Sentient Meat
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Oh, I think there is a lot of room for improvement... I liked the idea of the guy who suggested the major European leagues would all feed into the superleague with relegation in and out of it.Leicester Premier League Champions
West Ham competing for a CL spot
Tottenham suddenly became a CL club
Liverpool won the Premier League - Remember they were hot garbage for nearly 30 years until 4~ years ago.
You're misreading the point when you see "relegation". The point isn't direclty relegation, it's the inability to not qualify for the competition through success in the domestic league
The domestic competition and the Champions League are intimately joined. Now that is threatened.
Imagine a world where third placed Manchester United who are 7 points behind Mancheter City with 8 games left on the season make the choice to rest players in the league against Chelsea, thinking there's no point in risking injuries for a maybe-shot at going up in the table, because they're placing Barcelona in the midweek in a competiton to qualify for the tournament playoffs in the Super League.
That is the reality you're advocating for. The domestic leagues WILL becomes second priority.
However, I'm guessing the major players wouldn't take the risk because they don't want to tarnish their brands by having to play even a year in the now Championship version of the Premier League. If you have a league with only the elite... someone's gotta go down... and nobody wanted it to be them.
That would be the fairest way to do it... but the clubs in the Super League have become too big to fail as they say about the American financial giants.