Premier League reform proposals

[PeterWithesShin]

Amazing how many of the changes seem to benefit mainly the wankfest 6.

Clubs want less games, and yet instead of just keeping season length as it is meaning 4 midweek games go so there's your rest time for your players. Oh what's that, the PL will start later and the pre-season friendlies period is extended? So you'll swap those 4 league games for more lucrative friendlies instead.

[SaddVillan]

Fewer league fixtures, no League Cup = more "space" for Chump$ £€ague.
No Community Shield = more space for pre-season money tours.

The big 6 will have calculated that the income lost from 4 league games will be more than made up extra tour games and European dosh.

The other if they vote for this are like turkeys voting for Christmas: their income will be reduced and the odds of getting relegated will increase too.

If it goes through, you can then see the "big 6" who strangely would have a majority of the 9 "long term shareholders" to vote through an arrangement whereby they'd shaft the other 12 clubs.

Have these clubs got the common sense to see through this charade.

If not - welcome to franchise football.

The sooner they bugger off to their EuroSuperLeague in which they just keep playing the same few dozen clubs in a kind of footballing Grounding Day (from which they will not be allowed to return) then so much the better.

And don't be surprised to see them trotting off during the winter break to warmer climes for the Dubai/Emirates Adidas/Nike Trophy.

Cynical?
You be the judge.

[Billy Walker]

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. 

[Sexual Ealing]

David Conn's piece on this issue. Surprised he's been taken in, although he's right about the sharing of revenues:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/oct/11/plan-to-mend-the-great-crack-in-football-pyramid-should-not-be-swept-off-the-table?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Clive W]

“Two-thirds of the long-term shareholders can veto the Premier League board’s approval of a proposed new owner.”

So let’s for the sake of argument say that the barcodes get their act together and get taken over by Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man - clearly this would be a massive threat to the “big six”

We could then have the situation whereby:
  Abramovich - the Russian “businessman “
  The Glazers at Man Utd
  The porn barons at WHU
  The human rights abusers at Man City
  Levy at Spurs (I’ll keep my £7m a year but all non-playing staff should     accept a 20% wage cut)
  Various other Russian “business people “ at Arsenal

could all conspire to declare the barcodes owner not fit to run a PL club

Unbelievable

[PaulWinch again]

They’re idiots and they’re short sighted.

[Lastfootstamper]

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.

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.

[Clive W]

Another  DT article that seems to echo our thoughts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/10/11/premier-league-project-big-picture-brazen-power-grab-hostile/

[Sexual Ealing]

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.

[danno]

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.

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.

[PeterWithesShin]

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".

[Lastfootstamper]

They’re idiots and they’re short sighted.

They're greedy and they're prepared to hang out the 'other' 14 to dry as the selfish clubs that killed English football. I mean, they could just approve the grant to save the football league with no strings attached, but an opportunity like a global pandemic comes along once a century. Strike while the iron's hot.

[Billy Walker]

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.

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.

I think this is exactly the reason why we now see these proposals, their cartel is becoming increasingly under threat.   Let's fight fire with fire and show leadership.

[Brazilian Villain]

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.

I don't really care about the Community Shield and could live with a reduction to 18 teams. The EFL Cup should be retained but the change in voting is the bit that concerns me even if Villa were one of the 'special' clubs.

To be fair the Man U fans  on their forum pretty much all feel it's a terrible idea. One suggested that if you qualify for Europe you don't play in the EFL Cup which seems sensible enough.

[boutrosboutrosgnarly]

Cut through all the bullshit and its essentially a quest for more power, more money.No surprise that the two clubs at the forefront are the two most despised throughout the UK.