Said my piece on this whole farrago elsewhere on this thread but just to add to your pertinent comments, if I may be so bold, a message/word to the wise for Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Begeristain et al..I hope the owners have looked at the bigger picture here. If as reported in some quarters, that the people running this shit show at the top of the tree, are Perez (Real) and Glazer(Rags), then we need to be extra careful what these clowns end game is. Who are forming the rules and infrastructure of this new league? We may end up making the numbers up, without a voice in how things are run moving forward. Given there already seems to be a hierarchy, where some founder members seem to be more equal than others, and the Premier League threatening expulsion, we may end up trapped in a mess of our own making, and no way out. ESL and Uefa = 2 cheeks of the same arse. Not to be trusted.
..if you are intent upon supping with the Devil (aka The Collective English Red Filth and their Continental Chums), best make sure you have a very long spoon.. a very, very fucking long spoon..