Good point.
Going against Amazon and Facebook? This would be a minor inconvenience compared to their privacy problems. Maybe I'm just way too cynical.
How else would go against Amazon and Facebook, or any company or service, than by boycotting them? It's by far the most powerful tool any of us, as 'consumers', have.
Yes agreed. What I meant is if everyone still uses Facebook and Amazon right now after the privacy issues and how they treat their employees, I doubt something like this would change consumer behaviour.
They want make money. If those pay for broadcasting the super league, they want to make a profit with it. If they pay a lot for the rights and no one watches it, they won't pay again. In the long run (if it really happens) the existence of the super league is only sustainable if people are interested in that - if not enough are, there is no use in sponsoring teams for playing in it or in paying for the broadcasting rights.
If football fans enacted their boycott by canceling their suscriptions to the services, let's say Amazon Prime, that carry this project, and by refusing to spend their money on anything related to it, they would give a feck.
They wont though. The global audience is huge.
Surmising that fans won't boycott (which is a realistic, if depressing, assumption) is not the same as claiming that a boycott would have no impact.
The first words, of the first repsonse.
You think half filled Old Trafford and Anfield, acting as secondary libraries with OOTers, will encourage people in America and India to tune in? And pay for the privilege? Most international stuff is knock off shirts made in China and illegal streaming. It's us domestic mugs that pay through our eyeballs.
I think this is one of the things that could work, it's nothing without the players.
I agree with you but I think the stadiums will always pack out. There's no way of organising a mass boycott.
If this happened, players would get a massive amount of respect.
Apparently very pro esl in Spain.
I suggested a different approach that can have impact?The first words, of the first repsonse.
Really, trying to diminsh the efforts of someone literally trying to save the club. Why do it?
We all know it's going to be a battle to get sufficient engagement, but really, do we have to do this on every thread?
Real and Barca have always been selfish to the detriment of the rest of the league
Sorry. Just frustrated at seeing it in every thread.
The announcement was made less than 2 days ago, right? I very much doubt there is a strongly formed opinion yet.
That's alright, I rail on posters that attack players and pundits that speak out as well. So maybe I should have been a bit warmer in my reply to begin with.
Response to the news that they will potentially earn 2 or 3 times their current wages if the Superleague takes place?
That depends, what % does matchday income make up of the these clubs annual income? That number should tell you how much local fans matter in a discussion like this.
Great post
