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
domalino said:
There's been a lot of statements today by people of varying importance and a lot of them full of hot air so there seems to be a bit of an air of possibly stopping this which is, IMO, massively misguided.

We will start reaching the bargaining stage soon, and The Guardian have published and article on a document they've seen that guarantees over 3x the current solidarity payments. That's about €300m per year more than the current amount - and probably split between much fewer countries.

Presumably similar concessions will be made to the Premier League, and then clubs will be faced with 1) Kicking the clubs out and probably bankrupting themselves when the TV deal drops by 75%, or 2)keep the big 6 and get some money they desperately need in the pandemic. How many clubs in the PL who are never realistically going to get in the CL would take a cheque to make it guaranteed, but maybe guarantee their own survival as well? I think quite a few will consider it - they only need 1 to stop the league kicking them out.

Right now it's easy to be completely against this because no one knows much about it. By the time the 12 clubs have gone to their meetings, and laid out the bottom line...positions will soften.

The owners of the other 14 clubs are no less greedy, no less selfish than the 6 who are breaking away, and the truth is if they were offered a place they'd all take it. Remember project breakaway last year? Half the clubs who opposed it changed their tune as soon as they hear about the actual money they'd get from it.

I'm afraid there's no stopping this train.
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Im not sure it’s entirely true about no stopping the train. It would get very messy, but FIFA hold player registrations, so they could feasibly withdraw all player registrations meaning none of the players of the 15 clubs would be able to play in any World Cup, Euro Championship this year or domestic league.

Doubt FIFA would do that as it would impact on their own competition, but I’d be surprised if this won’t be used as a negotiation tool.

If FIFA did do this....it would be over to the players to lobby their own club not to proceed with the ESL

All ifs, buts & maybes, but I don’t believe we’re on a runaway train just yet
 
Blu3m00n91 said:
We get battered left right and centre by everyone and we have the opportunity to do the right thing and they’ve sold their soul for more profits.
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We didn’t have the opportunity to do the right thing though - we had the opportunity to choose between one morally bankrupt, avaricious shit show of a proposal conjured up by a bunch of crooks, and another equally detestable stitch up of an option with an equally loathsome bunch of shysters behind it.

There was no moral high ground to be taken here, and no continuity option that somehow saved the soul of football.

The idea there was any option available which would have constituted ‘doing the right thing’ is a myth, I’m afraid!
 
As a matter of interest this SL is supposed to comprise 20 clubs of whom 15 are "Founding Members" and 5 qualifying somehow. At the moment there are only 12 founding members so where do the other 3 come from given that PSG and BM aren't (currently) interested?
 
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