Why on Earth have you put home in quotation marks.
Tell me the top three in the Premier League this year. Tell me the top three in La Liga.
It is a great idea, hope it happens to EPL.
Yup completely with you on this.
Sums up my “debates” on here with you. Posting in bad faith.
I’m flabbergasted anyone can imagine this as a good idea. I just.... it’s the opposite of what football should be.
This. Football clubs are, first and foremost, sporting community associations. That means, before anything else, it is there to service its local community.
probably never been to a 'home' game if he thinks like that.
That isn't what club football is about.
The fact is La Liga is broken. There’s not enough money in the leagues for the smaller clubs.
Fixed
La liga is desperate, and Tebas, although controversial offers alternatives. If it is necessary to get money and better players then the fans will have to continue making sacrifices, as they do now with the schedules.
feck no. If there are those who want to see clubs turn into franchises and brands it's basically a case of rebel alliance standing up to the emergent evil empire of the sith. Might as well start wearing craniums on your sleeve and start chanting "we're the bad guys".
Completely agree. Foreign fans probably underestimate how much the likes of United and others do to help the community, too, due to their global standing. Like, I have a disabled brother and the family next door (who are all City fans bar the mum who's a red) have a couple of disabled young lads, and both United and City do a lot of events for the disabled that lift their spirits and whatnot. It's really heartwarming.
Well, they do play in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid as well depending on the opposition.
There are three Mancs playing for Manchester United, and neither of them is that important for the team. Football has become global, like it or not.
The higher the brand valuation the more commercial sponsorship opportunities, the more revenue, the more to spend on players.
To be fair to WUM, he probably would prefer United to be on the fifteenth division of Greater Manchester if it meant it was only Manc players and no fans outside of Manchester.Well, they do play in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid as well depending on the opposition.
Get off the high horse though. I am not from Manchester, but I sympathise with the idea that clubs should play their games on their turf rather than going abroad for big bucks. For me, even if United came and played in my backyard, I wouldn't feel it to be a "real" match as compared to when they play at OT.
But at the same time, got no patience for tribal mentality in football. If United remained a local boys' club in this day and age as opposed to the global club it is, you wouldn't be drooling over the likes of Pogba, De Gea and other foreign players playing for us, and the quality of football will be the equivalent of Salford City or FC United.
High horse? Another poster said that if you want United to play in Manchester you’re a top red. That is an example of someone on a high horse. People saying “We’ll pogba is French so united are a global team”. I mean wtf kind of logic is that?Well, they do play in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid as well depending on the opposition.
Get off the high horse though. I am not from Manchester, but I sympathise with the idea that clubs should play their games on their turf rather than going abroad for big bucks. For me, even if United came and played in my backyard, I wouldn't feel it to be a "real" match as compared to when they play at OT.
But at the same time, got no patience for tribal mentality in football. If United remained a local boys' club in this day and age as opposed to the global club it is, you wouldn't be drooling over the likes of Pogba, De Gea and other foreign players playing for us, and the quality of football will be the equivalent of Salford City or FC United.
Nothing. Being a global brand does not have to interfere with it's primary purpose.
It will most definitely bring severe damage to this relationship.
So be it then.
It wouldn't ruin it but could certainly dilute the relationship a club has with a community (bit like how the value of FA Cup was diluted by United skipping it in 2000) and could set a dangerous precedent.
Well, what else is it? Pogba is French, De Gea is Spanish, Jose is Portuguese and I remember you rooting for Poch, an Argentinian, to become our manager after LvG. You think foreign players and managers would come if you adopt a Bilbaoesque culture and want United to only belong to the locals?
El Classico being in US will essentially be on a neutral venue, and so it either needs to be played there twice, or put at a massive disadvantage the 'home' team. Real or Barca vs whatever other team, will be a home game with 95%+ of fans on the stadium being fans of the 'home' team.
Lots because the first three things, especially under modern football ownership , won't lead to the last.
Why do you care about the revenue of a football club so much?
Nah, no outsider gives a shit about Southampton or Bournemouth. EPL is famous cause it has two of the most popular teams in the world in addition to two other global teams and an ultra rich team, because it started showing on other countries earlier than other leagues and cause of English language. People like United and Liverpool, for the same reasons they like Barca or Madrid, not because of their strong connection to local communities, because of that was the case, Athletic Bilbao would have been the greatest club in the world.
The problem is in the word 'Football' Whatever it is, it has nothing whatever to do with Football. Only called that by the Americans, who for some reason had to have their rugby players in body armour.
More revenue means more money for transfers and higher wages aka better players and so more trophies.
Exactly. The premiership is the world's most popular because they actually fill the stadium every week and supporters give a damn.
