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.
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Pretty sure the 5 spaces for invited teams will end up being auctioned off for at least 1/2 of the spaces. Al-Sadd/Duhail will almost definitely end up paying huge money to play on it one year.
It’s interesting that all ex players are against it, it makes me wonder what the thoughts of current players are. They are already paid huge money and the real aim of the elite players is to win the Champions league. I don’t see that changing to wanting to win a billionaires play league. You cannot fake prestige and history. Golf have tried it with the fedex Cup. The winner gets $15 million whilst for Majors the winner is about $3 million. They’ve thrown huge money in an attempt to make it almost a 5th major. However there is not a single person who would choose a fedex over a major. There is no comparison to winning prestigious and historical events. The Super League would be played more as friendlies than competitive champions league games as the players would just be playing for money essentially.
It’s interesting that all ex players are against it, it makes me wonder what the thoughts of current players are. They are already paid huge money and the real aim of the elite players is to win the Champions league. I don’t see that changing to wanting to win a billionaires play league. You cannot fake prestige and history. Golf have tried it with the fedex Cup. The winner gets $15 million whilst for Majors the winner is about $3 million. They’ve thrown huge money in an attempt to make it almost a 5th major. However there is not a single person who would choose a fedex over a major. There is no comparison to winning prestigious and historical events. The Super League would be played more as friendlies than competitive champions league games as the players would just be playing for money essentially.
Same as the NFL, regular season sucks ass.
Anyone else think PSG are just waiting to be crowned winners of the Champions League before announcing they're joining too? 
I seriously doubt that will happen. Quote me.
No, the Super League will not be recognised by UEFA and will be outside of their administration. The Super League will be a closed shop, with only clubs invited by the founder clubs able to participate. UEFA competitions would continue. The FA says any English clubs involved in the Super League will be suspended from the Premier League.
I do hope they rip off the CL music at least.
Tell you what, I disagree with everything you've said here. It's super negative and it ventures into wider areas such as ownership that I just can't be arsed to get into right now. When all the details come out and we all see this is just another European league format (like the CL but different) and everyone stops losing their shit for no valid reason, we'll revisit this thread and look at the grand over reaction for laughs.
Whilst the Glazers fleece us, we aren't exactly not invested in. We spent £80 million quid on a defender. I think you're a little disingenuous to suggest we wouldn't see any benefit what so ever. It may not be enough but I don't expect we'd rely on free transfers.
Once Katy Perry starts performing during the halftime show with sharks twerking in the background and everytime there is a VAR check it would cut to a beer commercial with an Orange shouting whatsup, pretty sure I'll be able to break the habit.
Only reason we try apparently? CL or bust, turns out 4th is a trophy after all then?
Honestly if we join some shit plastic league I won't care for Manchester United anymore. The club I love will be dead.
They won't get that money because he won't want to stick around in what is now a second rate competition. They will be forced to sell. What will Villa do with the windfall? Buy great players? Will they feck. Nobody will go to these teams as they have no chance of a place at the top table. Nobody will care about the PL when it is meaningless to the bigger teams. You might want to pretend it won't be, but there will be times when teams just write it off completely in the hope of going far in the ESL. They can afford to finish 5th, 6th, 7th or whatever. Give their youth team a run out in the PL if they wanted. Because the men that matter, that only care about money, will make sure they do everything to go far. Even if it means throwing their PL season.
Oh, really? I'm quite convinced it's that or nothing and very much leaning towards that the clubs are serious and will go through with leaving.
Obviously we can only guess.
To everyone saying “you’ll still watch it”
Actually, no we won’t.
Perhaps viewing figures in Asia will be amazing but I will not pay a single penny any more and I’ve had sky telly for 20+ years and bt sport and anything I’ve needed to watch Utd play as much as possible.
This is such a sad day..............
Actually, no we won’t.
Perhaps viewing figures in Asia will be amazing but I will not pay a single penny any more and I’ve had sky telly for 20+ years and bt sport and anything I’ve needed to watch Utd play as much as possible.
This is such a sad day..............
Agreed.
For the most part I'm against this league but is it bad that I'm kind of enjoying all the soap opera of it all?
I can see Uefa crowning PSG champions and kicking us and Arsenal out of the EL.
Wow, so no playing roma now.
It's two groups of 10 with the top 5 in each going further (top 3 directly, other 2 playing knockout between them). No relegation will make it dull, but more than half of the teams will have something to play for.
Oh definitelyAnyone else think PSG are just waiting to be crowned winners of the Champions League before announcing they're joining too?
I wonder when we'll hear from the players. Surely, if they're against it, it would fold immediately. This could have serious ramifications on existing contracts and upcoming transfer windows.
This literally feels like a dream! They just spat in the faces of all the governing bodies by releasing that not hours after Uefa's and the FA's response.
I'm sure I read somewhere that the british government can in essence block certain business proposals from foreign owners if they have a negative affect on British owned businesses. Something like that anyway.
Someone else may enlighten us.
For the German clubs this might just be a political necessity. Sell it like they didn't want to, but eventually were forced to join. If their clubs were on that press release today the majority of fans would never forgive the people in charge and probably try to vote them out as soon as possible and of course cancel their memberships or season tickets. This way they can try mitigate that a bit. I have no doubt Bayern will be joining either, as from what I remember it was actually their club lawyer that was exposed to be exploring these options for the other clubs by football leaks.
When you play them guaranteed every season, it will wear extremely thin and the magic will be completely lost.
Football isn’t all that great when it’s a glorified cash grab for a select few.
Such a load of bollox. Without relegation/qualification for 75% of the participants it's completely pointless from a competitive perspective.
ThanksAll founding clubs have to sign up to a spending framework apparently. That and Bein sports are one of the main sponsors of the CL.
If nothing changes league wise it certainly isn't the end of the world, but I still don't love the SL format, and I think the negative impact on the league will be noticeable even if we're all still involved in the competition.
But right now we're all in the dark really.
Don't be shocked if we don't play another game this season, least Rashford gets a rest.
Does this mean that Qatar's shitty, pointless and fraudulently awarded world cup, built on the deaths of multiple slave labourers, is effectively cancelled?
At least this terrible super League does have some silver lining.
Racism? Haha what?
But yeah, I would love if American leagues had promotion / relegation.
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Ole forever cursed to have a semi
I'm negative? You've said you don't want clubs from smaller nations in the Champions League and you said you don't want players like Grealish at clubs like Villa. Just dismissing the relevance of about 99% of clubs for this tiny cabal.