European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?

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ANNOUNCED: The Super League official statement
 
Rightnr said:
This is where some of you people are missing a beat. The PL is only competitive because teams have an incentive to make CL each year which makes them money.
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This.

Youll also just get the top sides having even more money than everyone else. They'd probably just stock quality players, and play a B team in the league anyway.
 
Here we go
 
Mr Pigeon said:
So what if United join this Superb League? A few fancy games, great commercial opportunities, gain loads of dosh, players come back to England covered in gold, hey United did you get a haircut, look closer Lenny, bloody fantastic and everyone's a winner. Who are Sunderland? The team playing against the guys who hammered AC Milan in a 1-1 draw in Peru across the road from Ian's burger van.

Anyone who doesn't see the greatness of this whole plan is a total idiot.
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What about the long term? What about the football pyramid where the Premier League's massive financial power trickles down (even in a small way) all the way to the smallest teams in the farthest parts of the country?
Without that structure football falls apart completely. No more constant conveyor belt of players where cream rises to the top and in some way is balanced out to provide some competition.
Yes this will provide massive financial gains to the clubs involved but it is short sighted and immensely damaging to the entire game.
 
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30’points deduction for everyone but City. 80 points deduction for city for being oiled shitty
 
Joel Glazer: "The Super League will open a new chapter for European football, ensuring world-class competition and facilities, and increased financial support for the wider football pyramid"


Lovely lovely Glazers
 
diarm said:
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.
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No, not necessarily. The NHL for example has a draft age that precedes college, and the vast majority of its draftees are out of the Canadian Major Junior Leagues or Europe.

I agree an entry draft on the NA model seems a feature that would be hard for a SL to adopt. But you could imagine for example a system where you have a draft to distribute the rights to players in non-SL clubs, but with the possibility to sign young players below a certain age for development in your own system. Combined with putting player movement between SL clubs on trade basis rather than for cash.
 
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The 12 clubs are the clubs that Romano's Tweet covered. 3 more clubs will join as Founding Clubs as stated here:


Joel Glazer as a vice president, though... :lol:
 
did I miss it?
 
Hope we see an ‘America First caucus’ u-turn in a couple of days.

But this idiotic idea seems far further along than that idiotic idea was.
 
I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of those that were pro being owned by the Saudi Royal Family but don't like us playing in a Super League instead of the CL
 
#07 said:
Maybe not but they just have to think it will to act.
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Sure but I don't believe they think it will. I think they think posturing now will play well and no one will care that they don't go through with it.
 
Ah feck, there we go with the official announcement. Sickening. I thought there may have been a delay of a few days while they took stock of the reaction on social media/regular media, but nah here there are as bold as ever. This sucks.
 
feck Joel Glazer and anyone that supports that zombie.
 
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