United and Liverpool EFL project - proposal rejected

[domalino]

Nothing to do with keeping us as the 10th out of the new cartel then.

It includes us, you can put away the persecution complex.

The nine clubs who have been in the Premier League for the longest - which includes the big six - would dictate its running in every aspect and would be free to play more games in the expanded Champions League that is anticipated from the 2024-2025 season onwards.

 

[Corky]

City are 7th longest serving current member.

 

[55yr old teenager]

What I want to know is what or who gives these 2 shit stain clubs the authority to change current regulations etc, which would have far reaching consequences for all clubs and supporters?

 

[domalino]

It does state in the article that we would be classed in the top nine and also that we are expected to back it (it’s the longest continual stay, not who has had the most seasons in the pl)

I don’t think the “it’s to try and screw us over” is the story here. It’s the impact on others.

Some people on here are still under the mistaken impression that we're still on the outside. We are not, we're very much part of the establishment now. Even Bayern Munich included us in their leaked super league plans.

5th richest club in the world = we're going to be included in everything.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Some people on here are still under the mistaken impression that we're still on the outside. We are not, we're very much part of the establishment now. Even Bayern Munich included us in their leaked super league plans.

5th richest club in the world = we're going to be included in everything.

I'd say we are at the top table with Liverpool, the rest below us.

 

[Corky]

It's a fucking bribe. Like the EFL loan.

I've been saying for years that, one day, the US owners will make a power grab and this appears to be it. They can't get the 14 votes they need for the changes they want so this is their alternative line of attack.

I've no problem with the PL being 18 clubs and I'd even back the League Cup being resticted to teams not playing in Europe that season (not least on the grounds that one club would then get a European slot without competition from the clubs already in Europe. But there's only one group of teams that this will benefit in the longer term and that's the US owned clubs.

To be honest I thought it would all be about keeping their own PPV/TV receipts which has been an ambition for 25 years and would end up something like an 80/20 split for the top 20%.

 

[domalino]

Now we've managed to get past 6 pages of people asking whether we're in the 9 who would get a vote or the big 6 (despite the article explicitly stating we are).

How about the other proposals?

The proposals include:

• £250 million immediately to the EFL to compensate its clubs for lost matchday revenue, deducted from future television revenue earnings and financed by a loan taken out by the Premier League
• Special status for the nine longest serving clubs – and the vote of only six of those “long-term shareholders” required to make major changes, including amending rules and regulations, agreeing contracts, removal of the chief executive, and a wide-ranging veto including on club ownership
• Premier League to go to 18 clubs from 20
• £100 million one-off gift to the FA to cover its coronavirus losses, the non-league game, the women’s game, the grassroots
• 8.5 per cent of annual net Premier League revenue to go on operating costs and “good causes” including the FA
• From the remainder, 25 per cent of all combined Premier League and Football League revenues to go to the EFL clubs
• Six per cent of Premier League gross revenues to pay for stadium improvements across the top four divisions, calculated at £100 per seat
• New rules for the distribution of Premier League television income, overseas and domestic, including proposals that base one portion on performance over three years in the league
• The abolition of the League Cup and the Community Shield
• 24 clubs each in the Championship, League One and League Two reducing the professional game overall from 92 clubs to 90
• A women's professional league independent of the Premier League or the FA
• Two sides automatically relegated from the Premier League every season and the top two Championship teams promoted. The 16th place Premier League club in a play-off tournament with the Championship’s third, fourth and fifth placed teams.
• Financial fair play regulations in line with Uefa, and full access for Premier League executive to club accounts
• A fan charter including capping of away tickets at £20, away travel subsidised, a focus on a return to safe standing, a minimum away allocation of eight per cent capacity
• Later Premier League start in August to give greater scope for pre-season friendlies, and requirement for all clubs to compete once every five years in a summer Premier League tournament
• Huge changes to loan system allowing clubs to have 15 players out on loan domestically at any one time and up to four at a single club in England

Personally I think there's a lot of good in there for the EFL to make the bitter pills easier to swallow.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

What are the benefits of shrinking the total clubs by 2, and the top tier by 2??

 

[blueinsa]

What are the benefits of shrinking the total clubs by 2, and the top tier by 2??

Less league games which means more time for CL and money spinning friendlies.

Fuck all to do with player protections which they will spin it as.

 

[domalino]

What are the benefits of shrinking the total clubs by 2, and the top tier by 2??

4 fewer games per year. Less fixture congestion. More time for a PL winter break.

Add in the league cup going away and the community shield and we'd have played 11 fewer games last season.