Champions League revamp

[mill]

So you wouldn't want to be a champions league regular and consistently challenging for trophies? Ok mate.

If we switched places with those teams that would be unlikely in the future no?

you are in a thread talking about the ESL. So no, in this scenario, I’d rather not be a fan of one of those clubs.

I’d rather not become a franchise. I’d rather we didn’t join a system that is going to pander to consumers on the other side of the world rather than fans that have lived and breathed with the team for generations.

If you don’t understand that, then you are doing this wrong.

 

[catcherintherye]

Would we have to give other Scottish teams the ability to get promoted into the premier league though? I’m just thinking of the potential damage it could do to those remaining teams. Maybe a competition between the winner of the runners up of the championship?

You could look at incorporating into the English leagues, and whacking a nice solidarity payment too so it was done fairly.

 

[arbok]

We've finally found a punishment that will really hurt these clubs

Perez: we’ll make our own game.

 

[USABlue]

And what about the poor SPL clubs who rely on Celtic/Rangers?

The whole thing of inviting the bigot brothers is shameless and no better than these 12 snake clubs.

Agreed. Just promote 6 from the championship (or 3 as usual and let the 3 relegated sides from this season stay)

 

[Alan Whittle]

I think it’s too late for that now. This is the second time this lot have threatened to break away in the last year. UEFA and the PL have to show some teeth now or they may as well just give up. This will always be hanging over them until someone makes a stand.

They are like a cheap crooner in a restaurant full of honeymooning couples. No matter how much you put in when the hat comes round they just won’t feck off.

 

[Jamiednm]

Would the Super League work on a long run?
I follow Bayern in UCL and in the last few years even I got bored because it's always the same 4/5 teams who reach the semifinals.

One year watching these 12 rich af teams play for a cup could be fun once in a while. Keep watching it year after year seems boring. How many Real-Barça or United-City do we need every season? After a couple of years it will get old.

Same, I haven't watched the UCL (or even paid any interest to any of the results) for years. It's just the same all the time - and that's with some level of meritocracy. A closed shop of the same teams playing each other season after season with no stakes would die a death.

 

[MikeH72]

It's got everything to do with it because that was the point I was making. Its not hard.

But this is a thread about the European Super League so what’s the relevance of bringing up the past success of Big Red?

If we had won the amount of trophies they had and we suddenly became part of a “big 6” breakaway to this nonsense, I’d stop supporting us immediately.

 

[allen]

I think it’s too late for that now. This is the second time this lot have threatened to break away in the last year. UEFA and the PL have to show some teeth now or they may as well just give up. This will always be hanging over them until someone makes a stand.

It depends how it's handled.

I think the best thing to do would be for the PL to vote in a lasting rule change that any club attempting to join a super league outside of the structures of the FA and UEFA would be immediately ejected from the Premier League, with that rule coming into affect on Friday or somesuch.

That has the result of killing this attempt dead while preventing any future recurrence.

 

[DanEFC92]

This is a potential legal minefield that might stop it from ever getting off the ground.

If the ESL isn't recognised by any existing governing body, then neither will coaching certificates, transfer fees and all manner of different agreements and conventions.

Non-ESL clubs should all formally agree to place transfer fee levies on non-FIFA accredited organisations that want to buy their players. A Premier League club wants to buy DCL? Ok, fair market value. An ESL club wants to sign him? Fair market value + £100m.

Surely they would have had the foresight to see that this would be the response. It's all a bit baffling. Doomed from start.

 

[Jim Hopper]

This is a potential legal minefield that might stop it from ever getting off the ground.

If the ESL isn't recognised by any existing governing body, then neither will coaching certificates, transfer fees and all manner of different agreements and conventions.

Non-ESL clubs should all formally agree to place transfer fee levies on non-FIFA accredited organisations that want to buy their players. A Premier League club wants to buy DCL? Ok, fair market value. An ESL club wants to sign him? Fair market value + £100m.

Looks like it’s mid flight mate, I think it’s too far ahead to be stopped now. Probably been discussing this between each other for many years.

I like the idea of that though, for them to get there and end up with major eggs on their face.

 

[Bullens Rd]

I'm hopeful the 14 remaining teams and the Premier League will ratify some changes that ultimately lead to 6 new teams added to the division over the next few seasons.

There needs to be action taken the likes of which we've never seen before. There can be no way back for them.

If and when they want to return, it should be as a brand new football club which applies to join the football league right at the very bottom (8th/9th division or however low it goes), and no guarantee that even the new version of their club gets accepted.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Meant to have been decorating today not got a tap done lol

 

[canuckblue]

Would the Super League work on a long run?
I follow Bayern in UCL and in the last few years even I got bored because it's always the same 4/5 teams who reach the semifinals.

One year watching these 12 rich af teams play for a cup could be fun once in a while. Keep watching it year after year seems boring. How many Real-Barça or United-City do we need every season? After a couple of years it will get old.

And just wait till the Shabite have to go another 30 years of winning a title. Actually, watching them finish bottom half of any league for years on end would have a certain delightful schadenfreude to it.

 

[Terrarian]

Just listening to Talksport, and similar to my thinking. Kick them out (it's a must after what they've done) and bring in Celtic/Rangers? This way TV Revenue would still remain high hopefully, which is what all this is about, and the change over is minimal. All clubs in the PL would win as they'd be getting the world class players who are quitting...

No to Celtic and Rangers ffs massive no.

 

[MikeH72]

This is a potential legal minefield that might stop it from ever getting off the ground.

If the ESL isn't recognised by any existing governing body, then neither will coaching certificates, transfer fees and all manner of different agreements and conventions.

Non-ESL clubs should all formally agree to place transfer fee levies on non-FIFA accredited organisations that want to buy their players. A Premier League club wants to buy DCL? Ok, fair market value. An ESL club wants to sign him? Fair market value + £100m.

I mean, it’s already off the ground. They have an actual president and have all left various associations they’ve been involved in.