Go to your local u-8s training session and see what jersies are being worn - it’s the big clubs in England, Spain, Juventus because of Ronaldo and PSG because of Neymar. Kids mainly follow the stars, the clubs and their history is something only middle aged men go on about. Kids get much of their football engagement now from the PlayStation, and when they are on that they don’t play as Sheffield United.
It is the people who own the top football clubs who have put this plan in action. It’s useful for them to have ready made clubs, but if this plan is thwarted they will just start again elsewhere, bringing the stars with them. They are selling it globally, it doesn’t matter a huge amount to them where the clubs are located. See how many English clubs survive when all the stars move to Asia, along with all the TV revenue and sponsorship.
I’d love to see an alternative view why the above is not the case but if you are using Dublin and Leitrim as your example then there is no point. If it threatens the sport in any way I’d be against it, but it looks to me like something which will make it an even bigger global phenomenon. If all players involved are banned from international football it could even be a huge boost to Stephen Kennys ambitions.
If “all the stars move to Asia”, that’s their business. As I said, Asian football can run itself as it sees fit. If it can build its own clubs with mass engagement there and has the money to pay the stars to go there, let it do it. What’s that to do with European football?
Banning players from WC/Euros is ridiculous and reeks of a body this is quite spiteful following a realisation there is a possible loss of power and money .
If top players are banned the competitions are hugely diminished .
You think Sky will stay pumping billions into the Premier League if its biggest star is Jamie Vardy? Or if kids are going around wearing Dubai Daredevil shirts with ‘Foden 7’ on the back?
No chance of it happening I’d imagine. Sponsors run the world cup, they are not going to have the showpiece be the equivalent of a Brighton v Leeds midweek game.
Of course the competitions would be hugely diminished. But the preservation of the essential unity of the football pyramid in Europe, and stopping a private boys’ club turning European football into their own private fiefdom, is far more important.
Who’s being spiteful here? The oligarchs who are trying to cover their own arses for their own appalling decisions by ruining the sport, that’s who.
Bt destroyed the old Heineken cup.
This is all Alex Fergusons fault.
if the european super league goes ahead then all domestic competitions are hugely diminished. The bread and butter changes.
This will gut soccer as we know it. They have to try something
Soccer?
As long as the Premier League is the premier competition in English football within a football pyramid which retains a sporting integrity, English football will always remain popular.
You can’t manufacture history. You obviously think you can, and that people in Europe will flock to watch “Dubai Daredevils”. They won’t.
Fuck off and annoy someone else
The domestic competitions will only be diminished if the authorities chose to fuck them out .
The money men knew best. Or so they thought.
not necessarily -
if you’ve got 15 clubs guaranteed european money - and it’s more than the domestic league is worth - they don’t need to win or perform - the cash cow changes. They’ll put more effort into the “super” league.
Eventually you will see a domestic B squad and the super league squad. Basically makes the premier league the EFL cup for the 6 teams
they will be fucked out for breaking the rules laid out by the premier league
How so ??
If they aren’t fucked out, they’ll treat it like the League Cup is currently treated.
precisely
I’m not so sure that’s true. It’s replacing the champions league. Spurs, arsenal and man united would have zero chance in the super league.
The more games wouldn’t suit Liverpool either.
Realistically only Man City and maybe Chelsea would hold their own based on this years form. So invariably focus would move to the domestic league.
Even under this plan the Premier League is the premier competition in English football within a football pyramid. The only matter in doubt is the sporting integrity, but I’d say that has been in doubt since the creation of the Premier League.
Nobody needs to manufacture history because the vast majority of modern fans don’t care about history. You think Arsenal are one of the biggest clubs in Africa because of the Marble Halls?
As for derby’s, again a total irrelevance for all but the smallest % of fans. Its no longer a time of Colin Bell running around Moss Side streets trying to recover from a cruciate injury. All players in derby matches now live beside each other in gated communities and have dinner at each others houses. The match going fans try to still put some value on it, but match going fans have been an irrelevance to clubs for years now.