European Super League

[Mo Britain]

In an excellent piece of investigative football journalism The Telegraph has exposed the machinations Liverpool and Manu are scheming in order to entrench themselves, unfairly, at the top of English football until Judgement Day.

Unfortunately the article is behind the paywall but this report from Eurosport gives you the gist:

https://www.eurosport.com/football/...cally-reshape-football_sto7942813/story.shtml

I imagine Saint Stan will leap at this and grasp at the opportunity to get us on board. It will mean less investment will be required to keep us in the top division and get a share of the booty, which is all he ever wanted.

 

[Moah]

I mean this is great for the EFL clubs and the big 6 but how do you convince Leicester, Wolves, Brighton etc to agree to something which means they’ll likely have to operate on a lower budget? Really curious as to how this gets voted on. Is it up to the FA to decide and that £100m gesture is a golden handshake?

Not only will they be operating with lower budget, they will also be pawns that will be pushed around by the top clubs. It gives the other 12 clubs(from the proposed 18 club format) no right regarding any matter.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Terrible changes. This will kill football.

 

[Moah]

How did Liverpool and Man U end up teaming up on this by the way? They aren't two teams that come up in mind to do something like this together.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

European super league will kill football for me. This is saddest day of football I ever experienced.

 

[Ibadan]

How did Liverpool and Man U end up teaming up on this by the way? They aren't two teams that come up in mind to do something like this together.

I assumed it was because both clubs have Americans in key roles

 

[Mo Britain]

This is despicable power-grabbing posing as charity.

Oh they want to help the EFL.... by ADVANCING money from tv revenues! Good on yer Shylock!!!

They want to stop Championship clubs from overspending, I'm serious!!! MANCHESTER CITY WANT YOU TO STOP OVERSPENDING!!!

There would be an official "Big Six" frozen in time round 2020 - get out of the way you inconvenient foxes. Let's see Tottenham Hotspurs, Big Six club. Last trophy - league cup in 2008. Since then Leicester City have won the league. The League Cup has been won by the likes of Birmingham City (aargh!) and Swansea City. The FA Cup has been won by Wigan Athletic. But Tottenham are a big six club, because they say so.

Southampton and West Ham. HUGE clubs. Four FA Cups and a Cup Winners Cup between them (being kind to Southampton here who won exactly one of those FA Cups). Much bigger than, say, Aston Villa who only have seven league titles, seven FA Cups and a European Cup on their scoresheet.

Why not go back and set a date when five out of those "Big Six" spent time serving in the lower divisions?

This is a move to take control of one of the biggest sporting cash cows in the world by a handful of guys and make themselves into an immovable oligarchy.

Our dear leader will love this.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Yes absolutely support this.

 

[krengon]

This would be awful.. Complete power grab by the big clubs.

 

[Trilly]

Everything sounds good apart from the fact it’s underpinned by elitism. Not a fan of the ‘historical nine’ or whatever it was, don’t like that at all.

 

[Moah]

I assumed it was because both clubs have Americans in key roles

KSE will be jumping in there stress-free then.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

A better change would be to forbid Americans to own a team in PL.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Everything sounds good apart from the fact it’s underpinned by elitism. Not a fan of the ‘historical nine’ or whatever it was, don’t like that at all.

Doesn't surprise me at all you like this, you pull stuff like that all the time when picking up girls at the bar.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

It this prevents sides like Huddersfield, Fulham and Norwich being in the PL then I'm all for it. The overall standard has been pretty weak for a few years now too.

 

[Trilly]

Doesn't surprise me at all you like this, you pull stuff like that all the time when picking up girls at the bar.

Doesn’t even make any sense ffs.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Doesn’t even make any sense ffs.

Nah just reminded me of when you picked up a girl at the bar by saying that you don't do charities and Purge is your favorite movie because you like the concept.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

It this prevents sides like Huddersfield, Fulham and Norwich being in the PL then I'm all for it. The overall standard has been pretty weak for a few years now too.

There has always been a weak team in PL it is one of the things that make up the league soul. It's like when your grandmother refuses to quit smoking at 85 because that just the way she is.

 

[A_G]

European super league will kill football for me. This is saddest day of football I ever experienced.

It’s like allowing Carlsen, Karjakin and Liren to make the new rules of chess. Disgusting.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

There has always been a weak team in PL it is one of the things that make up the league soul. It's like when your grandmother refuses to quit smoking at 85 because that just the way she is.

My grandmother quit smoking when she was 63 after decades.

 

[DanDare]

This is despicable power-grabbing posing as charity.

Oh they want to help the EFL.... by ADVANCING money from tv revenues! Good on yer Shylock!!!

They want to stop Championship clubs from overspending, I'm serious!!! MANCHESTER CITY WANT YOU TO STOP OVERSPENDING!!!

There would be an official "Big Six" frozen in time round 2020 - get out of the way you inconvenient foxes. Let's see Tottenham Hotspurs, Big Six club. Last trophy - league cup in 2008. Since then Leicester City have won the league. The League Cup has been won by the likes of Birmingham City (aargh!) and Swansea City. The FA Cup has been won by Wigan Athletic. But Tottenham are a big six club, because they say so.

Southampton and West Ham. HUGE clubs. Four FA Cups and a Cup Winners Cup between them (being kind to Southampton here who won exactly one of those FA Cups). Much bigger than, say, Aston Villa who only have seven league titles, seven FA Cups and a European Cup on their scoresheet.

Why not go back and set a date when five out of those "Big Six" spent time serving in the lower divisions?

This is a move to take control of one of the biggest sporting cash cows in the world by a handful of guys and make themselves into an immovable oligarchy.

Our dear leader will love this.

Yes absolutely support this.

The contrast between these posts :rofl: