10 point deduction for any of the offending EPL teams at the end of the season that they next finish in the Top 4, no matter when that happens
Apparently it was put in to help quash the Super League, which obviously didn’t work. But now with the Super League quashed for other reasons my wishful thinking is that UEFA can be convinced to remove it.
I’m becoming more convinced that if someone far more competent than him was in charge, this still might be a thing. I am starting to see from him how this was so poorly handled. If the rollout, explanations and PR was done right, the anger would be there but not to the extent it was
Congrats to arsenal and Tottenham for qualifying for the 20-21 champions league based on the new rules for qualification!
I need a Florentino Perez fact checker Twitter account to be made. These claims are so outrageous and so easy to prove false. Also no one is forcing the big 3 in Spain to be run so poorly and burn cash. Coutinho for £140m? Hazard for £150m. Jao Felix for over £100m? They lose money in Spain because their big 3 are dumb as fuck
Does anyone know the breakdown of what UEFA takes a year vs all the clubs? Conte’s comments made it sound like UEFA takes a good %
from the UEFA website so depends on them being honest about it. No one knows what exactly they spend €295m on. Of the estimated gross amount of €3.25bn, €295m will be deducted to cover estimated organisational/administrative costs relating to the competitions, and 7% (€227.5m) will be set aside for solidarity payments. Of the resulting net revenue of €2.73bn, 6.5% will be reserved for European football and remain with UEFA, and the other 93.5% will be distributed to the participating clubs
Of course our useless owners would allow this madman to represent them, shouldn’t Laporta have known better. Maybe just didn’t want his name attached to it which is understandable
What's the most a English soccer club has sold for? No way someone would actually pay 2.3 billion for a club outside the top four, right?
I don’t know where to quote raven’s post but at Kroenke spending a good amount, you’re fucking crazy and Liverpool would easily sell for more than 2.3 billion if it were for sale.
This absolutely was in the best interest of any club that made the cut. It essentially guaranteed them to remain a top 15 club in Europe perpetually. As I said in my other post, the Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs supporters are going to hate themselves when they eventually get left behind by the other clubs. The super league only sucked for anyone left behind. I'm honestly surprised this made such a fuss with those clubs. The ESL isn't much different than the creation of the Premier League. It just happened a generation ago. The one major difference was the ESL du jure ensured the clubs couldn't get relegated while the Premier League de facto made its founding members unable to be relegated through the wealth gap.
Nonsense. Do you think these clubs wouldn't have still paid the highest wages and attracted the best players?
They're doing that already without the ESL. The ESL just gave the 12 biggest brands more money to fuck around with, because god forbid they're held accountable for overspending.
That's why this was such a good opportunity for those 12-15 clubs. It guaranteed them success. In the current scenario those clubs could eventually be held accountable for overspending and being unsustainable. It's almost as if you're making my point for me without realizing it.
They should earn their success instead of it being given to them because they make a lot of money. I'm sorry you don't get your ridiculous tournament.
Of course that's what a club not invited would say. That's my point, this league only sucked for you guys. It was great for the rest of us who root for the big clubs.
Premier league has a pretty even TV money structure, giving them a pass is probably in their best interest
City get knocked out of UCL in the R16/QF most years. Man those QF/SF really were boring as hell without them.