Champions League restructuring

[brontebilly]

It just needs the banks to call in the debt of these clubs and they are gone.

That could be said for most of the clubs up and down this so called 'football pyramid'. In terms of punishments, if UEFA couldn't make their charges stick to Man City and even Chelsea in the not too distant past, there is little chance of repercussions here. Safety in numbers too. If some of these super clubs are feeling the financial pinch, great. Might force them to budget more appropriately for the next few years. The ones backed by Russian and UAE oligarchs will be ok.

If UEFA truly wanted to hurt these teams financially, they would immediately cancel plans for this expanded ECL (which will be an uncompetitive disaster for the most part). But that would mean less revenue for UEFA which is all they care about, less so bastion of sporting integrity and fairness as they claim.

The FA have been a piss weak regulator of club football in England for years. So don't be expecting much action there. Let's not forget our own brush with near insolvency a few years back during the Xia reign of terror.

[olaftab]

I don't think there is any prospect of any immediate punishment/sanctions from either UEFA or PL. Ceferin has already said "they are back in the fold". What should happen  now  is that UEFA and PL should start rolling back all concessions that have been given to these clubs to "stay in the fold" and effective push back in the future for any new demands. A standard answer something like "No go fuck yourself" should be provided.

[sickbeggar]

The FA PL can do something just by changing the rules because the same clubs that deserted the Football League with no notice wrote them. 2 year notice before leaving. Forfeiture of tv money during period of notice. Sorted.

[TelfordVilla]

Henry desperately trying to get Liverpool fans back onside.
https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1384763846557147142?s=19

     VAR check............offside

[sickbeggar]

Heh. Poor Henry. Has the demeanour of someone's who's been caught coming out of a massage parlour with a copy of the Sun. Nice to know he shops at Millets though.

[Bryan]

I read somewhere (but who knows whats true and isn't when it comes to this) that breaking the signed contracts could end up with multi-million pound lawsuits.

There could be no greater irony than clubs looking for money getting sued and ending up flogging their assets to cover the damages from their own failings. I look forward to the Levy fire sale.

[ChicagoLion]

I read somewhere (but who knows whats true and isn't when it comes to this) that breaking the signed contracts could end up with multi-million pound lawsuits.

There could be no greater irony than clubs looking for money getting sued and ending up flogging their assets to cover the damages from their own failings. I look forward to the Levy fire sale.

So what assets can Spurs for example sell?
These Clubs are in massive debt.

[Chris Smith]

I read somewhere (but who knows whats true and isn't when it comes to this) that breaking the signed contracts could end up with multi-million pound lawsuits.

There could be no greater irony than clubs looking for money getting sued and ending up flogging their assets to cover the damages from their own failings. I look forward to the Levy fire sale.

So what assets can Spurs for example sell?
These Clubs are in massive debt.

Kane, Son, Lloris, Alli...

[Monty]

UEFA are just relieved to have them back and will feel their threats worked, though it's hard to imagine how Perez and Agnelli will be welcome back, and the power of PSG and Bayern will be greatly increased.

The Premier League however, the Not Shit 14, are apparently still rather pissed off.

[Nev]

Surely something similar will blow up when the new structure is in place and a club qualify for the CL because of their previous European record rather than league position?

[pauliewalnuts]

All this "points deductions would be wrong, it punishes the fans who have done nothing wrong" stuff.

Isn't that the case with clubs that get points deductions for going into administration? Or is that the fault of the fans?

[Flamingo Lane]

As I'm now reading and hearing the weasel words and mealy mouthed expressions of regret being issued by these clubs to their own supporters, I am actually angrier today than I was yesterday, when their attempt to establish a form of footballing apartheid was still very much alive.  I guess we will be waiting rather a long time before we might see any apologies issued to the 14 Premier League clubs who up to yesterday they had been only too keen to set adrift.

[sickbeggar]

Sell Stadium for flats 600m
Publishing rights for Chas 'n Dave/Hoddle&Waddle back catalogue £37.31
Harry Kane to Bayern 130m
Other player sales 20m



Rent to share West Ham's ground from PornoDwarf 600m(per annum)
Agreement to take on gareth bale's contract  130m (per annum)

[Monty]

All this "points deductions would be wrong, it punishes the fans who have done nothing wrong" stuff.

Isn't that the case with clubs that get points deductions for going into administration? Or is that the fault of the fans?

Precisely.

[SamTheMouse]

I read somewhere (but who knows whats true and isn't when it comes to this) that breaking the signed contracts could end up with multi-million pound lawsuits.

There could be no greater irony than clubs looking for money getting sued and ending up flogging their assets to cover the damages from their own failings. I look forward to the Levy fire sale.

So what assets can Spurs for example sell?
These Clubs are in massive debt.

Kane, Son, Lloris, Alli...

This is the point, isn't it? These clubs need to cut back the way we did after Lerner decided to turn the taps off, and accept a spell of mediocrity. Sadly, they think their name alone gives them a God-given right to success.

The rest of football most never let itself be shafted merely in order to sustain the gluttonous pricks' dominance.