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Champions League revamp

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GwladysBlue said:
Not just talking about Everton here but other clubs, like Aston Villa, Leicester, Leeds, etc have invested heavily to improve their teams and infrastructure on the basis of Premier League and the current UEFA structure.

Surely it can’t be legal for 12 clubs, 6 being from the same country, to essentially pull the rug on these clubs and potentially bankrupt them?
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This is why they should be kicked out with no way back.
 
Trout Masked Replica said:
Any ideas as to what players and managers will think?

And any ideas why Spurs and Arsenal are there?
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Players will think it is great they can get more money.

The managers of these teams won't say anything against the company line. Others won't speak out because they will want a job at one of these clubs in the future.

Spurs and Arsenal are there because of how many social media followers they have.
 
Terrarian said:
This is not the game I grew up loving, hasn't been for a good few years but this is the final straw. Not sure how I feel about football at the moment. If I didn't have so much invested in supporting our great club I think I would jack it in.
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Pretty much this.

If this happens then the club's involved (and their players) need to be expelled from the FIFA, UEFA and national FA sanctioned competitions and done immediately. If the Premier League needs to be scrapped and a new top division created then so be it.

Let the franchise clubs go. What's the worst that could happen? The rs as part of a successful alternative league move stadiums away from 2 near by franchisees and Kuala Lumpur Red Sox gets a team? Bring it on.
 

Efcjake said:
It all started when UEFA bent over backwards to change the Champions League rules in 2005 to let Liverpool "defend their title" after they finished in 5th behind us.

That's when the bigger clubs realized that their entitlement could be capitalized on and their brand value weaponized against UEFA.

The Super League talk has been around since then.
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The big clubs have always thrown their weight around. Which is why the outpouring of outrage from Sky is so amusing. Have they forgot how the Premier league was formed? The big clubs wanting a bigger slice of the pie. It's about the only thing in this whole mess which is amusing, because the sheer naked greed shown by these clubs is a disgrace.
I'm disgusted that our owners would get into bed with the very people who have tried to destroy us. That's me done with football. Not spending another penny on it and that includes watching it on tv.
 
For me it is quite simple. Next season UEFA and the EPL refuse to allow the greed driven gravy supping clubs that have signed up for this charade to compete in their competitions.
The big question is whether UEFA and EPL have the balls to do it.
I pray for the good of the game that they have the courage of their convictions , take a long term view and expel them.
Lets the scum play in the Harlem Globetrotters Gravy Train League.
Good riddance.
 

Jim Hopper said:
Bet the PL and UEFA feel like they’ve walked in on their Mrs in bed with another man today, all the back bending they’ve done for these clubs over the years and this is where it’s got them, I wonder if they think it was worth it after all.
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They created the monster and the likes of Sky with their ‘Big 6’ bollocks.

Their constant use of that phrase for clubs who have won less league titles than Everton and Villa allowed them to be perceived as untouchable and it reflected in their sponsorship.

The game is well and truly dead but it has been coming for years.
 
everton fan number one said:
Rawk seems split on the matter:

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I agree with most that this looks a bad idea but can we afford to be noble and pass it up knowing that other teams(Everton?) would gladly take our place? It doesn’t mean that we can’t influence the competition from within and it may evolve to be something more palatable to fans(or this may just be a bargaining ploy by the likes of manu and us for more media rights).
I just find it hilarious that Gary Neville and other English media are invoking YNWA(maybe in the hope that Liverpool fans will mobilise against this) when we have been denigrated and despised by the rest of the country for decades(but they want us to continue to subsidise their football teams).
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That's because most of them are foreign based fans who support through a tv subscription. Bluemoon is pretty much dead against it with many City fans saying they are done. I suspect most English fans would be against it whoever they support.
 
GwladysBlue said:
They created the monster and the likes of Sky with their ‘Big 6’ bollocks.

Their constant use of that phrase for clubs who have won less league titles than Everton and Villa allowed them to be perceived as untouchable and it reflected in their sponsorship.

The game is well and truly dead but it has been coming for years.
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They only created the 'big six' when they favourites dropped out of the top four.
 
Let them sod off then. They can have their small league with no promotion or relegation, with no domestic cup, with plastic fans, with no players who play in the World Cup. The domestic leagues will take a finacial hit of course, but it will recover and end up being better. The main thing, do not let those teams back in.
 

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