This is a messy, grubby financial thing again, but it's breaking this evening that there's to be a possible breakaway from our "big 6" plus 3 from Spain and 3 from Italy.
I believe they plan to run a competition midweek instead of the Champion's league and open it up to 15 permanent members and to 5 invited teams each season.
Obviously the timing is vile, the plan is anti-competitive and deeply unpopular with the authorities.
Said authorities appear to be ready to hit the nuclear button if the clubs don't back down, but there may be a statement from the signed up clubs this evening.
The problem here is that the idea keeps resurfacing and the foreign owners who want a franchise competition aren't going away.
Where will this end?
They're also saying that any player who plays in it may not be available for international football....
The good news is that we'd have a chance to win the Premier every season from now on....! 🤣👍⚽👏
I'd take the rebel clubs who have signed the letter and issue a blanket 5 year ban from European competitions, with immediate effect.
They don't think the Champion's League lines their pockets enough so see how they get on without any of that revenue.
That would make these foreign owners sell up or resize their models around the domestic revenue.
Relegate them all for bringing the game into disrepute. If this went ahead then clubs lower down the ladder no longer have an incentive to climb it. There will not be a romantic story of a Wimbledon or a Leicester, or indeed, a 1992 Leeds.
I would be ashamed if LUFC had been involved. Football exists because fans of even non league clubs can dream. It is part of all fans lives. When our teams wins we have great days when they lose we are quiet.
If I wanted Glory all of the time my favourite club would have gone from LUFC to Liverpool to Manure to Citeh
I am a monogamous football fan. One club FOR LIFE!
It'll never happen. They haven't even got the support of Bayern Munich or Paris St Germain, and had to resort to including Spurs to make up the numbers. This one is lost before they've even got started.
could be a bargaining ploy to extract more cash and influence for the so called big clubs?
Talk of a European Super League has been around for years and never got off the ground and the same will happen here.
Even if its only being used by our "big six (my ar$e) clubs" as a means of getting more more more, its a disgusting and imoral and shows a lack of any respect for the game or the true fans and they should be ejected from the league for even considering it. If I was a supporter of any of the clubs involved this morning Id feel deeply disillusioned at the prospect and at how the club is treating them. If this were to go ahead it would simply be another nail in the coffin of the beautiful game as it morphs into nothing more than a video game watched from afar by other "fans" with no social connection to our country never mind the individual cities, no passion no true fans = no game worth watching.
I see that even scumchesters G Nevill is up in arms against his own club saying they should be docked points, shoved to the bottom of the division...Ha!
Greedy owners,clubs, players...killing the game.
It's turning into an evolving nightmare. Apparently the breakaway teams' leaders have resigned from their UEFA roles this morning. This is going all the way.
How much does tonight's game become front and centre as two great English clubs meet, with one looking to feather its own nest at the expense of the other.... we might be the most popular watch of the season tonight.
Viva la Revolución!! ✊
Please sign and share.
Juventus share price rose 7% from Friday.
Money will decide if this ESL goes ahead or not, looking at Ed woodward and other people resigning from their positions on UEFA committee's this may have now gone past the point of no return.
I think the English FA/EFL have only one shot to fire now,
Make a statement saying if any club leaves to join a a breakaway league they do so knowing that they will never be allowed compete in any english league ever again.
To the players if they play in any UN-recognised league they do so knowing they will never be selected to play for the national football team.
its Sh*t or bust now as the lines are drawn in the sand
So if this does happen now and it starts next season,And the governing bodies follow through with their threats...... As things stand,we will qualify for the champions League by virtue of finishing in the top 4,and with Kane and Rashford banned from internationals Bamford will be called up for the Euros..... 👍👍
Wouldn't you kmow, Man Yoo are the ringleaders.
Feel sorry for their true fans...NOT 😂
I saw that the breakaway clubs have issue paperwork to European and uk courts to stop them being kicked out
I see Kerion Dyer dosen't think its fair to ban players from international competition.
Personally its a tough one but if the FA/EFL and other National Football Associations dont clamp down and stick to the same hymn page then they will lose this battle.
Dont tell me if players know they cant play for their national team that some/most wont sign for those so called "super league" Clubs, yes some will but imo the majority wont.
English / Spanish / Italian leagues will suffer for a few years but after the ESL project fizzles out these associations other teams will bounce back.
like honestly its expensive enough to follow english football around england so now add international flights/accommodation into the equation or add extra money on these pay-per view channels take up will be low and eventually the money men behind this ESL will call a halt to this whole league. Then where do the "super clubs" go???
Will leeds utd / blackburn / Coventry / Luton / qpr supporters pay to watch ManU versus Juve? i dont think so. Will kids start following the ManU / Real Madrid teams in the future? again if they cant see them what affinity can they have, if daddy isnt buying the game or traveling to Spain on a Wednesday to watch the game and 2 weeks later fly out to Milan to watch another midweek game. Taking the kid out of School?? never going to happen, so the kid wont be exposed to the hype of following those teams.
If they go let them go im telling ye now an ESL cant sustain that type of fan "cost" and without the fans if the pandemic has thought us anything the Club struggles to survive.
But if they go thats it never ever ever be allowed back into the domectic leagues.
Manure's shares have rose by 8.5% on the New York Exchange which opened in the past half hour.
Looks like the moneymen are trying to whip up some business.
Bit like the Packer thing in cricket but at least the players got jack in those days.
Absolutely no defence,
Glad we are not one of them.
It won't work,quite simply because the 12 so called 'founding member's will be untouchable... and will be able to chop and change things as they see fit with no governing body telling them what they can and cannot do... Chaos will rule without proper rules and regulations,And they will be literally saying fook u to the average football fan and just catering to the rich and famous who can afford to jet set across Europe week in week out....But what they are forgetting is that is the average football fans that make it possible for them to live their extravagant lives not the rich ones.... 😐
If only that were so. I'm afraid the average football fan falls way down the list of corporate football clubs these days. Their first priority is the shareholder and the value they can return on their investment. The financial brains behind the clubs involved would have already worked out and played various scenarios, once the news was released. Global TV rights, American & Asian markets are the gold mines for these clubs as opposed to the rest of the teams.
In respect of the true football fan and our standing in the football world, I'm afraid that train left the station sometime ago when the FA sold out to Sky, BskyB, BT, Amazon Prime. These companies practically dictate when, where and how we watch football these days given the money that they put in.
Agree with 1972 glory. The geezers in Madchester are not the fans - it's the millions in Taiwan and China paddling about in Scum shirts subscribing to NBC or whoever beams this US franchise farce who will be paying.
@Soopaleeds Exactly right, as Gary Neville (great respect for him, btw) said tonight: it's the millions of virtual 'fans' worldwide that matter to the shareholders, not the ones wholly bound up in the club's past. £1 per viewer per game for a stream could easily generate £150m per week.
I think the six should be told to go and enjoy their new plastic product. They most definitely will not be missed. And the streamers will soon get bored.
you cant stop players from earning a living has already been the case of a court ruling when athletics tried to stop a wrestling league and a swimming league being set up