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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
domalino said:
The top 6 already have a £200m a year revenue gap to the tier below. Basically 100% step up from 7th to 6th.

The big 6 getting further ahead isnt going to change much.
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i note your points and think you have many good ones, the sport is where we are and so on, this really cant be seen as quite the momentous tearing away of 'competitive' competition from likkle old domestic and european governing bodies as some would have it. But that doesnt stop it being a right old shit show.

i know you will continue to follow and watch City, as you've said, is this because you consider the ESL to be just another step of the commercialisation of the game that you cant do anything about so may as well watch? or so you have a more positive feel that this is something you can get behind happily? neither? just interested
 
SJT said:
TEXT FROM Preston North End Football Club

We have noted with disappointment the suggestion that a European Super League be formed as a means of concentrating yet more wealth into the hands of the few.

Those English clubs who feel that such an attempt at a wealth power grab, thereby undermining and potentially destroying the English football pyramid, should look themselves in the mirror.

If one takes the status of these so called big six over a longer time frame than just the formation of the Premier League it would take a wise person to guess at who these so called top six are. Over a sustained historic period, the suggestion that these clubs have been at the forefront of domestic trophy winning or domination doesn’t stand the test of scrutiny.


Performance on the field of play with promotion and relegation and qualification for European competition based on winning football matches is a fundamental part of European football history.

Having just experienced the devastating financial impact of COVID on football finances, English football urgently needs a fairer distribution of monies throughout the Leagues not a money power grab by the self-appointed few. There is already a huge disparity between the finances available to the top 20 clubs rather the rest of the football pyramid and many are in dire financial straits. This breakaway could destroy nearly 150 years of football history for short term riches for the few.

The underlying principle that these breakaway clubs appear to have completely disregarded is that football is most importantly about its supporters. This European Super League plan has totally ignored their voice which is unacceptable.

We are looking to Government, FIFA, UEFA, The FA, The Premier League and the EFL to ensure that this proposal is stopped in its tracks and the future of the English game as a whole is secured.

Preston North End Football Club
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
Correct.

Once the league migrates to 20 closed clubs playing 57 matches a year against each other, I would also expect extra time and penalty shoot-outs to eliminate draws, as in hockey.

Perhaps 10-15 minutes of "sudden death" extra time (maybe with a reduced number of players on the pitch, which is what hockey does on the ice), followed by penalty shootout to determine a victor. Both teams get a point for a FT draw, but the team "winning" the penalty shootout gets an extra point (2 instead of 3 for a FT victory).

Once again, folks -- all of this is the inevitable direction. It's going to be a very different sport with its own unique rules. Like it or lump it.
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If we get cheerleaders in tight spangled tops I’m in ;-)
 
I took the time to look around oversea forums. The danger is the other continents, especially Asia, don't really give a shit, many of them actually LIKE the SL idea. I guess in the US it's the same. They care more about the big teams than the rest, so there will be plenty of business cases for these bastards.
 
Mr Sausage has been given the contract for the Etihad,ring the bell on your seat and he pops up with a 12'' hot dog and a bucket of popcorn,its going to one hell of a party guys
 
Tommy_Catons_Perm said:
It might not matter how full the stadiums are. It's the television audience where the money is and it will be flogged to the highest bidder and shown all over the world.

We've had a full season of fake crowd noise already. And fake VAR. Next will be fake holographic fans. (Consumers). Virtual reality. Fake football.
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True but don't think anyone in their right mind thinks the current version of televised football is better than it was. And a TV audience/money does depend on the idea that its nearly as good as being there. Imagine full blanket of Glastonbury with just handfuls of people dotted about the place, or a derby game with no one there. The only reason its happening now is because there is a pandemic and its literally that or stop the sport entirely. TV viewership is down due to blanket coverage of games. Any novelty value of a Super League would wear off within a couple of years in terms of viewers watching every available game.
 
Toulousain85 said:
I took the time to look around oversea forums. The danger is the other continents, especially Asia, don't really give a shit, many of them actually LIKE the SL idea. I guess in the US it's the same. They care more about the big teams than the rest, so there will be plenty of business cases for these bastards.
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I assure you -- among us "legacy fans" in the US it is NOT the same.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
I’d keep an eye on Bayern.

those German rags are up to something make no mistake
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They will 100 per cent sign up but with the need to win a members vote - they will wait until everyone else has signed up and then ask fans do you want to be playing the European elite or Augsburg or Mainz next weekend. Bayern will 100 per cent sign up - they long since outgrew the Bundesliga.
 
It's done now isn't it ? Contract signed so that is that. I'd like to learn more about it before I pass judgement too. Seen so many fans trashing their own clubs today because sky and shills like Gary Neville are frothing at the mouth over it. Everyone needs to calm down a bit
 
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