This is just the G-14 all over again? Remember that BS organisation? Where all the "top clubs" manipulated everything for years?
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Sky must have solid information that talks have taken place at some level regarding such a proposal but I agree that how far advanced they are is up for debate. The two clubs will come under intense scrutiny from the media now so the next few days and next couple of Manager Press Conferences will be interesting. I fully expect the subject to be taken off the agenda for Klopp and OGS when they next face the press.
Well, you and I have just "conducted talks" on the matter ... I hope we told Perez to do one if he asked us.
Right, a true breakaway can function - but at that point the Sky money is already walking away from the rest of the domestic league anyway so the FA has nothing to lose (and nothing but pride really to gain) by expelling those clubs. My point is predicated on less than a full breakaway, a couple clubs wanting to half-assed break away for a part-time Euro Superleague, but still needing domestic league matches to fill out their schedule.
Liverpool's owners don't like City because in a breakaway league no longer under the thumb of UEFA, City, PSG, Chelsea, and whoever the Saudis buy can just spend whatever the fuck they want and Liverpool will never crack the top 5.
Which is why its so ludicrously stupid that Liverpool and United are pushing for this - they'll barely ever finish in the top half of this fantasy league of theirs.
At the end of the day, though, nothing can really be done to stop the capitalist globalization of football though, can it? Eventually the richest clubs are gonna tear it all apart.
The thing is that the sky report is headlined :
Liverpool and Manchester United are in talks about a bombshell plot involving Europe's biggest football clubs to join a new FIFA-backed tournament that would reshape the sport's global landscape.
Sky News has learned that financiers are assembling a $6 billion (£4.6 billion) funding package to assist the creation of what could become known as the European Premier League.
There is no mention of the term 'allegedly' in that statement. How would they stand legally if Liverpool or Man Utd decided to sue ??. It would suggest they have sufficient documentation to prove that talks have taken place, including financial backing ones.
Knowing our luck mate it will only be available via Premier Sports and that means a match (including buffering) would last four hours.
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I genuinely don't think they'll be happy until they have a league solely comprised of Real, Barca, Juve, Liverpool Man Utd, Man City, PSG, Bayern and probably Chelsea/Arse and Inter/AC Milan playing eachother 4 times a season....
the rest of us can go fuck ourselves!!
I know there will be talk of us maybe being involved, but really... who the fuck wants that, (we'd finish bottom every year, and with a closed shop policy, there'll be no relegation... so it'll be like Groundhog day every year... for ETERNITY!
....is this where football is heading?
Dark days indeed.
the rest of us can go fuck ourselves!!
I know there will be talk of us maybe being involved, but really... who the fuck wants that, (we'd finish bottom every year, and with a closed shop policy, there'll be no relegation... so it'll be like Groundhog day every year... for ETERNITY!
....is this where football is heading?
Dark days indeed.
Just venturing a restrained guess, but if we do this and basically adopt the US model, that would mean:
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La Liga president Javier Tebas said: "The authors of that idea - if they really exist, because there is nobody actually defending it - not only show a total ignorance of the organisation and customs of European and world football, but also a serious ignorance of the audiovisual rights markets.
"A project of this type will mean serious economic damage to the organisers themselves and to those entities that finance it, if they exist, because they´re never official. These underground projects only look good when drafted at a bar at five in the morning"]
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- 18 teams in the PL with perma-lock-in, medals for attendance.
- Winning/Biggest clubs get first pick of the University drafts
- North-South playoffs
- Timeouts
- Stripey Refs
- Specialist subs just for free kicks and pens
- Extra-time multi-ball
- MVPs
- Better graphics
- "World Series of Football" (i.e. both North and South England)
- "Galactic Tournament of Soccer" (EPL and SPL)
- "Universal Battle of Kickball" (add Wales)
- "Pandimensional War of No-Hands" (Add Channel islands and any commonwealth within 3 hours on Easyjet)
[Update:
La Liga president Javier Tebas said: "The authors of that idea - if they really exist, because there is nobody actually defending it - not only show a total ignorance of the organisation and customs of European and world football, but also a serious ignorance of the audiovisual rights markets.
"A project of this type will mean serious economic damage to the organisers themselves and to those entities that finance it, if they exist, because they´re never official. These underground projects only look good when drafted at a bar at five in the morning"]
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How boring would that be? The champions league is already dull as fuck. That would be 100 times worse.
That's ok, put an advert in when ever it buffers and you have the perfect format for American TV.
The Premier Cuntship© can go fuck itself up its own fucking arse, as can Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid
Maybe read the article , it’s all in there , it will be a closed shop for 20 years
Shouldn't laugh but we have a guy in our pub called Simon and he has a terrible stutter poor chap but he's a really nice bloke and loves Spurs. We were watching a match last season and he got really annoyed at one of the referee's decisions (unusual really for a Spurs fan ).
Anyway, he started spluttering and stuttering from his pint glass and it was really bad. One of the pool crowd shouted to the landlord "Chuck us the remote, Simon's buffering". The place just exploded.
I used to know a Simon that was a stutterer (if that's a word), lived in Northwood @ 35 - 40 odd years ago.
Don't think it's anything to do with having that name do you ?
Nah, just a coincidence.
Special relationship.
