NEW EURO LEAGUE FORMED
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March 3, 2016 at 3:57 pm #896380
Why on earth would any of these teams pull out of the PL given the TV riches? Media nonsense again.
Ultimately though converting the CL to a European Super League is a natural progression and that’s the way that it well might go some time in the future.
March 3, 2016 at 4:04 pm #896413Sport is all about competition. With guaranteed places their is no competition and they would all be glorified friendlies. I would never watch it even if spurs were in it.
Its all about safeguarding finances, not about football.March 3, 2016 at 8:57 pm #896749Lilywhite, it’s not happening mate the media put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5.
March 4, 2016 at 10:31 am #897256Fans would resist Champions League match moves to US or Far East
Its likely that the World Cup will grow up to 40 teams soon enough, at least the new Fifa president has stated his intension to do so.
The Uefa is in troubles at the moment with Platini out but I would hazard a guess that they would consider a reform of the Champions League and the Uefa Cup. I could even see teams from the States or Asia being a part of that format.
March 4, 2016 at 12:06 pm #897583is has nothing to do with the EPL format as it stands cause they would continue as is. All it means is that there would be a different format for the Champions League run on a full league basis as opposed to the way its currently structured. The so called bigger teams would participate in both the EPL and CL with much bigger squads of course to call on. There probably will also be some kind of system of relegation where bottom teams would have to play off against the top teams in their domestic leagues end of season.
March 4, 2016 at 12:28 pm #897670they could play CL games every week during the week as they do now to accommodate a full league basis, I am all for it as I want to watch top football every weekend day and most week nights if possible. The squads are big enough. There would obviously still be a system of relegation and promotion, there has to be to keep the levels high.
March 4, 2016 at 12:52 pm #897784Badtypefella – You say there would still be a system of promotion and relegation. How would this work.
If you won your league would you only get into the Super league if one of your countries team finished in the relegation zone?
If not and you finished 4th in the Super league and the teams above were all the other from you county would you get relegated to accommodate the team that won your domestic league?
What if you finished bottom of the super league but won your domestic league?
The whole point of this is having the best supported and biggest clubs in the world in it all the time. As the bigger supported clubs from across the world will bring in more viewers, better sponsorship and more revenue from advertising. These clubs want a guaranteed place no matter what there domestic league form is like.
March 4, 2016 at 1:09 pm #897853Football evolves nobody foresaw how big the European Cup would become and who would have predicted it would eventually broaden out to include more than Champions in a reformed Champions League?
Who would have predicted 20 odd years ago that NFL games would be regularly being played on this side of the pond?
The natural progression is that the CL will ultimately develop into a Super League someday and many of the biggest clubs in Europe are playing in a pre season Champions trophy in the US already
It’s a hop, skip and a jump from there for the CL to become a Super League and for certain games to be staged in the States and there’s every likelyhood that there will ultimately be a number of wild card entries to cover a Leicester City getting a CL spot instead of Manchester United or a Villarreal getting a CL spot instead of Real Madrid but that shouldn’t prohibit the likes of Leicester or Villarreal having the chance to participate in the CL and if wild card entries were to come in as ultimately I think they might as the ECA are pushing for something like that they could be based on the UEFA Co efficient down to say the 20 th ranked club for instance or indeed on being a past winner or finalist in the CL providing you are still competing in your domestic top division.
The CL has to be a better competition when the likes of United, Liverpool and AC Milan etc are included and playing in it regularly and it would be better to have teams of that repute playing in the CL alongside for instance the FC Bate’s of this world
You can never say never in football we wouldn’t have floodlights, 3 substitutes from 7 on the bench, goal line technology or indeed even have the CL itself if you did and an expanded CL including “all” of the top clubs would probably make it an even more exciting competition.
March 4, 2016 at 1:40 pm #897976Ultimately, this centres around money.
The Premier League is now an over-hyped product.
Take that away, and the quality (at least in terms of entertainment) has always been there.
I wasn’t any less in happy to when I was watching top flight football under the Barclays League Division One.
Clearly, some people just thrive on messing around with what is perfectly fine and should be left as it is.
Even if the money was taken out, it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.
March 4, 2016 at 1:50 pm #898054Nil, might bother your owners though Nil.?
March 4, 2016 at 1:53 pm #898066Ha, yes my good friend.
I was looking up Hicks and Gillete yesterday and realise I and many others were a gluten for punishment!
Take the oblivion amount of money that’s in circulation and these guys will show their true colours and clear off which I’d welcome.
Leicester’s model is starting to restore my faith in the sport
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March 4, 2016 at 1:58 pm #898087Slightly off subject Nine, but noticed recently how some Palace fans out there don’t seem to be happy with Steve Parish.
March 4, 2016 at 2:49 pm #898273It’s the old debate between traditional local team sport vs global franchise entertainment. Can the two exist together simultaneously? It’s clearly the case the balance is now very much towards money making and entertainment whatever the cost to the soul of the game.
Has anyone seen the documentary film “Once in a lifetime” about the New York Cosmos?? The ideology behind the club and league, i.e. bring in top stars like Pele to get people interested, was effectively the blueprint to our game here in recent decades. The premier league has executed this plan the most effectively and now boasts the greatest global reach.
I accept the almost inevitability of such things, but the key point for me is that teams have been corrupted by such things. A prime example is that of Manchester Utd. Here we have a club that until recently supposedly gave the manager time, kept an identity and played and developed the youngsters as the core of the team. Very quickly, panic has set in and the board reacted by spending vast amounts of money, whilst going through several managers – all done in fear of losing ground to rivals, believing that money is the only way out of their troubles.
The question then is how to we try and bring a degree of loyalty back? Man Utd won title after title because of their togetherness and hunger to get over the line. Leicester have followed a similar recipe and are now reaping their rewards, and it’s so much healthier for long term sustainability… otherwise you need vast buckets of cash and/or managers like Mourinho who have the unique ability to make up for a lack of togetherness in a team. But this has handed power over to the players and we see the results of such things. I just hope more teams wake up and smell the coffee and put more into their local communities and have a little more patience. But so long as there’s big money to sustain everything, that will always tend to be the first natural port of call.
March 24, 2016 at 7:47 am #933485According to reports today UEFA are in discussions to develop the Champions Lesgue into a mini European League format as early as the 2017/18 season with two leagues of 8 providing 14 league games per qualifier primarily between the biggest clubs in Europe as it would be preceded by several knockout rounds to eliminate the smaller clubs (the Bate’s of this world)from the competition with the objective of having the best chance of the strongest 16 clubs competing at the 2 Mini League stage.
The objective of which is to provide an improved CL with better quality games v the current CL Group stage games,substantially increased viewing figures,greater sponsorship opportunities and ultimately greater prize money.
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