Jareth Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Blocking clubs from joining a breakaway European Super League will be among the powers held by English football's new independent regulator. The plan for a regulator, recommended by a fan-led review last year, has been confirmed by the UK government. Preventing historic clubs going out of business is one of the aims, as well as giving fans greater input and a new owners' and directors' test. The significant move aims to protect English football's cultural heritage. The main purposes of the proposed new regulator will be: Stopping English clubs from joining closed-shop competitions, which are judged to harm the domestic game Preventing a repeat of financial failings seen at numerous clubs, notably the collapses of Bury and Macclesfield Introducing a more stringent owners' and directors' test to protect clubs and fans Giving fans power to stop owners changing a club's name, badge and traditional kit colours Ensuring a fair distribution of money filtered down the English football pyramid from the Premier League https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64536218 All seems a very good idea if you ask me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitvilla Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, Jareth said: Giving fans power to stop owners changing a club's name, badge and traditional kit colours We will never have a new badge again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewieGriffin Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jareth said: All seems a very good idea if you ask me... Until you realise that the Government law makers probably all support Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea... Edited February 23, 2023 by StewieGriffin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 This can only be a good thing, especially with the stated aims of the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Incompetent government. I agree with Sullivan (shudders) how can this incompetent government be expected and trusted to run anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Government regulation never goes wrong does it? How are they going to stop clubs joining any league they want? How are they going to stop clubs relocating to wherever they want? This is just gesture politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 13 minutes ago, Wurzel said: Government regulation never goes wrong does it? How are they going to stop clubs joining any league they want? How are they going to stop clubs relocating to wherever they want? This is just gesture politics. It's a good idea in principle. But all it takes is the Saudis/Qataris et al making a business deal with the UK and all of a sudden Chelsea or Man City gain certain privileges. Just look what happened with Qatar World Cup and, funny enough, just a little later, Qatar buys PSG, partly due to some dodgy deals with France. Something needs to be done. But in my short 30year life I learned that at the end of the day, money talks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 20 minutes ago, Wurzel said: Government regulation never goes wrong does it? How are they going to stop clubs joining any league they want? How are they going to stop clubs relocating to wherever they want? This is just gesture politics. The same way regulators do anything, with defined regulations and punishments for breaching said regulations? We'll see what they come up with but you seem to think it's some impossible problem to solve and I'm not sure it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 The Premier League is in danger of becoming a closed-shop competition, will they do anything to change that, such as salary caps? I doubt it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Joining a "breakaway" super league is the key If its a uefa or a fifa superleague then you boys have at it In terms of changing FFP or changing the disparity between the haves and the have not in the PL nothing will change If you take the next 4 year cycle for this new club world cup + CL what regulation is there with a rule that ties each clubs spending in to their revenue on the fact that man City will earn circa £500-600m more than Aston villa in prize money alone? But as long as a bit of that trickles down to league 2 everything is OK Edited February 23, 2023 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted February 23, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2023 10 hours ago, fruitvilla said: We will never have a new badge again. I think we actually had to do a YouGov poll to change the badge now because of this regulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: The Premier League is in danger of becoming a closed-shop competition, will they do anything to change that, such as salary caps? I doubt it. I imagine the role of this regulator will be to try to keep the status quo. The Premier league is a money making monster with loss making enterprises somehow worth billions. The tax revenue from the premier league is astronomical and it keeps going up and up. The regulator will do all he/she can to maintain that. Edited February 23, 2023 by villa89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted February 23, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2023 Hopefully this is not Blues Get out of Jail Free card again! On a serious note I guess it's a good thing to stop chancers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 I see it’s role as preventing another euro super league plan ever happening again - and to prevent stuff like that time with Hull was it? light touch on everything else. Which is welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Feel like this white paper is a bit weak. I was hoping for more from it, not sure what I was hoping for, but just something more, all seems pretty generic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Given the huge January spending discrepancies between the premier league and every other league in Europe, it's basically the de facto super league anyway. I am basically becoming an old fart but I still find it hard to compute that bang-average mid-table sides like Palace have greater spending power than AC Milan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 1 hour ago, The Fun Factory said: Given the huge January spending discrepancies between the premier league and every other league in Europe, it's basically the de facto super league anyway. I am basically becoming an old fart but I still find it hard to compute that bang-average mid-table sides like Palace have greater spending power than AC Milan. That's more to do with the premier league being absolute marketing masters. The clubs are so rich as broadcasters are willing to pay so much for the rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Jareth said: I see it’s role as preventing another euro super league plan ever happening again - and to prevent stuff like that time with Hull was it? light touch on everything else. Which is welcome. See I dont they will prevent a breakaway super league plan that can be seen as detrimental to English football which completely misunderstands what the ESL was because these clubs didn't attempt to break away from the PL they tried to breakaway from UEFA, they still wanted their English Saturday league games vs us mere mortals The super league is coming, who owns it is the only thing slowing it down, this regulator will do nothing when uefa proposes such a league, which as others have said is only a few minor tweaks away from what we already have This will impact the lower pyramids but do nothing to help the problems at the top and that's because the game at the top is so rich and so popular no one wants to even start thinking about the PL having problems Villa don't benefit from this in the slightest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 21 minutes ago, villa4europe said: See I dont they will prevent a breakaway super league plan that can be seen as detrimental to English football which completely misunderstands what the ESL was because these clubs didn't attempt to break away from the PL they tried to breakaway from UEFA, they still wanted their English Saturday league games vs us mere mortals I though ESL 1.0 was to leave the national leagues no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Jareth said: I though ESL 1.0 was to leave the national leagues no? No, it was cake and eat it, it's the CL that they quit not the PL So my understanding would be that this regulator governs the English clubs, if fifa or uefa do something daft that benefitted the top 6 over the other 86 clubs (which let's face it...) then this regulator is powerless But like I said the top 6 are not seen by the powers that be in English football to be a problem Edited February 23, 2023 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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