so fifteen of the biggest and richest clubs in europe (real, barça, atléti, city, pool, chelski, arsenal, united, spurs, juve, inter, milan & three yet to be announced clubs) decided to found their own european league. in it, 20 teams (15 founders who won't need to qualify and 5 qualifiers) will compete in mid-week games each year.



i think this is an incredibly toxic plan, driven purely by greed and selfishness. it will significantly widen the financial chasm between the money elite and the regular clubs, and effectively destroy any domestic competition those teams have, and any semblance of financial fairness or vertical mobility - not that the current state of affairs wasn't already a two or three class system already...

i'm curious if those clubs would even be interested or able (in terms of scheduling but also pending potential official bans) to compete in UEFA's club competitions, and how their fans will react to it, seeing as this is clearly not an idea that arose from popular demand, but was birthed in executive offices.

to be fair, i'm not exactly a fan of UEFA in general, not of the current scope of the CL, let alone their expansion plans. i think it's in serious need of reform for sure. that said, on this issue it's not hard for me to pick a 'side'. this super league idea is just awful in almost every single regard imo...

This post was edited by fender on Apr 19 2021 11:50am

disgusting

Dreams can't be buy

Super league my ass.

Hope all of the owners of these cunts get petrol bombed.

Positives:

1) It will raise significantly more money for the football pyramid as well as for the clubs involved
2) The quality of football will be significantly higher

Negatives:

1) The process of how clubs are chosen is somewhat arbitrary. Spurs - what have they done? City were nobodies 10 years ago, same with Chelsea another 10 years earlier
2) No relegation or promotion, leading to competition being stifled

Overall, I wouldn't mind a midweek ESL if there were relegation and promotion from it, with a more scientific approach to how clubs are admitted (number of trophies won over a 30 year period or some coefficient ranking perhaps)

I just can’t believe the clubs would do this and risk so much without a back up plan. Something has to be going on behind the scenes.

Easy to explain. Spanish and Italian "top" clubs have always followed the business model of spending more than they earn and worry about the debt later. With the revenue contraction due to covid, this model fell flat on its face, these clubs are crushed by their mountains of debt and desperately need new sources of money. Premier League clubs are run by greedy corporate cunts who dont understand or give a fuck about football tradition, domestic leagues, domestic fans or proper sports competition. They want more money, and they want to no longer be bottlenecked by 4 CL spots for 6 "top" clubs.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Apr 20 2021 10:19am

Looks like each PL team is dropping out one by one

Chelsea and Manchester City aren't going to be part of it anymore

Created on the Sunday, slapped about on the Monday, dead in the water on Tuesday.

BuT bIg ClUbS hAvE aLl ThE pOwEr.

Get fucked twats.

Woah, bit surprised about Woodward and Agnelli resigning