The Super League | FA + PL: New Charter & Fines | UEFA: Settlement

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
Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how slimy the US owned PL clubs in this all are? They plotted the entire thing with Perez and Agnelli and the second it started looking bad they abandoned ship faster than Luke Shaw can clear out a Greggs deli counter.
 
I don't understand why Perez (and the CL) think that more games equals more excitement - it just means more meaningless games. Once the novelty has worn off, I wouldn't expect City fans to be much more excited by a CL group match with Barcelona or Real Madrid than one against Shakhtar Donetsk - especially when both teams will very likely qualify anyway. An expanded CL or a 20 team super league would have even more meaningless games - just because it's Juventus v Liverpool wouldn't make it any more interesting if both were already out of the play-offs with no relegation threat, or if both were already in.

Perez mistakenly seems to think that it's the big-names that make a game thrilling rather than what the game means - the drama of success or failure. The big-name teams might have the most fans, but I doubt they'd all tune in to glorified friendlies week after week.

If anything, the CL needs to reduce the number of games: how about only playing each team once in every 4-team group (H/A could be by random draw or seeding)? That way, teams would get at least 3 games, but most games would really matter (if you lost the first game, you'd probably have to win the other two the get through). It would also allow players to get three more mid-weeks off. Or they could have this one-game round-robin format for the group stage, but add another round of knockout games (round of 32) so that the teams that advance past this first round would only play 1 game less than usual, but there would be far fewer meaningless games. It would also require more groups, so that more teams would gain entry straight to the group stage, increasing the variety of opponents.
 
KS55 said:
Right, but they wont. Now Arsenal, Spurs and the scum are back in the fold, debt will not be regulated. So nothing gained at all.
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But their windfall has evaporated- so they’ll need to tighten their belts !
 
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