OutByEaster? Posted April 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: They must have a TV deal ready to go or it's pointless. Amazon or a Facebook perhaps? Could be the start of football heading quickly towards streaming. JP Morgan are ready to start them off with a $6bn grant which the clubs would share. They don't need a TV deal, it'll be PPV on MUTV. Not through Sky or BT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Jareth said: I think that the biggest issue from this sort of thinking is that it is dull - you cannot remove the drama from sport and expect people to buy it - other than in the US Liverpool vs Spurs or Liverpool vs Marseille will never have the same impact as Liverpool vs Everton for example 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Tomaszk said: They must have a TV deal ready to go or it's pointless. Amazon or a Facebook perhaps? Could be the start of football heading quickly towards streaming. If they don't, they're idiots. Not many platforms have money to chuck round at the moment. FIFA or even the PL might have to step in and say if you play in this, you're out of all our comps. I was thinking that they must sense the next PL and probably Champions League TV deals not being as lucrative post-pandemic. It's very well the likes us saying good riddance and **** off but we would take massive hit if it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 18, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said: I was thinking that they must sense the next PL and probably Champions League TV deals not being as lucrative post-pandemic. It's very well the likes us saying good riddance and **** off but we would take massive hit if it happened. It's a battle for the soul of football - I expect everyone to tell the owners who have cooked this up, to **** off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Spurs and Arsenal will be absolute whipping boys as well, im sure the glory fans will love that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
His Name Is Death Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: We also need fans every to understand the villains at the heart of this movement. They won’t because the majority of fans support the teams who stand to benefit from it and will just call other fans ‘salty’ (and use that awful GIF of Mbappé ‘crying’) for daring to complain. They’re as thick as mince. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) Kinda funny. Arsenal really been a mid table team for the past 2 seasons yet they are included in this so called "big six" Let them go though. As long as that means they'll be kicked out of the PL. Wouldn't miss them very much. Edited April 18, 2021 by villalad21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Villaphan04 Posted April 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2021 PSG being the good guys is something i never thought I'd say 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted April 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2021 On the one hand, this is kind of what you want to read, but on the other hand, 'pot calling the kettle black' has nothing on it: Statement by UEFA, the English Football Association, the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), LaLiga, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A 'UEFA, the English Football Association and the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A have learned that a few English, Spanish and Italian clubs may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League. If this were to happen, we wish to reiterate that we – UEFA, the English FA, RFEF, FIGC, the Premier League, LaLiga, Lega Serie A, but also FIFA and all our member associations - will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever. We will consider all measures available to us, at all levels, both judicial and sporting in order to prevent this happening. Football is based on open competitions and sporting merit; it cannot be any other way. As previously announced by FIFA and the six Federations, the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European or world level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their national teams. We thank those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up to this. We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced. This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.' 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 18, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, His Name Is Death said: They won’t because the majority of fans support the teams who stand to benefit from it and will just call other fans ‘salty’ (and use that awful GIF of Mbappé ‘crying’) for daring to complain. They’re as thick as mince. But there is very little benefit from the plan, only negatives - I think they'll dislike it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 10 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: F*** those greedy owners. Let them walk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) Please let this happen. Would be interesting to see the fall out especially if FIFA / UEFA etc go in hard. Also, it's a great time to have the Euros and a WC in the next 18 months Edited April 18, 2021 by villarule123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villalad21 Posted April 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2021 Big games is exciting, i get that. Christmas Eve is exciting too. But if we had it every week it'd be boring. European big games being somewhat rare is what makes them special. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 the other thing that I have seen asked on other forums is that who will be officiating the games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 9 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: The TV deal is appalling too - each team would have the right to put four games on their own platform - so no money shared out, no money into prize money, just the money from those games going directly and only to the broadcast club. It will very quickly descend into farce. Will Arsenal be happy when they are the whipping boys coming last every year not being able to compete against the clubs with even more online fans. As soon as you allocate the money purely on money the size of the club itself generates the whole thing will just stagnate. I mean you know broadly whose going to win or at least compete to win now other than the odd anomaly. It will just become more and more polarised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) ESPN reported that JP Morgan was willing to loan the participating clubs £4bn. If 15 of the 20 teams stay, with 5 invited. You'd need not worry about other tournaments again. It would close the door on football for everyone else. Edited April 18, 2021 by The_Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post will87 Posted April 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2021 Its the American owners trying to make football like their shitty fixed domestic sports leagues, it will fail miserably. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2021 Notable that PSG and Bayern are the two clubs that are least affected by huge debts of the biggest clubs. They're not quite so desperate as to have to be involved. Levy, Woodward, Venkatesham, Soriano, Laurence and Peter Moore should all be banned by UEFA from all football activities permanently off the back of this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, sidcow said: It will very quickly descend into farce. Will Arsenal be happy when they are the whipping boys coming last every year not being able to compete against the clubs with even more online fans. These aren't sporting decisions - competitive versus guaranteed huge incomes isn't a contest that they spend a lot of time worrying about. They'd be guaranteed a share of a third of the ownership as a founder team, then a share of the next third based on merit, then a bit more based on which of the brands brings most to the league. It's barely sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 18, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 18, 2021 Just now, will87 said: Its the American owners trying to make football like their shitty fixed domestic sports leagues, it will fail miserably. 100% this. They are not fans of the sport, just businessmen - I believe it will meet a fan led reaction like no other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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