No it really doesn't need consolidation, you can consolidate, the world's game.
It does need restructuring to away the power a few teams and leagues have.
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No it really doesn't need consolidation, you can consolidate, the world's game.
It does need restructuring to away the power a few teams and leagues have.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Saysumthinfunnymike
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just another trash product on the horizon.
Roberto Firmino
#GoonLife
I'm talking purely in regards to a CL alternative which is what's proposed, I think being banned from the leagues or international football is all hot air personally and any eventual super league would end up replacing the CL. I hate both ideas, the CL is a closed shop in all but name so I really don't get the merit argument because it's the same damn teams from the same couple leagues every season so if they are gonna continue with the new format money grab that is going to still shut out the lesser champions then I'm all for us saying fukk you and not letting UEFA eat off us anymore, especially after how toothless they were when it came to CIty.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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There are plenty of years where 1 or 2 of the "top 6" of the EPL are beyond trash... so you're wrong.
People side with UEFA by default. They dont actually support them. The American style close league system should never happen in Europe.
Yippee Ki Yay
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It's not though really is it with regard to a closed shop
Are Arsenal still in it year in year out now the fans got their wish and got rid of Wenger, they have not been in it since his last season when he didnt qualify for the first time in like 20 years
Spurs as well haven't been in for a couple of years now and we might not get in it for next year if we don't make the top 4
So yes it is to do with merit from the season before if you don't get top 4 you don't get in it and as our league is very competitive the top 4 can change from season to season.
Yeah I understand other leagues usually always have the same usual suspects entering it but even their league are starting to become more competitive
Juventus might not get in it this year , which will be like the first time since they got relegated for match fixing
Yippee Ki Yay
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Yeah but Sky who he works for let him do that because he was protecting their brand and their interests with the rantYou'd never have a former player spit that way in America. ESPN would have the guy banned
TobiOT
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The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
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African_brehda
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They snuck in Milan, Spurs and Arsenal so the top teams are guaranteed at least 9 points 
1 World Cup match will be worth 4 Super League matches. The 2018 World Cup raised $5bn in revenue from just 64 matches; the 2018 Champions League had 125 matches and raised a paltry $2.73bn.
This will stay true even if there is 0 star power in the World Cup, because only football fans watch club football whereas humans in general watch the World Cup. My father is a great example. Ask him to name a footballer, he'll say Maradona. Ask him to name another footballer, he can't. Ask him to name teams that play football, he'll say Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Italy. Ask him to name a European club, he can't answer that question.
That's what you're up against. The billions of people like my father whose cash advertisers want, for whom football is something that doesn't exist except for a couple of weeks every four years. For whom European club football is about as relevant as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem or Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Take World Cup participation away from the rebels and pure economics dictates that it will collapse overnight. Where do you think Cronaldo makes his real money, all those stupid Castrol ads or his weekly wages from the thieves? He wouldn't be on any Castrol ads if he couldn't be at the World Cup. It'd be Salomon Kalou or whoever else gets to play at the World Cup who appears in its advertising
Without the opportunity to play at the World Cup, rebel footballers will have the same global reach as professional League of Legends or Fortnite players. Your target market will be reduced to nerds with little disposable income borne from having enough free time to spend 38 weeks a year watching sport on TV, instead of going to a job or better yet spending money on the products being advertised.
This will stay true even if there is 0 star power in the World Cup, because only football fans watch club football whereas humans in general watch the World Cup. My father is a great example. Ask him to name a footballer, he'll say Maradona. Ask him to name another footballer, he can't. Ask him to name teams that play football, he'll say Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Italy. Ask him to name a European club, he can't answer that question.
That's what you're up against. The billions of people like my father whose cash advertisers want, for whom football is something that doesn't exist except for a couple of weeks every four years. For whom European club football is about as relevant as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem or Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Take World Cup participation away from the rebels and pure economics dictates that it will collapse overnight. Where do you think Cronaldo makes his real money, all those stupid Castrol ads or his weekly wages from the thieves? He wouldn't be on any Castrol ads if he couldn't be at the World Cup. It'd be Salomon Kalou or whoever else gets to play at the World Cup who appears in its advertising
Without the opportunity to play at the World Cup, rebel footballers will have the same global reach as professional League of Legends or Fortnite players. Your target market will be reduced to nerds with little disposable income borne from having enough free time to spend 38 weeks a year watching sport on TV, instead of going to a job or better yet spending money on the products being advertised.
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TobiOT
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Jose Mourinho stinking up the joint against Real Madrid in Saudi Arabia with Sissoko and Dier in midfield.They snuck in Milan, Spurs and Arsenal so the top teams are guaranteed at least 9 points
Lamela, Dan James,Xhaka and Laxalt in the Super League...
Roberto Firmino
#GoonLife
Come on now
a couple of teams might change, Juve might miss out for the first time in how long, you know the point I am making. It is the same teams from qfs onwards every year almost, you can pick 10 teams and will hit on 6/7 at least, it's just a shyt argument especially when the new CL format is increasing the gap between the haves and have nots. Again I hate both ideas, I am a massive advocate of more places being given to the lesser champions and I would happily see the Prem's places reduced to 3 or even 2 even though it would mean us missing out more regularly probably because that's what I want to see more variety and different teams not the same shyt every year.