I would love it if the premier league asked politely which clubs would like to join this new league and then kicked them out
The problem with the Premier league is they are self owning, just look at the recent votes to enable clubs to get around transfer rules, money always wins
Dead easy this mind. If you want to compete in one of these new leagues you have to withdraw from your domestic league, and when (because it'll be when, not if) you want to come back you start at the bottom of the pyramid.
The Premier League should be jumping up and down about this as well. Their product is biased towards the big teams winning all the time.
FIFA not condemning it is very telling. The ESL is the toe in the water testing of ideas before the WSL is brought in
The football "Pyramid" us upside down anyway. Money stays at the top and the rest get the leftovers. I dont believe for one second people like Klopp wouldn't love a super leauge, same dickhead that wanted shot of the leauge cup.Isn't the championship one of the most watched leagues in the world? This super league will happen one day, so kindly f**k off and let the rest of us get on with it. Football will find a way. I mean, imagine tuning into top notch elite fixtures every week, I mean, they never disappoint.... Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0.
Bloated world cups. World Cups just handed out for political gain. Over bloated "Champions Leauge" groups, Euros and world cups spend over 4 and 5 countries, Greedy super leauge that won't go away.... Aye, the people's game.
Probably the most boring local derby ever played in the history of the Premier, Liverpool fans couldn't be bothered to sing, and United fans didn't turn up.
Uefa and fifa are not fit for purpose. However, take a look at golf if you want to see a sport eating itself from the inside. It is ruinous. I think football has reached the precipice many of us have been fearing for a while. I have little confidence football will win, owners will, and largely they no longer represent football. My view is a bit contrary but if English football loses Liverpool and Man Utd, it loses full stop. These clubs are part of our fabric, elite and torch bearing, once they are gone they cant come back. Everybody will suffer in that event. It is a real crossroads and I fear my grandkids wont feel about footy the same way I do. As it stands my kids do.
They maybe part of our fabric mate, but they are now becoming a cancer along with the other 4 and we can well do without that spreading any further, so I wish them goodbye and good riddance.
The clubs aren't. The owners are. We lose a lot of the meaning of winning our old and glorious competitions if we lose the most famous and storied clubs from them. Remember the fuss when Man Utd pulled out of the FA Cup?
this euro league will happen i guess as the money will start to flow as the usual 'persuader', with footballing bodies being told they cannot stop it happening it outs the whole thing into the hands of the clubs. realistically, none of us would like to see the 'big six' gone from the league(s) so would a compromise work i wonder...take your A team/squad and add 'euro' (or some standard moniker agreed by all) but leave a 2nd squad keeping the original name of the club, these clubs cannot trade/loan/deal with each other...this way each club that wants to follow greed can do so and the history of each club can still be represented in the domestic leagues in a much fairer way as these domestic squads will be more equal to others in money spent on them. i had a quick look at the idea, so many teams for the three leagues and more games for clubs to play yet they always complain they play far too many games in a season, add to this they are wanting to get the 'club world cup' to a bigger audience as interest in it has been sh1te so far, domestic leagues as we have always known them run the risk of dropping into all 'grass roots' as money will head to these 'prestige' events.
Just to throw something different out there......... Will there be a point where players 'franchise' themselves out to different teams in the same way they do it in cricket for IPL, BBL etc? For example, could Harry Kane put his own price on himself to play for 'any team' in the ESL but then play for a different club domestically? The contract may only last one season for example and then it all changes. The IPL cricket auction has just happened for next season so this sort of stuff is already happening in certain sports.
Seems similar to LIV in golf, nobody wants it on its own merits, it's ethically murky and it damages the sport as a whole, but the people behind it have enough money to burn to make anyone a hypocrite. Players like Rahm were dead against LIV but now he's piping the Saudi oil barrel because he's being paid enough to do so. Sad to see.
I wouldn't worry so much if they do go tbh, As long as its absoloutly clear their is no way back for them once they leave. I say go and good riddance. Other clubs will take their place in populous areas and the league structure as we all know it will survive, those that leave wont. unless free travel is included in the price of a ticket. OaU.
I think the fact that Real Madrid, a club that effectively forms part of a duopoly in Spanish football, are claiming that the Super League is a good idea because there will be no monopoly should tell us everything we need to know.
