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Post by WullieFort on Oct 20, 2020 13:32:34 GMT
Proposal to have such a league is now being pushed a little harder amid claims that it has FIFA backing, 5 English clubs will be invited to join an 18 club strong championship which would be played in midweek. Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs are among the 5 EPL clubs who would be invited. That leaves Arsenal. Spurs and Chelsea to possibly fill the other two spots
This is being reported on Sky.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 20, 2020 15:00:12 GMT
Great, just what football needs, the rich clubs monopolising even more TV exposure and becoming even richer.
If and when this happens, it will be just a matter of time before those clubs decide that they don't need to loan their expensive players to national teams anymore. That will be the end of international football. I hope I am dead by then.
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 20, 2020 15:09:22 GMT
Not feasible. Playing in an extra league will become too tiring for these teams and they will deteriorate in quality on their home leagues. Even if they try it , it won't last for more than 1 season. Unless of course, this European League has no more than 4 or 5 games per team per season.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 20, 2020 15:19:07 GMT
Proposal to have such a league is now being pushed a little harder amid claims that it has FIFA backing, 5 English clubs will be invited to join an 18 club strong championship which would be played in midweek. Liverpool and the two Manchester clubs are among the 5 EPL clubs who would be invited. That leaves Arsenal. Spurs and Chelsea to possibly fill the other two spots This is being reported on Sky. I assume this be in addition to the EPL, Bundesliga et al instead of their domestic leagues. Teams already squeak about too many matches.
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 20, 2020 15:55:58 GMT
If it comes to pass, then I would expect teams to increase their squad sizes to around 30.
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 21, 2020 13:11:01 GMT
Talks have taken place over the creation of a new £4.6bn European Premier League, involving the top sides from across the continent.
Sources told the BBC that discussions are still at an early stage but the plan would involve replacing the Champions League with a new format.
Industry insiders confirmed talks involved Wall Street bank JP Morgan.
But the project is said to still have a "long way to go" and the deal "may not happen".
Reports suggest five Premier League clubs, including champions Liverpool and Manchester United, have been approached by those behind the plan with more than a dozen teams from England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain in negotiations about becoming founder members of the competition.
It has also been reported that the European Premier League would see 18 sides compete in a single league with the top sides taking part in a play-off to determine an overall winner and that world governing body Fifa is involved.
Last week Premier League clubs rejected 'Project Big Picture' - a proposal to reduce the league from 20 to 18 clubs and scrap the EFL Cup and Community Shield. It would also have seen more power transferred to the so-called 'big six' Premier League clubs.
European football's governing body Uefa said it opposed the plan.
"The Uefa president has made it clear on many occasions that Uefa strongly opposes a Super League.
"The principles of solidarity, of promotion, relegation and open leagues are non-negotiable. It is what makes European football work and the Champions League the best sports competition in the world.
"Uefa and the clubs are committed to build on such strength not to destroy it to create a super league of 10, 12, even 24 clubs, which would inevitably become boring."
'Last nail in the coffin' Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, said the idea of a European Super League shows that billionaire owners of clubs "are out of control".
"The latest reports of plots, allegedly involving Manchester United and Liverpool, to create a European Super League, expose the myth that billionaire owners care about the English football pyramid, or indeed anything other than their own greed," said Miles.
"This has to be the last nail in the coffin of the idea that football can be relied upon to regulate itself."
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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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 22, 2020 8:12:41 GMT
I am against that, because there is no need for it, and its a horrible idea.
But if it was to happen that there is a European premier league with i don`t know 20 teams or something, than i think the 20 teams that take part in it should not be allowed to take part in the domestic league.
Football used to be a game for the working class, it has become a game for the upper class.
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Post by Zos on Oct 22, 2020 12:48:35 GMT
Not a chance it will happen. This is probably just a lead up to the big EPL clubs being allowed to negotiate their own TV rights or something.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 22, 2020 12:57:30 GMT
Include me out.
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