Champions League restructuring

[andyh]

They all need to start next season on -30 points and a 2 year European ban...minimum.

[Damo70]

There simply has to be a punishment now. It cannot be glossed over like it didn’t happen. Because if not they will do it again.

I have been as against this breakaway league as anyone but surely you can't punish teams when they haven't gone through with anything.

Christian Purslow seems to have called it bang on the button in his interview on 5Live on Sunday. He was pretty adamant it wouldn't happen.

[olaftab]

And then there were 4. The traditional 4.

[Dave]

RIP European Super League
April 19th - April 20th 2021

[CT]

I remember when pundits, press, everybody United together in their condemnation of the laughing caveman who punched Jack Grealish in front of a nationwide TV audience.

They needed to be punished in the strongest possible terms was unanimously agreed.

We waited, waited and waited. Then they got a paltry little fine and it was all forgotten about.

That’s what will happen here.

Fans won’t forget, especially when we can get back in, but that will be it.

[Villan82]

There simply has to be a punishment now. It cannot be glossed over like it didn’t happen. Because if not they will do it again.

I have been as against this breakaway league as anyone but surely you can't punish teams when they haven't gone through anything.

Christian Purslow seems to have called it bang on the button in his interview on 5Live on Sunday. He was pretty adamant it wouldn't happen.

Er, they felt they were above playing against their 14 premier league partners. They were prepared to let the remaining 14 sink or swim. They signed legally binding contracts committing to a closed shop league in which they would never face relegation. They must have the book thrown at them. Points deductions, embargos, European bans. The lot. Zero tolerance.

[olaftab]

They all need to start next season on -30 points and a 2 year European ban...minimum.

I think the more suitable punishment is that all 6 forfeit home and away games 3-0 against the the Club who's owner introduced the corinthian League system based on competitiveness in English football.

[Nev]

When you get a 'round of fucks from Dean Smith, it's wise to take heed.

[Toronto Villa]

There simply has to be a punishment now. It cannot be glossed over like it didn’t happen. Because if not they will do it again.

I have been as against this breakaway league as anyone but surely you can't punish teams when they haven't gone through anything.

Christian Purslow seems to have called it bang on the button in his interview on 5Live on Sunday. He was pretty adamant it wouldn't happen.

They ran a covert operation behind the backs of the governing bodies to break away. That cannot be just brushed under the carpet. If you caught someone in bank about to rob it but just as he put his hand in the safe he decides not to, well he’s still in the bank. And he still wanted to rob it. You don’t let him go home.

[SaddVillan]

Irrespective of whether Arse, Spuds, 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' and ManU also pull out of the ESL,  all 6 clubs need to be sanctioned to teach them a lesson.

The rest of the Prem and English football needs to show them who's in charge.

Time to look at a redistribution of tv and prize monies to make the league more equitable financially, thereby weakening these greedy bastards?

[Virgil Caine]

What I don’t understand is the arrogance that the owners of the 12 clubs displayed in thinking they would be able to break away without challenge. Surely they sought legal advice and did feasibility studies to see if what they intended was even possible without any sanctions.

[Damo70]

RIP European Super League
April 19th - April 20th 2021

It gave the media a shot in the arm after the Prince Phillip fuss had died down. In years to come it will be occasionally spoken about as "Do you remember the time when......"

[nigel]

They all need to start next season on -30 points and a 2 year European ban...minimum.

Make it minus 60, that way they will all have to amass league winning points (90+) just to stay up.

And most definitely a European ban.

My guess, though, is f*ck all will be done

[TopDeck113]

The delicious irony will be when Spurs are the only English club left and the master negotiator is trying to persuade JP Morgan to let them out of a multi-million dollar binding contract in exchange for a job lot of Mourinho merch. 

[andyh]

We all know how this pans out.

PL and FA say the clubs say they are sorry. The FA and PL say it’s not fair to punish players and fans so let’s draw a line under it and carry on.......you just know it.