European Super League

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Bring it on. The sooner they **** off the better. When they're gone bolt the door and don't ever let them back.

 

No relegation for 20 years. The same games over and over again. Flying to half of your away matches. I really hope it goes ahead, as it won't be long before the fans completely lose interest. I reckon it's got "disaster" written all over it.

 

Morning MT, you're up early as usual (well by UK time anyway). And I fully agree.
I've been asking myself if their absence would downgrade winning what remains of our top division or the FA Cup but, for me, it won't. Top level football was turned into a circus and a purely chequebook charade two decades ago. The rest of us can get back to a still slanted but not totally unrealistic playing field.

 

We're 3 hours in front of you so I'm about to make a cup of tea and an egg butty! Agree about the domestic situation, it will be loads better without the leeches. The regular PL will look a lot less interesting to average foreign players so hopefully we'll finally see young English talent getting the chance to shine. Fingers crossed .

 

Sadly I really hope this happens. Those clubs deserve each other.

There’s a reason that English football became as successful internationally as it has. It was because of the passion of the fans, the excitement of the football, the relegation battles as much as the fight for the top spot. all that has slowly been eroded away in the premier league as the football seems to be duller, the matches more predictable, all the while as “quality” and volume of the overseas players increases.

If those clubs do break away I hope they are never allowed back into the leagues. Hopefully their real local fans would remove their support and put it into a local or replacement team.

You’ll be left with a larger “world club cup” or whatever other nonsense competition has been created over the year just to make money.

Please let this happen.

 

The alternative is that UEFA cave and give them even bigger shares of revenue that they're demanding and the clubs involved get even richer and the divide even larger.
I could also well imagine the European League going ahead and the clubs involved asking that their youth teams be able to play in our league.
To the Man U's of the world.....For god's sake go!

 

Imagine that. I think I'd lose interest in football altogether if I was watching Barnsley against United under 21's.

 

I couldn’t imagine anything worse than losing our top clubs to a European Super League.

The state of our top division would be abysmal & all the TV money would be drastically cut, be clubs going into administration everywhere

 

Possibly a good thing?

 

Agreed. People seem to think Man Utd having money is the root of all evil and them leaving would wave some sort of magic wand.

 

Be useless for whoever won the premier league though, as they will have only won it because it was a weakened league, so it wouldn't mean as much. Fans will soon get bored playing the big teams week in week out. It's like the FA Cup when we have threads about who we want to play and nobody ever really brings up a team in our own league, as we want a change. Even though you're playing the top sides all the time, the novelty will soon wear off and fans would be skint on away travel.

 

Personally I think it IS time to call their bluff, the bigger clubs have been blackmailing the others for a bigger cut for a long time now, tell em to commit to the UK or **** off, and that when it inevitably folds they could apply to start at the bottom.Let them do some proper good for the grass root teams.
As for the Prem being weaker, it would certainly be more competitive and probably more entertaining as a result, it certainly works in the Championship

 

Big clubs leave, tv money leaves. Football returns to the 1970’s. Is it a bad thing I don’t know? We would certainly suffer financially but everyone would

I don’t think for a minute it’s happening soon but I can see in the next 20 years a European league happening, champions league with 2 divisions of 15 teams say, promotion relegation from either, invite only with 5 year contracts to play based on money not actual standard of football. Play it every Tuesday / Wednesday night and then let clubs decide what players they have left to play on a Saturday

 

Totally agreed. They can call **** off and then we can have our game back again

 

It would kill the clubs who join it.
Fans wouldn't feel a connection to their club anymore and they would die a death

We as a sporting nation can easily kill that league too.
1. Fans make a commitment not to watch it in TV.
2. The fa stipulates that any club leaving the English league system loses their place in our system and must start at the bottom of the pyramid should they wish to rejoin in the future (this will stop any invited guests from accepting the invitation)
3. Terrestrial TV stations decline to bid for any rights

Would kill those clubs and I would die laughing

 

I agree completely. It would be the best thing to happen to the domestic game in years. Their greed knows no end, I genuinely hope they do it. But as you say, the door should be bolted shut and they should never be allowed back. In 10 years the thing would be dead and they'd have nowhere to go.

 

No chance. Even a club like ours can’t survive without TV money. I think it makes up about half of our revenue. Most of the football league deal is built on the excitement of getting to / been in the premier league. If the premier league loses its best clubs who cares who’s in it? Aside from fans of the individual clubs involved.

Imagine the state of the game if the biggest game is Spurs v Everton, which foreign TV companies are paying huge money for that?

Every top player will be joining a club in the Super League even if it’s just to bench warm as they’ll be on loads more than they’d get in the new premier league.

I know many on here have got a view that the big clubs are bad for the game but our leagues the most generous there is, certainly out of the big leagues anyway. The TV money’s pretty evenly spread unlike France, Spain, Italy & Germany.

 

I see your points for sure - and I think we have gone past the point of no return, in as much as pulling the plug now would be catastrophic. However, if the PL were to get relatively less compared with the rest of the league, that would only be a good thing. Definitely if we went the way of the leagues where individual clubs could negotiate their own deals things would get considerably worse. I thought that Germany had a more equitable system though?

 

Me too.

If our fixture list turns into a glorified version of the Checkatrade, I've had it.

 

I think if I remember right Germany’s better than most but the gap between Bayern & the bottom clubs is about 3 times the income where as in England it’s twice