Champions League revamp

[Martin Alvito]

......playing Devils Advocate;

1) If invited, would Everton have joined the European League?

2) Would your reaction be the same if Everton had joined?

There will be allegations of ‘sour grapes’, so might even be worth a options/questionnaire thread.

1) Not possible to make an informed guess without more information about the rules of the competition and division of revenues. Perpetual doormat status with no pathway out due to revenues disproportionately going to top sides would not be appealing.

2) Not entirely, but I'd guess mostly.

 

[kenada_blue]

Billy Bellend more like

 

[davek]

...and before any of the spirit of shankly types start up with ther "dem yanks" BS, it was THEY who invited them in with open arms, they who bought into the 'FSG method', they who stood by as Big Stand lay waste to a community, they who barely said a word about the £77 matchday ticket, they who failed to condemn FSG constantly flirting with a Euro breakaway league.

Own it, you 'kin frauds.

 

[kenada_blue]

......playing Devils Advocate;

1) If invited, would Everton have joined the European League?

2) Would your reaction be the same if Everton had joined?

There will be allegations of ‘sour grapes’, so might even be worth a options/questionnaire thread.

Why join it when there's no money to be made from the additional teams they "allow" in?

 

[ToffeeTim]

The CL reform going through by UEFA is nearly as bad as the ESL idea, whys everyone not complaining about that?

It's not good at all, but comparatively speaking, the two options are poles apart. One is a closed shop for 15 teams every year and they control the finances. The other provides 4 or 5 spaces for clubs who miss out on normal qualification but domestic league points would still result in qualification for like 32 teams.

One is bad, the other is utterly horrific. That's why there is not equal coverage.

 

[Frenk]

That risk is already factored into the increase

Not without a response from the premier league it isn’t.

 

[Wat Tyler]

The CL reform going through by UEFA is nearly as bad as the ESL idea, whys everyone not complaining about that?

I agree that is also a disgrace, team finishing 12th can get in if they have been in it for few seasons prior.

 

[Tubey]

It's a rarity, but I agree with Tubey here! lol

Like when Juve were relegated for corruption back in the 06/07 season.

They bounced straight back up, qualified for the CL in their first season back and were champions again within 5 years.

They've won every league title since. That sure showed em, eh?

Well in that scenario it was the right punishment due to the nature of the scandal.

With the Super League it's very very different in that it's a fundamental mutilation of the game.

 

[Goat]

Wow he's properly fuming - rightly so too. The Agnelli quote has extra wow-factor given how close of friends they supposedly were.

He is a third-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. He is also a motorsport aficionado and has crossed the Sahara Desert five times, four by car and once by motorcycle.[35]

As a teenager Čeferin served in the Yugoslav People's Army in 1986 and later served as a Slovenian soldier in the war for Slovenian independence in 1991


Hes gonna do somebody some serious harm.

 

[tsubaki]

In Moneyball he was played by Pee Wee Herman

 

[navidson]

Need to get myself a Ceferin T-shirt at this rate

 

[Wat Tyler]

They need more than 12 teams for this to be viable

That’s why it seems strange to me they announced it before getting all teams onboard

 

[number4.]

Not without a response from the premier league it isn’t.

Of course it will be (the risk) - let's hope they have all misread the mood music & they all get chucked out, but I struggle to see a scenario where it happens in reality

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

'Big Six'...

Spurs: last won the title at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Arsenal: last title 17 years ago.

Someone's going to have to come up with another name for them.

Given that you have rented the Subhuman Scum title out maybe go for the Sinister Six.

Or the Dossers and Dwads

 

[Toffeeslam]

He is a third-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. He is also a motorsport aficionado and has crossed the Sahara Desert five times, four by car and once by motorcycle.[35]

As a teenager Čeferin served in the Yugoslav People's Army in 1986 and later served as a Slovenian soldier in the war for Slovenian independence in 1991


Hes gonna do somebody some serious harm.

good

this is not just total war this has to be nuclear war and the strongest possible penalties levied on this scum football clubs.

that must mean expulsion