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

[BobKowalski]

Re that last bit - I think the organisers of the SL wanted at least 12 teams on board before announcing it, and they wanted to announce it just before UEFA revealed their CL revamp plans. As Bayern, PSG, etc, didn't give an answer it seems that City (and perhaps Chelsea) were perhaps told it's now or never so the club felt they had little choice but to put their name to it as that's what they required from us rather than a verbal agreement?

Funnily enough, regarding the other bolded bit I was thinking exactly the same earlier this morning. It sounds far fetched but this could be part of a masterplan. Us and Chelsea pull out (which was our plan all along), and try and get Spurs onside too but if they don't join us, no problem because we now have a chance of getting them and the 3 main instigators booted out of the Premier League by way of a 16-4 vote!

No, City are in this because ultimately this is what they want too, for themselves and the investors that have come on board.

City may have preferred it happen differently, or with the backing of UEFA or FIFA, but City who have fought UEFA and other top clubs to get a seat at the top table were never going to pass on an invite to join as a founding member of this type of competition. It is pretty much what they have wanted for the past decade. To be in at the start and set the rules.

UEFA may entice City back with promises etc, but UEFA tried to fuck us twice so what value do their promises have? The game changer could be FIFA, who are just as likely to give this their backing as oppose it.

Right now you have twelve clubs with contracts and £3.5 billion funding. What are UEFA going to do? Ban them from a competition they aren’t interested in playing in? Ban players from the Euros? Good luck with that. Also the PL, same question. Ban the six biggest clubs? Again good luck, because what would be left is the Championship version 2. You think anyone is paying billions to watch Burnley v Brighton?

Things aren’t going back to the way it was. Not for the PL and not for UEFA. The 12 clubs have already ‘won’. To get the clubs back UEFA have to offer what the ESL offers. For the PL, they need those six clubs, otherwise they just have a slightly better version of the Championship.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

The SL isn't a closed shop but obviously reduced admittance as only 5 would qualify.

Bizarrely the ESL would possibly be less of a closed shop than the revamped CL, at least to English clubs, as this new league will want those 5 teams to come from the bigger leagues I guess.

What a shitshow European club football is. Wish it was never started.

 

[PragueBlue]

Based on what?

I haven't seen any clarification of the criteria for that yet. Presumably it would be performance based but until there is clarification, we won't know for sure.

 

[PabloZabeleta]

err you seen the new revamped uefa champs league set up! It’s literal is a closed shop!

It's not as it still has qualification based on merit. And it's not putting two, potentially all three domestic top level competitions at risk for the sake of a league that can't ever be reached by most clubs no matter how well they play

 

[Chippy_boy]

Think production company that uses a well known streaming organisation to publish content. I believe it will be Amazon.

Yes possibly.

I think there's water to flow under the bridge here though. Monopolies, competition laws, abusing dominant position the marketplace etc. There's all sorts of legal challenges and other pressures could be brought to bear... and possibly will be.

 

[willipp]

The SL isn't a closed shop but obviously reduced admittance as only 5 would qualify.

How long till those 5 places are given to the highest bidders or LA Galaxy and New York Red Bulls. The whole 5 additional teams a pure smoke screen.

 

[Coatigan]

Every front page is on this today, and I think the owners of the English clubs have hugely underestimated the strength of feeling this has generated. They apparently expected anger but no focus groups could have prepared them for this. Would expect some vigorous rowing back in the coming days.

On the assumption they care.

 

[Grassland Blue]

I voted yes, not due to any great love for the concept but because I’d rather see City in it, if it’s going ahead, than locked out of the continent’s biggest competition for all time.

Really, a binary choice isn’t enough to properly give a rounded view on it. I’d have ticked a box saying I’d be most happy if it didn’t go ahead at all, but that wasn’t an option.

Would you like to see a future world where rags, dippers, et al are in this competition, and have wheedled their way back into the premier league, while city are stuck in second rate European competitions that no one watches?

But is the ESL really a competition?

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I haven't seen any clarification of the criteria for that yet. Presumably it would be performance based but until there is clarification, we won't know for sure.

Well it won't be the best 15 clubs in Europe and 5 from a fair play system. It will be 5 that can at least attempt to compete.

 

[waspish]

The SL isn't a closed shop but obviously reduced admittance as only 5 would qualify.

And if the five biggest leagues in Europe get those places for winning the league and 6 premier league clubs already in the SL that means finishing 7th in premier league will get you in now if these premier league owners look at that they will see money signs! Say again uefa revamped competition is like a closed shop as well!