Most of those teams make the Champions League every year already and now the champions league has changed its format to allow clubs to make it based upon historical record.
And for some reason people are determined to carry water for EUFA, like the Champions League is something sacred and not something they created in 1992 to make more money. I'd prefer things stay the same but they aren't no matter what because UEFA is already expanding the UCL.
I've said I'd rather things stay the same, but people are just brainwashed by EUFA that the Champions League is sacred even if they just turned the UCL into the ESL light and no one seems to care.
both ideas are terrible and awful this one is just more terrible and awful real tough concept for you to understand i guess
I eagerly anticipate fan groups everywhere burning their kits over the new UCL format. I agree the ESL is a bad idea, the new UCL format is also a bad idea. However you aren't having fans calling for boycotts over a 36 team super champions league where 4 teams qualify even if they don't qualify.
Well they aren't part of the ESL either since it doesn't start for another season. But ya, if the ESL falls apart I'm sure City won't qualify for the Champions League. No need to discuss it.
The one big league in the Champions League would help prevent upsets and make lots of money. Just not as much money as is being handed to the clubs in the Super League. If they actually do or can ban the players from the World Cup, that would be the end of that. Unless the Super League just becomes some Super Seria A with 36 year old veteran strikes and 38 year old CBs out for one last score.
You said the teams we root for aren't part of a 36 team champions league, but they are. The changes were approved today, so the teams we root for are either going to be in an ESL or an expanded UCL
so city will quite literally never be a part of the expanded champions league then again, what the fuck are you even talking about at this point
The ESL may not happen, its still a long way from being a sure thing. I'd say its probably 50-50 if this thing falls apart or not with the big trump card being what FIFA does.
well if it does fall apart, then yes i will focus my displeasure on the expanded CL at that point although its not nearly as bad as the ESL but the fact that jp morgan has already confirmed its involvement and all the clubs have too, i think its likely too far down the road to turn around now i hope you are right that it does
FIFA has to already be interwoven in all this right? Any sense of surprise by them at this point has to be a feint.
My hopefully optimistic prayer is that the Super League expected backlash but not to this degree and hopefully that backlash gets worse and worse.
Arsenal have left the ECA (no clue if others have done the same) but that doesn’t seem like a negotiation tactic
Top players refusing to participate seems to be one of better options for undoing this, but I’m not sure how many will actually care where their checks come from.
I believe this will happen as much as I believed Ed Woodward and the others when they said a European super league wasn’t a thing.
Im not ready to assume that fifa is actually on UEFAs side on this. I saw the statements. They put a World Cup is qatar for $10 million or so in bribes. Even when they became public, they didn’t take the World Cup from Qatar. Thousands dying building stadiums? Silence. Fifa can pretty easily be bought on this. In the short term, buying fifa’s allegiance is probably the smart play for the super league. I don’t think fifa has any issues sticking it to UEFA either. UEFA has made so many poor decisions that have created the environment that allowed this to happen. This wouldn’t have happened without the greed from the glazers, kroenke, Liverpool owners, agnelli and Perez but it also wouldn’t have happened if UEFA ran their organization properly. Both are enemies. You can obviously add corrupt ass fifa to that list also.
sure this sounds like a terrible idea now but wait until you have the opportunity to pay $500 to see the North London Derby at FedEx Field brought to you by Relevant Sports