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

[bluemoon32]

The club has been here before back in the 90s with the Premier league. The big 6 got a bigger share of the tv money than the other founding members of the premier league which wasn’t exactly fair. There would have been opposition to that but reluctantly we have to be inside the tent.

If you were Mansour and Khaldoon the bottom line is you protect your asset. Saying no would have left the invite going elsewhere.

The thing I can’t get my head around is the 6 invites for the premier league clubs being more than what other countries got. What must Atletico Madrid be thinking who have been mainstays in getting to the latter stages of the champions league over the last few years. Everton building a new stadium and showing some ambition, should they even bother now as it won’t see top level European football.

It’s scary our owners have jumped into bed with the Glazers and Fenway sport. They cannot be trusted and this super league will make sure it benefits them more than it does us.

Ath Madrid are in it

 

[SWPISHOME]

Regardless of what happens now it feels like the damage is already done with us signing up to this shit. I'm fucking disgusted with our football club seriously fuck right off.
The authorities really need to come down hard on these clubs. Then again the problem is the clubs hold the power these days hence why this shit is taking place.

 

[jay_mcfc]

OK let me perhaps phrase it another way.

The cartel happened. This league will be a massive money spinner. We can either be in it or out of it. For me, the reasons to be in it outweigh the ones to not be in it.

Absolutely shocked that you decided to take this opinion. When I say absolutely shocked I mean not at all shocked.

Everyone can see the financial benefits of it. But we're not owners or investors we're fans and this fucking stinks.

 

[01cravend]

People saying the player's might not like it, wtf the player's will earn a lot more money through advertising and sponsors

If Fifa follow through on their threat and ban them from playing for their countries?

 

[East Level 2]

Much of the harking back to the formation of the PL in the 90s misses the point. Even then a well run lower division team could rise to the top division. We know more than one 3rd tier club could get up to the PL as we did it along with Fulham, Wigan, Leeds and probably a few others. They could then play in the CL if they qualified. It might have been easier before the PL but it was still possible. This proposal removes the possibility of lower division teams reaching the top tier of the sport. I think it is an abomination, and I also think the club's involved will settle for much less. UEFA should hold their nerve and just say "piss off".

 

[bellsouth]

Putting the (fucking terrible) decision to join aside, why on earth did this need announced now?

Couldn't they have bloody waited till the end of the season so I could have at least enjoyed the remaining games and chance at the CL in ignorance bliss. Could have had one last moment before it all goes to crap.

In some ways I'm now glad we lost the fa.cup semi. One less thing to be tainted by this.

It’s announced now to head off UEFA’s own CL reforms which are confirmed today. Could this just be a huge game of bluff forcing UEFA to change the CL to something these 12 clubs would prefer?

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

A shame if so.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

I wonder if the football will actually get more boring as clubs refuse to lose so they start parking the bus against each other to avoid dropping points. Luckily for them it won’t matter as you can’t get relegated but it seems like a stupid idea

 

[ID70]

Already disillusioned with football with the constant cheating/play acting of players, how its become a non-contact sport, VAR and the ridiculous wages and money involved and I think this is the final straw. I've saved a lot of money and time travelling etc over the last 12 months and if this is the way forward then I am more happy to continue not going to matches

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Ath Madrid are in it

And yet Atlético Madrid are only an Athletic Bilbao copycat club who were only formed in the wake of the proper true El Classico (Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao) by Bilbao fans in Madrid who didn’t like Real Madrid.

Wonder what Athletic Bilbao fans think of this?