European Super League

[mazhar13]

No, not necessarily. The NHL for example has a draft age that precedes college, and the vast majority of its draftees are out of the Canadian Major Junior Leagues or Europe.

I agree an entry draft on the NA model seems a feature that would be hard for a SL to adopt. But you could imagine for example a system where you have a draft to distribute the rights to players in non-SL clubs, but with the possibility to sign young players below a certain age for development in your own system. Combined with putting player movement between SL clubs on trade basis rather than for cash.

MLS has already solved this problem, and I won't be surprised if the ESL eventually follows suit. Basically MLS allows clubs to gain first dibs on players who don't or haven't played in MLS, haven't previously registered for their SuperDraft, or aren't U.S./Canadian national team players (includes underage sides).

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[Frosty]

Dock all teams of their points.

Congratulations Leicester on your second PL trophy.

Don't count out old Moyes!

 

[Buchan]

The Champions League restructuring plans were absolutely naff and a death knell to a great competition but I’m still not onboard with this Super League stunt.

Greed. Greed. Greed.

 

[Judas]

Yes, that is what it has always been. It's the FA that's said they're going to kick teams out of all domestic competitions for playing in it

So if the FA actually go through with it, kick us all out, will you still be happy about this super league?

 

[predator]

What does this mean for those outrageous people who have jailbroken firesticks or those who disgustingly stream games online?

 

[The Firestarter]

Lyrics for the Super League anthem have been released:

They are the best teams
They are the super teams
The main event

The master
The best
The super teams
The champions

The bottle merchants!

 

[balaks]

behave, you don't want to watch your team compete against Europe's elite, and Arsenal?

Not like this no. I'll not be watching it.

 

[Paxi]

Im not fecking leaving until Spurs do, cnuts. feck off -- you don't deserve this.

 

[mariachi-19]

feck me, it’s all staged as feck. The whole thing is to elevate their position in UEFA bargaining.

 

[Rado_N]

Don't count out old Moyes!

We’ll recall JLingz. Job done.

 

[Cardboard elk]

This is the next evolution of the game.

Embrace it, people.

Never.

 

[padr81]

Any guesses on who the next three automatic spots will go to?

Are they hoping PSG and Bayern get twitchy and want to jump aboard now the heavy lifting is done?

Yup if I had to guess, Bayern, Dortmund and PSG.

 

[Infra-red]

Dock 40 points off each club and fine them a shit ton of cash.

Agreed. Leicester, West Ham and Everton can battle it out for this season's Premier League title - the rest of these twats don't deserve it.

 

[Andy_Cole]

Wow!

 

[Ramshock]

I fecking hate the Glazers so much

 

[Tom Van Persie]

What a shit show.

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[Gasolin]

I didn't expect an annoucement. The aftermath is going to be fun.

I mean they put out that they expect to work with UEFA and FIFA. This is going to be bad... I am not sure if the ESL revised its position based on what UEFA and FIFA said, or if they just decided they were not that "dangerous".

 

[Traub]

Probably not the best image to parody. The IPL is arguably the most entertaining tournament in sports right now, and it wasn't formed on the back of destroying any existing structure.

Not the thread for it, but it ended up destroying competitive international cricket IMO. AB retiring from international cricket to prolong his IPL paydays, it’s akin to Messi and Ronaldo retiring from international cricket to play in a super league...

 

[crossy1686]

Never knew we have the equivalent of Russian bots on this forum.

Genuine question. If you're going to make outlandish statements at least back them up

 

[TMDaines]

Still don’t get why people are so protective of the Champions League. Why does that have to always be the main European competition now? Hasn’t the consensus been for a while that the format was getting stale?

 

[Mac Asimov]

so many drama queens on this, they are just proposing to replace midweek CL football with a new super league, the sky isn't falling down.

 

[90 + 5min]

Joke!

Even if it goes against my own club, I hopeTheFA and UEFA/FIFA does something about this. They got to go head to head with this. There is so much they can do.

 

[Judas]

I wonder what the trophy will look like, I hope its just one of those big novelty cheques.

 

[0le]

Save us Rashford.

 

[RORY65]

So this might be the *real* topic. Those clubs want PSG and City to be held accountable to their numbers and their accounting to be much more closely watched. If they get it that way, I am all in. Chelsea is in, which suggest that Chelsea is already able to cope with such stringent financial requirements.

I love the idea that they're making out it's about having more balanced finances in football rather than just making more money for a small number of big teams and feck everyone else.

The idea that the best solution to deal with the unfairness created by the level of spending by owners by City's is to invite a couple of bog average mid table teams in Arsenal and Spurs to a competition in to which better sides won't be included and from which they will generate huge revenue that those better sides won't because they've joined a cartel with those same very City owners as well as other charmers like the Agnelli and Glazer families as well as Roman Abramovich and Florentino Perez is laughable

 

[crossy1686]

Did I miss the announcement?

Confirmed, 12 teams, done deal.

 

[prateik]

Why would leaving a UEFA tournament mean docking of points by the FA ?
I know they are all together in opposing this.. but I dont see how the FA can dock premier league points because clubs dont want to play a mid week european tournament organized by UEFA..

UEFA can kick the clubs out of their competition.. so that would leave PSG as the CL winners.. Good for them.

 

[Counterfactual]

So the Super League will be formed and they'll play each other for funzies each season. And they'll leave UEFA to figure out where to take the CL/EL without them?

UEFA's announcement about a reformed CL tomorrow is now in flames.

And Sky were saying the English teams can't just play in a new league without PL permission, so the Super League teams risk having to leave the PL too?

 

[Frosty]

I'd happily defend any sanctions against the 12 teams by any governing body. If this goes ahead I think I'll turn my attention to non league football.

 

[Dobba]

As someone who has half his life dedicated to a non-league side, who play at a level that has long been shafted by the FA (and especially during the pandemic), the shoe being on the other foot is at least mildly amusing. Squirm for the cameras, this is what whoring your sport out for 30 years has led to, you absolute cnuts.

 

[padr81]

So is this an alternative European competition without looking to come away from the domestic league?

They knew well that the PL would not allow this and its against the rules, make no mistake this is an attempt to kill domestic football.

 

[diarm]

Wonder what will happen to Uniteds €3.5b payment. Will be fascinating to see how much of that goes to "support our football infrastructure investment".

Hint - it will be the square root of feck all.

Not only did the Glazers manage to somehow buy our club without spending a penny, they've now managed to sell it for 3.5 billion while maintaining ownership of it. If I didn't hate them with every ounce of my being I would be applauding the brass fecking balls on these cnuts.

 

[Castia]

Confirmed

Shits about to get real

 

[Gasolin]

So is this an alternative European competition without looking to come away from the domestic league?

That's their points, but I wonder if the domestic leagues will threaten to kick them out.

 

[SwedishFish]

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Guess Liverpool will never win 20

 

[Fts 74]

Sad day for football.

 

[GatoLoco]

I don't think I am going to like this.

 

[Paxi]

well it doesn't matter if this super league is paying 300 million and pl only can get you 80. what you going do?

 

[Blades1889]

A disgrace.

 

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