Sheikhs shake world game with plan for Dream Football League

[Hamann Pineapple]

Hmm it's a hoax. Story was a satirical piece on a French website yesterday, picked up as real by Qatari press, run as major story by the Times.

Proper clarkie.

Original hoax article was here - <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/article.php?id=4812&titre=le-qatar-lance-la-dream-football-league" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/articl ... all-league</a>

If it is a hoax then even funnier...

PSG are getting round FFP with their mega sponsorship deal our guys are being more subtle but the idea of an invitational friendly summer tournament in the ME for say 4 or 6 clubs with mega cash incentives has been floated before and would no more be a threat to CL or PL calender then the Emirates Cup or whatever Arsenal call it.

Ha ha, brilliant. Shows how poor the research is by our broadsheets. It will, however, serve as a reminder to UEFA and FFP because let's face it, this could happen and we'll all be watching footie by Pay per view TV in the future.

 

[burning blue soul]

Hmm it's a hoax. Story was a satirical piece on a French website yesterday, picked up as real by Qatari press, run as major story by the Times.

Proper clarkie.

Original hoax article was here - <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/article.php?id=4812&titre=le-qatar-lance-la-dream-football-league" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/articl ... all-league</a>

If it is a hoax then even funnier...

PSG are getting round FFP with their mega sponsorship deal our guys are being more subtle but the idea of an invitational friendly summer tournament in the ME for say 4 or 6 clubs with mega cash incentives has been floated before and would no more be a threat to CL or PL calender then the Emirates Cup or whatever Arsenal call it.

Ha ha, brilliant. Shows how poor the research is by our broadsheets. It will, however, serve as a reminder to UEFA and FFP because let's face it, this could happen and we'll all be watching footie by Pay per view TV in the future.

This story is a very accurate prediction of the future of football. its too big and has too much money in it for teams not to want to step up to the next level with a euro league and eventually a worldwide league. it will happen.
yes it will kill the pl and every other league as a sporting spectacle, but teams will actually want to take part in this. steady regular massive income - who wouldnt want it.
also, when the teams have sold their souls to the money, dont be surprised that when the advertisers and sponsors are running things the game will become split into 4 quarters for more advertising time.
you heard it here first.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Fake or real , it would be a reminder to uefa that money is the single most powerful force in football , and that circumstances like these could conceivably arise leading to a huge erosion of their power base.
The prospect of the elite teams taking part in a competition like this would be horrific to them , because with these teams goes the TV revenues and advertising and sponsorship that keeps the CL alive, not to mention the removal of all that power and prestige currently wielded by the superannuated suits that currently run the game.
The great irony would be that their ill-conceived poorly planned financial restrictions could lead to even more for those that have , while the rest of the premier league , who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of ffp ,becomes more like the blue square in terms of income.

 

[Petetheblu]

If it is a hoax then even funnier...

PSG are getting round FFP with their mega sponsorship deal our guys are being more subtle but the idea of an invitational friendly summer tournament in the ME for say 4 or 6 clubs with mega cash incentives has been floated before and would no more be a threat to CL or PL calender then the Emirates Cup or whatever Arsenal call it.

Ha ha, brilliant. Shows how poor the research is by our broadsheets. It will, however, serve as a reminder to UEFA and FFP because let's face it, this could happen and we'll all be watching footie by Pay per view TV in the future.

This story is a very accurate prediction of the future of football. its too big and has too much money in it for teams not to want to step up to the next level with a euro league and eventually a worldwide league. it will happen.
yes it will kill the pl and every other league as a sporting spectacle, but teams will actually want to take part in this. steady regular massive income - who wouldnt want it.
also, when the teams have sold their souls to the money, dont be surprised that when the advertisers and sponsors are running things the game will become split into 4 quarters for more advertising time.
you heard it here first.

Some good points there and it got me thinking that the only way this would work is to introduce it as a world footballing competition rather than just european. That would be something to watch.....sadly when the likes of boca and santa are earning upto 200 million then theirs very little chance that they would ever need to sell their stars, which could see the likes of Messi, Aguero, Neymar and Jo never setting foot in europe again.

Okay I was only joking about Jo, but you get my drift, selfish as it is.

 

[the talisman]

Anyone know what our owners relationship is like with the Qataris? I would have thought the rags and Liverpool would be automatic invitees, and after that it's perm any 2 from City, Chelsea, the Arse and Spurs. Again on the basis of long established global support, one might suppose Arsenal would get an invite, which would leave just one spot. Whilst we may be one of the two best teams in the land at the moment, would that count for 'owt in the face of Chelsea's trophy haul over the last 10 years, plus last year, they (Chelsea) recorded the 4th highest number of global replica shirt sales as well.

We might assume we would be a shoe-in, but would we? Old Captain Paranoia never sits too far from my shoulder.......

I'm not sure about Liverpool.............

My son plays futsal here in oz so I see lots of kids wearing various shirts. There are numbers of the obvious ones, Barca and Real, but funnily enough the most common English team I see is Chelsea.

Plenty of rag shirts and City are now overtaking arsenal, but liverpool shirts are non existent.

It's different in England where your team is your team no matter what happens (as we know better than most) but out in the wide world people are interested in 2 things, recent success and the best players.

Edit: Just seen that the press are reporting ,Us, Scum, arsenal and chelsea as the 4 english teams being invited.

There was a thread a couple of months ago about global shirt sales (official ones, not the tat you might pick up from a Shanghai market). From memory Barca, Madrid, and Trafford Town all racked up about 1.4million, Chelsea were 4th with about 900,000, Liverpool were down in about 7th place with 750,000 odd and City were about 12th with 250,000. Liverpool's 3 year trend was downward with a projected fall of about 50,000 expected next year, whilst City's was heading upwards by about the same amount. Either way though, Liverpool were still outselling us by about 3 to 1, and they still have a worldwide fan base, particularly in the subcontinent and the Far East that dwarfs ours. I would be amazed if they weren't the 2nd name on the organiser's list behind the rags

I'm just going on what young aussie futsal players are wearing. I think that the scousers may be "trending down" quicker than the sales figures suggest.

Also ,going off your figures as well as my observations, I'd be amazed if chelsea weren't the 2nd name.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Is there a MCFC team in middle east - we have one in Sierra Leone? Anyone have links to their site?

 

[Levitationing]

Is there a MCFC team in middle east - we have one in Sierra Leone? Anyone have links to their site?

Dont see the problem. If its every 2 years whats the big deal? it'll be a glorified pre-season tournament. with the fucking rags already introuducing FFP. The gap is already widening.

 

[M18CTID]

While the story has been proven to be a hoax, as others have said this could become reality in the future.

Personally, I don't like the idea of a so-called European super league one bit - particularly if it led to the erosion of the domestic calendar. For me, European football should be seen as a reward for performing well in your own domestic league.

That said, I'd like to see UEFA fall flat on their arse as a result of their pathetic kowtow-ing to the established European giants and if a rival organisation came along and set up a tournament that pretty much mirrored the Champions League and Europa League competitions but which committed itself to a far more even distribution of money across both tournaments - hence making the Europa League a far more attractive proposition to the competing clubs than it is now - then I'd be all for it.

 

[discopop]

You only have to look at Rugby union to see how a supposed "euro league" has destroyed any domestic competition in the country's taking part.

The Rabobank pro12 involving Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy has pretty much devalued club rugby and in effect you end up with 3/4 strong teams from each country and the rest stagnate and eventually disappear.

 

[DTeacher]

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