FFP

[AV82EC]

The call to let them just fuck and off and see how they like it, forgets that it was their own fans who killed the idea when it was announced before. Your average Liverpool or Chelsea travelling fan despises the idea.

I, on the other hand, would welcome it. I’m sick of them and would happily go back to how football was 40 years ago. Minus the hooliganism and shit stadia.

So Liverpool winning the League every year then.

[Mister E]

The current Champions' League is the Super League ... I was going to make a joke about Spurs at this point but even they are in it this season.

The SL concept has money at its heart, and the money comes from the media. If there were a breakaway SL, within 5 years it would fold because the 'product' would quickly become boring and TV viewers would fairly quickly check out. What the Scab6 and the big TV / online media seem to overlook is exactly the viewer-interest in the jeopardy that the 'big clubs' experience when faced with a 'non-big' club; Villa putting the wind up PSG in last year's Bigger Cup being an example.

[Meanwood Villa]

The current Champions' League is the Super League ... I was going to make a joke about Spurs at this point but even they are in it this season.

The SL concept has money at its heart, and the money comes from the media. If there were a breakaway SL, within 5 years it would fold because the 'product' would quickly become boring and TV viewers would fairly quickly check out. What the Scab6 and the big TV / online media seem to overlook is exactly the viewer-interest in the jeopardy that the 'big clubs' experience when faced with a 'non-big' club; Villa putting the wind up PSG in last year's Bigger Cup being an example.

I agree. The concept of the same 12 teams playing each other over and over again would get tedious (albeit this was the concept behind the original football league lest we forget!)

I think the happy spot for the CL clubs would be the current format but with guaranteed qualification to the league stage. Several of the clubs involved are de facto in that position already, e.g. the Spanish trio. England was always the outlier in this regard, albeit it seems likely we will have five spots most seasons moving forward and I'd wager they will be taken by the scab six less Spurs more often than not. So after all that kerfuffle, five out of the six have pretty much got what they wanted anyway.

[Meanwood Villa]

Actually, thinking about it, they'd be happy to play each other every season but also need the likes of us to act as fodder inbetween those games. This is why they wanted the domestic leagues to run at the same time. Also what the CL league stage does at the moment, by and large.