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Europe's "Major" teams want automatic Champions League qualification
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bluethrunthru
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I wonder whether this relates to the fact that the G14 teams are struggling to get in fairly? Of the 18 teams that made up that elitist cabal, United, Liverpool, AC Milan, Inter, Valencia, Marseille, Lyon and Leverkuson currently stand to miss out on their cash.
Nail ... head. End of competition. I wish them luck - hope its straight on to DAVE to be shown after the next David Haye fight
bluethrunthru
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Rummenigge "A super league outside of the Champions League is being born. It will either be led by Uefa or by a separate entity, because there is a limit to how much money can be made."
So he even admits it's purely about making money. You'd like to think the fans wouldn't back this at all but sadly they would, particularly the fans of the clubs struggling to make the champions league every year. Liverpool fans for example would lap it up.
If there's any restructuring of the champions league to be made then it should be to make the champions league literal. I.e only the champions of each league gains entry, i recognise they'd be a lot of big clubs missing out particularly the spanish and English but it would also solve the problem of the Europa league being pointless.
Is that the Liverpool fans that won't fork out £77 for SOME tickets ( not all ) ? They'd lap up an invitation until they realise its £200 per match day minimum entry fee ha ha ha
if there is ever a super league it will be the death of football....
can see them giving each of the top leagues a wild card entry to the champs league.
with utd/Liverpool arguing who has the greatest history and is deserving of the wild card.
can see them giving each of the top leagues a wild card entry to the champs league.
with utd/Liverpool arguing who has the greatest history and is deserving of the wild card.
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It's business versus sporting competition.
The commercial guys think it's insane that a mega money making brand like Utd, or Liverpool for that matter, should be denied a huge revenue earning opportunity, both for themselves and UEFA, simply because they are too poor on the field to qualify for the competition, to them it makes no sense at all.
Millions of consumers want to see Utd and Liverpool, why deny them? Think of all that money going begging!
The commercial guys think it's insane that a mega money making brand like Utd, or Liverpool for that matter, should be denied a huge revenue earning opportunity, both for themselves and UEFA, simply because they are too poor on the field to qualify for the competition, to them it makes no sense at all.
Millions of consumers want to see Utd and Liverpool, why deny them? Think of all that money going begging!
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gordondaviesmoustache
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What's so comical about this, is that it's the commercial ambition of clubs like united and Liverpool that created the landscape for the likes of Mansour and Ambramovic to enter English football and take a piece of the pie for themselves - and do it to much greater effect.
I simply cannot see any such suggestion being legally watertight through the prism of EU law. An arguable case could be made for FFP, flawed as it was. This suggestion descends into the realms of the farcical - and will sink before it's started crawling.
I simply cannot see any such suggestion being legally watertight through the prism of EU law. An arguable case could be made for FFP, flawed as it was. This suggestion descends into the realms of the farcical - and will sink before it's started crawling.
I really you are right but we never thought FFP stood a chance yet they got that pushed through in some form. This would kill football stone dead for me.What's so comical about this, is that it's the commercial ambition of clubs like united and Liverpool that created the landscape for the likes of Mansour and Ambramovic to enter English football and take a piece of the pie for themselves - and do it to much greater effect.
I simply cannot see any such suggestion being legally watertight through the prism of EU law. An arguable case could be made for FFP, flawed as it was. This suggestion descends into the realms of the farcical - and will sink before it's started crawling.
Give them all 6 point head starts in the group stages too and a 3-0 aggregate for every match. Fuck it, just sack the competition off and let the trophy rotate between them. Liverpool can have it on Mondays and each alternate Wednesday, Madrid on Saturdays and Tuesdays etc
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Nothing to stop a breakaway euro league in theory. It would be the same as how the premier league was formed. The clubs decide they want more independence so they join together and agree a league structure that suits them. If it lacks credibility then that is there own problem.
The difficulty is how you handle the rest of football i.e. Uefa and the national associations. When the prem league was formed a deal was done with the FA where the football pyramid and promotion / relegation was maintained and the ability of the top clubs to play in the traditional cups. It could have gone another way where no deal was done and the Prem could have been a closed shop and Football split down the middle (a bit like darts). In a euro league scenario a similar deal would be needed and that is where I think it falls down. I just can’t see what sort of deal can be done where Uefa tolerate a rival to the CL.
The difficulty is how you handle the rest of football i.e. Uefa and the national associations. When the prem league was formed a deal was done with the FA where the football pyramid and promotion / relegation was maintained and the ability of the top clubs to play in the traditional cups. It could have gone another way where no deal was done and the Prem could have been a closed shop and Football split down the middle (a bit like darts). In a euro league scenario a similar deal would be needed and that is where I think it falls down. I just can’t see what sort of deal can be done where Uefa tolerate a rival to the CL.
If there was a Euro league would it run along side domestic leagues or would clubs leave their respective leagues?...If that was the case there can only be one winner of a league so would Real,Rags,Barca etc be happy to win a trophy every 5/10/20 years?