From my text convo with my brother 5 hrs ago:Money grabbing fan hating fuckwits. Let's ignore history, the other cups, and go for the money. Lots and lots of money.
I get they are skint so here's a plan.
Stop paying agents fees. Stop bowing down to 500k a week. Collectively, as a group of clubs, put a cap on it. Literally. If you all did it together you'd still have the players.
Problem solved.
Utter twats.
Need more of this, players, ex-players the lot.
Correct. As you were too polite to say, what the poster you responded to was missing was....a brain.You do realise the premier league is finished if this goes ahead yeh ?
there will be no competition for us as we will qualify every year regardless of where we finish. We can rest players against who we want in the knowledge it doesn’t actually matter anymore where we finish .
Me too.Just trying to work out what I’m going to do now to replace the time I invest in City
have you stopped to think what you mean about "without fans"? A fan is somebody who supports the team by regularly watching it, and of course in these gobal days that involves for the bigger clubs literally millions who only ever watch on TV or listen on radio. So you can't mean without fans in the sense of no TV viewers or radio listeners. And if you mean that once pandemic restrictions are removed clubs can be taken seriously if they are shown playing in half empty stadiums then you must surely be joking? But "Plastic club" signals that you are yet another hate-filled troll so making sense is not the point for you.Plastic club, has been for many years unfortunately, blues.
Don't know what to make of it really, time will tell. One thing's for sure, top level football can survive and thrive without fans. The elite and our owners do not care on iota about the fans.
Save the "I'm ripping my season ticket up" lines, they literally mean fuck all to the club. The bubble was always going to burst, this is just the start.
D) They’ve already signed up to it, but the Qatari owners can’t risk upsetting FIFA this late in the day with the Qatar World Cup next year and they’re waiting for the dust to settle and FIFA’s approval before announcing it.There's so much in what you say, I feel like something of a fool, especially after explaining to a great Chelsea supporting friend in 2003 that Abramovitch was looking to create a revenue source outside Russia as a hedge against losing his oligarch holdings in the country. Logically, that sort of motivation leads on to the kind of proposal we have just had revealed. And that certainly fits for Abu Dhabi owners (must stop relying on oil revenues) although the Americans are mainly just being American ie. ferociously greedy bastards looking to extend an established model in order to rake in even more money, on an even more secure basis. But why (so far) have PSG stood aside? That I don't understand. I think there are three possible explanations ie. (a) they are joining, as one of the 3 extra founding members, but just have to sort out some details before the announcement; (b) the club owners have calculated that the ESL will be unable to survive the weight of opposition to it and will collapse, leaving PSG smelling of roses as a "principled" opponent; (c) PSG could never accept a league with no relegation as in keeping with the true spirit of football and so refuses participation in such a competition. I think it's probably a toss up between (a) and (b) with (c) out of the question, but we shall see what happens. The economics point to PSG participation.