Ranieri and Van Gaal oppose European Super League
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March 4, 2016 at 5:45 pm #898696
Leicester’s Claudio Ranieri says the Premier League’s big clubs “should blame themselves” if they fail to qualify for the Champions League.
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March 4, 2016 at 6:14 pm #898765Thank goodness to common-sense out there and human beings able to express an opinion without being blinkered by wealth and status.
Vaan Gaal goes as far as saying he wants the Champions League being revert back to the old format and style of the European Cup which I’m deadly in favour of.
Whilst on one side we are having discussions about tiredness and trying to find a way of reducing games to find time for resting players, some out there want to impose a Euro Super League.
Common sense please!!!!!!!!!!!
March 5, 2016 at 8:09 am #899251Nil, I don’t think a Super League is around the corner but I do think it will happen one day because it’s the natural progression of the CL.
What you have to remember is that there are a majority of big clubs yours among them whose owners are only the owners because they are looking at getting a return on their investment and developing the CL will provide a greater return on investment to these owners.
The CL will never revert back to being a competition just for the Champions going backwards never happens and such a move would leave one of other of for instance Real or Barca on the sidelines which if nothing else wont make it as an attractive a competition to Sponsors and the worldwide TV audience.
As the CL develops I hope and believe that it will be under the control of UEFA and it won’t be to the detriment of clubs like Leicester City who will have earned their right to participate in the CL but it would be also be very easy to overcome the loss of a Manchester United,a Liverpool or an AC Milan by giving wild card entries to previous winners for instance and there are moves from the ECA to petition UEFA into doing something about those big clubs who might temporarily find themselves omitted from the CL.
Let’s wait and see how everything develops over time.
March 5, 2016 at 8:26 am #899260Nine, to cut a long story short mate, that is simply greed and it kills the aesthetics of the game.
I really feel those like yourself and I who have not experienced watching football before the ‘conversion’ of the Premier League cannot understand from a purist point of view the snobbery.
There is already plenty of streams of revenue to be earned, even as far as ‘image rights’ on a stand of a stadium which doesn’t make an ounce of sense to me.
The owners of Liverpool for example get plenty in return as with Man United. The day this happens, the day I’d consider giving the sport up altogether.
March 5, 2016 at 8:54 am #899287Nil, I was going to Chelsea long before the PL mate and even before there was the tumbleweed on the terraces and the buckets were out to save the Bridge.
There is an inevitability about how the CL might progress which is bigger that Van Gaal and Ranieri and certainly much bigger than the likes of you or I.
Time will tell mate. Cheers 999
March 5, 2016 at 10:18 am #899404Nine,Nil et al.Hopefully it won’t happen ever.
Or certainly in our lifetimes.March 5, 2016 at 10:41 am #899464Let’s hope so mate.
From my point of view, the League is in a very healthy position despite some out there thinking it’s some sort of a freak show to see Leicester top and other so-called big guns not living up to expectations.
We want competition at the end of the day and not the same team/s winning it year after year.
March 5, 2016 at 10:50 am #899485But isn’t the CL a better competition for having the likes of Liverpool, United and AC Milan in it alongsides the likes of FC Astana, FC Bate and Gent?
Also this debate has nothing whatsoever to do with the PL or Leicester City topping the PL this debate has been going on for a long time at the ECA even when Leicester City were still a Championship team.
March 5, 2016 at 11:00 am #899500……Aguerooooooo I think we will almost certainly see the CL evolve in the next decade.
March 5, 2016 at 11:23 am #899542Nine, best course of action would be for top 2 of each league to go straight into the Euro Super League, and 3,4 and 5 into the UEFA Cup as a straight knockout competition.
Whilst it’s definitely good to see these teams, whoever is up there may as well just hand-pick these and form this ‘fantasy league’.
I still say it’s a disservice to the other teams to disregard them for elite and status quo, but there you go.
March 5, 2016 at 11:38 am #899563Thanks Nine.Do you not think it’s some of the other European heavy-weights
of yesteryear like the Milan clubs.Currently Juve.Bayern worried by the amount of
money that’ll be coming into the Premier league from the start of next season ?March 5, 2016 at 12:45 pm #899731Nil, I’m a bit confused mate you say that some out there percieve Leicester as a freak show yet all I see and read from everybody out there in the media and on the internet are good wishes and support for Leicester in their title challenge and pleasure in their success this season.
I certainly don’t believe that Leicester should be denied their chance in the CL.
Where it all goes from here who knows but I can’t see the lessening of teams in fact the reverse.
March 5, 2016 at 12:48 pm #899737Aguerooooooo, I think there is definitely significant concern from the major clubs in Europe re the amount of TV money going into the PL clubs.
March 5, 2016 at 1:18 pm #899839Just been having a read of today’s Telegraph.
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