Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
I assume the Leagues can say that the clubs broke the agreement/contracts.
Those happen as point deductions or straight up relegations but it's usually for financial reasons.
Palermo was relegated some years ago. Juve got relegated after Calciopoli. Rangers got demoted to like 4th division or something. It's possible but also depends on countries' law.
Well one difference is that Arsenal and Tottenham won't be permanent membersExactly I don’t know why nikkas are acting like the 2 are any different
There's a clear difference in which you still need to qualify for the CLExactly I don’t know why nikkas are acting like the 2 are any different
I'm assuming clubs will argue that this has no effect on domestic leagues and only on CL/EL to avoid any punishment.
Even though we all know what the end game is
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Exactly how I saw it.
sportscribe
Superstar
1. I agree, but that's not the point. This breakaway league is about consolidating power among the big clubs while maximizing revenue.
2. This is based on what exactly? Salary caps in American sports are more about ensuring parity. European clubs operate on a free market system. Do you think all of these owners will kowtow to some American billionaires when they themselves have as much if not more money than them? Do you think players themselves wouldn't boycott?
3. You mean Bayern and PSG? They already dominate their respective leagues anyway, so nothing has changed.
Where is this fallacy coming from that all the teams are somehow owned by Americans who will rule the roost and somehow make all the decisions everyone will ?simply fall in line and follow?:
Let's look at the facts:
Manchester City: Owned by an Emirati group
Tottenham FC: Owned by a British investment company
Chelsea FC: Owned by Roman Abramovich, a Russian
Real Madrid: Owned by its club members
Barcelona FC: Owned by its club members
Atletico Madrid: Majority shareholder is from Israel
Inter Milan: Owned by a Chinese conglomorate
Juventus: Owned by an Italian business family
Only AC Milan, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd (by owning majority of the shares outstanding) are owned by majority US shareholders.
Rumour is Jose got Sacked.
TobiOT
Veteran
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Need someone to Gus Fring the cartel on these owners at their next meeting 
Boris Johnson vows to ‘make sure’ current European Super League plans don’t go ahead
I said I'd side with the devil himself earlier, now I'll make good on that claim. If Boris pulls it off and I were an Englishman I'd honestly have to vote for him at the next election just for that
I said I'd side with the devil himself earlier, now I'll make good on that claim. If Boris pulls it off and I were an Englishman I'd honestly have to vote for him at the next election just for that
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
And some American posters in the other thread want this like the nfl because that's what they used to
I don’t even like to sound like snob but the American sports model will never work for football. I could list several reasons why it won’t but I’ll just summarise it by saying it’s a terrible idea.
This has nothing to do over with this fake American concept of “parity” because if that was the case, Liverpool, Utd and Arsenal owners wouldn’t have been front and centre lobbying for the big six to have voting/veto rights over team takeovers. They just want to protect their profits.
