Instead of saying "Great, Man united and Liverpool can bugger off and form a Euro Super League", I would want Villa to come out fighting. We created this thing, and for the first time in a long, long time we have some owners with serious clout and nous. There is an opportunity here to come up with a counterproposal that will smash the cartel and financially aid the EFL.
There's no way that they can get 14 clubs to vote themselves into irrelevance. There'll be a PR campaign to paint the rest of the league as selfish and greedy (it's not a difficult charge to make stick), and they'll threaten to break away. Off you fuck, as far as I'm concerned.
Angered by the way the story broke without their blessing, the Premier League has already given it short shrift, viewing this as a regrettable power-grab. In fact one well-placed Premier League source has described it as a "takeover attempt, rather than a rescue package".
They’re idiots and they’re short sighted.
Quote from: Billy Walker on October 11, 2020, 08:47:49 PMInstead of saying "Great, Man united and Liverpool can bugger off and form a Euro Super League", I would want Villa to come out fighting. We created this thing, and for the first time in a long, long time we have some owners with serious clout and nous. There is an opportunity here to come up with a counterproposal that will smash the cartel and financially aid the EFL. It has crossed my mind that this, along with Wolves' new ownership and the seemingly constantly imminent threat that Newcastle might finally get their shit together, might have something to do with all this.
A counter proposal could sway that PR battle, (e.g.) don't scrap the community shield, keep parachute payments etc.Off the top of my head making one of the charities the community shield helps something one Marcus Rashford MBE endorses.