NDC bear forever
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Sad day for football.
I wouldn’t say it’s good this is gonna have a big impact on us included UEFA competition won’t have the same monetary value in itGood, get them all to %^*&.
Letting them go turns the current Champions League into the Europa League. This should never be allowed to happen in a million years. If this does come to pass the game is truly up as ever being seen as a sporting content. It’s nothing more than sports-themed entertainmentSad. But about time. Let them go.
UEFA should retain some dignity and think of their other members rather than indulging a small number.
Letting them go turns the current Champions League into the Europa League. This should never be allowed to happen in a million years. If this does come to pass the game is truly up as ever being seen as a sporting content. It’s nothing more than sports-themed entertainment
MAN UTD??? Hahaha
Yes this is something else.What about the absolutely terrible "All new Champions League"? Is this something else?
The Super League development is a direct challenge to Uefa which is to announce its new 36-team Champions League format on Monday, to come into force from 2024.
The European governing body had thought it had seen off the threat of a breakaway but is now involved in urgent talks with other football bodies about the new development.
Uefa had succeeded in winning the support of the European Club Association (ECA) board and the European Leagues but it emerged today that the Super League threat had been revived with the ECA chairman Andrea Agnelli, also the Juventus president, appearing to throw his hat in with the breakaway clubs led by Manchester United and Real Madrid.
Other members of the ECA board, who had agreed to the new Champions League format, and Uefa officials have attempted to contact Agnelli since Saturday evening but one source said he “has gone off the radar”.
The Super League proposals include:
The 15 founder clubs sharing an initial 3.5billion (£3.1billion) euro “infrastructure grant” ranging from £310million to £89million per club which can be spent on stadiums, training facilities or “to replace lost stadium-related revenues due to Covid-19”.
The format would see two groups of 10 clubs who play home and away, with the top four from each group going through to two-legged quarter-finals, semi-finals and a one-legged final.
Matches would be midweek and clubs would still play in domestic leagues.
Clubs would have rights to show four matches a season on their own the digital platforms across the world
Income from TV and sponsorship would favour the founding clubs: 32.5% of the pot would be shared equally between the 15 clubs, and another 32.5% between all Super League clubs including the five qualifiers.
20% of the pot would be merit money “distributed in the same manner as the current English Premier League merit-based system” according to where clubs finish in the competition or group if they don’t make the knock-out stage.
The remaining 15% would a “commercial share based on club awareness”.
A cap of 55% of revenues permitted to be spent on salaries and transfers (net).
A ‘Financial Sustainability Group’ would monitor clubs’ spending.
Commercially I agree. I suppose that's what it's all aboutThey’re terrible on the pitch but you can’t argue they’re one of the biggest brands in the world
You could maybe argue Real and Barca are bigger but that’s about it
Thats exactly what they should do and get FIFA to back them. There will be some players who want to play in the world cup and EUFA tournaments.UEFA can't really stop them though can they?. If anything they would threaten players saying they can't play for there country if in that league.
Thats exactly what they should do and get FIFA to back them. There will be some players who want to play in the world cup and EUFA tournaments.
Good money can still be made without playing for the teams who break away
And how much money will fifa and uefa competitions be able to generate if they ban England, Germany, Spain et all?Thats exactly what they should do and get FIFA to back them. There will be some players who want to play in the world cup and EUFA tournaments.
Good money can still be made without playing for the teams who break away
It was always going to happen eventually.Sickening. Agnelli should be hung from a lamppost like Mussolini for what he has done to football.
There once would have been a time we would have wanted a piece of thatSad day for football.
Letting them go turns the current Champions League into the Europa League. This should never be allowed to happen in a million years. If this does come to pass the game is truly up as ever being seen as a sporting content. It’s nothing more than sports-themed entertainment
It's midweek games in addition to their generic leagues.If the top 6 in England feck off I wonder if there is a chance of us getting invited to join the EPL?
This is great news for us. Will open the floodgates for cross border leagues. Would rather play Newcastle villa and Everton rather than liviI wouldn’t say it’s good this is gonna have a big impact on us included UEFA competition won’t have the same monetary value in it