Did you ever consider that since the start of the PL other leagues have considered it a golden goose? United want player X from Holland, get quoted 50m, a team from Germany buys him for less than 20m. There’s a reason why the stats show the PL outspending other countries, because they get quoted nonsense prices in the first place.
To be honest I’ve no sympathy for Madrid or Barca at all. They’ve spent decades riding off the backs of other clubs taking their best players.
When some American channels want to show an advert the game image gets squashed into the top right 2/3 of the screen. The rest of the screen gives way to a silent advert. Maybe something like this?
Yeah but the difference is for Madrid the superleague is about not losing relevance against the PL. For pretty much every one else from those countries, it would be about survival...
He's not part of the government.
Why is it that the PL is getting the blame?
What blame?
....ok, which club are you referring to there?
Maybe I read too much into your post, apologies
I don’t care about challenging FIFA and UEFA. They are by no means paragons of anything good, but I trust UEFA far more than I trust Perez, Bartomeu, The Juventus people, the glazers etc.
Pretty much this. For all of FIFA/UEFA shortcomings and shadiness, the alternative is a very evident scam by a handful of club owners. Unless you're a fan from one of these clubs, to support it is pretty much cutting your nose to spite your face.
They do that in the US already with other sports so yes!
Chelsea could be the only side missing Champions League next year. The super league is de facto here.
I very much doubt they would be able to enforce any ban on English clubs joining
Nah, it's all talk. Fifa would suspend our national team and clubs from international competition, and would love doing it too. There's no chance parliament will pass anything that would cause that.
Nah its coming already and FIFAs remit doesn't include supra national competitions like the super league, only that the government don't interfere with the FA.
In many ways Fifa and UK fans are agreed, neither wants a super league, for their own reasons. But if there is legislation that conflicts with Fifa then Fifa will defend it's control. Fifa has suspended national teams in the past, the UK government needs to be careful what it includes in the bill.
Source is Calcio e Finanza, a very reputable italian football finance outlet
Regardless the format of the new UCL is basically ESL anyway
Pretty sure FIFA were involved with the original Super League proposal.
They’re not
They are not or were not?
They are?
Wasn't A22 the company the clubs set up to oversee the league?
Wealthy people owning football clubs is nothing new, indeed your "friends" down the East LancsRoad were literally founded when a landowner tried to increase the rent on the ground he owned, Royal Arsenal were almost bankrupt and using various grounds in South London before Henry Norris invested heavily in them and moved them to North London, Sunderland were known at a timeas the "bank of England" club, and of course more recently Jack Walker invested heavily in Blackburn Rovers.
I doubt you'll find anyone who'll claim that wealthy people owning football clubs is a new thing, or that Walker didn't finance Blackburns league trophy. Or that the world of football wasn't somewhat different a 100 years ago in relation to how club financing worked.
