Champions League restructuring

[aev]

Each club getting £3bn?

[Nunkin1965]

The product is being pushed further and further away from us.
We live in a world where millions will watch a YouTube star tarnish the noble sport of boxing and devour it  like a fast food purchase. Then onto the next gimmick.
These owners aren't the slightest bit interested in tradition and fan opinion.

[Axl Rose]

If they go, I wouldn't allow them to buy players from the leagues/competitions they've left behind, either.

[steamer]

Arrogance
Want to continue to play in own league then play midweek in a plastic league
This from teams who moan about overkill and drains on players
I assume that they would decline to play in domestic competition
It will never fly, the owners are money grabbing bastards far removed from the reality of the fans world, most fans groups this morning are condemning it.
What about the players, did they sign up for these teams with an expectation that the owners would engage in such folly so as to have them excluded from their National teams, I think not.
Well we can see what we have always known, who the tossers are.
My God even the French declined to join.

[PaulTheVillan]

Fully expect the French to change sides

[andyh]

If these teams breakaway and are allowed to continue to play in domestic competitions, it completely decimates those domestic leagues anyway.
Unless those 6 clubs play their 9th reserve team or something, they will be pretty much unbeatable with the £3b coffers they have.

Kick em out, fuck em off......as we used to say.

The biggest questions now are what balls do the football authorities have and how soon will they show them?

[PaulTheVillan]

If these teams breakaway and are allowed to continue to play in domestic competitions, it completely decimates those domestic leagues anyway.
Unless those 6 clubs play their 9th reserve team or something, they will be pretty much unbeatable with the £3b coffers they have.

Kick em out, fuck em off......as we used to say.

The biggest questions now are what balls do the football authorities have and how soon will they show them?

They really need to strike while the iron is hot.

They need to come down hard, I expect them to soften up and act like total pussies.

[PaulTheVillan]

As for Sky Sports & BT going on about greed. Didn’t they put PPV games on during a pandemic? Yeah. Ok m8

[olaftab]

Each club getting £3bn?

No. 12 share €3.5B as joining fee. About €300M each.

[Nev]

It's a natural progression for a sport that has been reclassified as a "business" or "entertainment" in recent times and from a business point of view this move makes perfect sense. Maximise revenue and protect that revenue stream, remove the risk to income, work as a collective.

The conflict between capitalist ideals and the Corinthian principles of sport has always been an issue and always will be and to manage this controls need to be in place and this flies in the face of a free market.

The introduction of VAR is a fine example where the clamour to eliminate mistakes was based on the idea, amongst others, that there was too much (money) at stake for it to be risked on the call of a single official, for human error to cost a business money.

Football, at the top level at least, has become far less competitive as the money has grown and the erosion of sporting principles and competition is not going to stop until it eventually becomes unpopular with supporters, the heart of the revenue stream.

I've gone on record to state how I preferred the Championship to the PL and that I have become disillusioned with European competition, and this is a consequence of the reduction in sporting integrity, competition and that one thing that makes sport such a wonderful thing, the element of unpredictability. I'm either a grumpy old luddite or a portent of things to come but if it is the latter and the game collapses at the very highest level, those leading lights of the European Super League will be long gone, and so will the money.

[PaulTheVillan]

Odds on the first game being in Dubai?

[aev]

Juventus share rise 10%.

[aev]

Each club getting £3bn?

No. 12 share €3.5B as joining fee. About €300M each.

Ah yes, someone mentioned the £3bn and that didn't sound right.

£300m certainly eases some of the debts that some of the 12 have.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't think they can make anything like the money they hope playing midweek games only (until the final). No Americans will watch while they're at work and Asians won't watch while they're asleep.

The real money is playing at weekends when the whole world can watch. Which makes me think that they actually want to be thrown out of the domestic leagues, and their talk of wanted to stay in the existing structure is just a PR exercise so they can say they tried to make it work but nasty UEFA/FIFA/the Premier League, etc, wouldn't let them.

[JD]

Snippet of Gary Neville if you didn’t see it. Really well said

https://twitter.com/skysportspl/status/1383832540054659082?s=21

Especially when he said "Tottenham I'm not bothered about". Ha, ha.