Champions League restructuring

[Clive W]

They're being given £300 million just to turn up. They HAVE to be removed from the Premier League. No half measure can be acceptable.

I’ve read somewhere that it’s an upfront loan from JP Morgan and gets repaid once the tv money starts to flow in. Still makes it completely unacceptable

[ian c.]

For me the tipping point is whether they stay in the PL and do the super league thing. If that's the case, then that is football squarely dead.

I think this is why the Premier League and 14 must say they will kick them out if they go ahead.
 
Allowing them the revenue stream from the Premier League and the new super league would create such a massive financial disparity between them and the rest of us that we would all be reduced to the status of feeder clubs for them.  Other than legal or regulatory action starving them of Premier League payments is the only way I can see to get them to drop the idea.

[sickbeggar]

People need to aim at the broadcasters who are behind this because no way would JP Morgan advance that money unless things are in place already. If you go for the broadcasters and they think its a bad move, then what these clubs want won't even matter.

[Clive W]

I see the Glazers have made another £150m today due to the MU share price rise

Classy

[Nii Lamptey]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Villa have updated the David Bradley video with added recent footage, "They say you don't choose Aston Villa, it chooses you" and posted to twitter.

https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1384205436149063680?s=20

Get's me every time! 😭

[London Villan]

The clubs will probably all have thier own channels or ppv on apple or amazon.

[sickbeggar]

The clubs will probably all have thier own channels or ppv on apple or amazon.

they still need the medium to sell it, whether that's SKY/virgin, Amazon or Apple. Cancel the fuckers

[cdbearsfan]

Four games each per year PPV, I think.

[Woodyoubetagainstus]

I think it stinks, however if anyone thinks they are going to get kicked out / punished domestically and players punished at national level you are fooling yourself.

It’s still a capitalist industry and there’s not a thing UEFA or FIFA can do about it.

[London Villan]

MLB have their own PPV platform, i guess this type of deal will be an option.

[PaulTheVillan]

Big Sam lost his job for trying to take some money on the side.

Get rid of the Scum 6

[BC Villain]

Nobody's going to forget this, even if they change their minds. It'll be unbearable being their supporters at matches.

I think they should be thrown out permanently tbh. They are clearly untrustworthy and treacherous. I don't want them anywhere near football.

However, if they were only to be demoted to Div 2 (old 4th div to be clear ) it might be the best way to get money into the lower divisions. Especially if gate receipts were equally divided both home and away or better still across the division so that even when Arsenal play Spurs the gate money is shared throughout the division.

They'd have no option but to sell their players because they couldn't afford them and they'd put in transfer requests the following day anyway. Sky/BT or whoever would probably bid for TV rights even.  Change promotion and religation to 2 teams up 2 down and let them fight it out. It'd be un-missable to watch and it'd take 2 of them at least 6 years to get back to the Prem. I don't think teams in that division would mind not getting promotion for a few seasons because they could be raking it in. They'd also be able to leave a mark on them and maybe teach them a little humility. The longer they stay there the wealthier the "little" teams would get making it more difficult for them. It has a certain poetic justice feel to it I think.

Mind you. I can could see a lot of angry big six supporters trashing towns across the country.

So nah. Kick them out. Permanently!

Utv.

In fairness, this is not down to the fans of the "big six".  They're as disgusting with the idea as everyone else.

[sickbeggar]

End of the day if they show it on Amazon and a couple of million Amazon customers cancel well...….Takes a lot less for companies to drop someone nowadays especially something toxic like this

[Monty]

Meh, Amazon are the logical choice. They're extremely evil and they have the resources to wait out any storm.

[BC Villain]

Nevilles rant was superb. I've had the radio on too and from Suffolk today and its pretty much universal condemnation.

The thing is though, the radio stations that are so against it are they going to give it air time, are they going to promote its matches and transfer news etc?

The commentators and pundits who are against it, are they going to commentate and be analysts etc on it?

Of fucking course they are.

Funny.  I don't remember Neville being as vocal when Man United decided not to bother with the FA cup in favour of playing in Brazil......