Well that's it for the English Leagues...

exeterboro said:
as we know them. The European Court of Justice has just ruled in favour of the breakaway clubs and the Super league.
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It doesn't necessarily mean that at all. The one major thing the clubs found with the last farce was how deeply unpopular it was. Nothing has changed there.

That said I have no qualms about the top 6 or so effing off and seeing the fallout from their fans.
 
I heard that the new super league will be free to watch. That may impact the Sky deal and take away money from the Premier League.

I won't bother watching it, just like I don't normally bother watching the the Premier League now.

Imagine Liverpool V Man Utd once a month. After that awful game on Sunday, I'm not sure how they would market it. Fans and sponsors will soon get bored of the same 12 teams playing each other. The only people watching will be tourists. Bit like watching the Harlem Globetrotters.
 
It would depend how they formatted it. Would it take an American style format where the top 8 or 4 teams went into a knockout style play-off at the end?
Or would each team play each other 4 times?

With no promotion/relegation they would need to fin a way to keep it interesting for the teams not competing for the top spot. A play-off system would do that.

Clearly each team playing each other twice isn't enough games for a football season either.
 
My worry is that they get to have their cake and eat it, fielding a B team in domestic competition, thus devaluing the pyramid in England.

I am more than happy for them to disappear to a ESL as long as they cannot return to the football league for say 3 years? after leaving the ESL and then only rejoining at the bottom of the pyramid.
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
My worry is that they get to have their cake and eat it, fielding a B team in domestic competition, thus devaluing the pyramid in England.

I am more than happy for them to disappear to a ESL as long as they cannot return to the football league for say 3 years? after leaving the ESL and then only rejoining at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Can’t return ever *

Have to be strong on that. Fck em and their greed. I hope they eat themselves.
 
B_G said:
The fans probably want it. Worldwide there will be a big appetite for it even if there isn't domestically.
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I think that's true. Their "traditional" fans I think were strongly against it last time. Eg those that go to games and live locally (or in man utds case, Essex).

But these are now vastly outnumbered by global fans and that's where the money is. George in Ghana, and Lee in Korea are probably mad for this nonsense. "gooners till I die" etc.
 
festa5 said:
I think that's true. Their "traditional" fans I think were strongly against it last time. Eg those that go to games and live locally (or in man utds case, Essex).

But these are now vastly outnumbered by global fans and that's where the money is. George in Ghana, and Lee in Korea are probably mad for this nonsense. "gooners till I die" etc.
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Exactly. There's 4 Billion people in Asia and Africa that would love to see this. The 60 million people in the UK or 300 million people in UK, Germany, Spain and Italy won't matter.
 
I agree B_G - I just put this on the other thread: "I suspect they are not interested in anything except the revenue from the rest of the world. LIV golf is paving the way - throw enough money and drift begins. The governing bodies haven't covered themselves in glory mind. The way the Premier League is run has produced a nice cartel for the hoovering up of the cash - the group may wax and wane in size but it is the usual suspects clustered at the top every year. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing wider all the time - mirroring society in many respects."
 
JM14 said:
Let them go, it’s no loss to football and especially to fans of teams like ours
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It is a huge loss or we wouldn't be discussing it, the ramifications for domestic league football are huge and we will see teams going to the wall with the possible loss of TV revenue.
 
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