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

[Goat]

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.

Cash rules everything around me.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

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?

I am sure I saw a thing where only the big teams do it with other big teams and the smaller games they just dont bother

 

[Papa Shango]

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.

At that point the PL would realize that they are not that important and will bend over backwards to accommodate anything as long as they get some of the "big six" viewership. You see that even now.

It would be quite amusing too as it was them who created the whole monstrosity.

 

[Nealroy]

The biggest change I would make in a new league is to limit squad sizes to something like 20 (except for academy players) but more importantly limit match day squads to 15 with only 3 subs allowed per game.

If that happened there might not even be the need for a salary cap or similar because players would be far less likely to move to a club where any game time at all was uncertain. The best players get shared out more evenly and the competition is more even.

 

[Taifi gorm]

Should be leaving with the scab6, (Villa too their next in the firing line). It's the other teams that are allowing them, the scab6, away with their excesses. We should have no loyalty to them, the FA or the Premier League.

 

[Preki]

I am sure I saw a thing where only the big teams do it with other big teams and the smaller games they just dont bother

I don't think so from TV and games I've been to.

 

[T LEAFE]

I will just continue to watch non league football and have a damn good Saturday. Its affordable, has total commitment and very enjoyable. And no primma Donna's.

 

[Streetender1878]

Would be good if all the leagues fa associations throughout europe refused to sell any breakaway clubs players from their leagues. Cut them off from grassroots football. Where would they get the players from to keep the league going. Mbappe will end up turning out for his 20th club aged 45.

 

[Swartzy]

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).

If they leave they lose that right.
Also more teams will probably be moved up the leagues to even it back out.
There wont be space for them to step back into the premier league.

They leave then surely there FA contracts go with them..

 

[Preki]

As I've posted elsewhere I think the plans will be similar to what already happens in European basketball. They have a Euroleague with 14 teams who are always in it and four who qualify from the top 4 leagues (not the UK). This preserves the illusion of fair qualification but in reality the financial implications are so great not many teams actually qualify and the bottom four normally re-enter.
There is some justification for this in Basketball as finances are much more precarious outside the top 5 or so leagues.
No surprise that Real Madrid and Barcelona are very much part of it all.

 

[Gallaeo]

Based off your first comment have you bothered to look into it? And then have you read my comment properly?

There are 3 leagues. Star, Gold and Blue. There is relegation from star into gold and from gold into blue and then relegation from blue.

To get into blue league, it is based off domestic league. So you could be relegated from blue, but win your domestic league and be in it anyway.

But a team in star or gold leagues, could avoid relegation from those leagues and finish 15th in PL, yet still have guaranteed European football. And they could do that every year.

If you are considered one of the top clubs at the very start, your chances of dropping out of Europe are incredibly slim, regardless of your domestic league position. It’s a European super league to keep the elite few at the top.

Yes. You could be relegated to league one and still be in the star league

 

[Dublin blue 75]

They don't want to leave the Prem, they want an additional 'super league'

Agreed. They want both. But no new ladder to their new party.

 

[jerseytoffee]

I would like a new setup where the only money the teams can spend on wages and transfers is the cash from the stadiums, tv deals and the finish place money.

Cut out the kit deals and the sponsorships. The league shouldn't be defined by who has the most Facebook followers and fans in America, Asia, Africa etc.

I think this is the only fair way the league can run, at the moment it's like giving a 20m start in a 100m sprint.

 

[Ferguson1878]

they’d probably try and cut the amount of teams in the premiership , the teams that won’t effect there amount of viewers they get in asia america etc , freeing up some space for this super league

 

[Shibbywiggles]

I live down south so I’m surrounded by plastic fans of United and Liverpool and some Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs and none of them go games. Not a single one of these plastic fans want this league, we know that actual fans who go (especially to aways) don’t want this league…
So who is this even for?

I know it’s supposed to be a ‘rich get richer’ thing but honestly, I think it would fail massively, much like that dumb nations league has no importance next to the World Cup and euros.