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Champions League revamp
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Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £70m
Hmmm, back in 1888 the "Founding Fathers" of football: Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion, and Wolverhampton Wanderers created the game as we know and love and it does have multiple leagues. 133 years later it is still going strong, a couple of entitled "Baby Clubs" aside who have been mismanaged to the point they face financial oblivion. It is not just god that knows about this, no, the other big guy Father Christmas is always watching too and we can be sure that his naughty list got a page or so longer yesterday.
Lol at a Tory government being anti capitalist.
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
yes, but there’s very little chance they’ll do that
I mean their response to this was to talk about a “root and branch” review of football, which a lot of people read as an attack on the six and a call for genuine positive reform.
The problem with that analysis is that it’s not football to blame for this, it’s business rules which allow firms to be bought via leveraging them and allows directors to act in ways that directly harm their own firms interests in order to make money for themselves. What the six are doing is what firms do; what we’ve seen them do repeatedly.
To ignore that and instead start looking at the FA, the other 86 league teams, the women’s game and so on seems bizarre. You could almost say that the government is doing what the six are arguing, that football is broken and someone needs to fix it.
I think this time there will be a regulator established to curtail those threats.
Their action is leading to action in Parliament. It could even lead to fans committees with actual power. I don’t think they reckoned on the response.
The government can’t let this happen. Too much damage if they leave it and loads of political capital if they prevent it.
The Premier League is the golden goose the government want to protect.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
AC Milan
Theres a £175mil loan that has been given to one club.
If it had been provided to ALL of those 6 clubs then I would agree. Call them all in.
But it hasnt.
Id call in the loan immediately.
It may seem unfair as you say, but take the £175mil from Spurs and let their billionaire owner pay for his 'SUPER CLUB' out of his own pocket.
Speaking to a colleague yesterday who is an administrator for the spirit of Shankly, he says that there are conversations talking about them starting AFC Liverpool. He even suggested that it could be the case that as we are moving that they might be able to play at Goodison! I had to point out that it was because we had allowed a similar situation when we left Anfield that we are all in this predicament now, so no thanks!
Disagree.
If Liverpool fans want to set up AFC Liverpool then i suggest we let them use our stadium and facilities.
More than happy for the club to show it is,
THE PEOPLES CLUB.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
Wear them as a badge of honour when you go back to rawk and whenever you watch your team getting whipped by real Madrid.
....the more I see the reaction to this: the more I hear the debate & see the detail, the more I don’t see this happening.
There might be fortunes at play, but I can see players & fans not wanting to be part of it. It could end up like the Chinese Super League with older, star names looking for one final pay day.
There might be fortunes at play, but I can see players & fans not wanting to be part of it. It could end up like the Chinese Super League with older, star names looking for one final pay day.
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Talk about binding contracts tell me there’s definitely unrest amongst these 12 clubs.
They cannot, cannot be allowed to back track.
Love your optimism, but there’s really no chance Everton gets to qualify for super league.
YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £50m
Let them all go and never come back
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