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That last line is fucking rich coming from UEFA.
What,played with sticks and silly trousers???...
If I am honest I would just like the European Cup, UEFA Cup and Cup Winners Cup back.
The Conference League is a banana joke competition, the Europa League isn’t a patch on the UEFA Cup and the Champions League is filled up with clubs who mostly aren’t champions.
Reform is massively needed but not the Super League money grabber type.
The Conference League is a banana joke competition, the Europa League isn’t a patch on the UEFA Cup and the Champions League is filled up with clubs who mostly aren’t champions.
Reform is massively needed but not the Super League money grabber type.
Also, I have to add, as a Spurs fan we’ve seen 3 clubs become financially doped and effectively leapfrog us in this climate.
So the FA can get to fuck and so can UEFA
So the FA can get to fuck and so can UEFA
Crazy isn't it. Monopolise the TV rights so your league becomes uncompetitive. Break the transfer record multiple times and pay crazy wages. Then claim we need a change as its unsustainable.
As far as I'm concerned barca and Madrid could go bust tomorrow and football would be a better place
Bless your cottons for portraying this for something other than what it is.
The new format proposed is essentially a closed shop. 16 teams in each of the top 2 divisions, 32 teams in the third.
Relegation and promotion they say? LOL. Only one team is promoted from Blue to Gold, and Gold to Star. That means that a non-SL team in the Prem could win the PL and then has to win consecutive seasons in the SL just to compete with the founder members three years down the line. By that time the founders have been earning so much that they've probably bought all the good players from the PL winning side.
And how long would this last until the domestic leagues are fucked off entirely? I'd give it a decade at most.
It's a cunt league designed to enrich the richest and exclude everyone else.
View: https://x.com/imiasanmia/status/1737424972165898414?s=46&t=fbqxNuG9CT4qTaiJx8mBjg
Great thread on Rumnenige interview about this.
Says it’s all Real and Barca trying to kill the Premier League because they have killed La Liga already
Super league is dead according to him because nobody will join it
View: https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/1737785979279122481?s=20
The hypocrisy of these two Clubs is shameful. Between them they have single-handedly fucked La Liga, squeezing out every last drop of cash into their own pockets, making the league a two Club League. Reap what you sow.
That’s 100% La Liga’s fault.
They consciously and short-sightedly took the decision that “we have Madrid vs Barca, Ronaldo vs Messi, we don’t need to promote or market anything else.
One upon a time England wasn’t so different. In the late 2000’s, Richard Scudamore who was then the public face of the Prem board, essentially said “we only care about the then top 4”.
The prem would be just as boring and closed off of it wasn’t for Spurs and City + a fairer TV deal.
Easy to say it when there's no real firm plan, no money on the table, and it's the popular thing to do.
But if/when things are more concrete is Celtic saying no when Rangers sign up for the guaranteed revenue? Inter sitting out when AC Milan raises their hand? Porto waving it off when Benfica pinch a ticket? ENIC snubbing this when Woolwich take the plunge?
Just like last time, once a domino falls the race not to be left behind will be on.
Anyone heard about this, i hadn't
European Court of Justice decision ‘bigger than Bosman’ and could change the face of football
The European Court of Justice stands to rule on whether Uefa and Fifa are monopolies to be broken up in a landmark case which will have repercussions across the game.
After ECJ’s ruling, is the European Super League really back?
The European Court of Justice’s ruling doesn’t mean Uefa is dead – but it does bring a surprise extra changewww.independent.co.uk
Could be a couple of cases on the roles of fifa/uefa - PL just brought a case as fifa are putting together a new competition for clubs which would last 5 or 6 weeks over the summer meaning :
- effectively no pre-season for clubs
- players exhausted (and therefore more likely to pick up injuries = huge health and safety issues) before PL starts
- PL would need to start a month later but end at same time = much more congested season
etc
IMO FIFA and uefa need to be broken up :
a) A new regulatory body
b) FIFA/uefa ability to take up weeks needs to be restricted - they are living off the clubs who invest to develop players etc - fifa/uefa only pay player wages when called up for internationals not any part of investment made to develop players. Parasites
c) Need to be overseen - the level of corruption is well know. The level of executive pay and perks crazy. The way the 'elections' work that fifa/uefa bribe a number of countries/regional associations to vote in the existing uefa/fifa management on new 5 year contracts = self perpetuated 'pigs in troughs' No real oversight on where massive profits go
etc
View: https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1737814250423226851?s=46&t=DK3x3JffKkqwqcsQdIeO_A
This won’t go the way Real and Barca might have guessed it would