Barcelona and Madrid can all do one to be perfectly honest. If they want better competition in their league, maybe they should think about being less greedy and think more about fair distribution of money.sam-caddick said:Maldeika said:I do not think that will happen. It will cheapen the interest in any national league if the big teams are out of it. And the bigger clubs already have their European Competiton. Like this you have both - the regional and country aspect with the EPL, La Liga and the Bundesliga - and you have your European Competition. What I think might happen is that some minor leagues might go together with others - like the Belgian and the Netherland League or maybe Portugal and Spain. But I do not think that the EPL or the Bundesliga clubs are interested into an Europa Super League.
I don't know mate, Barcelona and Madrid by some accounts want to be out of La Liga and in a competititon where there is a better balance of competition, but if they actually distrubuted their TV money more equally then they might have a more competative league, but let's face it, they are not going to give that money up, they want more.
The same applies to PSG and Monaco, it will get to a point when PSG and Monaco become too good and too rich for the French Ligue 1.
There is hardly any money in Italy anymore, so if Juve for example could match up finances with the other big boys they would, but they would have to join a Super League to make it happen.
Bayern would probably be in favour of it as well.
This league will happen mate, the money and even more increased brand exposure is what top business's desire, a Super League makes that reality.
Sorry state of affairs for the game, but money rules all.
However, the European Club Association, which represents 214 leading European clubs from across the continent, said that no such plans had been discussed.
"The European Club Association (ECA) has taken note of comments made today (Thursday) regarding the alleged creation of a European Super League in 2018," it said in a statement.
"ECA underlines that such an idea was never discussed within the association and never figured on any meeting agenda. ECA is very happy with the current European club competitions."
ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: "Our European Super League is the UEFA Champions League! We are very happy with the current competitions and our extremely fruitful collaboration with UEFA.
"We will continue to work together with UEFA, and this beyond 2018."
It's not going to happen anyway this crap comes up every few years normally something to do with a new deal or trying to get one, and in the remote chance that it did ever happen City would be invited as would spudsBenarbia_is_god said:Football will die if this happened but I can see it happening. I would not support a City team in European super league. The reason the Champions league is so popular is the fact that the big teams from different countries rarely play eachother, in fact it's the only competition where they can play eachother, it's the Christmas day every day analogy. People would soon tire after the 15th weekend of 10 blockbuster fixtures. I doubt City would be invited anyway, they wouldn't want two teams from Manchester as well as London and they wouldn't want 5 teams as I am sure the dippers will be invited in. It would be:
United
Liverpool
Chelsea
Arsenal
Barcelona
Real
Valencia
Dortmund
Bayern
Schalke
PSG
Monaco
Juve
Ac Milan
Napoli
Porto
Benfica
Zenit
Shakhter
Galatasaray
They will try and set up regional teams and then try and get everyone in that area to back that team and forget about their own clubs, much like they have done on a much smaller scale with Welsh rugby.
sam-caddick said:The same applies to PSG and Monaco, it will get to a point when PSG and Monaco become too good and too rich for the French Ligue 1.
There is hardly any money in Italy anymore, so if Juve for example could match up finances with the other big boys they would, but they would have to join a Super League to make it happen.
Bayern would probably be in favour of it as well.
This league will happen mate, the money and even more increased brand exposure is what top business's desire, a Super League makes that reality.
Sorry state of affairs for the game, but money rules all.
sam-caddick said:Problem is though mate, if Madrid, Barca, Galatasaray, PSG, Monaco, Juve, Milan, Porto, Benfica to name a few all decide they want a league and go ahead with it then the Bundesliga teams and the Premiership teams will be forced to join because they will be left behind financially.
If there is a super league with no English or German teams involved there will be no European ties as the CL will be scrapped, they would have to create an England v Germany competition or something.
The problem is those clubs I stated in my opinion would all definitely go ahead and agree with a super league, their respective leagues are nowhere near as balanced and stable as the Premiership or Bundesliga so therefore will all want to break away for increased competition and a nice pay day.
I do think it will the English and Germans being at the forefront in going against this league though.
With the way the leagues are developing financially, I highly doubt that a Super League without English and German teams would attract comparable money to the Champions League. Also it'll most likely lead to the participating clubs being excluded from UEFA/FIFA and the players at those clubs will become not eligible for the world cup and euros. The top clubs need the players to be superstars and perform at the most important competitions in the world to make a lot of money on the back of their team.sam-caddick said:If there is a super league with no English or German teams involved there will be no European ties as the CL will be scrapped, they would have to create an England v Germany competition or something.
The problem is those clubs I stated in my opinion would all definitely go ahead and agree with a super league, their respective leagues are nowhere near as balanced and stable as the Premiership or Bundesliga so therefore will all want to break away for increased competition and a nice pay day.
I do think it will the English and Germans being at the forefront in going against this league though.