Other European European Super League one step closer?

They promised at the end of last year that they were not pursuing this plan. They lied. So the EPL should apply immediate sanctions that are meaningful and last for a number of years, whether that is a points deduction, a ban from European competition for up to 10 years, transfer embargo, prize money withheld, whatever it takes so that they cannot keep sneakily resurrecting this every 6 months until they get their way. The new Euro League proposal is not really credible anyway when it doesn't include German or French clubs and makes it laughable when serial loser Tottenham are involved.

For all the billions of pounds per year that the EPL generates it is still not enough for some. The money is so big now in the game it loses over £300 million per year in agents fees, an amount that could save the game from Championship to grassroots for a decade if it is was distributed within the game rather lost to agents.

Having said that the EPL is now experiencing exactly the same as how they trod all over football in 1990 when they broke from the football league to create the premier league. It is extremely sad when all you hear in a PL football commentary is about records of this, that and the other in the Premier League era like football didn't exist before the PL was devised.
 
AbsoluteZero said:
They promised at the end of last year that they were not pursuing this plan. They lied. So the EPL should apply immediate sanctions that are meaningful and last for a number of years, whether that is a points deduction, a ban from European competition for up to 10 years, transfer embargo, prize money withheld, whatever it takes so that they cannot keep sneakily resurrecting this every 6 months until they get their way. The new Euro League proposal is not really credible anyway when it doesn't include German or French clubs and makes it laughable when serial loser Tottenham are involved.

For all the billions of pounds per year that the EPL generates it is still not enough for some. The money is so big now in the game it loses over £300 million per year in agents fees, an amount that could save the game from Championship to grassroots for a decade if it is was distributed within the game rather lost to agents.

Having said that the EPL is now experiencing exactly the same as how they trod all over football in 1990 when they broke from the football league to create the premier league. It is extremely sad when all you hear in a PL football commentary is about records of this, that and the other in the Premier League era like football didn't exist before the PL was devised.
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It strikes me that if this happens we’ll never get a chance to beat shitty Spurs! They’re ok at the moment but have never really been contenders for anything much.
 
Start with a ban from all euro competitions for next season.
Instead send Leicester, West ham, Everton and villa to champs league, Leeds, wolves and palace to Europa League and I'm sure they'll do it proud...
 
mooro said:
Start with a ban from all euro competitions for next season.
Instead send Leicester, West ham, Everton and villa to champs league, Leeds, wolves and palace to Europa League and I'm sure they'll do it proud...
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I find those teams a lot more interesting to watch on motd than the big six
 
Arsenal
Chelsea
Liverpool
MCFC
MUFC
Spurs

AC Milan
Inter Milan
Juventus

Athletico Madrid
Barcelona
Real Madrid

Did I hear each club is getting £€3BILLION? Or is that between them?

A bribe is that £€10 BILLION will be sent down to clubs in lower league's.
 
4.6 billion I thought from JB Morgan an American Bank.

It will all end in tears.
 
The club owners are pulling the strings here. Multi billionaires with more money than they know what to do with suddenly want even more now Far Eastern markets are interested in European football. The first year of the PL didn’t even have a sponsor it. Now look at the state of it.

Anyone who listens to The Price of Football podcast will have know that this has been coming for ages. The ‘Big Six’ has nothing to do with size - it has everything to do with wealth and greed and they don’t want any jumped up side like Leicester in 2015-16 or possibly West Ham this season getting in their way of those lucrative CL places. How best to stop them? By setting up your own closed shop league in cahoots with the other greedy, money obsessed European clubs that will not have any form of relegation. It stinks.

Don’t pretend that the German sides have morals in this. A German football reporter said that given time their sides will probably join. Bayern Munich for certain and plastic franchise funded by energy drink gak RB Leipzig will be up for it. PSG will be begging to join too.

It’s not football any more. It’s a sports entertainment money pit designed to make the 1% even wealthier. Cancel your subscriptions when you can or you’ll be just as culpable for it. Don’t allow this charade an audience.
 
derek said:
Awful. Wouldn't it be funny if they did it, were ostracised, and the quality of the football just dive-bombed? They'd be a laughing stock.
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Fingers crossed. And then wanted back in to the pyramid and had to work their way up. Would make a great TV show. Oh. Wait.
 
If they can get a wriggle on and put this through in the next few weeks it’d be much appreciated. Get rid of the so called ‘big 6’ and automatically move us up 6 places making us league one champions!!

It’d get rid of this stress of will we/won’t we make the playoffs! 😜
 
Eaststandboy said:
Well that's confirmed it then and they still expect to play in each respective domestic League!
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Without these clubs the next Premier League rights deal wouldn’t even be worth half what it currently is. Maybe not even a quarter. It would mean that all the other PL clubs would collapse. They depend on the huge sums of money that the rights bring in just to exist. Most have players on 3/4/5 year contracts who they wouldn’t be able to afford without the levels of cash they’re used to and banking on. There’s too much at stake and too many clubs on the line for the PL to go through with any threats of excluding them. If it came down to a vote then the other clubs would opt to keep them in rather than expel them and suffer or even die. This has been coming. The game has been positively overflowing with cash for too long and like any bubble, it will inevitably pop once it gets too big. It’s all starting to eat its own flesh. They created a monster. This is what happens.

The irony of the Premier League and SKY freaking out about this. You did it once, lads. Cry more.
 
unification said:
Don’t pretend that the German sides have morals in this. A German football reporter said that given time their sides will probably join. Bayern Munich for certain and plastic franchise funded by energy drink gak RB Leipzig will be up for it. PSG will be begging to join too.
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They may not have morals, but they do have the 50 + 1 rule. You can't play in the Bundesliga if you are more than 50% commercially owned.

Course Leipzig have managed to work around that by making membership so extraordinarily expense that only Red Bull employees have the cash to do it.....but it will serve as a pause for a club like Bayern, and definitely for a club like Dortmund, to join up. At least some of their fans/members would have to agree to it.


Anyways, this has been coming for years, and my attitude is the same as it's always been. Good riddance - **** 'em.

It will be terrible news if it happens for lower Premier League/Championship footballers - because the European Super League will annihilate the next TV deals for those leagues, wages will immediately crater and the gravy train for them will stop dead in its tracks.

But when it all shakes out, I think there's a possibility that what's left at the end is an English football pyramid that's closer to the one I grew up with in the 80s & 90s, just without six of its biggest name clubs. Competitive football for the real fans, not the armchair ones, played by committed footballers that earn a wage that's enough to live on, but not set them up for life, with a bit more unpredictability thrown in because there is no longer a big pot of gold at the top of the top league that horribly distorts the competitive balance.
 
Whilst everyone's right to be annoyed with this, what would docking points, fining clubs or immediately expelling them achieve? If anything, that would make them more determined to pursue the Super League option.

The biggest bargaining chip the existing authorities have is that the clubs still want to be a part of their domestic leagues, so if clubs want to push ahead with it after tonight's backlash then it's something the PL can use against them. No need for them to do anything hasty.
 
Reality Check

Are clubs names changing - No
Are the clubs players changing - No
Do most of these clubs usually play each other in the Champions League - Yes
How much do the clubs get after FIFA/UEFA, etc have taken their cut/expenses from competitions?
Is there a market for a European Super League from broadcasting and commercial activity. - Probably
Roughly 1/2 of Premiership clubs made a profit going back to 18/19, we don't know how Covid will have impacted them.
The EFL and FA Cup are less of a priority these days.
 
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