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[MarsLlama]

We'll see about that.

There's no chance that United for example don't have enough fans based in the Madrid area to comfortably sell out the away end at the Bernabeau, let alone fans from the UK who want to travel.

 

[Fordyboy46]

New 36 team, league-based CL coming soon.

Sounds equally as shit ffs. It's well and truly fucked

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Madrid, Barcelona, Turin and Altrincham

Timperley to be exact

 

[goalmole]

I think this is a ploy by these 12 clubs for greater leverage with UEFA. UEFA will give them a better deal and these breakaway clubs will back down. I hope I’m right as this ESL is an abomination that could destroy football.

You're probably right but all 6 want throwing out otherwise they'll have succeeded in their blackmail to the cost of the smaller clubs. This is exactly the consequence of UEFA pandering to the G14 instead of facing them down and running football in a more equitable and fair manner. They have been encouraged to the point where they think they can hold a gun to the head of the football world for their own selfish, greedy ends. They have to be dealt with firmly, now, for the good of football as a whole into the future.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I grew up wanting us to win the first division and European cup. That then changed to PL and CL. Football still survived.

Wasn’t there a large consensus at the time that reform was needed? In this instance, it’s being pushed by a very small group of individuals.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Gary Neville with a great 18minute rant, people can point to ulterior motives but to me he's speaking as a fan and I can't disagree with any of it, he's fucking fuming.

I'm the same now, I'm getting more and more angrier with it.

He has a point.

But let's not pretend this **** hasnt made mad coin out of working for a company who have been complicit in "carving the game up" money wise for the past 30 years.

I didnt see him crying his ring up then the hypocritical ****.

 

[JASR]

The Americans are risking the soul of football do not involve a US State.

MaIne Road was renamed that in Victorian times after the state of Maine from the original name of Dog Kennel Lane.

Dog Kennel City!

City
Under
New
Tenants

Soccer
Club

 

[burning blue soul]

I wonder if @Ric will start a forum for Manchester City fans soon.

yes, do so. just dont put 'football club' in the title, cheers.

 

[DAGW]

Everyone who doesn’t own an elite football club knows the CL should be “did you win your domestic league title last year? Is your league in Europe? Yeah? Well in you come”. That’s a fairytale meritocracy that will never happen.

If these clubs want to ring fence themselves in, whilst leaving a window open, it should have been put forward (by UEFA in their revised CL as well) that:

X amount of teams from each league get in (we’ll say 4); those 4 clubs being the last 4 teams to have been crowned champions of their league. If one of the 4 teams wins the league again next year (likely), everyone gets to stay chummy chummy safe friends.

If another domestic team outside of the 4 dares to win the league title - they get a place in, whatever name they give to the filthy competition, and whichever team, with the longest gap since they last won the league title, loses their place.

Simple. Europe’s elite have it in their own power to make sure they all manage to stay in the club. If they aren’t good enough for long enough, then the weakest is cast aside. None of this “oh we finished in the top 4” - you have to actually have been a champion in the vaguely recent past. I know it’s very convenient - considering that City would get in.

It’s all bollocks anyway though - all that money means the rest of the league can’t compete and even hope to get in on merit.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Cheerleaders, popcorn, hotdogs, get to fuck.

 

[manimanc]

And its these cunts that have said they can't understand why teams get relegated.
Oh my fuckin god these yank bastard owners are stripping away the fundamentals of the game. They can't understand why there is relegation?
Please please I hope this doesn't go through, death of football is around the corner if these dogs get their way.

 

[mcfc_ms]

to be fair, no one knows the offside rules these days

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

There is nothing wrong with having an owner who can provide a huge amount of money to boost a club to the next level providing there is a completion. Again I repeat the issue is that we are basically saying we are entitled bellends and now we have got to this level we should close the door to other teams who dream of having what happened to us, happen to them.

Where did they think the end game was then? And as I say, they were ok with being invested in, heavily, enable us to dominate, but now we are being asked to be part of something that domination has made us into, it's bye bye City for them?
Can't have it both ways.

 

[aguero93:20]

They'd probably just recruit another 5 permanent clubs.

They'd have to imo. But that means their proposal as it stands is fucked from the minute go.

 

[Sir peace frog]

if uefa comes up with this idea instead of champions league it would have been great and wow cant wait for this to happen ? but its because its a break away format

its going to happen and little things will need changing like slots for other teams like title winners given a place each season and uefa will need to reform and back the super league or go bust. i can see uefa doing a u-turn and back the super league and the premier league will have to back it

if the players want it then its going to happen ? the premier league is safe its uefa and fifa will lose out
all its changing is midweek eoropean football champions league ? its just another renaming of the shit we are dished up called champions league

How will uefa back the super league, that would be like turkey's voting for Christmas, uefa will be out of business if the super league went ahead

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

This is probably the moment where we really find out about Guys like Pep, Klopp Arteta etc... and the players.

The only way to actually stop this madness is if the talent says no.

Klop's made big statements about money in the past, he's a rich man, does he need to ruin his reputation by going along with this, same goes for Pep.

I'd be full of admiration for any of these blokes that walks...

I'd like to think that there are players too that say no, but tbh I doubt it as they are typically thick as mince and just go after the money.

Klopp can currently be seen on German television doing adverts for Deutche Bank. Hardly speaks to his man of the people bullshit.

 

[andypandy]

I feel for clubs like Villa and Everton both having recently had new owners. What the hell must they be thinking now.

Every genuine football fan, no matter who they support lives for an "Aguero moment or a Leicester dream.

Sadly it all changed when the European Cup became the Champions League and this is just an evolution of that. Self protection with the greedy needs and wants of the few outweighing everyone else.

 

[aguero93:20]

Given how many posters have said they are done with football forever now, he can probably downsize the servers.

There's enough pets getting abandoned as people return to work without trying to find homes for a few hundred unwanted hamsters tbh.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Spirit of Shankly taking the moral high ground now on Sky News FFS!!
Blaming "oil money" and AMERICAN owners
Oh wait....

 

[Cobwebcat]

The big problem is the closed shop. Take that away and then there is maybe room to talk...but probably not.