Super league

Would you still support our club or football in general if UEFA managed to create a closed shop super league where only the elite clubs will gain entry and the rest chase what's left.. Could football even survive if you can't chase the dream..??

The Super League has nothing to do with UEFA, they are completely against it. There's a good documentary about it on Apple TV. You can see watching that how important it was for UEFA to stop it last time and how it destroyed Ceferin's long friendship with Agnelli.

Personally I don't think it will happen again. There was a huge backlash from fans of the six Premier League clubs last time and, despite the changes to the proposal, I think the reaction would be the same.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus still desperately want it to happen because they think it will give them a chance to bring in more money and compete with the Premier League clubs better. They may well convince the two Milan clubs, Sevilla, Marseille, Napoli etc to join.

But they need the Premier League clubs and PSG to join them. Those are the clubs that most people want to watch. PSG's owners won't go for it, they were a huge factor (along with the PL clubs) in stopping it last time. They have also said today that the proposers of the Super League are living in an "alternate reality".

I just can't see the PL clubs joining either. They know there would be a huge backlash again. They also don't need the money like the European clubs do and some would argue that the Premier League is already a Super League in all but name.

Without them, it simply wouldn't be a success.

So I don't see it happening.

I see they are trying to get this Super League going again ....
Who should go into this from the Premier League ??? ( Top 4 in the league ?? )
Liverpool - Chelsea would miss out at the moment

Leave things as they are - We have the Champions League for the Top teams from the season before positions .

My thoughts on this when it nearly came to fruition was to let them do it. It would be exciting for the first two seasons then stagnate and die. The gap left by Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur would easily and quickly be filled.

Plenty of big Prem Clubs there to fill the gap - Newcastle, West Ham, Leicester, Wolves, Everton, Villa, and as much as I hate to say it Leeds all have rich history and big fanbases and the prospect of a decent run at the Prem and Champions League would help them secure the sponsorship and revenue required to attract the best players in Europe.

Same goes for Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and Dutch leagues massive, massive teams not involved in the SuperLeague.

Ajax, Feynoord, PSV, Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica, VillaReal, Sociedad, Sevilla, Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Lazio, Roma, Napoli these are just off the top of my head but all massive sides and would all benefit from having the mega-rich clubs kindly moving out of the way so they can all go off and play exhibition football together while real clubs with real fans can enjoy proper competition.

If it were to happen, the Premier League should play hardball and insist that any TV company that covers the SuperLeague would be automatically ruled out for future contract renewal and potentially offer an agreement with the Football League for their solidarity in exchange for greater share of revenue distribution.

UEFA should play hardball and refuse to acknowledge registration of players within the SuperLeague within their body which would mean no International Football for those that follow the money - which would condemn the SuperLeague to older players looking for a final big payout - no different to going to play in the Middle East.

Let them go and when it all collapses and becomes nothing more than exhibition games don't let them back.

Football is better off without them in my opinion.

Its always the Spanish two big boys, Milans and Juve who want this as their leagues do not generate the same sort of income as the premier league, the premier league clubs would be mad to jeopardise their spot in the world's premier domestic competition.

The European Super League was a way for the "heritage" clubs to insulate themselves from new money, but they are being gobbled up club by club.

The middle easts regimes are in it to "sportswash" themselves from dirty money, the yanks thought franchising was a way to secure access to the eternal sports money tree, but constant new entrants of new money are killing that idea, will Liverpool or United be able to compete with Newcastle going forward ? So the yanks are bailing out now.

Do PSG, Citeh, Newcastle (soon to be joined by Liverpool and United) owners need to help Madrid,Barca, Juve, Milans finances?


Nah, they don't, the current champions league is good enough, its a battle of egotistical uber rich families but they are not old money but very new.......