Champions League restructuring

[chrisw1]

£20m between them by the look of it.  What a joke.

[aev]

Absolutely pathetic.

[OCD]

More important to tighten up the legislation so that there's no way that they can pull this shit ever again.

[dave shelley]

I can hear the laughter in the boardrooms of those clubs from here.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

A f-cking joke! Just over £3m each-a drop in the ocean for those clubs. That is no punishment and just confirms that the sky/scab/sly 6 run the premier league, who are as weak as p-ss.
Will the fans of the super league jokers protest against their meagre punishment? I doubt this thought will have crossed the minds of the self-entitled pr-cks.
We're all in this together like f-ck!
Full stadiums next season should leave the esl 6 in no doubt of their scab status.
F-ck off PL and f-ck off scab 6!

[Drummond]

More important to tighten up the legislation so that there's no way that they can pull this shit ever again.

Apparently the punishment they've agreed to if they do it again is £25m and 30 point deduction.

[Ad@m]

More important to tighten up the legislation so that there's no way that they can pull this shit ever again.

Apparently the punishment they've agreed to if they do it again is £25m and 30 point deduction.

A points deduction that on the face of it looks severe but would almost certainly never result in relegation for the teams concerned.

[Bobby Boy]

Not so much a punishment as a tickle under the chin.

A couple of months wages for one of their 'stars'.

An abject surrender.

[olaftab]

Ther have been mercilessly beaten .........

with a birch twig.

[cdbearsfan]

Don't care about the fine too much, but the threat of only having a points deduction if they do it again is bollocks. They'd only be punished for one season and from then on would be allowed to carry on as they like, competing in both the Premier League and whatever the Superleague is called then, giving them a massive advantage over all other Premier League clubs for ever more.

They have to be told that if they break away they are kicked out of the domestic league until such a time as said breakaway fails, and even then they'd only be able to reenter at the bottom of the football pyramid.

[Jon Crofts]

I believe the FA wrote an apology letter to the scab 6 as well#.

[Toronto Villa]

More important to tighten up the legislation so that there's no way that they can pull this shit ever again.

Apparently the punishment they've agreed to if they do it again is £25m and 30 point deduction.

That’s the bigger piece which clearly wasn’t in place before. The fine was never going to be that stiff and it was always a case of trying to mitigate it happening again. I don’t know that 30 points is enough given the top sides wouldn’t be relegated. Might screw Arsenal and Spurs though.

[chrisw1]

Don't care about the fine too much, but the threat of only having a points deduction if they do it again is bollocks. They'd only be punished for one season and from then on would be allowed to carry on as they like, competing in both the Premier League and whatever the Superleague is called then, giving them a massive advantage over all other Premier League clubs for ever more.

They have to be told that if they break away they are kicked out of the domestic league until such a time as said breakaway fails, and even then they'd only be able to reenter at the bottom of the football pyramid.

You may know nowt about FFP, but you are bang on here CD.

[cdbearsfan]

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[Hockley Lion]

Don't care about the fine too much, but the threat of only having a points deduction if they do it again is bollocks. They'd only be punished for one season and from then on would be allowed to carry on as they like, competing in both the Premier League and whatever the Superleague is called then, giving them a massive advantage over all other Premier League clubs for ever more.

They have to be told that if they break away they are kicked out of the domestic league until such a time as said breakaway fails, and even then they'd only be able to reenter at the bottom of the football pyramid.

It may well be worth their while financially to go straight back to the ESL and re-join tomorrow. If the "binding" commitments they made and financial penalties for leaving the ESL are true and have legal validity.

They've simply been given an inexpensive opportunity to go ahead at any time for 25m each. A bargain. Paying a pitifully small amount to "grass roots" football schemes as goodwill is irrelevant if they can so cheaply renege on it.

If they sincerely don't intend to do it again the penalty faced if they did could have been crippling because it wouldn't matter.

The threat should have included expulsion from the league as CD said.