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[Thaksinssoldier]

.but what do I know?
I would say,..about being a long time supporter who has followed his/her team through thick and thin and thinner... not a fuckin lot !

I’ve been a city fan 30 year so wind your neck in.

 

[Cobwebcat]

So what happens to the rest of the PL teams? No more Merseyside Derbies?

Depends if Liverpool are chucked out if it goes ahead

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

So what happens to the rest of the PL teams? No more Merseyside Derbies?

Depends if Tranmere Rovers get in the PL...although technically they’re in the Wirral

 

[Metal Biker]

The teams are not quitting the PL

They don't have a choice if the PL decides to ditch them.

 

[Utter bobbins]

Eventually we would be.

As I wrote before, it’s easier for an American used to national closed professional sports leagues to see the model here, because American owners are precisely the ones fucking football up with this.

Yeah I agree thats Why I don’t think it will happen UEFA will need to get their shit together

 

[MeatHunterrr]

So what happens to the rest of the PL teams? No more Merseyside Derbies?

Merseyside derby but with Liverpool generating additional £315 million each year... Good luck! Even getting a draw will feel like winning the CL!

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Yeah I get that but some on here seem to think we are quitting the PL to play in it

UEFA, FA and Premier League have all come out and said we would be banned from playing in any other competitions if we played in the super league.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Get ready for 6x 15 minutes periods played over 3.5 hours.
We will be with you for the second period right after a word from our sponsors.
Smells of yanks big time.

 

[Utter bobbins]

They don't have a choice if the PL decides to ditch them.

Do you think that will happen

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

No way will they let anyone in for free! They’ll be charging astronomical prices. Have you seen the ticket prices for their shit American sports that take three times as long as they should because of all the ad breaks?

They will want fans to spend as much on food and merch as possible.

I was being tongue-in-cheek. The point I am making is that digital technology means clubs like LFC and MUFC will be able to control their own broadcasting and sell digital season tickets to their followers across the world. Each match would be like pay-per-view boxing on a bigger scale.
United could probably get a digital attendance for their matches into the millions instead of just 75,000 in the stadium. The broadcasters like SKY and BT would be cut out of the loop. The technology for this already exists.
If and when this happens then local fans will be even less important than they are now but, as we have seen with Covid, televised events are nothing without crowds. The gate money will be peanuts to these greedy clubs compared to their other revenues.
I am not saying I am happy with all this happening but I think this is the direction football is going in. These superclubs want to keep ALL the broadcast money for themselves giving nothing to BT, SKY, Bein, etc and nothing to UEFA/Fifa.

 

[Utter bobbins]

UEFA, FA and Premier League have all come out and said we would be banned from playing in any other competitions if we played in the super league.

Said being the word

 

[Deleted member 77198]

What's the issue much rather watch us every week again Madrid barca psg .

Than the bore fest that most park the games are Burnley Sheffield Fulham etc etc

I much prefer domestic football, by a mile, not even a contest.

 

[abu13]

One thing I have come to learn over the years is that I trust Kaldoon and he seems to be a man of integrity.

I am sure he won't be putting us in a position where we have nailed our colours to the mast, interesting that it was Martin Samuel who broke this with his history of openness around City as a club.

One other thing is really pissing me off, why is it that when Sky are using their banner regarding this breakaway league they are using our shirt on the graphics when it hasn't even been confirmed we are part of it.

 

[hilts]

Yeah I get that but some on here seem to think we are quitting the PL to play in it

If we sign up hopefully us and the other five would be kicked out.

 

[Metal Biker]

Do you think that will happen

Absolutely

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

And as a result, we should have our entire honours scrubbed from history, that's my question?

It's just hyperbole.

Football is already a closed shop, as others have stated, Uefa suddenly coming over all morally offended is just laughable.

They were complicit with AC Milan and other clubs to introduce FFP, ensuring a closed shop, barring the occasionally romantic anomoly.

Prior to 2007 we would not have been a part of the conversation, but now we are, they pulled the drawbridge up not long after.

The Premier League has a multitude of clubs who are happy to just exist and take the guaranteed £100m pot each year, without any real ambition beyond that.

Vested interests across the board.

It’s useless mate. It’s a game of chess and a lot of posters today aren’t seeing that.

 

[paulchapo]

I think you need to go back and read the posts of a lot of folks. It is a very clear step in the direction of binning off the domestic leagues and forming a Pan-European Super League, regardless of how such a competition would work in its first incarnation.

Spot on, the other football associations can threaten what they want, if the clubs are creating s new competition they're leaving anyway. Can they due them? Surely a club can quit if they want?

 

[willipp]

Yeah I agree thats Why I don’t think it will happen UEFA will need to get their shit together

Even if it doesn’t happen, it’s going to force uefa into revamping the CL into exactly what those yank owners, Barca and real we’re all pushing for and effectively a closed shop CL.

 

[mac]

Next year I will be mainly supporting.....Elche : (

I'm with you. Can walk to the ground, load of beer and tapas and all them palm trees .

 

[Metal Biker]

Said being the word

If it were just the Premier League stating it I wouldn't be that concerned. For ALL respective footballing organisations to agree to the same statement is kind of a game changer in who to believe on this.