Champions League restructuring

[Sexual Ealing]

Well, we're the biggest team in English football again. It's been a while.

[TonyD]

3 more to join.    Could we be one?

I doubt it and hope not. They probably haven't given up on persuading Bayern and PSG.

Seems like a lot of US chairmen involved

[Somniloquism]

Kick them out and do it now. I want to wake up tomorrow to see all these clubs having (R) next to their name in the league table.

Supposedly the Pl hard to be completed last season because the TV companies would have sued them for breach of contract etc. I assume they won’t kick them out for the same reason, however I would also like to see the media companies who are also supporting this to get sued in turn as well.

[Somniloquism]

3 more to join.    Could we be one?

I doubt it and hope not. They probably haven't given up on persuading Bayern and PSG.

Seems like a lot of US chairmen involved

No surprise. They don’t know a game where there is relegation form the money pit so want to ensure the same thing now.

[Toronto Villa]

We are now going to see just how big a set of balls the PL, UEFA and FIFA actually have.

And also who will be broadcasting this? Amazon possibly? Where did all this revenue come from?

[SaddVillan]

15 Founding Clubs i.e. permanent members.
5 others coming and going season by season.

The rules to be written by the Founding Clubs - expect to see them changed as and when the Founding Clubs deem necessary.

Oodles of front end dosh to the Founding Clubs for "infrastructure" - i.e. up front "membership payment".

[Meanwood Villa]

Hard to know what will happen here. For all this talk of relegating and banning them, the rest of the PL will likely be concerned their share of the golden egg goes with them.

[TonyD]

Well, we're the biggest team in English football again. It's been a while.

Good point.   When did we lose the spot.   I reckon it was 1950. 

[Toronto Villa]

I also find it so rich that on the one hand they all will get a fuck load of money for being part of this private club, claim it’s good for the game and then plan to stay in their domestic leagues which they would then destroy with their financial might.

[cdbearsfan]

We are now going to see just how big a set of balls the PL, UEFA and FIFA actually have.

And also who will be broadcasting this? Amazon possibly? Where did all this revenue come from?

Each club will be allowed to broadcast four games "on their own platforms". As for the rest, a broadcaster called DAZN seems to be heavily involved.

[Ads]

£3.5bn.

There we have it. The raison d'etre. Clubs like Milan and Inter and Arsenal, who just can't compete anymore with the upstarts on a regular basis. Clubs like Barcelona and Madrid who are in so much debt, as they're total financial basket cases, clubs like Liverpool who found their stay at the top finite, clubs like Man United who haven't won a title in what will be at least 9 years now... it'd all a ruse and a facade for just a means of doping financially.

The gap can get bigger and rich can save themselves.

Well, not today. Not now, not ever. Kick them out, all of them. Ban them and any player contracted by them from any UEFA or FIFA regulated activity and competition. Ban any UEFA or FIFA regulated club from selling a player's registration to them. Ban any UEFA or FIFA regulated club from playing a game with them.

And when a club like Arsenal gets tired of losing 24 matches a season, in a half empty stadium where it costs £100 a ticket and they beg to come back. We tell them sure, of course. No problem. You start in League 2.

The response from football's governing bodies, national leagues, associations and the governments of the countries where these clubs (and I use the word loosely and with the utmost contempt) reside, should swift, merciless and brutal.

[Hockley Lion]

Let them sod off I say.

We have 2 choices.

1) Make it hard for them to leave but impossible to come back.

2) Make it easy for them to leave but impossible to come back.

My belief/hope is that this Circus League would whither on the vine. It largely depends on how the governing bodies respond. I don't think any team in this league should be allowed to compeat outside their League and players should be barred from international competition.

Football has a long and glorious history and there are far more great clubs outside this self serving group than within it. I see it as an opportunity to get rid of what has become a cancer within our game. It's clear for everyone to see what matters to their greedy owners.

I think their fans will go apeshit and I hope they do. Their real fans will be the first to realise how meaningless it would be. Someone has to come bottom of this league and where will the fan base be then. Do any of them have the mental strength to finish last.

Inform them that as they have signed up for an unauthorised rogue league outside the governing bodies control they will be expelled with immediate effect from all European and domestic competitions.

I feel most sorry for their fans. I'd be absolutely gutted if Villa were in on it.

Utv.

[Toronto Villa]

UEFA apparently have announced that the 12 clubs will be banned from its tournaments and internationals

[Billy Walker]

They can be kicked out and have all their domestic titles stripped from the record books. On top of this there is absolutely nothing to stop a rival league being formed with even more money thrown at it.

[Sexual Ealing]

£3.5bn.

There we have it. The raison d'etre. Clubs like Milan and Inter and Arsenal, who just can't compete anymore with the upstarts on a regular basis. Clubs like Barcelona and Madrid who are in so much debt, as they're total financial basket cases, clubs like Liverpool who found their stay at the top finite, clubs like Man United who haven't won a title in what will be at least 9 years now... it'd all a ruse and a facade for just a means of doping financially.

The gap can get bigger and rich can save themselves.

Well, not today. Not now, not ever. Kick them out, all of them. Ban them and any player contracted by them from any UEFA or FIFA regulated activity and competition. Ban any UEFA or FIFA regulated club from selling a player's registration to them. Ban any UEFA or FIFA regulated club from playing a game with them.

And when a club like Arsenal gets tired of losing 24 matches a season, in a half empty stadium where it costs £100 a ticket and they beg to come back. We tell them sure, of course. No problem. You start in League 2.

The response from football's governing bodies, national leagues, associations and the governments of the countries where these clubs (and I use the word loosely and with the utmost contempt) reside, should swift, merciless and brutal.

I agree with the Socialist Republic of Ads!