European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?

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justsomebloke said:
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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MLS has already solved this problem, and I won't be surprised if the ESL eventually follows suit. Basically MLS allows clubs to gain first dibs on players who don't or haven't played in MLS, haven't previously registered for their SuperDraft, or aren't U.S./Canadian national team players (includes underage sides).

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The Champions League restructuring plans were absolutely naff and a death knell to a great competition but I’m still not onboard with this Super League stunt.

Greed. Greed. Greed.
 
Im not fecking leaving until Spurs do, cnuts. feck off -- you don't deserve this.
 
Buchan said:
Any guesses on who the next three automatic spots will go to?

Are they hoping PSG and Bayern get twitchy and want to jump aboard now the heavy lifting is done?
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Yup if I had to guess, Bayern, Dortmund and PSG.
 
JPRouve said:
I didn't expect an annoucement. The aftermath is going to be fun.
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I mean they put out that they expect to work with UEFA and FIFA. This is going to be bad... I am not sure if the ESL revised its position based on what UEFA and FIFA said, or if they just decided they were not that "dangerous".
 
Cloud7 said:
Probably not the best image to parody. The IPL is arguably the most entertaining tournament in sports right now, and it wasn't formed on the back of destroying any existing structure.
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Not the thread for it, but it ended up destroying competitive international cricket IMO. AB retiring from international cricket to prolong his IPL paydays, it’s akin to Messi and Ronaldo retiring from international cricket to play in a super league...
 
Still don’t get why people are so protective of the Champions League. Why does that have to always be the main European competition now? Hasn’t the consensus been for a while that the format was getting stale?
 
so many drama queens on this, they are just proposing to replace midweek CL football with a new super league, the sky isn't falling down.
 
Joke!

Even if it goes against my own club, I hopeTheFA and UEFA/FIFA does something about this. They got to go head to head with this. There is so much they can do.
 
Gasolin said:
So this might be the *real* topic. Those clubs want PSG and City to be held accountable to their numbers and their accounting to be much more closely watched. If they get it that way, I am all in. Chelsea is in, which suggest that Chelsea is already able to cope with such stringent financial requirements.
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I love the idea that they're making out it's about having more balanced finances in football rather than just making more money for a small number of big teams and feck everyone else.

The idea that the best solution to deal with the unfairness created by the level of spending by owners by City's is to invite a couple of bog average mid table teams in Arsenal and Spurs to a competition in to which better sides won't be included and from which they will generate huge revenue that those better sides won't because they've joined a cartel with those same very City owners as well as other charmers like the Agnelli and Glazer families as well as Roman Abramovich and Florentino Perez is laughable
 
Why would leaving a UEFA tournament mean docking of points by the FA ?
I know they are all together in opposing this.. but I dont see how the FA can dock premier league points because clubs dont want to play a mid week european tournament organized by UEFA..

UEFA can kick the clubs out of their competition.. so that would leave PSG as the CL winners.. Good for them.
 
So the Super League will be formed and they'll play each other for funzies each season. And they'll leave UEFA to figure out where to take the CL/EL without them?

UEFA's announcement about a reformed CL tomorrow is now in flames.

And Sky were saying the English teams can't just play in a new league without PL permission, so the Super League teams risk having to leave the PL too?
 
As someone who has half his life dedicated to a non-league side, who play at a level that has long been shafted by the FA (and especially during the pandemic), the shoe being on the other foot is at least mildly amusing. Squirm for the cameras, this is what whoring your sport out for 30 years has led to, you absolute cnuts.
 
Ronaldo's ego said:
So is this an alternative European competition without looking to come away from the domestic league?
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They knew well that the PL would not allow this and its against the rules, make no mistake this is an attempt to kill domestic football.
 
Wonder what will happen to Uniteds €3.5b payment. Will be fascinating to see how much of that goes to "support our football infrastructure investment".

Hint - it will be the square root of feck all.

Not only did the Glazers manage to somehow buy our club without spending a penny, they've now managed to sell it for 3.5 billion while maintaining ownership of it. If I didn't hate them with every ounce of my being I would be applauding the brass fecking balls on these cnuts.
 
well it doesn't matter if this super league is paying 300 million and pl only can get you 80. what you going do?
 
Arsenal twitter announcement: "We are one of 12 Founding Clubs of the European Super League"
 
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