European super league

So effectively then 9 teams go up? 3 up and down as normal, plus the 6 who should be booted out? Looks like no play off nerves needed if that's the case for us.

 

Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs have now all released statements confirming

 

If I was a gambling man my bet would be that at the end of this the net result will be that the 'big' six get some sort of preferential status in the Premier league. Be that a bigger slice of the pie, or guaranteed income (regardless of relegation) or some sort of get out of jail card in terms not not getting relegated.

The only thing I know for sure is that whatever happens the rest of the football community will be worse off.

 

I'd be interested to know the contractual obligations the clubs have. If a club qualify for the Champions League I would expect them to be legally bound to participate. If not, then do they just not enter the competition? That would be horrific for UEFA.

I have to say, I am quite glad that UEFA and FIFA are getting shown up. Both those organisations are every bit as greedy as these clubs, and I love the hypocrisy of UEFA calling this cynical when they have done everything they can to bleed the sport dry. I also can't see FIFA following through and banning the best players from the World Cup, it'd be a nightmare for them.

This is like when Kerry Packer started World Series cricket, all you need are the players, these twelve clubs have them, if the players buy in then it is inevitably going to happen.

 

I don’t think this will end up happening but it’s just more greed & further attempts to keep European football to a select few leagues.

They’ve already taken lots of champions league places off the smaller leagues.

England, Germany, Spain & Italy all get 4 teams each. France get 3. How many do they want? That’s 19 of 32 shared between just 5 countries.

13 left to be shared between Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland etc. It’s unfair already.

I’d love to see the leagues call their bluff & **** them off.

Let’s have a title race between Leicester, Everton & West Ham. After all ask any neutral what the best premier league season was & I bet they’ll all say Leicester winning it.

 

You don't watch the Premier League but you would watch an artificially created league?
I'm really surprised that you would prefer to watch a league where there is no competition other than for the winner and think that must not lose is only a mentality for the bottom end of the league...as it currently is, teams at the bottom need 3pts, although there will be games where must not lose is in the equation, but if there is no relegation battle who gives a toss whether you win, lose, play well or try hard.

 

World Series Cricket lasted two years.

 

I wonder which six clubs would replace the six departing clubs?

The top six from the championship sounds a reasonable suggestion to me

 

Be reasonable it would need to be the big clubs in the championship, Wayne Rooney’s Derby, Forest, ... after all we need as many armchair viewers as possible.

 

I agree if it's owt like the expansion of the First Division after World War 1 it won't go on league positions in the previous competitive season so, yet again, we won't get a look in.

 

Not sure they were expecting the reaction of off you go then. Hope there is no backing down and they get kicked out of domestic and European football. I'd say let them back in when it all goes to pot but they have to start at the bottom.and pay an obscene amount of money to grassroots football in order to do so!

 

They would be able to pay next month's bills because salaries would drop accordingly alongside tv revenue. Which would be another bonus. I'd happily see less tv money, lower salaries and lower ticket prices.

 

Just catching up on this this morning.

Just listening and not heard one person who thinks its a good idea.

Also that the club's involved are due 3 billion quid each !!!!!!!

Credit to Gary Neville. Spot on fella.

 

3 billion quid from where?

 

Absolutely, I,d go one further and say prem or superleague, you can,t play in both, i think if they jumped ship it would be the best thing to happen in English football for decades, the big 6 have turned the premiership into a farce, much more of a level playing field if they weren,t in it. It would be great if we got promoted this year but to be a team like Burnley or Everton who have been in the prem for a few seasons, what are they actually playing for?, there has to be a prize to aim for apart from just surviving otherwise whats the point...

 

Does that mean that when you cascade it all through the league structure, we end up with Wednesday back in the Championship? FFS.

 

I've no idea ?!? Just listening to it on Talksport and the blowk who broke the story just been on.

 

Surely they have a place reserved for Wednesday in the European Super League?

 

No. There's two places set aside for historic achievements not pre-historic.