[theo_luddite]

Well, when clubs see/hear how awash with cash UEFA and FIFA are (or were) and how they, er, distribute the funds it's no surprise that someone is going to come up with a different way of distributing those funds under the guise of a different competition is it?

When I look at Town accounts from the promotion season to the first season in The Prima Donna League,,
We went from
Turnover - £15.8m to £125.2m and a big chunk of that £15.8m was player bonuses for getting an unexpected promotion, it was about a third to half of that the season before.
Wages - £21.7m to £62.6m - see above ref bonuses, not hard to see why we made a loss to go up, plus we spent the thick end of £50m on transfers and some folk ask where did the money go?
Directors remuneration - £290K to £660K (because they were working 2-3x as hard to keep us up in the Prima Donna League, obviously).

Now, we have as much chance of Champions League /UEFA whatever competition that will become as you but when a Liverpool (for example) can't afford a player a Man Ure wants when they are in the same competitions, but there's a few hundred billion and more washing around in the coffers of UEFA that they can't explain away properly (or perhaps, how they give it away properly), is it any wonder they want to get their hands on it?

The good I can see from this is that if, and it's a big if, they aren't allowed to play in the Prima Donna League etc, then you don't get agents comparing their lesser offerings at the West Brom, the Towns (if we ever return) or the Newcastle's to their offerings at the big 6 and saying - they are in the same league, they deserve the same pay (or similar). Common sense won't totally return but if the biggest payers are Everton or West Ham then West Brom and the rest won't have to pony up as much as if the big payers are Liverpool, Man Ure and the like.

Apparently big clubs are now resigning from positions in UEFA too.