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European Super League
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Amateur.
Spurs are in this to provide rest and squad rotation opportunities.
Is Mourinho planning this, since Spurs got an invite?
If this turns out to be a thing, wth? Did the class of 92 know this and bought "the new United" so we could change team?
Can you change team if the team you support decides to start competing in some other league you've never heard of?
Will RedCafe convert to a Salford City forum? I got so many questions.
If this turns out to be a thing, wth? Did the class of 92 know this and bought "the new United" so we could change team?
Can you change team if the team you support decides to start competing in some other league you've never heard of?
Will RedCafe convert to a Salford City forum? I got so many questions.
I'm very happy my earlier post is now in the thread title.
Have spurs bottled it at the last minute?
Has anyone coined a term for the "big 6" leaving the Premier League? PLexit?
They only got the invite because of Jose
Laporta just gave an interview saying that he'd rather have a club world cup than a super league.
I'm totally confused atm.
I'm totally confused atm.
What's new? Is football dead yet?
I think the PL clubs involved should be very wary. If you follow the money the PL is becoming, by far, the richest league in the world and some of the other leagues realize this and don't want to miss out. I wouldn't be surprised if the Italian, La Liga and Bundesliga clubs are the ones pushing this so they can get in on more lucrative TV contracts. If things stay the same more and more of the best players and coaches will end up in England. These other clubs are probably very concerned about this and the super league would balance things out for them.
I follow the NHL closely and the NHL draft is the most exciting time of the year outside the Stanley cup Playoffs.
For those that don't know how a draft works:
At the end of every season there is a draft lottery, in which the lowest ranked team has the highest chance of being awarded first pick in the first round, ie. get's to pick and sign the biggest talent of the year. 2nd worst team gets 2nd pick, and so on. It goes on for a few rounds, in the NHL its typically 7, everyone drafts players and thus re-stock their talent pool.
It does reward poor performance, but coupled with a salary cap it also means that team success is cyclical since at some point the previous best teams are full of expensive contracts for aging stars, or the overall roster is too old and it starts a rebuild. The NHL is so dominant in the sport of Hockey that it works, even if its an international sport. In football, this would never, ever fly.
It died earlier then came back to life due to the lack of an official announcement. Zombie football, which means we're definitely involved.
The German clubs have declined to sign up to this, along with the French.
The glazers won't lose sleep over it.
Kind of rude by Nevs though ?
Allegedly Bayern are not part of the group according to Sky but who knows.
Gabriele Marcotti: "If the rebel clubs stay in domestic leagues, there's an even greater domestic inbalance in already unbalanced leagues due to greater Euro revenue"
Aren't drafts based on a college system though?
It's totally unrealistic to expect a draft system in football where clubs produce players through their own academy. There would be no incentive to invest in player development.
It's totally unrealistic to expect a draft system in football where clubs produce players through their own academy. There would be no incentive to invest in player development.
Seems like Sky led everyone, including UEFA, up the garden path tonight!
people forget very quickly. Remember project restart? Was that less than 6 months ago?
Are you waiting for an announcement while checking time on a Rado Watch?Thread title
He first admits that the super league is real but also offers an alternative. It's a money grab, they aren't going to announce a thing, they want the UEFA to make a move and cave once again.
I don't like the term "rebel clubs". It makes them sound like good underdogs out to destroy a death star.
Also, Tottenham are totally the Chewbacca of that analogy.
Sounds like a continental version of Brazil.
Bunch of cowards.
But, if you are the traditional big six and generate so much income yet have to share it with the likes of Burnley, Sheffield United etc, wouldn't you want to break away and maximise your revenue?
Nah Chewbacca is way too cool. Spurs are Ewoks with notions.
That was last year when football returned after lockdown.
I think you are thinking of Project Big Picture which was led by both ourselves & Liverpool
Chelsea doesn't own the name of the club, or the freehold on the stadium either. They should probably be a bit fecking careful about what shit they try and force down our fans throats.
"We want to have our cake and eat it too. Why can't you understand this?"
I would say more C-3PO
For those who think this might not be so bad, consider this: One part of this is for sure going to be parity mechanisms - ie, rules designed to ensure that everyone in the SL are comparably competitive, and that costs are kept down. We've already seen a proposal to ban transfers between the top clubs, and apparently fear of such mechanisms is the main reason why PSG has not so far joined the initiative. All the US major leagues have these. Entry drafts in reverse order of finish, giving the worst team first pick of the young talent. Salary caps, ensuring that no one can outspend rivals on wages. Prohibitions on transfers for cash - if you want to acquire someone, you have to pay in players and/or draft picks. The idea being to stop those with the most money from using that for advantage. And the ideal being a league where everyone is roughly equally good, so that everyone has a chance to win. And where you are rewarded for doing badly. And where if you happen to build a really top team, you can't keep it together for any length of time because you'll come up against the salary cap as your players expect improved contracts as a result of doing well. Just look at today's NHL, where Stanley Cup-winning teams have to be broken up, everybody seems to have 4-5 really good players and this year's table might well end up in the reverse order next year. It's just totally boring. Enforced parity turns the sport into a charade, where everyone has a dice to roll every year.
I'm pretty jealous of that. Would love it if there was a way for us to wrestle back out club off the Glazers.
If the clubs are not bailing on the leagues of their respective countries but bailing on UCL. I could live with that to be honest. Although it would mean Liverpool would always be able to lord UCL titles over us.
That's actually pretty true. Lets take PSG for instance. France is hemoraging great players who decide to leave the country because the league isn't good enough. With a superleague, we could get the best players France can produce.
Also, with things balanced, players will be tempted to play for a team located in the best city they can pick and a lot would rather live in Madrid, Paris or Barcelona than Manchester or Liverpool.
For the record, i hate the idea of a superleague even if PSG might be the club that would benefit from it the most because it would erase our main problem : the weakness of our league.
Yeah totally unfair. Has he spoken out about state funded clubs? Also 6/20 PL teams would have that additional revenue...