Pretty sure there was a thread on this, how young fans follow players more than clubs.BBC were right. It's all about attracting the young fans that prefer watching superstar players over following clubs.
Pretty sure there was a thread on this, how young fans follow players more than clubs.BBC were right. It's all about attracting the young fans that prefer watching superstar players over following clubs.
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bring on the multi ball?I've already mentioned that because they have not anyone to answer to. They can even play with 5 players each, have rules like no offsides or that ball must be a square. Maybe even play shirtless holding an egg on the head. They can do what they want because they don't have anyone to answer to. No rules. Nothing. Money rules.
They might even invite "fans" to controll a player for 5 minutes with a joystick or "be a manager for a game".
Well, I for one am absolutely delighted that Perez has gone full Trump on cocaine and is fronting this thundercnut league. It's a fecking beautiful thing to see.
Oh it's going to be marvellous.They'll have time outs with cheerleaders dancing and some games with fans to make the sport interesting.
FIFA's relative silence suggests to me that as a minimum they're interested in testing the water. Their big money sooner is the WC and they want more. The obvious place to look it is at the money in there club game and the European club game in particular.The more I hear about this, the more I think FIFA are involved in this. They were linked to a new Super League last year.
FIFA have been talking about a World Champions League and they've been pushing for a World Cup every 2 years instead of 4.
Might be a power grab by FIFA to push Uefa out and replace the Champions League and European Championships.
Whats FIFA's stance on government interference in football?Looks like he's scared of government involvement most of all.
They obviously predicted fan backlash and UEFA throwing a strop and maybe trying to get clubs sanctioned or ban players, which they could fight in the courts.
But they cant fight the governments.
if this goes through we'll leave the PL within a few years, I'm sure of it.Sigh. It's so fecking shit.
Ah, ok. Thanks for that.To be fair their desire to work something out with UEFA was in the press release last night.
The status of this clubs as the big dogs is being threatened by clubs that spend more money than what they can or are willing to spend. With this the number of potential future fans and share of the total football money pie in the future is potentially reduced for these clubs, losing fans to the likes of city and psg if they start to be constant protagonists in the CL. With functional FFP rules this would likely not have happened.This would absolutely have happened regardless. Most of these clubs are run by businessmen looking at this as an investment with a need for a growing return. The only way to accomplish that, in their eyes, is to eventually do something like this, even if they succeed at some point it won't be enough and something else will come up because these are the corporate culture where enough is never enough.
Not one single one of us wants to see the fecking franchise league played everywhere but our own stadiums or even this country.if this goes through we'll leave the PL within a few years, I'm sure of it.
It will be full Americanisation, like the NFL and NBA. There will be all kinds of gimmicks for the Americans with their short attention span: time outs, music during breaks in play, fireworks, half time singers.Closed league.. Shorter matches..
He is clearly trying to copy the IPL .
Can this guy just have an accident or something real soon. He thinks he's the God of football.
See you back here in 2 years time then!Yep it's done and I'll be finished with football.
Shortening the game will be just the start. In 10 years Utd won't be based in Manchester anymore i'm convinced of it.
SameI feel like Perez just did more to help torpedo this idiotic plan than all the protests could have achieved.
This decision was not made with any consideration for us fans. We don't matter. Neither does anything else for that matter. It's about money and nothing else.Not one single one of us wants to see the fecking franchise league played everywhere but our own stadiums or even this country.
At least PSG wasn't knocked out yet, while all other teams are either banned or already knocked out. So yeh, its looks less stupid.You think that would make it look less stupid?
They arent shortening matches!Yep it's done and I'll be finished with football.
Shortening the game will be just the start. In 10 years Utd won't be based in Manchester anymore i'm convinced of it.
I'm not so sure. I think fans of many clubs who have clung on this long would finally be pushed over the edge. The English/European game as we've always known it would be over. It would mean complete capitulation to the American franchise system. The only way we can stop it is for managers, players and fans to stand together against it.See you back here in 2 years time then!
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Not that I'm aware of but they do seem very quiet about all this.When the story broke last year FIFA were said to be involved. Have they made a statement yet?
I'd suggest he's carrying a significant mental injury for some time now.Can this guy just have an accident or something real soon. He thinks he's the God of football.
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I get that feeling too. He sounded deranged.I feel like Perez just did more to help torpedo this idiotic plan than all the protests could have achieved.
Unfortunately the government and FA had the chance to listen to our fans about the shadiness of the Glazer's borrowing money to buy us and straddle us with the debt. They did nothing. From then on in the club has never belonged to the fans. The time to intervene was years ago. FFS Liverpool almost faced bankruptcy and they did nothing. Its too late to stop this now, they had the chance and they blew it.Okay, let's imagine for a minute that his ESL thing is scrapped because of government intervention (who would have thought that the Tories would "save" football) How do you even go about punishing the 12 if this doesn't come off?
Ban them from European competition for 3 years? Then they'll push harder than ever for the ESL
If you don't punish them, then that shows them they can get away with it.
Is it possible for the various governments to hold a stake in football clubs? Not necessarily an ownership, but government oversight perhaps? Where a club needs governmental approval before they make a decision like this? What we learn from this, if anything is that a football club isn't just a business. It belongs to the city and community. The history of Manchester United isn't just that the club won 21 league titles. No one person should be able to come and make sweeping changes like this.
I'm not buying it one bit. This was something in the talks for a long time, the fact that City and PSG were invited also tells you everything you need to know about their sentiments on status or hierarchy. They just saw an opportunity for a power grab and finally went for it. It's got nothing to do with Financial Fair Play, nothing to do with PSG/City, this is just a wet dream they've had for a while and they think they can use the current climate as a legitimate reason to go for it. Why go by the UEFA/FIFA rules when you can just make up your own and cut the middle-man out? I think it's naive to think a functional FFP would have changed anything, it's simply about power and the UEFA getting a cut of a pie they believe belongs to them alone.The status of this clubs as the big dogs is being threatened by clubs that spend more money than what they can or are willing to spend. With this the number of potential future fans and share of the total football money pie in the future is potentially reduced for these clubs, losing fans to the likes of city and psg if they start to be constant protagonists in the CL. With functional FFP rules this would likely not have happened.
The fact that these clubs are run like a business is the problem. They don't spend absurd amounts of money because they need to be profitable, while the oil clubs don't care. In the case of Juventus it's not that the Angelli family doesn't have absurd money to spend, they just don't do it, at least not to the extent of city and psg. With functional FFP rules their status would not be threatened.
So no, it's not clear at all if this super league would be a thing if the clubs hierarchy wasn't at risk.
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