Not gonna say I’ll stop watching United but this is hugely disappointing.I don't think it sums it up well at all. Americans don't have the concept of rich and poor teams because they operate onder a salary cap, every team is equal and has the same amount of money to spend. Franchises are valued differently but in essence no team is richer than another one in the same league.
jesus, this news wil lbe over shadowed.
What makes a giant of the game? Surely its the team that won the league last year? What is the point if you're Leicester or someone like that now? What about if you're a supporter of a div 2 club that dreams one day of Champions League glory - fighting against the old aristocrats of Real Madrid and so on. Thats been deprived of people now. This idea kills dreams - for a fecking exhibition of some commercially relevant, rich clubs in a competition with no meaning.
Yeah, I would imagine Leicester would like to win it properly. Another trophy with an *.
The leagues will come around though, whether UEFA does or not. There's no way the PL would want to lose their 6 biggest and most watched clubs. It is even more skewed when it comes to La Liga.
The correct analogy would be - can't understand why popular/important teams have to play no-marks.
She's a senior correspondent at the Independent. A newspaper establishd in 1986 with 200.000 daily readers in paper format.
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I don't know what else to say to you anymore. Yes, I'm perfectly fine with the notion of a SL, I hope it goes ahead. I watch football to be entertained and this will be entertaining, therefore I'm in.
Your delusional mate. I'm amazed by the naivety and plastic nature of fans on this website.
Yeah Bayern have the best interests of Dortmund at the forefront of their plans. They would never do anything that would hurt Borussia would they?
ok thanks, didnt know, good to hear
""PSG are also worried that the initial novelty of a Super League may wear off after a couple of seasons while sources also said the involvement of breakthrough clubs such as Atalanta or Leicester City must be protected if football’s competitive spirit is to be maintained. On a more personal level, PSG’s President, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is a member of the UEFA board and also the ECA. Sources close to the PSG president insisted on Sunday he would be reluctant to publicly knife Ceferin in the manner that Agnelli has been accused of doing by some of his peers.
Ahhh, makes sense, thanks. Says it all really how one has to consider all sorts of geopolitical logic nowadays in football matters
Give Sheffield United our spot in the final if we get booted. We beat them in the Quarters.
She is a journo from the Independent albeit with a big Liverpool bias. I would say she is strongly credible.
We shall see what Bayern ultimately do (i reckon they'll come aboard), but come on, PSG have made a completely self serving decision, no different to the one made by the 12/15.
Thank you, I have just found my new avatar for the time being.They've just released the official logo for the competition:
They can’t understand the concept of spending a lot of money buying/investing in a “franchise” but ending up not being allowed to compete in the most lucrative competition (because the team is fecking shit)
You are OK with fundamentally breaking the nature of organic growth and competitiveness. Now these 15 clubs have secured their financial power for the future.
They most likely won't, unlike the British clubs Bayern still has their major revenue in domestic BL football. A move like that would hurt them more than, say City or Chelsea.
Surely banning them doesn't make any sense. Then there is no reason for then to not proceed.
Not sure why United fans are all of a sudden concerned about the fidelity of the lower league teams. No one was balling their eyes out when City got relegated, or Leeds failed to qualify to the PL. As a fan of football and Manchester United I want what's best for United and the sport but I couldn't give a shit about these teams that don't want us to exist but all of a sudden need us
The best teams? You mean the richest teams? This has absolutely feck all to do with the "best teams".
Actually, the truth is the complete opposite. In the NA system, rich teams are frequently shit, and they can afford to be, because they're in the same competition anyway. And in any case nobody expects them to be always good, because it basically isn't possible to be a dominant team perpetually no matter how rich you are. Take the Toronto Maple Leafs. Biggest, richest hockey club in the world, with the most fans. Not won a title since the 1960s.
Exactly. Blaming the Americans doesnt make sense and is low hanging fruit. Peter Kenyon wasnt exactly fron Texas. Perez the Atlanta native..
It's a relative term that is based on support on a global basis
In fairness they haven’t picked up a single point in the Super League yet so warranted I’d say. Haven’t even scored a goal!
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Scrap transfers and introduce a wage cap then? The governing bodies could have done that a long time ago but they were making massive amounts of coin. Now they're about to be put to the sword by their own hand.
That'd be just like Levy. Could have done that any time, does it now to deflect a little attention.
