Wow! I really hate the way football is going. More and more corporate greed
So you have a week to prepare for a game and then you travel to the US. You get over jet lag, then train, then a couple days later play a competitive game. You then come back to Europe, rest from the jet lag, then have to go again. Not to mention the periods when CL and cup games will need to be played, so how exactly will it work when you have to travel to the US, play a game, travel back and then prep for a midweek game in the FA cup for e.g?
I am shocked by the amount of posters thinking ‘well if it’s one game why would it matter?’.
Well one game would be the start. Then what next?
We have just seen the Spanish Cup played in Morocco, now it’s a La Liga game. What’s next the Spanish Cup final or El Classico?
It looks like the FA will be happy to sell Wembley, something they didn’t even pay for, so it’s likely the major finals will be moved abroad.
These clubs are making millions, too much in fact because they are wasting money on agents fees, crap players or gambling on potential.
Upsetting the core home fans is not a good idea. The club loses its soul and identity. Honestly the time is coming soon for this bubble to burst.
Football wasn’t just about making money. But it’s becoming so Americanised and I’m getting sick of it. It won’t be long until replays are sponsored by Budweiser.
They have ruined the World Cup and Euros by allowing half the world to qualify to make more money.
The Champions League has become stagnant due to a ranking system that allows the same team to make the final stages, to make more money.
Play the rounds in August and January when there are no European games and/or crap the League Cup (why do we have it when we already have the FA Cup again?).So you have a week to prepare for a game and then you travel to the US. You get over jet lag, then train, then a couple days later play a competitive game. You then come back to Europe, rest from the jet lag, then have to go again. Not to mention the periods when CL and cup games will need to be played, so how exactly will it work when you have to travel to the US, play a game, travel back and then prep for a midweek game in the FA cup for e.g?
While I agree that logistically its a bad idea, I am really surprised by the number of people who didn't see things going this way eventually. Clubs have been reaching out to global audiences since the turn of the century and now have majority of their fans overseas.
Yes, they may still be making more money from local fans but the idea that a football club is only confined within the geographical location of its training ground and stadium is naive in today's globalized world. Sooner or later, this was going to be a global product where overseas fans can touch and feel what they are paying for indirectly already.
Because it’s completely ridiculous to expect them to refuse to ever play one of the biggest if not the biggest fixture of European football in the country of origin of both teams and this would not be accepted by the fans and any additional gain from it would be nullified.
Once in a while, maybe they will try to do that. I actually expect it to happen. Definitely not every single year forever. It would actually probably make it less interesting for fans worldwide and would decrease the profit if you knew you would never see Barca v Real at Camp Nou and Bernabeu ever again. If they are looking to make more money it’s a ridiculous thing to do.
You play the game in a week without midweek games obviously. There is literally a Canadian rugby team who plays in an England league and fly back and forth several times in the season. Having to take a plane ride isn't the issue here.So you have a week to prepare for a game and then you travel to the US. You get over jet lag, then train, then a couple days later play a competitive game. You then come back to Europe, rest from the jet lag, then have to go again. Not to mention the periods when CL and cup games will need to be played, so how exactly will it work when you have to travel to the US, play a game, travel back and then prep for a midweek game in the FA cup for e.g?
"If we play a game (380 per season) in another country, we will go hand in hand with the clubs, their fans and the institutions. LaLiga delights millions of fans around the world: Let´s build bridges and grow by transmitting the values of football and our country." He also said "if NBA and NFL do it, we can do it too"
I guess It will be Leganés,Getafe, Eibar, Huesca...Self serving suit. Which club wants to be the one with the disadvantage?
you mean like increasing the price of sky sports every year to the point most people struggle to afford it? Then split it off with BT and now with Eleven sports as well so that its even more expensive? Yet it still makes a profit, and the league has move around fixtures to accommodate broadcasters at the expense of match going fans. It Doesnt matter what you do, like booze, fags and petrol, football is hard to stop. Just ask any City fan who's club has been taken over by royal thug if theyll stop supporting the team prompt up by a state that abuses human rights. They dont care. They only care that they are winning.
We will just have to agree to disagree on this one Im afraid. I see no redeeming qualities in the current footballing bodies that tells me they wont abuse this if they can. Just my opinion.
Which teams would lose their home advantage for these games in another country and how would it be fair? Also it is a English league with English teams which have a home city or town they have played at for over a hundred years in most cases. It would be the end of our league as we know it. Awful idea.
Some stats for thought. Last season, Manchester United vs Liverpool only drew in 594,000 US television viewers compared to 1.25 million that watched Club America vs Leon (both Mexican club teams). You could see from the stats that there is money to be made from the US television market.
This is a really horrible idea. And I say this as someone living in the states. And the NFL and NBA are not the best examples to follow since they decided that they do not care about the fans a long time ago.
It will make sense if you see the revenue earned from England and overseas. Unfortunately, it’s become a product now and the product will be continuously updated to target majority of the customers.A globalised English league?
That sentence doesn’t even make sense....
It will make sense if you see the revenue earned from England and overseas. Unfortunately, it’s become a product now and the product will be continuously updated to target majority of the customers.
Very soon we will start seeing franchising as well. India may have a club franchise very soon named “Manchester United” competing in local leagues. It’s a branding game and first movers advantage.
I don't see much wrong with this. Obviously they won't move a Top 6 team matchup. And no derbies. So the best you'd get to see in US would be amongst the likes of United vs Everton.
Off the top of my head, the only real solution I'd be happy with would be reformatting the EFL Cup and playing part of that there. Would likely require some messing about with the winter break they're implementing too.
Split the tournament into two "halves"; one with the previous season's top 8 PL teams, and one with every other team that usually enters. The bigger "half" goes basically as it does now, except it'd have a winner of sorts that earn a place in the final. The half with the top 8 go to the US and play a straight knockout format against each other, with the winner, again, earning a place in the final.
Currently, reaching the final of the EFL Cup means 6 games for the teams in Europe. This would reduce it to 4, but obviously mean a trip abroad where they'd have to play 3 games in relatively quick succession (although you could probably send them out to their respective training camps following a weekend's fixtures, play the first round on the following weekend, the second in the midweek, and the third the weekend after again, before heading home pretty much straight after).
It'd provide 7 matches with some actual interest for the crowds wherever it gets played, and means that the league and more prestigious cup don't get fecked with too much other than perhaps a bit of scheduling. Could even extend it to 8 games if the other half was wrapped up before hand and play the final out there too.
This is a really horrible idea. And I say this as someone living in the states. And the NFL and NBA are not the best examples to follow since they decided that they do not care about the fans a long time ago. You guys complain about how working class fans are being priced out of games that happened in major American professional sports in like the 60s.
It will make sense if you see the revenue earned from England and overseas. Unfortunately, it’s become a product now and the product will be continuously updated to target majority of the customers.
Very soon we will start seeing franchising as well. India may have a club franchise very soon named “Manchester United” competing in local leagues. It’s a branding game and first movers advantage.
Surely it’ll just be the bigger clubs playing over there. Hell, they’ll probably start this off with Barca vs. Real Madrid, just to get it going.