Champions League restructuring

[Brend'Watkins]

I’m already bored of it before it starts.

[Nunkin1965]

Really interesting decisions for fans of the "big six" to be made.
I remember walking to a Villa Man City game a few years back and chatting with a City fan who admitted mentally wrestling with the seismic financial advantage his Club had over the majority of others.
I would wager his feelings are completely negative at this time.

[adrenachrome]

https://twitter.com/SamWallaceTel/status/1383922891788484612

Now very clear that 12 Euro Super League 'founders' will try to use promise of €10bn solidarity over 23 years as sell to govts, EU, domestic leagues. Sad to report that clubs, according to sources, are 'committed' to breakaway.

[Brazilian Villain]

The threat of stopping players from playing in the World Cup for their countries would be legally challenged, as the players will argue that they are being forced into this Super league by their clubs.

All you have to do is get the FAs not to pick the players involved in the league. Admittedly getting Southgate to drop Mount may prove tricky.

Looking across the a range of forums (including LFC's and Yanited's) I don't think I've ever seen so much anger and unity about a single issue. I think the clubs involved have badly misjudged this and it's up to the football authorities to come down hard on them.

[PaulWinch again]

CL and Europa League suspended temporarily.

Have they said that? I thought it said they “could” be banned, which means they won’t.

[Stu]

What incentive do Arsenal have for doing better than 9th? or Spurs in 7th? Liverpool in 6th or Chelsea in 5th? The integrity of the league has just been torpedoed, so remaining Prem clubs and board are going to have to do something, surely.

[PaulWinch again]

What incentive do Arsenal have for doing better than 9th? or Spurs in 7th? Liverpool in 6th or Chelsea in 5th? The integrity of the league has just been torpedoed, so remaining Prem clubs and board are going to have to do something, surely.

But they can’t can they? That’s why it’s 6 clubs. Wouldn’t they need 15 votes to carry any decision? Unless the FA can do something, but I doubt they can or have the guts to.

[Pete3206]

Throw them out and we'll carry on regardless.

Off you f*ck. If you want to come back, apply for The National League.

[Ger Regan]

The sad thing is that, but for a few years off our potential development, we would likely have been joining these 6 dispicable former football clubs. This seems like a red line, mind.

[SaddVillan]

It's a crock of shit.

Now it may well be a manoeuvre to try and get UEFA/F As  to budge in their favour in terms of agreeing to their 36 teal Chumps League format - or at least an expansion of the current set up.

But it also gives UEFA/ European FAs a great chance to call their bluff and bring them back under control and assert the primacy of domestic leagues over the ever growing European competitions.

Bluffing in cards is all about not showing your cards, but it lo9ks to me as if the Superleaguers might have made a very nig tactical error.

Will UEFA and the FA etc. the opportunity presented to them.

Hope so, but somehow I think they'll squander the chance.

[PaulWinch again]

https://twitter.com/SamWallaceTel/status/1383922891788484612

Now very clear that 12 Euro Super League 'founders' will try to use promise of €10bn solidarity over 23 years as sell to govts, EU, domestic leagues. Sad to report that clubs, according to sources, are 'committed' to breakaway.

Yes so a bung essentially. The domestic leagues, UEFA, FIFA would be mental to roll over for a few billion. This fundamentally wrecks all their competitions if they allow those clubs to remain part of them.

[adrenachrome]

Sam Wallace@SamWallaceTel·6m

A faint hope that this is posturing, & a deal can be struck with Uefa although all indicators currently suggest otherwise. To think that the future of European football rests on the egos of a handful of owners whose wealth is largely inherited. What times we live in,

[PaulWinch again]

The only way to deal with this is to expel them (if that can happen).

[Brazilian Villain]

SJM has his say. https://twitter.com/OllieHolt22/status/1383908680530206725

[olaftab]

The threat of stopping players from playing in the World Cup for their countries would be legally challenged, as the players will argue that they are being forced into this Super league by their clubs.

You have to be selected to play for your country so it can not be legally challenged.