New league. What does it look like? Ideas, please.

[Fralahna]

Yep, there will be little to no away fans either once the novelty of a 36 hour round trip dies on its arse

Imagine the Etihad... but emptier.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Imagine the Etihad... but emptier.

Will be like Italy, about 6 away fans

 

[Fralahna]

It will fall flat on its arse, and would be a funny site seeing them trying to reintegrate in to there home leagues again, starting at the bottom of the cycle, eg National league. ( more like Sunday league ) with ffp now being enforced.

The clubs would go out of business just from the wage bill or they would have to just give the players away and literally start from scratch. ( with no great academy's to help them out.

They wouldn't start at the bottom though. They'd come back into the prem and the prem will give then a fine (because they don't want to penalise the fans).

 

[chrismpw]

I'd love the league to just collapse mid season- the sky brands just bugger off, become a comic and do their tiresome harlem globetrotter stuff in Saudi, and the interesting teams left behind do anything, anything would be better than the current 54it show.

3pm Saturday kickoff. Wage cap. 20% of your squad from within 100 miles. Jumpers for goalposts ... I really don't care.

It would take something that mad for my interest to return to a game I once lived and breathed, coached and played.

 

[willo30]

It would become a joke league.

I didnt sign up to support a team in a joke league.

But its never happening thankfully.

Issue then is the CL would become a joke competition without some of the elite.

Would the 6 hang around playing in a Europa League type competition.

I can see them thinking long and hard over this.

 

[Goat]

Issue then is the CL would become a joke competition without some of the elite.

Would the 6 hang around playing in a Europa League type competition.

I can see them thinking long and hard over this.

They would be kicked out The English league and any and all UEFA comps.

 

[willo30]

They would be kicked out The English league and any and all UEFA comps.

We know deep down they won't be thrown out of the PL. The league is too spineless.

They are replacing the UEFA comps with this anyway so wouldn't be bothered.

 

[Toffeepot]

How many people frothing at the mouth at the Super League have even bothered to look at what it is? It's basically a glorified Champions League that f's over UEFA, not the FA.

It's nothing like the champions league
They won't need to qualify

 

[Fralahna]

I've only been able to find 4 news outlets reporting on this. None of them worth the paper they're printed on. Wouldn't give much notice to this at the moment.

 

[Toffeepot]

We know deep down they won't be thrown out of the PL. The league is too spineless.

They are replacing the UEFA comps with this anyway so wouldn't be bothered.

They might be
The reason they get such special treatment which is unwarranted and sickening already is because they are supposedly a draw to the league. That would no longer be the case when they are playing their B-teams in the PL

The domestic leagues are what made these clubs global names and they are more dependent on it than they realise.
I would love it if they left (outright) and came crawling back in a few years when people are bored to tears with the same teams playing each other all the time in an unsporting, no-relegation, globetrotter style league.

The Super League seems nothing more than a bigger version of those meaningless pre-season tournaments. I wouldn't even turn my head if it was on next to me.

 

[willo30]

They might be
The reason they get such special treatment which is unwarranted and sickening already is because they are supposedly a draw to the league. That would no longer be the case when they are playing their B-teams in the PL

The domestic leagues are what made these clubs global names and they are more dependent on it than they realise.
I would love it if they left (outright) and came crawling back in a few years when people are bored to tears with the same teams playing each other all the time in an unsporting, no-relegation, globetrotter style league.

The Super League seems nothing more than a bigger version of those meaningless pre-season tournaments. I wouldn't even turn my head if it was on next to me.

Oh I'd love them to be kicked out never to be seen again but we just know the PL will bend over backwards to keep them.

Only thing that could happen is that the other 14 refuse to play them due to it not being a fair playing field (even more so than now).

 

[canuckblue]

They could easily do an A and B team thing.

Send the "big clubs" star players into the A team for the Super Duper Mega league and have the players who usually play in the League Cup etc in the B team for the boring old regular league.

And the grimmest part of all of it is the league table probably wouldn't look much different to what it does now.

But the PL wouldn't like that as it would make a mockery of the league. And I can't see the TV sponsors being happy with showing City reserves against Spurs youth at the business end of the season.
So basically, a 20-team Super League involving the scab six should just be another level atop the pyramid, with them out of domestic football and the PL and EFL restructuring accordingly. Scab six teams would only return to the PL upon relegation from the SL, with the PL champion moving up. Scrap the Gold and Blue leagues and keep the CL and Europa.

 

[Preki]

Will be like Italy, about 6 away fans

I'm not having that. They travel in big numbers. Often relative to the size of the towns. It's also much bigger and takes longer to get anywhere.
Turin to Sardinia?

 

[tellmema]

Something like this.....

 

[roy vernon]

It would become a joke league.

I didnt sign up to support a team in a joke league.

But its never happening thankfully.

Goat, you're already supporting a team in a joke league, just have a look at how the premier league make the game less watchable and interesting year after year.