Thanos. That's exactly it - this is a Thanos speech.
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Champions League revamp
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Thanos. That's exactly it - this is a Thanos speech.
Obvious now the motivation for this. Barca and Madrid and in real financial difficulty. United and Liverpool face massive losses as well.
Rather than sell their best players, pay less wages and run the risk of not getting into the Champions League, making their finances even worse, just create a new competition.
These clubs who for years have paid obscene transfer fees and wages, believing they are too big to go bust. And now it’s finally caught up with them and they want to move the goal posts and pull the ladders up against everyone else.
Disgrace.
Rather than sell their best players, pay less wages and run the risk of not getting into the Champions League, making their finances even worse, just create a new competition.
These clubs who for years have paid obscene transfer fees and wages, believing they are too big to go bust. And now it’s finally caught up with them and they want to move the goal posts and pull the ladders up against everyone else.
Disgrace.
Ha yeah OK.
They'll be binding dependent on about 100 things happening, one being domestic league retention.
It's preliminary as nothing has happened yet.
Daytripper
Player Valuation: £40m
Fair enough mate
Chimpy Glassman
Player Valuation: £30m
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Right - you're all confusing delusion with outright lies. He knows what he's saying is not true but it supports his case, so he'll say it anyway.
We're seeing the Donald Trump-ification of statements.
It's fking Baghdad Bob.
We're seeing the Donald Trump-ification of statements.
It's fking Baghdad Bob.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
So the disagreement was over the timing rather than the substance. Interesting.
They all are. They spent unsustainably, because they believed that the boom of the last few years would go on forever.
Then COVID hits and there's no way back. Sell out to JP's grand money making scheme, or face administration.
We're all on the outside looking in, shaking our heads like Charles Dance muttering, "Madness. Madness, and stupidity."
Which begs the question... why on earth have City gone for this?
peteblue
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Fantastic, there is no way any of the money grabbers can get out of this hole they have dug.....
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
I hope he's right - hopefully see's UEFA smash them over the coming days and hopefully push hard on the domestic leagues to ban them.
Wat Tyler
Player Valuation: £70m
Nobody can leave: interesting.
hostage situation.
Because if one club, say City said, “we have got this wrong, we are leaving.” Then the other 11 could possibly sue them for breach of contract? Or is it time for bed for me?
Chimpy Glassman
Player Valuation: £30m
Don't want to be left behind. Guaranteed income and no ffp.
toffee-L
Player Valuation: £20m
The financial desperation of these clubs is the crux of this. The super League has been a concept for well over a decade, but COVID has accelerated it I would estimate (based on nothing) by at least 5 years.
The word I keep seeing by these club owners is sustainability. They are now all aware that in the current models, with the risk factor determining that if they don't spend the X amount required to stay ahead of the competition, they'll miss out on champions league qualification, their revenues would shrink by a huge amount but their wage bill will stay exactly the same. The players salaries are of course the main reason why football is such an unprofitable business but these clubs have decided that forsaking their entire reason for being is an easier route to a stable balance sheet rather than gutting the contracts they themselves hand out, or working with the leagues they are already in to work out a salary structure.
This is the last roll of the dice for these clubs. They are on the brink.
The word I keep seeing by these club owners is sustainability. They are now all aware that in the current models, with the risk factor determining that if they don't spend the X amount required to stay ahead of the competition, they'll miss out on champions league qualification, their revenues would shrink by a huge amount but their wage bill will stay exactly the same. The players salaries are of course the main reason why football is such an unprofitable business but these clubs have decided that forsaking their entire reason for being is an easier route to a stable balance sheet rather than gutting the contracts they themselves hand out, or working with the leagues they are already in to work out a salary structure.
This is the last roll of the dice for these clubs. They are on the brink.
No, my point is if all these clubs are so cash-strapped (lol) as to need to do this to survive... why didn't City just say "oh dear, that's a shame isn't it, oh well, bye then" and let them drown?
It's City - Mansour et al could buy every Prem club twice over and still have billions in pocket change.
there will be all sorts of caveats here - Domestic league eligibility being one of the key ones.
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