a few bad weeks.
Pickford should have seen red, Richarlison did rightly get a straight red, and the dreaded VAR strikes again.
Change in the handball rule means that part of the arm counts as offside apparently. Not that anyone apart from the most hard nosed Everton fan would have complained had that goal stood Sure you can be sent off even if the whistle goes? Richarlison was naughty too.
