Perez has been doing an interview on the Super League, some surprising details coming out of it, like PSG never being invited and German teams not spoken to yet
Perez has been doing an interview on the Super League, some surprising details coming out of it, like PSG never being invited and German teams not spoken to yet
PSB are a bit of a "nouveau riche" club anyway, with an average history before the Qataris bought it and killed the league as an interesting competition. Since then they've won Ligue 1 7 times in 8 year
Indeed the French league regularly has long period of dominance by one side, who've then fallen away. Nice in the 50s, Saint-Etienne from the 60s to the mid 70s, Marseille in the late 80s and Lyon in the 2000s
What an absolute PR disaster for all of the clubs involved!
Imagine having the stupidity to announce this in the middle of a ******** pandemic? How dumb do you have to be exactly to do that?
No surprise of course that it's the American billionaire class - psychopaths to a man - that are behind this plan as owners of four of the six English clubs involved, with the other two backed of course by Russian and Emirati oil money.
It was inevitable in the end that insatiable greed would mean that football would end up eating itself and that is exactly what has happened.
Who in their right mind could look at the current landscape for big clubs like Man Utd - about to offer Paul Pogba 500K PER WEEK - and say, "You know what, I think these guys actually need more money!"
What an absolute joke of the highest order and they will get their arses well and truly burned for this.
Ironically of course they have just severely devalued the Premier League because BT and Sky are going to say at the next rights bidding, "Your top six teams don't even want to be in the league anymore and might leave anytime so you are not worth what you were four years ago."
For one thing, News Corp. - the biggest proponent and backer of the Premier League - will be incandescent with rage about what these clubs have done because it completely jeopardizes their business model and they will not stand for that.
Now, there's one place in British life you don't want to be and that's in the firing line of The Sun, The Times etc - these people are absolutely ruthless in defending their interests and they will be digging up every bit of shit they can on these clubs and their owners.
Remember, of course, that News Corp. owns Boris Johnson lock, stock and barrel and he is going to play the 'Flag of St George' nationalist card on this one and pit the country against 'greedy foreign owners attacking our game' - it's like shooting fish in a barrel for him.
As much as i hate the idea of this, as I did the start of the premier league for almost the same reasons, i really do think this will go ahead and will all blow over in a couple of years. Hope i am wrong and all football clubs and fans stick together and don't fall for sickly sweeteners that may come their way.
Alexi Lalas is the biggest wanker going...nobody takes any notice of him over here. Can't get a job as a pundit anymore and last I saw was doing the womens world cup coverage
Perez did an interview on Spanish tv last night. 2 comments stuck out that confirmed early suspicions that this is all just some huge power grab and won't actually happen.
His point is that UEFA are not reforming the Champions league until 2024. But clubs (especially his and Barcelona) are skint now and need the extra money asap, they can't wait until 2024.
So all this nonsense appears to just be a ploy to get UEFA to introduce their reforms immediately.
I do think this has been coming for a long time. Amazon with their all or nothing behind the scenes documentaries, clubs engaging in tours of the Far East for pre season friendlies, Mickey Mouse trophies between some of the super league clubs next to some shopping mall in the Middle East. It’s like gentrification on heat and the clubs that have signed up have over dosed on oat milk lattes and avocado on toast sprinkled with chai seeds and honey from a bee that only pollinates once a century, or some such bollocks.
The teams will be playing each other so often, it would not surprise me in the least if there are a few games on neutral grounds......in North America, Asia and the Middle East, especially when you take into account the nationality of the owners and/or major sponsors of some of these clubs.
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
Football is gone - the premier league was a breakaway league once - players salaries need a reset but won’t happen as will always be someone willing to pay more, the fans can’t do anything as a pal who is an arsenal st - he gives up his st there’s 30k waiting to take over it
Perez did an interview on Spanish tv last night. 2 comments stuck out that confirmed early suspicions that this is all just some huge power grab and won't actually happen.
If and it’s a big if .. it goes ahead All media outlets , SKY , BT etc etc complete media blackout ... no matches , no highlights , no goals .. just no news of interviews with these clubs ...
If and it’s a big if .. it goes ahead All media outlets , SKY , BT etc etc complete media blackout ... no matches , no highlights , no goals .. just no news of interviews with these clubs ...
100 percent this.
Make these companies aware that you will cancel subscription, stop listening if they acknowledge it.
Same with any company who sponsor or has a association with the league or clubs in it.
If Thomas was to cough up the cash to buy a seventh English team place in the ESL, we could be playing in Europe next season (or whenever the ESL is due to kick off).
As another Lifer says often, "I'll get my coat!"...
If and it’s a big if .. it goes ahead All media outlets , SKY , BT etc etc complete media blackout ... no matches , no highlights , no goals .. just no news of interviews with these clubs ...
Will never happen though because the big clubs are where the interest is.
Obviously their fans do, but generally people don't buy sky subscriptions because they're interested in Burnley and Brighton. It's because they want to watch games involving the big 6 teams. 'Super Sunday' isn't hyped up for Palace v Southampton, it's when there's a Manchester or North London derby.
Sky know that, so they'd never stop covering the big teams because they know that's where the money is.
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
Football is gone - the premier league was a breakaway league once - players salaries need a reset but won’t happen as will always be someone willing to pay more, the fans can’t do anything as a pal who is an arsenal st - he gives up his st there’s 30k waiting to take over it
I hope these clubs are kicked out as soon as possible and not just from EUFA competition but from the Premier league. Interesting the level of debt accrued by all of those clubs, all have sat the debt back into the club and are now looking at this to rid the clubs of debt and probably sell on for a huge fee. I don't think this is good for English football but it just might be the thing that unites us all to finally sort out the mess that football finds itself in.
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
Football is gone - the premier league was a breakaway league once - players salaries need a reset but won’t happen as will always be someone willing to pay more, the fans can’t do anything as a pal who is an arsenal st - he gives up his st there’s 30k waiting to take over it
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
So you either have to sacrifice your life like William Wallace and cry 'FREEEEDOooOOoOM' as they pull your insides out, or you should keep your mouth shut?
I do think this has been coming for a long time. Amazon with their all or nothing behind the scenes documentaries, clubs engaging in tours of the Far East for pre season friendlies, Mickey Mouse trophies between some of the super league clubs next to some shopping mall in the Middle East. It’s like gentrification on heat and the clubs that have signed up have over dosed on oat milk lattes and avocado on toast sprinkled with chai seeds and honey from a bee that only pollinates once a century, or some such bollocks.
The teams will be playing each other so often, it would not surprise me in the least if there are a few games on neutral grounds......in North America, Asia and the Middle East, especially when you take into account the nationality of the owners and/or major sponsors of some of these clubs.
This is what’s for imo. To tap into those markets. Games to be streamed on Disney plus or Apple TV. The whole thing is just a shambles and it’s an insult to the real fans of those clubs.
The consequence of this ESL league on domestic leagues in Europe and here will be as bad as the effect of the formation of the Premier league in 1993 was on the rest of English football. It will also badly effect the other pan European cup competitions, though not a badly so as the domestic. The current pan European cup competitions will become de facto the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the ESL.
If and it’s a big if .. it goes ahead All media outlets , SKY , BT etc etc complete media blackout ... no matches , no highlights , no goals .. just no news of interviews with these clubs ...
Will never happen though because the big clubs are where the interest is.
Obviously their fans do, but generally people don't buy sky subscriptions because they're interested in Burnley and Brighton. It's because they want to watch games involving the big 6 teams. 'Super Sunday' isn't hyped up for Palace v Southampton, it's when there's a Manchester or North London derby.
Sky know that, so they'd never stop covering the big teams because they know that's where the money is.
Sadly true.
It’ll be Super Sunday with Man Utd vs Man City, live from Los Angeles.
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
So you either have to sacrifice your life like William Wallace and cry 'FREEEEDOooOOoOM' as they pull your insides out, or you should keep your mouth shut?
It’s when morally wrong starts getting chucked about I have an issue.
The Real Madrid president saying the young are losing interest in football because there are to many poor games. Nothing to do with the rising cost of watching football or watching two top teams cancelling each other out. These owners are so out of touch
Any league that does not have a promotion or relegation system is nothing more than a series of friendlies played without fear of going down. That goes against everything that football supporters in all leagues believe in. As for the best clubs don't make me laugh it's all about the richest clubs wanting to keep all the money to themselves. For example take a look at how many times certain clubs have won the title. This includes the following Everton 9 Villa 7 Sunderland 6 Newcastle 4 Sheffield Wednesday 4.
And way down the list you have the mighty spurs with 2. That's right Tottenham have only ever won the title twice in their entire history.
This proposed league is entirely about the richest clubs and nothing to do with the most successful. It stinks and must be stopped.
Everyone fawning over Neville - his current employers wanted to charge £15 a game for “fans” to watch during the covid crisis - also if sky were to cover the games he wouldn’t work on them - think he would.
Football is gone - the premier league was a breakaway league once - players salaries need a reset but won’t happen as will always be someone willing to pay more, the fans can’t do anything as a pal who is an arsenal st - he gives up his st there’s 30k waiting to take over it
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Indeed the French league regularly has long period of dominance by one side, who've then fallen away. Nice in the 50s, Saint-Etienne from the 60s to the mid 70s, Marseille in the late 80s and Lyon in the 2000s
Imagine having the stupidity to announce this in the middle of a ******** pandemic? How dumb do you have to be exactly to do that?
No surprise of course that it's the American billionaire class - psychopaths to a man - that are behind this plan as owners of four of the six English clubs involved, with the other two backed of course by Russian and Emirati oil money.
It was inevitable in the end that insatiable greed would mean that football would end up eating itself and that is exactly what has happened.
Who in their right mind could look at the current landscape for big clubs like Man Utd - about to offer Paul Pogba 500K PER WEEK - and say, "You know what, I think these guys actually need more money!"
What an absolute joke of the highest order and they will get their arses well and truly burned for this.
Ironically of course they have just severely devalued the Premier League because BT and Sky are going to say at the next rights bidding, "Your top six teams don't even want to be in the league anymore and might leave anytime so you are not worth what you were four years ago."
For one thing, News Corp. - the biggest proponent and backer of the Premier League - will be incandescent with rage about what these clubs have done because it completely jeopardizes their business model and they will not stand for that.
Now, there's one place in British life you don't want to be and that's in the firing line of The Sun, The Times etc - these people are absolutely ruthless in defending their interests and they will be digging up every bit of shit they can on these clubs and their owners.
Remember, of course, that News Corp. owns Boris Johnson lock, stock and barrel and he is going to play the 'Flag of St George' nationalist card on this one and pit the country against 'greedy foreign owners attacking our game' - it's like shooting fish in a barrel for him.
A complete debacle.
So all this nonsense appears to just be a ploy to get UEFA to introduce their reforms immediately.
highlights , no goals .. just no news of interviews with these clubs ...
Same with any company who sponsor or has a association with the league or clubs in it.
If Thomas was to cough up the cash to buy a seventh English team place in the ESL, we could be playing in Europe next season (or whenever the ESL is due to kick off).
As another Lifer says often, "I'll get my coat!"...
Obviously their fans do, but generally people don't buy sky subscriptions because they're interested in Burnley and Brighton. It's because they want to watch games involving the big 6 teams. 'Super Sunday' isn't hyped up for Palace v Southampton, it's when there's a Manchester or North London derby.
Sky know that, so they'd never stop covering the big teams because they know that's where the money is.
imagine the reaction Liverpool would have gotten last night with 30 thousand Leeds fans waiting to greet them.
It will also badly effect the other pan European cup competitions, though not a badly so as the domestic. The current pan European cup competitions will become de facto the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the ESL.
That goes against everything that football supporters in all leagues believe in.
As for the best clubs don't make me laugh it's all about the richest clubs wanting to keep all the money to themselves.
For example take a look at how many times certain clubs have won the title.
This includes the following
Everton 9
Villa 7
Sunderland 6
Newcastle 4
Sheffield Wednesday 4.
And way down the list you have the mighty spurs with 2.
That's right Tottenham have only ever won the title twice in their entire history.
This proposed league is entirely about the richest clubs and nothing to do with the most successful.
It stinks and must be stopped.
Charlton Charge a tenner a game