EPL 2020/2021
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this is crazy, had they done no research into how their fans might react, are they honestly that arrogant?
all theyve ended up doing is taint their brand a little
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i dont know enough about the other leagues so i can only talking about the EPL....when was the last time any of the big 6 got close to relegation?
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@kiwiwomble All except City have been in since the beginning. They were in the 3rd tier as recently as 1999
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@dogmeat so not since they got they're current backer, these owners are either paranoid or they are tired of paying for a good squad and wanted to be able to ease off investment
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@kiwiwomble I think they thought they could get a bigger piece of a bigger pie.
However they were obviously relying on pay per view as both Amazon and Sky said they weren't interested in TV rights.
So appealing to the Netflix generation and as has been said probably East and SE Asia more than Europe.
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@kiwiwomble said in EPL 2020/2021:
i dont know enough about the other leagues so i can only talking about the EPL....when was the last time any of the big 6 got close to relegation?
As @mofitzy_ says, it's not so much relegation from your domestic league that is the motivation behind this, but not being an automatic qualifier for the CL (top 4 in EPL). Playing in the CL brings in money which allows you to make a profit and strengthen your squad. The rich would just get richer.
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in other good news Wimbledon have now won four on the trot and scored 14, not yet safe but putting up a bloody good fight, fourth in the form table
this whole debacle might make a lot of fans look at things like the "german model" or fan owned models like us
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Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham have joined Chelsea and Manchester City in signalling their intention to withdraw from the European Super League.
The announcement on Sunday by the 12 clubs to form a breakaway Super League prompted a furious backlash across the continent.The grovelling has begun.
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really has a feel of ... oh wait, you don't have a plan for the backlash? shit, we hadn't thought about that either! ummm, how about Chelsea, do you think they have a plan? ooooh so no one knows jack shit aside from the owners.... ah, yeah. That's going to be a tad problematic.
Pull out!!
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@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
This demonstrates the arrogance of the US owners, and the likes of Perez and Agnelli.
And the arrogance of the supporters of the Big 2 in Spain and Juventus. They seem to think that playing smaller clubs is beneath them. I might be wrong on this, but I think the Poms and Germans look at European football as the icing on the cake while it’s the be all and end all for the Spanish and Italians. I don’t think we’ve quite seen the end of this. Just begun this war has.
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@paekakboyz said in EPL 2020/2021:
really has a feel of ... oh wait, you don't have a plan for the backlash? shit, we hadn't thought about that either! ummm, how about Chelsea, do you think they have a plan? ooooh so no one knows jack shit aside from the owners.... ah, yeah. That's going to be a tad problematic.
Pull out!!
Again, doing this without even informing the players and managers was crazy. Obviously they didn’t want leaks, but placing the players and managers in such an impossible position was never going to end well.
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@rancid-schnitzel If these US owners leave with their tails between their legs, then the last 48 h would have been worth it.
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@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
@rancid-schnitzel If these US owners leave with their tails between their legs, then the last 48 h would have been worth it.
yeah, could be interesting if any of these clubs end up on the market, if the owners are pissed off enough
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@kiwiwomble said in EPL 2020/2021:
@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
@rancid-schnitzel If these US owners leave with their tails between their legs, then the last 48 h would have been worth it.
yeah, could be interesting if any of these clubs end up on the market, if the owners are pissed off enough
I'm not so sure they will. The EPL clubs are still cash cows. Just not so much right now
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For over 25 years now the threat of forming a super league has been held over UEFA, forcing the reform of the European Champions Cup into the European Champions League in the mid-90s. Plus all the further tweaks since then to entry conditions and TV money distribution.
In just 48 hours they have destroyed their 30 year old bargaining leverage that they could hold over them. They called their own bluff and lost.
Uefa and mid-range clubs could use this opportunity to re-balance it a bit. But, they won't.
But the threat has disappeared for at least a decade. It's now a hollow threat.
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