Does anyone think that all this extra money would result in FSG spending any money on strengthening the squad?
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Does anyone think that all this extra money would result in FSG spending any money on strengthening the squad?
Have any breakaway leagues ever actually gone the distance?
Eg rugby super league, World Series Cricket. Lasts a little while then comes back together, compromise made
RE: The soccer stuff.
The Premier League fans complaining of breakaway leagues/clubs who want a higher % of revenues so move away from controlling bodies with no sense of irony is making my day (The Premier League itself was formed in the exact same way in 1992, and eventually as a bargaining tool included a pathway to reach the Premier League from the lower divisions). I would expect this Super League to do something similar.
Basically when this is said and done I would expect UEFA to not own the Champions League anymore, and instead have that tournament run by an organisation founded by the clubs (in the same way the English Premier League is run by its own organisation, and not the Football Association).
The main difference between AFL/NBA/NFL etc... and most soccer leagues is relegation, which makes heavy equalisation such as drafts and salary caps impossible. It isn't necessarily bad, just different.
I recommend reading some of the past articles and watching some of the past superleague videos with interviews with top club presidents.I wonder if any of this is in response to UEFA's plans for the Champions League. Perhaps the 12 clubs are thinking "if we are going to play more games in a different kind of group stage, we might as well try to get rid of the smaller clubs from the smaller nations and control everything ourselves".
There is little wrong with the Champions League, and nothing wrong with domestic English football that three things couldn't fix: greater revenue sharing down the leagues, the abolition of the League Cup (or a massive increase in prizemoney) and the continued absence of FA Cup replays.
I recommend reading some of the past articles and watching some of the past superleague videos with interviews with top club presidents.
All of the top clubs hate the current champions league format. They're sick of sending the team up to the north of Russia or Turkey, and have been adamant in the belief that the competition needs to change. Instead, UEFA did the opposite of what they wanted, and added even more clubs.
Port or in an alternate universe Norwood forcing the SANFL's hand and defecting to a bigger national competition was a move borne of ambition, this Super League thing feels like the opposite. They want it to be a comfortable, boring competition which keeps the money more reliably in their pockets rather than any other club that may have actually earned it.Maybe I'm stung a little by my SANFL club not having the spine to force a move into a bigger league which would have ensured it's future existence, at the highest level possible, but instead consigned themself to obscurity.
Have any breakaway leagues ever actually gone the distance?
Eg rugby super league, World Series Cricket. Lasts a little while then comes back together, compromise made
Port or in an alternate universe Norwood forcing the SANFL's hand and defecting to a bigger national competition was a move borne of ambition, this Super League thing feels like the opposite. They want it to be a comfortable, boring competition which keeps the money more reliably in their pockets rather than any other club that may have actually earned it.
The Premier League/CL is already basically gamed so the big six teams are always at the top. This will just kill the last inkling of competitive/financial equality in England.
I think it's just posturing from the super clubs to get a bigger slice of the profits.
Doubt they actually go through with it given the ramifications UEFA and FIFA are threatening.
If you continue to support Liverpool , you are a pretty sh*t person really.
All I have to say.
If you continue to support Liverpool , you are a pretty sh*t person really.
All I have to say.
I will continue to support Liverpool. I don’t support the owners (FSG) making these decisions.
I support the club, not the owners who want this. The owners can get f’ed over this
Even Jurgen is against it
I think it's just posturing from the super clubs to get a bigger slice of the profits.
Doubt they actually go through with it given the ramifications UEFA and FIFA are threatening.
Yes you can. It’s possible to condemn an owner, player, manager or fan as a singular entity and not condemn the whole club.
The club is a representation in its entirety unfortunately. One person can take down the entire club with it, especially when its the owner. Whether you like it or not, April 19th 2021 is the day Liverpool FC died.
Whats left behind is a new entity altogether. You can continue supporting the new entity and the evil it stands for or you can move on and support something thats better. Its your choice I suppose
The club is a representation in its entirety unfortunately. One person can take down the entire club with it, especially when its the owner. Whether you like it or not, April 19th 2021 is the day Liverpool FC died.
Whats left behind is a new entity altogether. You can continue supporting the new entity and the evil it stands for or you can move on and support something thats better. Its your choice I suppose
You are either trolling or are being insanely melodramatic, the world isn't black and white. The fans have always stood differently to what the owners have done for a better part of 20 years, if only things are as simple as you make it seem