21-10-2020, 12:13
I was waiting for a thread to start on this topic so I will start one.
What do people feel about this, following so quickly on the heels of the other suggestions, from the same two clubs? I also wonder how the 99 of of 100 real fans of those two clubs will react, to only being able to watch home games live.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I would be glad to see the back of these so called football clubs who appear break the financial rules with impunity and obviously have no thought or consideration for their real fans who over generations have got them to where they are now.
On the other hand I fear the knock on effects for clubs right through the English game, across the whole of Europe and you can guarantee later the whole world, but I am not sure the loss of fans at games would mean a lot, the vast majority of Manchester United fans have never even visited the UK, let alone Old Trafford.
I agree with Neville's summing up when he called it 'obscene' that the football finance world can find $6 billion to fund this. At a time when we are seeing clubs who have been in operation for over 100 years go to the wall for the sake of a few thousand pounds.
The UK footballing world with the possible exception of the PL themselves seem to be coming out in force over this, but this would not in itself stop it going ahead and if the EFL and their colleagues want to stop this there are ways to make it difficult even if they are long term measures. The first would be to make it very clear that any club who leaves to join this new league would under no circumstance be allowed to re-join any English organised league. If you wanted to make it even harder for them, you could place an embargo on any any sale of players from the current league setup to teams in the new league, this would have to be a blanket ban and punishable by a ridiculously large fine, large enough to stop a very wealthy club saying they will cover the fine as well. (Perhaps £500 million).
And just to be spiteful and to protect things for the future, maybe any club promoting this should be charged with being the game into disrepute and if found guilty dropped to the lowest league in organised football as a punishment, we would soon see who was in it for the football then.
What do people feel about this, following so quickly on the heels of the other suggestions, from the same two clubs? I also wonder how the 99 of of 100 real fans of those two clubs will react, to only being able to watch home games live.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I would be glad to see the back of these so called football clubs who appear break the financial rules with impunity and obviously have no thought or consideration for their real fans who over generations have got them to where they are now.
On the other hand I fear the knock on effects for clubs right through the English game, across the whole of Europe and you can guarantee later the whole world, but I am not sure the loss of fans at games would mean a lot, the vast majority of Manchester United fans have never even visited the UK, let alone Old Trafford.
I agree with Neville's summing up when he called it 'obscene' that the football finance world can find $6 billion to fund this. At a time when we are seeing clubs who have been in operation for over 100 years go to the wall for the sake of a few thousand pounds.
The UK footballing world with the possible exception of the PL themselves seem to be coming out in force over this, but this would not in itself stop it going ahead and if the EFL and their colleagues want to stop this there are ways to make it difficult even if they are long term measures. The first would be to make it very clear that any club who leaves to join this new league would under no circumstance be allowed to re-join any English organised league. If you wanted to make it even harder for them, you could place an embargo on any any sale of players from the current league setup to teams in the new league, this would have to be a blanket ban and punishable by a ridiculously large fine, large enough to stop a very wealthy club saying they will cover the fine as well. (Perhaps £500 million).
And just to be spiteful and to protect things for the future, maybe any club promoting this should be charged with being the game into disrepute and if found guilty dropped to the lowest league in organised football as a punishment, we would soon see who was in it for the football then.