Football Chat

optimistically, I’d like to say yes.

Who do we think are going to be the other 3 do we think?

It might sell out once, but how many fans are going to travel around Europe every week for a full season? Part of the appeal of the CL is the random groups and the excite of big matches which only happen every so often, then the random knock out stages.

Turn that into a midweek fixture every year and it gets dull.

Then, as someone else raised, why should those 6 clubs get millions of pounds of extra money to improve their squad with and use that in domestic competition to play against teams that don’t have that? It increases the divide even more and is utterly mystifying.

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Never going to happen. Too many people who just want to see them.

I’ve seen just how many foreigners flood into Manchester for any Utd home game. They’re not ‘fans’, they’re football tourists. And they spend far more money. That’s all the clubs care about.

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The champions league isn’t really about champions anymore it’s about money!

To me every country in uefa should have their top team in there automatically through to the group stages. Unfortunately uefa has been chasing the money like so many people and have lost their integrity.

The European super league is all about them keeping more money to themselves. For too long too it’s the tv companies calling the shots. In Scotland the sky contract had at one point a guaranteed minimum of 4 rangers v Celtic league games to be played per season, they result was they couldn’t really reconstruct the league without sky’s approval

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One from Portugal, one from the Netherlands and one from France I would guess.

Eindhoven, Porto and Lyon would be my guess.

Thy hypocrisy of UEFA and FIFA is just hilarious, we’ve got a World Cup in Qatar later this year for gods sake.

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Celtic…
The big money men know how much money they can attract and have been sweet talking them for years, Rangers too but our recent money problems may of messed us up for a number of years to come.

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I think you would be suprised, it’s 18 league games followed by the knockouts.

One of the problems with the current European Leagues is that they just aren’t equal. You play hard to qualify and then get drawn to go and play the league equivalent of San Marino, pointless games where you end up resting players for the Premier League at the weekend.

That’s not a problem, it’s the beauty of football.

The absolute best games I’ve ever watched are PL teams going to 4th/5th division clubs in the FA Cup.

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Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

Will each team have a team for the so-called Super League and one for the Premiership? Can’t see how is will work if not as what about mid-week fixtures in the domestic game

What happens if the Premiership ‘team’ is cr@p and gets relegated to the Championship, are they removed from the Super League?

Lets see which player has the conviction for the game or the dollar :man_shrugging:t2: Do they want Super League football or do they stick to the domestic game!

Hopefully it will be the death of the league midweek games, we can have the majority of the games on a Saturday and a Sunday like they should be.

Not the way it’s been announced, the original 12 will be managing the league so won’t be removable.

I think both Scottish Teams would give up their Grandmother to be involved , but their standard of football just isn’t going to be high enough.

fighting talk there :wink:

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I’m interested to see if RB Leipzig make the leap, they are different to the rest so are more likely and that would open the door for other German Clubs.

This isn’t about the standard of football this is about money. You are correct at present they don’t have a high enough standard what they do bring is enormous amounts of football fans in the uk around the globe bigger than most teams in the premiership all paying money…

Yeah depends on who you speak too…
Both can be Scottish, 1 can be Irish and the other British it’s all dependent on the colour of specs the person wears.

They aren’t comparable to the likes of Bayern Munich or any of the clubs already announced when it comes to International brand.

It’s all about money (as football has been for decades) and I suspect that if your not on the list, you aren’t coming in.

I think it’s laughable that some teams have given themselves a title ‘top six’. Arsenal, Man Utd and Spurs aren’t even in the champions league! :joy:

This is one the biggest points. It’s greed to create a league that you can’t be relegated from.

The Premier League has to okay it anyway so if they say no, they will only be able to play in this ‘new league’.

To do this during a time when smaller clubs are laying off the part time caretakers on minimum wage to avoid going under is a disgrace. It’s furthering the divide between the leagues.

Imagine the cost it’ll be to go and watch these ‘super six’ in this new league. Many people can’t afford season tickets anymore and this is partly why lower leagues are seeing higher attendances than in previous years.