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Offline SaddVillan

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #120 on: April 18, 2021, 04:36:17 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/18/five-english-clubs-sign-up-to-european-super-league-report-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Well, they can sod off completely. Chuck them out of all FA, UEFA and FIFA competitions - clubs and players.

DAZN - rumoured to be behind the "breakaway" is an online sports streaming service which holds the rights to stream a lot of European football globally. It wouldn't surprise me if in retaliation, the various FAs across the globe and UEFA/ FIFA affiliated competitions pull their games from DAZN.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #121 on: April 18, 2021, 04:41:23 PM »
They can sod off to their "Superleague" football wilderness.

Without the benefit of 40 odd league and cup domestic games and the attendant TV money, wonder how long they could sustain their current  business models?

To be sure, they'd soon run out of away fans prepared to travel, would they get enough tourists to make up the numbers?

Guess the backers of this are hoping to get sufficient swivel eyed foreign plastics willing to pay tv subscriptions to make it stack up financially.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #122 on: April 18, 2021, 04:43:34 PM »
they don't need fans; that's probably the unsaid thoughts of those involved - and the last 12 months probably proves that. Wankers.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #123 on: April 18, 2021, 04:44:53 PM »
The hubris, entitlement and down right shamelessness of these pricks is such that I'm actively willing them to get to fuck. That the project will fail is beyond doubt and they'll deserve all the ordure that awaits them. The effluent is about to reach the affluent, and I can't wait to see it.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #124 on: April 18, 2021, 04:47:48 PM »
Wonder if the PL has got the balls to tell them to do one.
The remaining 15 need to show these twats up for what they are.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #125 on: April 18, 2021, 04:48:08 PM »
Driven by American and Middle Eastern owners who want to protect the investment. No relegation, franchise model that can be expanded worldwide if necessary and plenty of worldwide subscribers. They can fuck off as far as I’m concerned, fed up with their constant greed for more
Money and no risk to their capital.

C****.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #126 on: April 18, 2021, 04:49:39 PM »
Will be very annoyed if the rest of the Premier League bow down to them. They have to be kicked out, and add a requirement, informal or formal, that nobody sells players to them, either. Would be nice if the league refuses to sell broadcasting rights to anyone that televises this event, too.
« Last Edit: April 18, 2021, 04:52:17 PM by cdbullyweefan »

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #127 on: April 18, 2021, 04:51:08 PM »
Can not understand how the remaining clubs can allow them to do this. It would be Turkeys voting for Christmas.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #128 on: April 18, 2021, 04:51:32 PM »
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UEFA, the English Football Association and the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A have learned that a few English, Spanish and Italian clubs may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League.

If this were to happen, we wish to reiterate that we – UEFA, the English FA, RFEF, FIGC, the Premier League, LaLiga, Lega Serie A, but also FIFA and all our member associations - will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever.

We will consider all measures available to us, at all levels, both judicial and sporting in order to prevent this happening. Football is based on open competitions and sporting merit; it cannot be any other way.

As previously announced by FIFA and the six Federations, the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European or world level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their national teams.

We thank those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up to this. We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced. This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.

Joint statement

Pass me the popcorn :)

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #129 on: April 18, 2021, 04:51:43 PM »
Wonder if the PL has got the balls to tell them to do one.
The remaining 15 need to show these twats up for what they are.

Absolutely right. Over to you Premier League.

Gary Neville just talked about an immediate points deduction. That's a start but I would relegate each of the teams that have signed up.

If there isn't a punishment for this then we may as well pack it in.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #130 on: April 18, 2021, 04:52:33 PM »
Will be very annoyed if the rest of the Premier League bow down to them. They have to be kicked out, and add a requirement, informal or formal, that nobody sells players to them, either.

I know I ought not to have any expectations of the kind of people who own Premier League clubs, but I can't see that it's in their interests to do anything but what you suggest, cd. Cue bewildering disappointment.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #131 on: April 18, 2021, 04:53:46 PM »
Kick them out immediately. Let Leicester and West Ham battle it out for the title. We would still have a decent chance of making the Champions League, too...

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #132 on: April 18, 2021, 04:55:21 PM »
Amen.

Offline PaulTheVillan

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #133 on: April 18, 2021, 04:55:23 PM »
Ban them from the league. Fuck them off.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #134 on: April 18, 2021, 04:56:54 PM »
Let them go and all play their super games with each other.

I wouldn’t miss them one bit.

 


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