Premier League reform proposals

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Simon Jordan on Talksport tearing Rick Parry a new one at the moment! 

[Big Ming]

Not at all surprised if 'Agent' Parry was not inserted into the EFL job with just this in mind.

[LukeJames]

The 'big 6' get to decide who owns the other clubs.

Fucking hell 😂😂

And these proposals come out a week after Man Utd and Liverpool get annihilated.

[mr underhill]

what am I missing - we have had more seasons in the  PL than Southampton surely?

[Yeltzer]

what am I missing - we have had more seasons in the  PL than Southampton surely?

I think they mean longest serving since last promoted to the league

[wolfman999]

what am I missing - we have had more seasons in the  PL than Southampton surely?

They rigged it by saying continuous members of the Premier league otherwise we and I believe others actually have more years of membership than Citeh and that would never do.

[danno]

I don't get why we're so hung up on not being part of the three stooges (patsies) to the "big six".
Are we saying we'd be in favour of this power grab if they deemed us one of the bigger boys too?

This whole exercise is precisely because we're standing up to the bigger kids, and about to get back our lunch money.

[robleflaneur]

Who gets special status outside the top 6 is meaningless ,though Leicester who won the league recently and finished 5th have the strongest case.
David Conn in the Guardian points out that reducing the Prem by 2 clubs and a bigger TV share for the EFL will reduce the revenue for most PL clubs but the Champions League format will be extended and the revenues for the top clubs will increase.
The consequence will be that the gap between the top 4/6 and the rest will increase.

[AllanW]

Who gets special status outside the top 6 is meaningless ,though Leicester who won the league recently and finished 5th have the strongest case.
David Conn in the Guardian points out that reducing the Prem by 2 clubs and a bigger TV share for the EFL will reduce the revenue for most PL clubs but the Champions League format will be extended and the revenues for the top clubs will increase.
The consequence will be that the gap between the top 4/6 and the rest will increase.

Precisely. That's the only point the Big 6 are playing for; all the rest of their 'case' is meaningless guff.

What is the current state of the European Premier league discussions, please? Is this latest set of bollocks  being pushed in England now because they still can't work out the distribution of spoils for the ESL? At least 4 of the Big 6 would immediately go into that league leaving the rest of us to continue to fight for a national league title. My reading of it a few years ago was that if the ESL were created the financial stability of the remaining Premier and EFL teams would be better because the wage pressure would not be so great and a fairer distribution of tv money could be agreed without the monstrous 4 or 6 being involved.

[p_ad]

Spurs really ! That really is all you need to know how shite this idea is

[exigo]

So Man U, sick of getting dicked every week in the Premier League, seem to be playing a hand that will see them joining a European league where they will get dicked even more.

[malckennedy]

What are the chances of them getting their way on this? I know we shouldn’t be complacent but surely their chances are remote because at least 11 and probably 14 of the clubs who are disadvantaged by it will not support it?

[Havencheese]

If I wasn’t so outraged, I would think of this as utterly hilarious, sure it’s intimidating but ultimately it’s just so desperate and flimsy. Like making jam from pig shit and bottling it for a premium. You can bet there will be further suggestions but these wankers drinking their own bathwater must be so drunk off their hubris to think this will fly and that the rest of the world will just lie down and won’t see it for what it really is.

Some of these snakes in suits are just exposing themselves as the sociopaths they really are. Is it a bit rich for me to suggest that Parry be stripped to his underwear, tarred and feathered, placed in a cannon and fired into the sun?

[AllanW]

What are the chances of them getting their way on this? I know we shouldn’t be complacent but surely their chances are remote because at least 11 and probably 14 of the clubs who are disadvantaged by it will not support it?

You'd have thought so, wouldn't you?

I can't see Wes and Nassef being thrilled about not being included ...

[Risso]

What are the chances of them getting their way on this? I know we shouldn’t be complacent but surely their chances are remote because at least 11 and probably 14 of the clubs who are disadvantaged by it will not support it?

I imagine they'll have made their support for any financial assistance package to the EFL contingent on support for this in return, so that if small clubs start going bust, they can say that they wanted to help but their kind offers of assistance were rejected.  If was Edens and Sawiris I'd be starting to get the other clubs not mentioned as being part of the new brigade on side.  Our owners have got to be the richest outside of the 'Big 6' haven't they?