The Fun Factory Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, Jareth said: Well I do have a double chin but that seems a bit strong for this time of the morning. Also - £2B VT dollars you are wrong. I was aiming that to Mr Perez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, The Fun Factory said: I was aiming that to Mr Perez. Oh right - scuze! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 13 minutes ago, Jareth said: This is over I'm certain of it. Perez has been on TV saying it has to be this way or it's the end of the clubs in question - is not exactly how you sell a sexy new football league. Desperation in every way meeting opposition from everyone that is not one of these clubs. This is going to crash and burn in legendary style. Perez was against La Liga playing league games abroad as wasn't good for the league. Maybe his new plan was a better idea for the league 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 36 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: If this does all fall apart without moving much further forward, what’s the punishment they’ll face? Or at least, should face. 40 point deduction for next season One player per team to be gifted to the Premier League team of Prince William’s choice. Woodward, Henry, Kroenke, Mansour, Abarmovich and Levy to be stripped naked, tarred, feathered and tied to the goal posts at Wembley for a week. With free access and footballs available to the public. Seems a bit lenient, but it’s a start. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, Jareth said: Oh right - scuze! It was a reference to a Simpsons episode but that might have been a bit oblique. I am sure you have the body of Adonis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 This won't be over until football clubs go back to being football clubs rather than multinational industries. As far as the owners as the clubs go - everytime they step on the field they should be playing in a big occasion match, every time they put on a match to to play a middling PL side its seen as a revenue loss. Until that changes a move towards a closed ESL will continue in some sort of shape, size or form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: Glad he mentioned agents Yup, apart from some greedy owners and corrupt leaders agents are the real cancer on football. All makes sense now why Raiola and Haaland bothered to visit Barcelona despite their finances being in the toiled. They knew very well about this super league being brought forward in the coming weeks. They need to reign in and regulate agents and any money they make should come from the players pocket and not the clubs. Sure they will work around it if possible but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 With this super league already being top heavy with English clubs would an English club ever be invited as one of the 5 extra places. That would mean 7 clubs out of 20 would be English. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tinker Posted April 20, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2021 The media aka Sky , motd....need to learn a lesson from this and stop promoting the same old teams over and over again. Yea they have some great players but so do the other 14 teams. The BBC should also start showing EFL highlights as well, similar to motd. They have a duty to support our national game not just the top few greedy owners. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 There are 6 clubs willing to ruin the sport for everyone else - this is a problem that won't go away - there must be significant restructuring of ownership to prevent any owner moving forward with such audacious plans without a majority of fans on board. I think this can only be solved ultimately at government level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, tinker said: The media aka Sky , motd....need to learn a lesson from this and stop promoting the same old teams over and over again. Yea they have some great players but so do the other 14 teams. The BBC should also start showing EFL highlights as well, similar to motd. They have a duty to support our national game not just the top few greedy owners. Yes exactly that. ‘The Big Six’ are only known as such because Sky peddled it so much. Now look what they’ve created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 10 hours ago, useless said: Eventually the league without Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, and Liverpool or the 'big six' as they're often collectively called, would eventually become just as uncompetitive as it is now, as other teams over time take their place as the dominant forces, teams like us, Everton, Newcastle, Leicester and a few others would fill the spaces vacated. It will be a lot more competitive than if they are allowed to stay. With the extra games they will have to play they will just go out and buy the Grealish's, Maddisons, Rice's, Pickfords (ok that one was a joke) so they have two strong teams to field, with the additional buying power it will be virtually impossible to stop them. You won't then get Leicester, Everton, us getting a chance then to break into the top 6 let alone the top 4. Then as they get stronger how long before they start dictating more and more to the PL. It as to be stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted April 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2021 6 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: Woodward, Henry, Kroenke, Mansour, Abarmovich and Levy to be stripped naked, tarred, feathered and tied to the goal posts at Wembley for a week. With free access and footballs available to the public. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted April 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, sne said: Yup, apart from some greedy owners and corrupt leaders agents are the real cancer on football. All makes sense now why Raiola and Haaland bothered to visit Barcelona despite their finances being in the toiled. They knew very well about this super league being brought forward in the coming weeks. They need to reign in and regulate agents and any money they make should come from the players pocket and not the clubs. Sure they will work around it if possible but still. Don't me wrong a guy who's team has an owner that pays them £60m a year for their sleeve sponsor is sat in an ivory tower... But he's right, the answer is control your spending, some of these clubs don't even seem to be trying, it's pure excess based on greed, if real Madrid and Barca go bump then so be it, let them be a lesson to everyone else, start with agents fees, then transfer fees and wages The biggest problem with the superleague for the superleague teams is they sound like money is the answer to all their problems, they will just earn more so that they can continue to spend more, it won't actually break the cycle of irresponsible spending it will probably make it worse, they spend more than they earn so the problem must be what they earn... **** off 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I think we need to be really careful not to make this a "tribal" thing. It's really easy for those involved with other clubs - as seen with Klopp yesterday - to become really defensive about this. It's the owners of the clubs that are doing this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sne Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 (edited) How about we allow them to compete in both this super league and in the PL but they are not allowed to use the players from their Super League squad in the PL or in FIFA/UEFA competitions. They can have the cake and eat it but they have to pay for the upkeep of 2 separate squads. Let's see which games the fans chose to watch and in which squads the players want to play. Edited April 20, 2021 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 Fifa's statement means International careers are over - there will be huge player backlash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Infantino being the toughest I've ever seen him. It's not going to end well for the dodgy 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Absolutely correct. But I'll tell you one thing they do care about, and that's votes. They would be like the political version of the ESL. Sitting on wads of cash whilst somebody else is busy running the country. Edited April 20, 2021 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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