European super league

Falastur said:
The money clubs make from matchday has been overtaken by TV revenue and a super League would make so much more that matchday revenue would cease to be important. They would still fill half the capacity every game with daytrippers anyway, and frankly they would start acting like half full stadia was the way football had always been. Trust me, they aren't going to shed a tear for non-full stadia which, for clubs like ours, might mean £30m lost if it means that they can get an extra £300m annually in TV revenue.
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Yes and no. The product is only exciting because of the whole package which means passionate crowds and all the celebration and despair that goes with that passion.Fans from thousands of miles away see something in that,like our Aguero moment and want to feel a part of it. Take that away and you may as well be playing FIFA on a computer screen. Let them go ahead and see what happens.People in the end turn against greed and arrogance and they will come back cap in hand for fans to start attending matches again,only by the time they do it will be too late,the habit and loyalty will be long gone.
 
this has been on the cards for years and talked about for even longer. The CL has been constantly revamped to maintain hype/revenue and the current format is dying. The superleague is ineviatble, to miss out would be embarrassing for our owners, no matter how much we, as fans, detest it
 
this super league topic usually raises its head when they are about to change the format, all they say is we had to change the format otherwise we would of ended up with a super league, expect some dodgy amendment's in the near future.
 
A European league run alongside domestic leagues would be fine. It would have to have the same kind of qualification system though,then have 2 separate leagues drawn with 16/18 teams in each. The top 4 at the end of it go into the quarter finals,say the team that finishes 1st in one plays the team that finished 4th in the other. Those eight teams are the only ones gaurenteed a place in the next years competition. I'm sure it's flawed in some ways but it's better than wild cards and automatic qualification for certain teams.
 
paulchapo said:
Yes and no. The product is only exciting because of the whole package which means passionate crowds and all the celebration and despair that goes with that passion.Fans from thousands of miles away see something in that,like our Aguero moment and want to feel a part of it. Take that away and you may as well be playing FIFA on a computer screen. Let them go ahead and see what happens.People in the end turn against greed and arrogance and they will come back cap in hand for fans to start attending matches again,only by the time they do it will be too late,the habit and loyalty will be long gone.
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Or, alternatively, in acknowledgement of that fact, they reduce ticket prices to a level where it would be hard to resist going to live games.
 
dannybcity said:
I think a European League is an inevitability but no promotion or relegation would be a disaster.
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Not properly thought this through yet but what would happen if UK came out of Europe - would fans be pissing about having to apply for visas and stuff. Could get messy. Whatever happens I won't be participating. Give me domestic cups overtime...
 
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