Champions League revamp

[Azza]

There's several points in here which to me read that if you're not a member of ECA you basically won't get access to UEFA competitions.

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D.3 to ensure that none of its member clubs participate with any of its teams in any competition that is not organised or recognised by UEFA/FIFA;

D.4 to ensure that its member clubs are not members of any other association or grouping involving clubs from more than one country (i.e. one National Association);

 

[AdamEFC]

Even if they stay in domestic league they'll likely be walloped with relegation to the lower leagues you would imagine.

Even better, they’d have to play 46 league games then

 

[TheBigIguana]

I suspect those contracts are full of clauses. Certainly, any future contract would be hugely devalued by the absence of the teams currently placed 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th. The greed and sense of entitlement is almost laughable at this point.

To some extent it is the PL's fault from building a brand around a few clubs when they didn't need to.

 

[Curtis]

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Good make them all relocate to stoke that will teach them

 

[nsno-chris]

We’re all happy buddies in this thread

Apart from the banned sky engineer @toffeepie1878 who is still a massive whopper

 

[arch stanton]

Lock them out. Don't let them into the ground! Tell them that as they have withdrawn from UEFA, they have no authority to attend at the ground to play football!

on a serious point, if these franchises have been expelled from EUFA, the clubs' may not be insured to play against them.

 

[catcherintherye]

yeah agreed - then its taken out of his hands. But England and HArry Kane would have a case at CAS in days if this happens

I dont think he would, if cricket is anything to go by. They have resigned from ECA thing, so have invalidated their contracts. The position would be that they can break their contract and join another team.

Where it's interesting is if a national association still picked them. That's the bigger legal headache in my view

 

[efcfanwirral]

Rumours that Klopp has said he will resign if they join.

Man will become a King for me if he does.

Does make me wonder if that's the reason for their form this season - they'll have known a long while ago and if it really angered him then I can see that leading to the sort of situation we saw

 

[KaiserEFC]

Hang on, if they’re dropped of everything then I do believe Nottingham Forest may be the most decorated club in the country lol

 

[tsubaki]

If he goes, and he could, there will be open warfare from their fanbase.

I think there probably will be anyway - I mean Hicks and Gillette didn’t do anything near as bad as this and look what they did to them.

 

[blue to the bone]

Let them off. Ban them for life from all other competitions. If the TV money drops then so be it. Give football back to the fans .
Only worry I'd have is Bmd not getting the investors.

 

[ToffeeTim]

How am I meant to sleep tonight

Thank goodness I work from home and don't have a 6am alarm lol

 

[Drico]

To some extent it is the PL's fault from building a brand around a few clubs when they didn't need to.

Yup. The PL almost deserves this. And the PL is the clubs. Hard to feel sorry for them - or us.

 

[navidson]

Have we essentially just watched Liverpool get relegated?

 

[Neiler]

They punishments will be the bare minimum won't they. Knowing that UEFA may ban them from European competition, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the Premier League docks each team 15 points (City would still win the league) and fines them £20m each - which would be utter peanuts compared to what they will all get just for joining this new league.

A real punishment would be immediate expulsion from the Premier League with the FA following this up by taking away their licence to play in any league in England, plus a £200m fine and ban from all UEFA competitions.

Do the PL have jurisdiction here. These clubs aren’t threatening to pullout of the PL as a competition. Though I’d love to see the PL bin them all.

Seems to me on reflection, this is about creating a new CL that they don’t have to qualify for, with less teams and thus More money.

Essentially that’s what this is a closed shop CL with less teams and 11 clubs making more.

Worse then the current model.

Seems to me this is a game of chicken between them and Uefa, but I’d love if every authority that can nails them.

I do however have no trust in Uefa.