paulscholes18
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ThisIl watch any match that United play.
ThisIl watch any match that United play.
The problem is that if you scoop all the big teams out of their domestic leagues and into their own one, domestic league football would fall apart. The Prem would be scarcely more prestigious than the Championship is now. Good players would be even less willing to play for a club that isn't in the ESL than they currently are with regards to sign for top 4 sides, so domestic league squads would lose any and all players with real quality. The TV money would evaporate when they're no longer playing against United, Barcelona, Bayern and so on, and pretty soon there would be about as much interest in the PL as there is in its current Scottish counterpart.No, why would I want to watch Europe’s best teams, players and managers facing off against each other in some of the worlds best venues when I could watch crackers like Burnley vs Wolves, WBA vs Southampton and Fulham vs Brighton?
Also, how would we live without seeing vastly inferior sides with limited resources and no hope of ever winning anything desperately trying to grind out draws with ten behind the ball against top half teams?
My views on sport are 100% polar opposite to my political views and so my simple response to that is...so what? Survival of the fittest I’m afraid. The sport has to keep evolving to survive or risk stagnating.The problem is that if you scoop all the big teams out of their domestic leagues and into their own one, domestic league football would fall apart. The Prem would be scarcely more prestigious than the Championship is now. Good players would be even less willing to play for a club that isn't in the ESL than they currently are with regards to sign for top 4 sides, so domestic league squads would lose any and all players with real quality. The TV money would evaporate when they're no longer playing against United, Barcelona, Bayern and so on, and pretty soon there would be about as much interest in the PL as there is in its current Scottish counterpart.
Since last December?Can genuinely say no. I’ve already turned away from the Champions League recently.
I guess that will be me. I will resist as long as possible. We already have the UCL for that. And there's zero history behind this making any trophy fairly shallow to me. No thanks.Yes. Even the ones that will say no, will watch it eventually.
Yeah but United losing to Bayern Munich is easier to take than losing to some shit side in the EPL.The problem is that if you scoop all the big teams out of their domestic leagues and into their own one, domestic league football would fall apart. The Prem would be scarcely more prestigious than the Championship is now. Good players would be even less willing to play for a club that isn't in the ESL than they currently are with regards to sign for top 4 sides, so domestic league squads would lose any and all players with real quality. The TV money would evaporate when they're no longer playing against United, Barcelona, Bayern and so on, and pretty soon there would be about as much interest in the PL as there is in its current Scottish counterpart.
Spoken like a fan of one of the giant clubs. I'm fairly sure fans of Burnley and WBA care quite a lot. There's 92 teams in the PL and EFL leagues, and they all have their own dedicated fanbase. I'm really not sure that a handful of big teams buggering off to play in Europe is going to somehow destroy the rest of English football.My views on sport are 100% polar opposite to my political views and so my simple response to that is...so what? Survival of the fittest I’m afraid. The sport has to keep evolving to survive or risk stagnating.
People watch sport to be entertained, im not really interested in what is good for Burnley or WBA
MaybeSince last December?
Set up a draft system where the teams in the super league can draft players from clubs across Europe who were left behind to play in the pointless domestic leagues.In the end, this would actually damage some of the top clubs. Let's be honest, Manchester United have the biggest fan base in the Pl because it was the most successful in a time of massive growth.
What would happen over a prolonged period of a European super league? Some of those top teams will never win the title, and will no longer be top teams. A lot of new fans will look at the clubs that are actually winning and choose to be their fans.
Some of those top clubs will no longer be top clubs. I don't even think there is relegation, so what do all the other teams have to play for if they are not competing? It will end up a pointless competition for most clubs, so it would actually be pointless to watch.
YesSimple question. I'm coming to believe that it would be the one step that made me give up supporting Chelsea after 40 years, something I never thought was possible.
Even setting aside all the unsporting, unfair, money obsessed bullshit aspects of it, frankly it just sounds really, really dull.
So what say you? Does anyone actually want this elitist system to happen?