[St Charles Owl]

Let them go, in fact relegate them and fine them now. Lets keep the bottom three in the PL and send down Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool, who are the bottom 3 of the so called Big 6.

[silverbaggie]

Like it SCO

Why not relegate all 6 clubs to the Championship and give them each a 20 point deduction to start next season.
Make up the Premiership numbers by:-
No relegation this season plus top 3 of Championship as it finishes. No play offs to take place.

[4evaabaggie]

This all began with Liverpool, Arsenal and Man utd. They wanted more money, a bigger share, less competition. They roped in a few others and the Premier league was formed. Grass roots got pis##d on. The football league was an irrelevance, an irritation, now they have milked the EPL, causing the introduction of the FFP rules, which incidentally only apply to teams outside the top six it's no longer enough, the European cup was changed to the champions league so the same teams could milk the cash cow some more, that is no longer good enough, 90% isn't enough, they want the lot, six teams with all the money, all the glory and the rest can just be whipping boys.

Every thing and I mean every thing since the early 90's, league format, tv rites, academy rules which allow the snatching and wasting of youth talent to prevent other teams progressing / competing, is geared up to a few elite clubs in every country so that they can not be deposed.
A super league where you can not be removed from and you can not join accept by invite....
I REALLY HATE WHERE FOOTBALL HAS GONE AND WHERE IT'S GOING.

I have not been to the shrine for three+ years .... I hate the premier league with a passion, I can not see me returning anytime soon .......

KICK THEM ALL OUT, BAN THEM FROM ANY AND EVERY COMPETITION, no domestic leagues, no domestic cups, no European cups, no euros and no world cups. Go play with yourselves and see how stale it becomes.

I saw this coming when talk of the original premier league break away was discussed, I got poo poo'd.

Not been on here for a while, had to comment on this greed, that really is it, I am gone. Goodbye take care. Rant over, I am fuming

[Worldclassalbion]

Relegate them all now down to the bottom tier and promote the top 6 teams from every league once completed. No relegations from the Premier (excellent for us)

Don’t show any of their games on TV for at least 3 years.

Farewell, good riddance, jog on, feck off

[Salopbaggie]

So it looks as if this midweek league will be made up of 20 teams 15 'founder members' who it reads as if will be permanent and 5 places each year available for qualification. The 15 founder members will get a share of £3.5 BILLION initially with a further £!.5 Billion for the running of the League and a share for the other 5. These 6 already have a financial advantage over most other clubs in the Prem putting them in a 'financial' league of their own, which already makes them virtually untouchable. What will another half a billion make them? How does that sit with the Financial Fair Play Rules? What effect will this have on disrupting mid-week games for the rest of the FA?

The questions go on and on but one interesting one is, is it just coincidence that Jose gets sacked the day after it is announced Spurs have signed up for the league, they are only sitting 2 places away from the Champions league with other clubs potentially qualifying by other routes? Not to mention the League Cup final coming very shortly makes no sense.

[Arcane Astral Aeons]

So it looks as if this midweek league will be made up of 20 teams 15 'founder members' who it reads as if will be permanent and 5 places each year available for qualification.  The 15 founder members will get a share of £3.5 BILLION initially with a further £!.5 Billion for the running of the League and a share for the other 5.  These 6 already have a financial advantage over most other clubs in the Prem putting them in a 'financial' league of their own, which already makes them virtually untouchable.  What will another half a billion make them?  How does that sit with the Financial Fair Play Rules?  What effect will this have on disrupting mid-week games for the rest of the FA?

The questions go on and on but one interesting one is, is it just coincidence that Jose gets sacked the day after it is announced Spurs have signed up for the league, they are only sitting 2 places away from the Champions league with other clubs potentially qualifying by other routes?  Not to mention the League Cup final coming very shortly makes no sense.

apparently Jose refused to take training this morning looks like a kind of protest against this super league and spurs involvement in it
if thats the case then well done Jose

[Salopbaggie]

So it looks as if this midweek league will be made up of 20 teams 15 'founder members' who it reads as if will be permanent and 5 places each year available for qualification.  The 15 founder members will get a share of £3.5 BILLION initially with a further £!.5 Billion for the running of the League and a share for the other 5.  These 6 already have a financial advantage over most other clubs in the Prem putting them in a 'financial' league of their own, which already makes them virtually untouchable.  What will another half a billion make them?  How does that sit with the Financial Fair Play Rules?  What effect will this have on disrupting mid-week games for the rest of the FA?

The questions go on and on but one interesting one is, is it just coincidence that Jose gets sacked the day after it is announced Spurs have signed up for the league, they are only sitting 2 places away from the Champions league with other clubs potentially qualifying by other routes?  Not to mention the League Cup final coming very shortly makes no sense.

apparently Jose refused to take training this morning looks like a kind of protest against this super league and spurs involvement in it
if thats the case then well done Jose

I would be surprised if that is all there is to it, is refusing to take a training session a sacking offence? You would assume no one involved in the day to day running at the club would have the authority to sack the manager, without referral back to the higher ups. It all seems a bit quick, I don't know what time training sessions start but the news was out around 10:00 am so for him to refuse, that to get reported back to the immediate management, them to send it to the higher ups. Then an investigation, as to what happened, a decision by the higher up made, then that decision to be sent to the lawyers for comment, then the decision implemented and Jose sacked, all before morning coffee seems a bit to efficient to me, but who knows certainly not me

[theo_luddite]

If this announcement (no, not the one from Spurs about Maureen) had been made on Thursday morning 18 days ago it would have been more believable.

Still, I look forward to the day when Barca and Juve fans say they are bored with playing against little English clubs that never win anything or are at best only ever mid-table (like some of them aren't already). We want to play against the best teams all round the world every week, not in this tin-pot competition.

[BaggieSteve]

I would echo everyone’s sentiments on here. The owners of these so called elite clubs have no interest in the sport beyond its capacity to make vast amounts of money for them, have neither care nor understanding of the traditions of the game in this country and, quite obviously, care little or nothing for those clubs outside their own bubble.

Like 4eva, I hate the EPL with a passion, I will shed no tears when we are relegated and will enjoy next season far more. I don’t give a f*ck if these clubs do their own thing but you can be sure that, for all the dire threats coming out of the FA and EPL, they will do bugger all if the clubs go through with it, as they don’t have a set of cojones between them.

I get far more pleasure going to games at Cove, Albion Rovers, Cowdenbeath and Forfar, for example, than I ever do watching an EPL match when the Baggies aren’t involved.

[talkSAFT]

Who defines "Big 6?"
Can somebody quantify, please? Is it temporarily somebody's perception at Sky, say? Lineker? Johnson? Prince Charles?
Man City were never "Big 6" until the Sheikh Takeover in 2008. Nor do Chelsea or Spurs qualify, for that matter. If The Sheikh had bought Bournemouth a couple of years ago, and they won everything, would they qualify?

What about Everton or Villa or Newcastle? These are "bigger" Clubs.