European super league

Juat shows that they thought they could still play in their domestic leagues because we wouldn't survive without them.

 

If the authorities don't come down hard on them then its another nail in the coffin for my interest in football I'm afraid. I used to love watching premier league games at 4pm on a Sunday aft... can't remember the last one I watched at any kick off time and I pay Sky for the privilege at the moment.

 

The only way this will be stopped is:-

1. Fans reject the teams, don't buy in, don't buy tickets and importantly don't subscribe to TV of the broadcaster.
2. Domestic authorities ie Premier League issue sanctions and dont recognise the league. This needs immediate action.
3. Managers , players and officials dont support accept contracts and work in the superleague
4. Sponsors dont commit or support
5. TV companies dont get involved

all of the above is whats needed. Given the non-european focus here by the owners items 4-5 are difficult. Given that money talks with players item 3 is a test on their integrity. The premier league and others need to be brave. Fans need to rise up, withdraw from clubs and be counted.

Trouble is money is the driver, funding is not from Europe and the people making these decisions unbelievably detached from their communities.

 

The problem is that these clubs' owners couldn't care less about local fans. If they can swap tens of thousands of season tickets for hundreds of millions of subscribers- mostly from Asia- then not only will they do it in a heartbeat but they'll no doubt in my mind move those clubs away and base them somewhere free of any sanction too. Pure greed.

 

To me though, they do that and it's no longer the club. Start another Club in the locality and support that, that will be the one that had the links and traditions.

 

The second they announced it they were no longer the clubs in my eyes, I'm afraid. It is unforgiveable.

I feel sorry for the genuine fans of those clubs.

 

How about kicking them out and then assisting in the foundation of phoenix clubs to start in the lower leagues but with much the same name. Maybe it would leach a significant percentage of fans away from the current traitorous gang of six. The FA and Football League could sanction the transfer of titles won in the past to the new clubs.

 

I'd go for that, but no doubt there would be legal challenges regarding transfer of titles.

 

Probably. Maybe they could award parallel titles or something.
It would be fitting for these owners who couldn't give a damn and would rip the soul out of their clubs and our game have something done to take that soul back off them and revive it in new clubs.

 

As the ESL is an American endeavour I'm guessing the clubs involved will all end up with MLS sounding names anyway, just give it a few years and their current names will be up for grabs.

 

As much as I'm against this move, though frankly, i'd let these rebels lay in the bed they've made, it's quite incredible that the FA, FIFA, LMA, PFA, UEFA, EPL the EFL, the government of the day, Sky and its mouthpieces have all got the audacity to criticise the breaking of the competition and ruining football.

These are the organisations who first created the structures that have got us to where we are today, altered the rules, allowed owners they should never have allowed, have ignored largesse and actions that put clubs futures in peril through incredible debt and recklessness, have cheerled the process and vaunted this all as a work of miracle to behold.

If this is the starting point for getting football in order, I hope the sentiment turns on all powers that be. Because irrespective of the game on the grass itself, the administrative centres aren't fit in anyway to support and protect the game we all love (or used to).

Football should never be about money, and until we rid every last leech, chancer and parasite from club ownerships, until we get rid of all those who pretend they care until they get their payday, football will never be football.

 

Chelsea and Man City were the most reluctant of the english team so assume it is them. Apparently Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool were the ringleaders - not sure how Arsenal had the nerve to get involved with this given they've been hopeless for years.

 

I'm surprised all the billionaire owners aren't up for this Super League. I think a lot of it is faux outrage to be honest. I can understand the fans being upset and "some" players but only Chairman up in arms seem to be those jealous they weren't invited to have their piece of the pie.

Deep down I'm surprised we aren't after a dabble. Tin Hat on

 

David Beckham

Hmmmm....on the 18th April....

 

They can't all be up for it because the more teams there are the more diluted it gets. That's not what its about.

 

Chelsea don’t actually own the name Chelsea...

 

Is this retweet by Dike the only social media post any of our players have done? They seem very quiet about the damage that's in danger of being done to our national sport unless they have been told to not mention it by higher ups.

 

I liked it when Klopp called Neville out as a hypocrite for going where the money is himself.