Champions League revamp

[Dario Terracotta]

Spineless, this will just encourage the rat pack to do this again after that slap on the wrist. Is it next year or the one after that when the disgusting co - efficient fiddle gets brought in, the one where they qualify no matter what happens, the get out of jail free card ? They could have at least closed that avenue, Would love Everton to rip apart FFP next transfer window and give them a taste of their own medicine, but you just know all football authorities would suddenly find their spine again, for the " good of football".

The silence around this from the media is absolutely deafening/disgusting.

 

[mahermi1]

The silence around this from the media is absolutely deafening/disgusting.

As someone on here said earlier, Sheffield Wednesday had a points deduction, don't know what for admittedly, but where was the outcry about their fans ? They've now gone down because of it. It seems the only clubs that matter to Sky/ BT etc are their beloved big six.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

If only that tosser Johnson hadn't gotten involved they could have been off by now in their supa dupa league.

Hope they still leave down the line just let us sort BMD out first.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

As someone on here said earlier, Sheffield Wednesday had a points deduction, don't know what for admittedly, but where was the outcry about their fans ? They've now gone down because of it. It seems the only clubs that matter to Sky/ BT etc are their beloved big six.

What about the teams last season who lost their status due to points per game due to Covid Tranmere being one?, they were determined to give Big Red their Covid cup, sod the rest of football.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I hope they follow through on this threat

 

[Goat]

I hope they follow through on this threat

Quite interested to see who blinks first on this.

 

[Seathestars]

I’m looking forward to the near future when this lot eventually do break away, NEA, football will not only survive without them, it will thrive.
Football needs to return to the fans, it needs to return to the working man, and he should be able to afford to bring his kids, there is zero chance of that happening with these greedy maggots.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I’m looking forward to the near future when this lot eventually do break away, NEA, football will not only survive without them, it will thrive.
Football needs to return to the fans, it needs to return to the working man, and he should be able to afford to bring his kids, there is zero chance of that happening with these greedy maggots.

Sadly we had the other 14 fanbases crying "please stop them leaving Boris pleaseeeeeee"

Didnt get it me best thing that could happen to us/football.

 

[Goat]

I’m looking forward to the near future when this lot eventually do break away, NEA, football will not only survive without them, it will thrive.
Football needs to return to the fans, it needs to return to the working man, and he should be able to afford to bring his kids, there is zero chance of that happening with these greedy maggots.

Sadly we had the other 14 fanbases crying "please stop them leaving Boris pleaseeeeeee"

Didnt get it me best thing that could happen to us/football.

I also long for the day Everton play in sub-standard leagues and fight for Titles that don't matter much anymore.

/s

 

[allen]

Quite interested to see who blinks first on this.

The Italian Football Federation have been careful to give themselves a good length slack here - and also put the ball firmly in Juve’s court.

The start of next season is an age away in Super League years (where 48 hours is a lifetime), so that’s plenty of time for Juventus’ fans to pressure their club until they do the right thing. It’ll also be very hard for Juventus to rally their support to blame the Federation for their expulsion, given the amount of time they’ve been given to change course.

Another added benefit of this is to show that a midweek Super League means no domestic league for the teams that take part. Ideally we’ll hear something formally from the FA along these lines, too.

I think this will turn out to be a good move by the Italians. I reckon the Super League will just be the La Liga Cartel soon enough.

 

[Martin Alvito]

I hope they follow through on this threat

It would destroy Juve, so they shouldn't have to follow through.

I'm reading that as Mom saying, "In case you boys in the clown car forgot, the league has a due date in the television contract for fixtures. I need to know who's playing in Europe, so sort this or I will."

 

[hallamblue]

Sadly we had the other 14 fanbases crying "please stop them leaving Boris pleaseeeeeee"

Didnt get it me best thing that could happen to us/football.

Because they weren't leaving the domestic leagues. They thought they could join the new league on Champions League nights and carry on playing in the Premier League.

 

[stipe]

So whats the deal here? I mean Super League with 3 clubs obviously not gonna happen, so why Juve, Barca and Real still persists here, must be some penalty or something?

 

[Brisan123]

The devil, as always, is in the details.

At the end of the day, any commitment is only as good as the cost of the penalty for breaking it and the belief that said penalty will actually apply. If the clubs believe that they will make enough money to justify paying the penalty, or if they believe that the penalty will not in actuality apply, they will likely do as they please.

Note that by "penalty" I don't exclusively mean whatever they commit to the league, as fan reaction and the implications for ticket sales, merchandise sales and lost viewing due to bad press are part of the penalty. So is any loss of personal prestige and social standing the owners might suffer.

It has come up time and again in these discussions that EU competition law is germane to these discussions. There is belief among some posters that those laws prohibit the domestic leagues, UEFA and FIFA from passing regulations whose purpose is to ensure that they are the only game in town.

That's likely to create a persistent credibility problem. There's the cultural heritage argument for why the clubs should effectively be compelled to be part of the existing system and pyramid. Against that is the financial argument of Perez and others that revenue is being foregone as things stand, that UEFA and the domestic leagues are not incentivized to realize that revenue, and that the cultural heritage argument is meaningless if the system collapses into chaos due to the financial pressures of the last year.

Like most of you, I tend to find the argument of Perez and his ilk disingenuous at best. It's not clear that the courts will agree, or that they will agree tomorrow even if they do agree today. One could argue that the sanest course for the big clubs is actually to drive the clubs to the brink of financial disaster, blame the competitive pressures of the present system, and ask the courts for relief in the form of the breakaway league and its guaranteed revenues...if that is not in actual fact precisely what they tried to do already.

So in a sense, I'm not really sure what the leagues can do, other than work to rebuild trust between them and the recalcitrant clubs while working to aggravate their distrust of Perez and the co-conspirators. Punishment for its own sake probably doesn't further that. Finding ways to grow the pie, enhance the competitiveness of the league and enhance the competitiveness of the English clubs in UEFA's competitions does.

From the perspective of the Prem, the objective should be to be so dominant in Europe, and yet so competitive within their own league, that Europe is a sideshow and the league games are where it's at. The trouble is figuring out how to get there when other major clubs have been permitted to vacuum up most of the available revenue within their uncompetitive, or barely competitive leagues.

Brexit means EU laws no longer apply in England

 

[roydo]

So whats the deal here? I mean Super League with 3 clubs obviously not gonna happen, so why Juve, Barca and Real still persists here, must be some penalty or something?

On the hook to JP Morgan?