| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 21:48 - Apr 25 with 2416 views | J2BLUE |
He acknowledged that he foresaw an impact on national leagues, arguing they should reduce in size and the top clubs might field junior sides.
He sounds like the biggest **** since Gartside suggested a closed shop two tier Premier League. |  |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:03 - Apr 25 with 2371 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 21:48 - Apr 25 by J2BLUE |
He acknowledged that he foresaw an impact on national leagues, arguing they should reduce in size and the top clubs might field junior sides.
He sounds like the biggest **** since Gartside suggested a closed shop two tier Premier League. |
A full time, permanent, European super league gets a little closer every season.
Football will eat itself. |  |
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It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:23 - Apr 25 with 2299 views | Darth_Koont |
True but there's a swathe of ultimately pointless clubs and games in the present Premier League.
It shouldn't be like that but the genie is out of the bottle. If anyone is actually interested in any games not involving the top 6 (who've got that locked down) and not involving relegation in March or April then good on them. They must be seeing something I'm not.
I'd rather see the top teams develop a European rivalry and focus so there's something left for 20-30 other domestic teams to aim for. At the present there's a void. [Post edited 25 Apr 2019 22:24]
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:37 - Apr 25 with 2243 views | HARRY10 |
Best news possible if it goes the whole hog.
Let the top six far cough and have the PL as a far more open and competitive league.
I suspect the TV money would drop but then so would the financial gap between the PL and the Championship - as would transfer fees and wages.
Maybe then clubs mights start to set ticket prices at a more realistic price - and we could get back to a more sane way of running the game. |  | | |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 23:56 - Apr 25 with 2103 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 21:48 - Apr 25 by J2BLUE |
He acknowledged that he foresaw an impact on national leagues, arguing they should reduce in size and the top clubs might field junior sides.
He sounds like the biggest **** since Gartside suggested a closed shop two tier Premier League. |
We wouldn’t be going into div 1 tho!! |  | | |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 06:52 - Apr 26 with 1950 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:03 - Apr 25 by StochesStotasBlewe |
A full time, permanent, European super league gets a little closer every season.
Football will eat itself. |
Good, the sooner the better.
Let the big boys and their greed go, and leave a more even playing field for the rest of us. |  |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 08:26 - Apr 26 with 1807 views | Guthrum |
This idea that simply putting on more and more European matches will mean an endlessly increasing pot of money is based on a shaky premise.
Will subscribers be willing to pay higher and higher prices to watch these games on TV (which is what allows the media companies to pay for the rights) - or is it a finite resource already stretched close to the limit? BT and others' struggling attempts to break into the field suggest the latter.
Will the sheer frequency of European matches devalue their interest? As the Chinese league system matures and develops, will it draw Far Eastern money away from Europe?
IMO there is a fair chance that greedy overreach could kill the golden goose. |  |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 08:29 - Apr 26 with 1795 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:23 - Apr 25 by Darth_Koont |
True but there's a swathe of ultimately pointless clubs and games in the present Premier League.
It shouldn't be like that but the genie is out of the bottle. If anyone is actually interested in any games not involving the top 6 (who've got that locked down) and not involving relegation in March or April then good on them. They must be seeing something I'm not.
I'd rather see the top teams develop a European rivalry and focus so there's something left for 20-30 other domestic teams to aim for. At the present there's a void. [Post edited 25 Apr 2019 22:24]
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Fair point. Take out the top 6 and the money goes too though. Some may say that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it may well make the gulf even wider between the richest clubs and the rest. I’m not sure that healthy or helpful for the rest. But then the current situation isn’t either. |  |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:40 - Apr 26 with 1701 views | WarkTheWarkITFC |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 22:03 - Apr 25 by StochesStotasBlewe |
A full time, permanent, European super league gets a little closer every season.
Football will eat itself. |
I don't actually care about this anymore.
A few years ago it bothered me but that was because I have mates that are long term fans of City, Spurs and so on. But the reality is for every 50,000 genuine fans of these clubs, they now have another 950,000 fans from Asia, Africa, America and so on that are not life long fans. They have chosen to support them because they are successful, the same way a lot of English people have adopted an NFL team.
So let the big teams all leave and form some ridiculous elite league. See how interested PSG and Arsenal fans are when they finish in the bottom two and lose most weeks.
The Premier League can become interesting again with Everton, Wolves, Watford, Leicester, West Ham etc battling it out for the title and it can remain for real fans of real clubs that have grown up supporting their team because they live there or their dad did and their dad before them.
Let all those flocking to the league from overseas, allowing ridiculous TV money to be pumped in and so on to completely devalue it. They'll eventually realise it's a soulless corporate league and yearn for what the rest of us have.
The real fans will lose out. But they are so vastly outnumbered now by plastics. | |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:46 - Apr 26 with 1692 views | giant_stow |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:40 - Apr 26 by WarkTheWarkITFC |
I don't actually care about this anymore.
A few years ago it bothered me but that was because I have mates that are long term fans of City, Spurs and so on. But the reality is for every 50,000 genuine fans of these clubs, they now have another 950,000 fans from Asia, Africa, America and so on that are not life long fans. They have chosen to support them because they are successful, the same way a lot of English people have adopted an NFL team.
So let the big teams all leave and form some ridiculous elite league. See how interested PSG and Arsenal fans are when they finish in the bottom two and lose most weeks.
The Premier League can become interesting again with Everton, Wolves, Watford, Leicester, West Ham etc battling it out for the title and it can remain for real fans of real clubs that have grown up supporting their team because they live there or their dad did and their dad before them.
Let all those flocking to the league from overseas, allowing ridiculous TV money to be pumped in and so on to completely devalue it. They'll eventually realise it's a soulless corporate league and yearn for what the rest of us have.
The real fans will lose out. But they are so vastly outnumbered now by plastics. |
I know nothing much about football compared to many on here, but would have thought that if the big boys leave for Europe, they'll just be replaced by a new set of big boys. The league will never be truly competitive unless the money is distributed move evenly. |  |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:49 - Apr 26 with 1685 views | WarkTheWarkITFC |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:46 - Apr 26 by giant_stow |
I know nothing much about football compared to many on here, but would have thought that if the big boys leave for Europe, they'll just be replaced by a new set of big boys. The league will never be truly competitive unless the money is distributed move evenly. |
The only chance the PL and FA would have to make it right would be at the point the big boys left, to ensure that the systems in place ensured everyone had a good shot at winning the league through shrewd signings and good management, not through financial advantage.
Would require fit for purpose FFP and so on, but if they got it right they could protect the league for generations to come to keep it interesting, which they'd really need to do with the traditional big boys gone.
Plenty of teams like Leeds, Villa, Everton, Wolves, Newcastle, West Ham could really emerge. | |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:54 - Apr 26 with 1669 views | giant_stow |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:49 - Apr 26 by WarkTheWarkITFC |
The only chance the PL and FA would have to make it right would be at the point the big boys left, to ensure that the systems in place ensured everyone had a good shot at winning the league through shrewd signings and good management, not through financial advantage.
Would require fit for purpose FFP and so on, but if they got it right they could protect the league for generations to come to keep it interesting, which they'd really need to do with the traditional big boys gone.
Plenty of teams like Leeds, Villa, Everton, Wolves, Newcastle, West Ham could really emerge. |
Yeah, fair dos, if they took the chance to rejig the whole thing as you say that could work. | |
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| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 10:09 - Apr 26 with 1639 views | WarkTheWarkITFC |
| Looks like the European Cup is about to be devalued even further on 09:54 - Apr 26 by giant_stow |
Yeah, fair dos, if they took the chance to rejig the whole thing as you say that could work. |
Obviously they wouldn't though.
And in 20 years we'd be moaning about the same 4 teams winning everything again. | |
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