Champions League revamp

[Blueclouds]

Rumours coming out that city was in to exploit the 11 clubs and never part of it.

 

[Bluestar]

Why do we care about what the Glazers do, or don't do?.

I care if the punishment causes as much damage to our league as the crime. That would be an utterly futile endeavour.
To bring about the consequence we are trying to stop.

 

[Terrarian]

How can you take a man seriously when he says things like how can the small clubs make money and big clubs lose money. Hint mate, smaller clubs don't spend £80m-£150m on fees and pay people north of £250k. I may not be the brightest man alive but I can see a problem here and it isn't the smaller clubs making money.

 

[Jim Hopper]

Perez saying they received a substantial offer from UEFA is sickening.

 

[Bluestar]

Perez saying they received a substantial offer from UEFA is sickening.

It is.

 

[Terrarian]

City about to walk the league they were quite happy to crap on. Unreal.

 

[Jim Hopper]

How can you take a man seriously when he says things like how can the small clubs make money and big clubs lose money. Hint mate, smaller clubs don't spend £80m-£150m on fees and pay people north of £250k. I may not be the brightest man alive but I can see a problem here and it isn't the smaller clubs making money.

Was about to post this.

If these clubs created a policy where they keep wages at a minimum and don’t over spend on overhyped garbage they wouldn’t be in the mess they are.

He’s basically asking for handouts so they can keep doing the same thing.

The man is psychopathic. He’s no different to an insane country dictator.

The fact UEFA are pandering to him is absolutely disgusting.

 

[Terrarian]

Was about to post this.

If these clubs created a policy where they keep wages at a minimum and don’t over spend on overhyped garbage they wouldn’t be in the mess they are.

He’s basically asking for handouts so they can keep doing the same thing.

The man is psychopathic.

It's certainly narcissistic, don't see how they cannot understand that they are the problem not everyone else.

 

[Bluestar]

Was about to post this.

If these clubs created a policy where they keep wages at a minimum and don’t over spend on overhyped garbage they wouldn’t be in the mess they are.

He’s basically asking for handouts so they can keep doing the same thing.

The man is psychopathic.

It’s about keeping Real on top of the pile.

 

[Jim Hopper]

The rest of the clubs in Europe from every other league need to get together and look at forming their own organisations. Let the 12 go alone. Let them spend them selves into self destruction. Getting handouts to bail them out from UEFA is disgusting.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Even more madness from Perez

He is ignoring or is attempting to hide a number of glaringly obvious facts.

He identifies that:

In all companies wages have been lowered. We have all made a sacrifice and football needs a sacrifice. If we think that nothing has happened, then we will be in for a day of disappointment.

I think that most could empathise with this. Wages have been stagnant for many for a long time and the pandemic has thrown further financial challenges and worries for most. The decline in youth employment is a factor across Europe, which is important when considering the points below.

He suggests that they have findings that identify that:

Young people no longer watch football. 40% of 16-24-year-olds do NOT watch football.

His solution to this being:

We have to produce competitive matches. It is a way for young people to watch the games on their mobile phones. The better the matches, the more TV companies will pay.

We all have to live with the reality that the more TV companies pay the more that fans (legacy/future) have to pay, including those 16-24-year-olds who might be in the age range that is more inclined to watch illegal streams because they cannot afford to watch games otherwise – or see more value in spending their money on other things.

The comment about producing more competitive matches through a model that removes true competition is laughable. This bit too.

The only way to have income is to have a competition that generates a lot of income, but prevents the rich from getting richer.

In Spain, there is Lionel Messi £92m a year with a further £25m from endorsements. In Italy Cristiano Ronaldo £51million with a further £34m from endorsements. In France Neymar £57 and Mbappe £30. In the UK Gareth Bale £31,200,000, Kevin De Bruyne £20,020,000, and Salah £17.5million with a suggested £9.5m from endorsements. The billionaire owners behind the ESL didn't hoard their wealth through charitable stakeholder endeavours.

The idea is exactly to make the rich richer and to make the likes of 16-24-year-olds pay for it.

I've not caught any of his interviews yet but hope that he is getting challenged on this spin.

 

[Jeff Jones]

As a non-plazzy I can say the reason I like European football, aside from the sport itself, is because there is a pyramid and anyone can come up through the ranks or sink like a stone.

Well, except for when Norwich and Watford get promoted. Then I kind of hate it.

And Sheffield Wednesday go down.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Them going bust is our problem.

The strength of the league is the collective package. If those clubs aren’t in it, the worldwide value declines and our revenue falls.

also, we haven’t heard what the penalty is yet for leaving ESL. It may ruin some of them anyway. Spurs are teetering I think.

That is why the PL is thinking long and hard about punishment. If the revenue falls, it will hit the whole football league. Lower league clubs will be damaged.

I hate what they did, but they are needed.

Short term it might be an issue but new powers would rise. It is a fact of life.

 

[Leylo]

Perez is a rat hope real Madrid go completely bust ,laugh my socks off .

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

You sense this is close from the desperation in Perez’s ramblings.

He actually wants us to feel sorry for the ‘rich’ clubs spending way more than the rest, and way more than they had.

Barca is so intertwined with the Barcelona tourist industry I would be surprised if the government there would never let this happen.