European Soccer Clubs create new league

[Professor Emeritus]

I'm curious. What does this say with the current structure of American sports leagues. Cause currently this is exactly how it is. Fixed set of teams with no chance of relegation.

You've got a partial point, but it's even worse than that. It's as if the Lakers, Knicks, Celtics, Nets, Bulls, Rockets, Mavs, Sixers, Heat, and Warriors decided to form a super-league and only play each other. And refused to let the Pistons, Grizzlies, Jazz, and Pelicans in no matter how good they were cause their markets aren't big enough. Forcing any decent player to either play for one of the big-10 or not even have a chance at the "main" title anymore.

 

[ÆTHER]

You've got a partial point, but it's even worse than that. It's as if the Lakers, Knicks, Celtics, Nets, Bulls, Rockets, Mavs, Sixers, Heat, and Warriors decided to form a super-league and only play each other. And refused to let the Pistons, Grizzlies, Jazz, and Pelicans in no matter how good they were cause their markets aren't big enough. Forcing any decent player to either play for one of the big-10 or not even have a chance at the "main" title anymore.

Well to build on this and add more detail it would be like if the NBA didn't have a salary cap, the luxury tax, revenue sharing and the draft system so every player was on the open market and the big market teams obviously have an advantage which they use to monopolize talent and revenue.

Then a new set of TV deals and sponsorships come up and the NBA regular season and NBA playoffs + finals are effectively separated into two different competitions and sold for different amounts of money and the NBA playoffs deal is worth multiples of the regular season deal.

Then the big market teams, so the teams you listed (plus the Clippers), come together and decide that instead of earning their way into the playoffs through their seeding in the regular season they should be grandfathered into the playoffs and be guaranteed their place in them every year and they can then invite other teams to make up the numbers based on their records but they're still going to play (what are now meaningless) regular season games and collect money from the regular season deal as well.

 

[Spade]

 

[mbewane]

There‘s also the question of: Will people really care seeing so many "big" fixtures all the time? Isn‘t the fun thing about United playing Barca that it happens only a few times every few years?

Those wouldn't be "big games" anymore indeed. It takes away a lot of what makes a sport interesting : watching a "lesser" team take on a big name and maybe witnessing a super exciting upset. Watching "up and coming" teams of youngins taking the established clubs. Imagine having a Classico every other week lmao. People would love it at the beginning then it would just be another game. A casual like myself, I tune in for the big games for example. Now I wouldn't be so inclined to do so, since there's the same "big game" in two weeks.

 

[NSSVO]

Its over

 

[hashmander]

arsenal abandoning this coward league along with others.

 

[Slim Charles]

City, Chelsea, Atletico and Barcelona all out.

super league meeting tonight to disband. Spineless cowards only lasted 48 hours.

fair play to Chelsea fans not letting team in to stadium. Cech trying to talk to them

https://mobile.twitter.com/masiemsoko/status/1384562080595025930?

and Chelsea fans when they heard news Chelsea pulling out:

 

[Bboystyle]

Damn, Chelsea has some fukking power

 

[mastermind]

Its over

 

[hashmander]

next headline needs to be kroenke selling the club. can't stop now, get the vermin out.

 

[moli70]

I'm curious to see what comes out of this when the dust has settled. Like, for years that Super League thing was always part of some sabre-rattling to make the Champions League re-distribute the bucks towards the big teams (like the NFL to LA thing aka "Oh, you won't give us money for a new stadium? Then we'll move the team to LA"), but now that they've actually gone one step further and failed so spectacularly...

 

[Bboystyle]

CL still a problem though. Every low or mid tier club gets their players plucked from bigger clubs for a chance to play in the CL



Oh well, i rather this go through and see what it does to current structures but its over.

 

[hashmander]

jose mourinho: the only manager to ever be shyt canned by a super league club.

 

[RammerJammer]

Grand Opening, Grand Closing

 

[Slim Charles]

I'm curious to see what comes out of this when the dust has settled. Like, for years that Super League thing was always part of some sabre-rattling to make the Champions League re-distribute the bucks towards the big teams (like the NFL to LA thing aka "Oh, you won't give us money for a new stadium? Then we'll move the team to LA"), but now that they've actually gone one step further and failed so spectacularly...

they’re idiots. That was always their grand bargaining chip with UEFA and if they took their time they may have sadly pulled it off. But they rushed the execution and fortunately I don’t think they can ever propose the idea. At least for 10 years.

Ed Woodward has resigned as Chairman of Man Utd