Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
Will it though? Are we 100% sure of that? Isn't this just a step towards an Americanized version of the NFL/NBA/NHL where you have 30 teams playing one another over and over every goddamned season?
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European Super League - Dead on arrival
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Will it though? Are we 100% sure of that? Isn't this just a step towards an Americanized version of the NFL/NBA/NHL where you have 30 teams playing one another over and over every goddamned season?
Sorry but i don’t buy we are going to be whipping boys. We’ve proven before we can compete with Dortmund, Madrid etc right now Barca are no better than us personnel wise, we can compete with the other English clubs bar City and the Italian clubs aren’t really better than us. Not saying we are going to win, but we should be able to hold our own.....
Yes, it might now come down to coaching, tactics etc
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
CL was new then, fewer teams, the money faucet was still opening rather then being the fire hose it would soon become.
And they did spend massively, relative for the time.
jts1882
Dean Richards
From January:
European Super League would have six Premier League teams – each paid up to £310m to join
I'd forgotten about this. The proposal shouldn't have been such a surprise.
European Super League would have six Premier League teams – each paid up to £310m to join
I'd forgotten about this. The proposal shouldn't have been such a surprise.
Doesn’t it mean we can enjoy the football more for the rest of the season now?
Better style of football, we can stop debating Jose, and also doesn’t matter where we finish in the league so pressure is off
....Not against a league so much more that there's no relegation and with it being governed by themselves it will inevitably lead to:
I imagine the league would be exciting for a couple of seasons and then would quickly get boring when it's the same thing again and again.
Saddest thing is that the essence of the game in us fans haven't been consulted at all - presumably because they know they'd all be against it.
- Matches taking place at weekends
- Matches moving around the world
- Increased Sky/BT subscriptions
- Poorer PL - no incentive to play well or even the best team when you're guaranteed entry anyway
- Higher ticket prices
I imagine the league would be exciting for a couple of seasons and then would quickly get boring when it's the same thing again and again.
Saddest thing is that the essence of the game in us fans haven't been consulted at all - presumably because they know they'd all be against it.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
Doesn’t it mean we can enjoy the football more for the rest of the season now?
Better style of football, we can stop debating Jose, and also doesn’t matter where we finish in the league so pressure is off
Do we know what Mason's style is?
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I expect a large part of this is direct to consumer streaming rights, maybe not straight away, but at some point.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
This has always been on the cards
Owners want success to bring in £££ to get more success to bring in £££
For example Liverpool were created by a landlord who had an empty stadium... not to be a successful football club
We’re very much a property business right now with football being a function of it
United are a walking bill board... surmised we don’t see ole spooning a sign every now and then
Chelsea and city are basically a gold plated chess set like they had in the places in France
The premier league works because its super competitive ... its super competitive because of money, not quality
The outrage is that the “big clubs” want more money to keep them super competitive
The whole thing stated with the wages cap being cancelled years ago
Clubs like Blackburn had to spend money they couldn’t sustain ti get their short term glory
Clubs like Portsmouth and Leeds gambled and died
We have championship clubs spending 200% of their turnover on wages
City paid more for a Brazilian striker who didn’t want to go there (Robinho) and artificially inflated the market
Teams like Palace and Villa are laying certain players more money than we pay some of our very best
When you have intelligent people looking at it with their own club bias their naturally thinking this isn’t right and not in their best interests
What you have with the big 6 now are some genuine business people like FSG, levy and Kronke, some cowboys like the Glazers and two owners who have play thing clubs that legitimise their bad side (they were the two who came to this last).
3 of these clubs need to significantly upgrade their infrastructure too which needs £££
Why wouldn’t they take this opportunity if it means more ££ which they know will end up in the players pockets
As a lifelong fan who went to see us okay at the age of 4 (thanks dad) I hate it, but I get it
Owners want success to bring in £££ to get more success to bring in £££
For example Liverpool were created by a landlord who had an empty stadium... not to be a successful football club
We’re very much a property business right now with football being a function of it
United are a walking bill board... surmised we don’t see ole spooning a sign every now and then
Chelsea and city are basically a gold plated chess set like they had in the places in France
The premier league works because its super competitive ... its super competitive because of money, not quality
The outrage is that the “big clubs” want more money to keep them super competitive
The whole thing stated with the wages cap being cancelled years ago
Clubs like Blackburn had to spend money they couldn’t sustain ti get their short term glory
Clubs like Portsmouth and Leeds gambled and died
We have championship clubs spending 200% of their turnover on wages
City paid more for a Brazilian striker who didn’t want to go there (Robinho) and artificially inflated the market
Teams like Palace and Villa are laying certain players more money than we pay some of our very best
When you have intelligent people looking at it with their own club bias their naturally thinking this isn’t right and not in their best interests
What you have with the big 6 now are some genuine business people like FSG, levy and Kronke, some cowboys like the Glazers and two owners who have play thing clubs that legitimise their bad side (they were the two who came to this last).
3 of these clubs need to significantly upgrade their infrastructure too which needs £££
Why wouldn’t they take this opportunity if it means more ££ which they know will end up in the players pockets
As a lifelong fan who went to see us okay at the age of 4 (thanks dad) I hate it, but I get it
Hadn't thought of that but it would be even worse, I have zero interest paying for an extra subscription. It's already too expensive.
An ESL match going season ticket of some description to look forward to as well I'd have thought
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
It wouldn't be an extra subscription, you could bin of Sky/BT and just pay for our games.
Seedy Ron
Jimmy Neighbour
There'll just be five supremely wealthy teams sat on top of it, forever, with Spurs a solid 8th.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
If that were true then I think Celtic would be in there instead of us.
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
Some rumours that it starts as soon as this August.