Champions League restructuring

[SamTheMouse]

It's time to go down the German route of club ownership. It would sort this shit out.

[Clive W]

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! 😭

The recent warm weather has brought the pollen out. 

Half a million views tonight.  Wow

And 10 of them were me

[cdbearsfan]

I wonder what our owners make of it, having invested heavily, I find it worrying, I think if the six are expelled from the EPL overtures would be made to the Old Firm, and a possible seting up of a team from Dublin, you have to fight fire with fire. unfortunately this would have repercussions in Scotland and Ireland, there is away forward without these 6

Water is better, I've heard. Well, unless it's a petrol fire.

No way should we be parachuting Scottish or Irish teams into the league. The top flight has existed without these six scab teams before and there is no reason why it can't do so again.

[adrenachrome]

So what exactly was the criteria for inclusion in this fabulous league? Could it be levels of debt they are all in?

Big city
Big stadium
Owners of dubious morality who would agree to be part of it

Yes, and large viewing figures for their games shown in "emerging markets".

J.P. Morgan are largely funding this, and you can be sure they have run the numbers.   

[cdward]

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! 😭

The recent warm weather has brought the pollen out. 

Half a million views tonight.  Wow

Interesting, half a million people online have viewed some Aston Villa content, future fans, or legacy fans?
 The super duper league won't care, as long as fans are happy to watch and pay online. This is going to be the future of football.
The legacy fans will keep going, because that's what they enjoy, the future fans will be brought in online. Some will do both, some will do neither.
We are all consumers, we don't own our clubs, billionaires do.

[adrenachrome]

Why aren't Wolves being invited in is the real scandal.....

Very good!

The weird fact is that Celtic and Rangers are more likely to get an invite.

[sickbeggar]

I wonder what our owners make of it, having invested heavily, I find it worrying, I think if the six are expelled from the EPL overtures would be made to the Old Firm, and a possible seting up of a team from Dublin, you have to fight fire with fire. unfortunately this would have repercussions in Scotland and Ireland, there is away forward without these 6

Not going to happen is it. you can't parachute in the old firm or an irish team unless they started at the bottom. It would annoy the feck out of Cardiff and Swansea and the entire Welsh nation for one

[Villa Lew]

A brief look at Redcafe shows the strength of the resistance - i.e., not particularly strong. Many of them cannot wait.

redcafe = full of daytrippers and foreign fans

'Fans of the Future'.

Well just had a look at their site, in a poll only 5% want the  ESL.

[Meanwood Villa]

I had a WhatsApp discussion with colleagues earlier including a Man U, Spurs and Arsenal fan. They all agreed it was a terrible thing but "it's going to happen anyway" and then started speculating what platform it will be on and whether it will cost more than what Sky and BT do. Sadly I think this will be how it goes with a lot of the armchair fan brigade. Platitudes about how awful it is but what can you do?

[PaulWinch again]

The ESL is happening, there won’t be consequences, this was the same uproar when the CL started, yesterday’s chip paper.

We will all get over it.

No it’s quite fundamentally different.

[PaulWinch again]

Jimmy Milner being pretty clear he doesn’t like the idea.

[olaftab]

The ESL is happening, there won’t be consequences, this was the same uproar when the CL started, yesterday’s chip paper.

We will all get over it.

To be truthful I am more worried about getting punters in to the bar/restaurant I own.

[Dave]

Not sure what the reaction has been elsewhere, can the Spanish government revoke Real Madrid's royal status and force them to be renamed?

Riyal Madrid

[cdbearsfan]

Very good.

[Baldy]

Is this a perfect time to impose a 'worldwide cap' on players wages and then the big clubs might not resort to these desperate measures?

Players wages have got completely out of hand and need to be more realistic. GBP30,000 a week is more than enough for anyone to have a luxurious life.

This is a good time to bring football back into the real world and might even reduce the fans admission fee.

Let the 12 greedy clubs make profits through reduced expenses rather than increased TV revenue.

Just a thought.