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Off Topic Tottenham a Founder Member of a Breakaway European Super League

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  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Their chairman is the vice-chairman of the ESL

    The real question is why Barca are still in it, because nobody at the club is part of the ESL leadership (unlike Perez, Agnelli, Glazer, Kroenke or Henry) so there is no reason to not walk away, especially when they tried to seed how they never signed their contracts when the wind was very quickly blowing against the whole idea
     
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    According to JP Morgan, the ESL still exists as no clubs have formally left it

    So how long before Glaser, Henry and Kroenke get in the ears of West Ham and Leicester then?
     
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    In Germany, it has been announced that the European Court of Justice is expected to rule in favor of the establishment of the league and against the UEFA, but substantial changes are planned, most notably that no club will have a guaranteed place.
    The German magazine "Wirtschaftswoche" reported tonight (Tuesday) that the project "lives longer than ever, even longer than in April when its launch was announced".

    According to a report in the reputed magazine, documents received by the system confirmed that the battles against UEFA are likely to end in a landslide victory for the Premier League leaders. It has also been reported that the European Court of Justice is expected to rule soon in favor of the Super League in the battle against UEFA.
     
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  4. PleaseNotPoll

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    We all still need to reject this ****. There's nothing stopping them from making it a closed shop later.
    They want to remove UEFA so that they can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything about it.
     
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    I don’t like UEFA

    they can’t seem to deal with basics of football like racism…I would really like to see someone stick twos up at them.

    I don’t see the point in us being in the Premier league when we are not willing to compete or we can’t. Should move and make lots of money then some of the fan base can live off how rich we are and boast about it.

    Either way we don’t do glory…let’s go for the money.
     
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  6. humanbeingincroydon

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    The problem with UEFA is anything they do can (and often does) get hamstrung by their superiors at FIFA, for example how Hungary fans were banned from UEFA games for being racist dickheads but allowed to attend for FIFA-mandated games (or did I get that the wrong way round? It's hard to keep up with screwball rules like this...)? You can't have one organisation say fans aren't allowed in grounds due to being racist dickheads, and then another says "Well actually, they were racist dickheads on your time and not ours, so they can stay" as the latter fatally undermines the former

    It's similar to Saudi Arabia's FIFA's plan to have a World Cup every other year, which just so happens to **** over the Euros, Copa America, ACoN, Gold Cup and Asian Cup (oh, and the Olympics) by keeping players in a perpetual cycle of World Cup qualifiers, which the AFC and CAF are all in over because the Saudis FIFA have claimed it will help African or Asian teams stage a World Cup with more contestants than Qatar win the World Cup, which is patently bollocks while also likely killing the market for South Korean players given there won't be an Asian Cup, Asian Games or Olympics they can get military exemption through
     
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    While I agree with your general sentiment, there are many ways in which you could have a biennial world cup and play fewer matches overall. If there was a 32 team world cup with the last 16 getting an exemption from qualifying for the next one, the bottom 8 dropping out and the other 8 playing a two legged play off against numbers 9 to 16 in qualifying tournaments then most of the top countries would never play qualifiers at all.
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    FIFA are expanding the World Cup to 48 teams for the 2026 tournament

    Those 48 teams will be divvied up as follows
    UEFA - 16
    CAF - 9
    AFC - 8
    CONMEBOL - 6
    CONCACAF - 6
    OFC - 1
    Playoff - 2

    The playoffs are also somewhat dodgy, as first the playoff places are split as follows...
    1 CAF
    1 AFC
    1 CONMEBOL
    1 CONCACAF
    1 OFC
    1 from host federation, so for 2026 CONCACAF
    ...and on top of that the top two-ranked get seeded, so the other four have to go through two ties before facing the seeded teams, which roughly translates as a seventh South American team are guaranteed a spot no matter what

    The obvious questions are
    i.) Does a World Cup really need four or five African teams who will get battered?
    ii.) Does a World Cup really need four or five Asian teams who will get battered?
    iii.) Does a World Cup really need three or four North American teams who will get battered?
     
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  9. humanbeingincroydon

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    Sport (the Spanish one, not the bus on the moon one) report that Perez, Laporta and Agnelli have recently had a meeting to try and work out a way to get their project up and running this year, regardless of what UEFA does

    So, quick question: should I post this in the transfer thread given the possibility of a lot of their players maybe looking for a transfer in the near future...?
     
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  10. Lovearsenalcock

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    no because we wouldn’t end up with any of them anyway

    so save yourself a post
     
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    The World Cup is going to end up as that Mitchell & Webb sketch, isn't it?
     
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