Sinski
Player Valuation: £6m
Yep. Always a threat of a breakaway league of some description and then they come back to the table and get increased power. Will probably happen again.
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Champions League revamp
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Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
Ban these men, and their issue, from FIFA, UEFA and all sanctioned competitions in perpetuity. You don't have to punish their fans forever...but these men can never have anything to do with the game ever again. In the case of the Spanish clubs, force them to clean house and call elections if they want back in.
They are this century's Black Sox, and should be treated as such. To be honest, making them take the haircut on what is effectively a forced sale, or banning them in perpetuity from any influence on club politics, is the cruelest thing you can do to them. It's poetic justice.
Your other ideas regarding UEFA competition are good ones. It should be fairly easy to get the remaining players to level the playing field for a fresh start.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £70m
Nicky Campbell is good on 5 live just now.
I think the government will have a part in this.
UK plc needs to protect its football industry.
It’s been signed, so I think it has to be stopped with legislation.
This, I think, is where we’re headed.
Legislation, if it’s carefully worded enough, makes it possible to prevent this kind of breakaway league ever being legal.
hirons11
Player Valuation: £10m
They probably assumed a Tory government would just side with the rich business men, forgetting what a great vote winner it would be for any ruling government who could stop this. Boris is definitely one for vote grabbing and populist policies (only really helps put rich people if friends, colleagues or relatives).
We should let these clubs go but never let them back in. Nature abhors a vacuum and the fan interest (and TV revenue) would just switch to the remaining clubs in the league. These clubs are just like the spoilt brats when i was a kid. back then not everyone owned a football (cue images of Four Yorkshire men sketch). Sometimes it was the spoilt brat who did and he would demand that the rules of any footy played would favour him or he would go home and take his ball with him. The premier League should do what we did then.........tell him to bugger off, we'll go and play British Bulldog!
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
TBF the government have probably only got involved to try and score points.
One of the very few advantages to having a shameless popularity-chasing PM is that occasionally popular opinion gets it right.
It doesn’t matter if the motivation is to win votes if they are able to deliver what we want here.
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Parish said last night they need to understand what is it they REALLY want. If it's something completely impossible to change or amend and that they're dead set on doing it then there's little options but to punish them.
NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
Let's be honest it's Boris, it will be how he can shoe horn his and cronies snouts into the trough. Smell the compromise coming...
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
I believe he means that he expects a lot of empty rhetoric out of the government with little in the way of concrete action to back it up.
I suppose the question is whether or not Johnson is capable of playing this hand to his benefit, or if he's merely an empty suit. There's ample evidence for both sides on that.
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