They'll come to a compromise whereby the clubs still play domestically and the Super League will become another competition they play on top of it, maybe at the cost of the Champions League.
Essentially it will become the new Champions League but with even more money and with some Saudi clubs involved to pad the coffers
What I find funny about this is that they’re forever trying monetize the game and play into the hands of fans that likely inhabit the Middle East etc. you cannot manufacture the sort of thing they’re trying to achieve. This will be a plastic tournament
it may well come at the expense of the CL (which in itself can be very dull sometimes). We have to much football imo. We didn’t need the Europa Conference League, yet that was another tournament they just had to create.
ultimately, I think these tournaments miss the point and suffer from the fact there is no real history behind them. Take the Championship and race for promotion to the Prem. It’s probably the most exciting league in the world when we take the finale and the history of play off finals. I truly believe the English league system is the best ever invented and it stands that way because of what those clubs mean to their supporters, in that setting. You can’t buy that
The European Super League isn’t and will not ever be for real fans. Would fans of Spurs and West Ham ever trade rivalries for one another and get excited about the prospect of facing Atalanta twice a season for example. I appreciate it won’t replace the domestic game, but this whole thing is simply something for the plastics, the middle and far east. They don’t have a football culture of their own, and have been trying to overt the European team’s into their manufactured bollocks for so long now
What I find funny about this is that they’re forever trying monetize the game and play into the hands of fans that likely inhabit the Middle East etc. you cannot manufacture the sort of thing they’re trying to achieve. This will be a plastic tournament
it may well come at the expense of the CL (which in itself can be very dull sometimes). We have to much football imo. We didn’t need the Europa Conference League, yet that was another tournament they just had to create.
ultimately, I think these tournaments miss the point and suffer from the fact there is no real history behind them. Take the Championship and race for promotion to the Prem. It’s probably the most exciting league in the world when we take the finale and the history of play off finals. I truly believe the English league system is the best ever invented and it stands that way because of what those clubs mean to their supporters, in that setting. You can’t buy that
The European Super League isn’t and will not ever be for real fans. Would fans of Spurs and West Ham ever trade rivalries for one another and get excited about the prospect of facing Atalanta twice a season for example. I appreciate it won’t replace the domestic game, but this whole thing is simply something for the plastics, the middle and far east. They don’t have a football culture of their own, and have been trying to overt the European team’s into their manufactured bollocks for so long now
great post .. however I have thought for years and years that a 'Euro Super League' is inevitable, and not just a supercharged Champion's League Tournament .. I hate the thought but perhaps we'll see the Prem debuts of Man C, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool et al, 'B' Teams while the 'first teams' take part in a Saudi Cash sponsored Super Bowl type set up .. Ugghhhh .. BUT money as ever screams nowadays, not just talks loud
Another competition that will be reliant upon tv money so I’m all for it because that golden goose has just about had its day in its present format of thinking fans will continually pay up on a number of subscriptions but it won’t change until some really big clubs get their fingers well and truly burnt. This could be the one that does it.
This will definitely happen at some point. If the Premier League were brave ( which they are never going to be ) they should kick the 6 clubs out of the Premier League. If in the reconstituted Premier League , Burnley or Leeds or Palace ( alright maybe not them) can win it , the crowds would continue to come. It will remain hugely competitive with big crowds and loads of excitement. I am actually in favour of it but only if those clubs are subsequently banned from the domestic league competitions
Such a corrupt world. Don’t like the laws, get a court to overturn them. The clubs leading the charge for this are doing so at the peril of their respective league comrades.
They’re the equivalent of that bloke in Titanic, forcing his way onto the women and child life raft, and letting the others drown.
This will definitely happen at some point. If the Premier League were brave ( which they are never going to be ) they should kick the 6 clubs out of the Premier League. If in the reconstituted Premier League , Burnley or Leeds or Palace ( alright maybe not them) can win it , the crowds would continue to come. It will remain hugely competitive with big crowds and loads of excitement. I am actually in favour of it but only if those clubs are subsequently banned from the domestic league competitions
.......for fans of those clubs yes. But highly unlikely the rest of the world would be watching. Who's getting excited about watching Bournemouth v Burnley?
If the 'big 6' plus the likes of Newcastle and maybe Villa disappeared off to a super league, who is seriously going to be interested in what's left? The money would stop for a start as no broadcaster is going to pay ridiculous money for tv rights to a league without it's biggest and most supported clubs. The PL is the best league in the world but lets be honest Sky (and others) don't pay for the league, they're paying for the big clubs. They only show the lesser clubs because they have to, they don't actually want to.
Which then means with less money coming in, the clubs that are left have to drastically cut budgets and the best players left at the remaining clubs (say for example the likes of Paqueta, Bowen, Mitoma) would then likely be off to somewhere else.
They'll come to a compromise whereby the clubs still play domestically and the Super League will become another competition they play on top of it, maybe at the cost of the Champions League.
Essentially it will become the new Champions League but with even more money and with some Saudi clubs involved to pad the coffers
"Play domestically?" Probably not. Just where will their priorities lay? An away Saturday game against Luton with a midweek fixture against Real Madrid to come? The premier League could become just like the domestic cup competitions- an irrelevance. If you need proof check out West Ham's line-up against Liverpool - and that was for a quarter final! Some 6,000 Hammer's fans travelled up to see that. Sadly with all the money involved it will happen, Can't wait to watch Saudi teams in action, not.
They'll come to a compromise whereby the clubs still play domestically and the Super League will become another competition they play on top of it, maybe at the cost of the Champions League.
Essentially it will become the new Champions League but with even more money and with some Saudi clubs involved to pad the coffers
"Play domestically?" Probably not. Just where will their priorities lay? An away Saturday game against Luton with a midweek fixture against Real Madrid to come? The premier League could become just like the domestic cup competitions- an irrelevance. If you need proof check out West Ham's line-up against Liverpool - and that was for a quarter final! Some 6,000 Hammer's fans travelled up to see that. Sadly with all the money involved it will happen, Can't wait to watch Saudi teams in action, not.
Aren’t you really just describing the current Premier League/Champions League dynamic too?
They'll come to a compromise whereby the clubs still play domestically and the Super League will become another competition they play on top of it, maybe at the cost of the Champions League.
Essentially it will become the new Champions League but with even more money and with some Saudi clubs involved to pad the coffers
"Play domestically?" Probably not. Just where will their priorities lay? An away Saturday game against Luton with a midweek fixture against Real Madrid to come? The premier League could become just like the domestic cup competitions- an irrelevance. If you need proof check out West Ham's line-up against Liverpool - and that was for a quarter final! Some 6,000 Hammer's fans travelled up to see that. Sadly with all the money involved it will happen, Can't wait to watch Saudi teams in action, not.
Aren’t you really just describing the current Premier League/Champions League dynamic too?
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Essentially it will become the new Champions League but with even more money and with some Saudi clubs involved to pad the coffers
it may well come at the expense of the CL (which in itself can be very dull sometimes). We have to much football imo. We didn’t need the Europa Conference League, yet that was another tournament they just had to create.
ultimately, I think these tournaments miss the point and suffer from the fact there is no real history behind them. Take the Championship and race for promotion to the Prem. It’s probably the most exciting league in the world when we take the finale and the history of play off finals. I truly believe the English league system is the best ever invented and it stands that way because of what those clubs mean to their supporters, in that setting. You can’t buy that
The European Super League isn’t and will not ever be for real fans. Would fans of Spurs and West Ham ever trade rivalries for one another and get excited about the prospect of facing Atalanta twice a season for example. I appreciate it won’t replace the domestic game, but this whole thing is simply something for the plastics, the middle and far east. They don’t have a football culture of their own, and have been trying to overt the European team’s into their manufactured bollocks for so long now
I am actually in favour of it but only if those clubs are subsequently banned from the domestic league competitions
Madrid president did a personal video message saying it’ll change football. They’re so desperate.
The clubs leading the charge for this are doing so at the peril of their respective league comrades.
If the 'big 6' plus the likes of Newcastle and maybe Villa disappeared off to a super league, who is seriously going to be interested in what's left? The money would stop for a start as no broadcaster is going to pay ridiculous money for tv rights to a league without it's biggest and most supported clubs. The PL is the best league in the world but lets be honest Sky (and others) don't pay for the league, they're paying for the big clubs. They only show the lesser clubs because they have to, they don't actually want to.
Which then means with less money coming in, the clubs that are left have to drastically cut budgets and the best players left at the remaining clubs (say for example the likes of Paqueta, Bowen, Mitoma) would then likely be off to somewhere else.