• el_dude_brother2@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    The super league was always about taking away some of the cash away from the English league.

    Was surprised the English clubs were so keen for it initially.

  • 1llseemyselfout@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    The PL being better is all down to PL teams willing to share more of the revenue with each other. The Spanish league allowed the top teams to take most of the leagues revenue and now instead of fixing that they want a Super League so those top teams can suck even more money out of the sport. The lack of awareness on why they’re not in as good of a position as the PL is astonishing to me. How do people this inept become presidents of anything.

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    10 months ago

    that only works when the super league plays without english clubs and without english clubs its not really a “super league”, is it?

    so, nothing will change with or without that league, besides all the usual big clubs getting richer and the gap between them and 99% of the rest of europe’s football clubs is getting bigger.

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    10 months ago

    well, 15 years ago it was the other way around

    and I haven’t seen the premier league sign ballon d’or winners or other key players yet from Barca or Real, like they signed key players from the best teams in England

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    10 months ago

    But fuck every other league I guess? like can you spare a moment to think about all the other 50 or so UEFA leagues that would suffer from it?

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      10 months ago

      If there’s a relegation of 4 teams each year and a knock-out rounds with the rest of european teams I’m up for it. The bad press about the Super League was about being closed, but it’s not closed anymore iirc

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      10 months ago

      That exists anyway with PL sucking talent for those 50 leagues hence it’s not really a counter.

      Super league opposition is a English/UK thing. People survey backs this up. The English fans seem to have a hostile attitude to it reaching nearing 92-95%, which is absurd in today’s world to have such uniformity on a partisan subjective thing.

      Italy, Spanish opposition varies around 50-60% at Most. Meaning it’s easier to shift for them because their fans are already ready in enough numbers.

      For the English this is like Hitler & then some if the numbers are a sign.

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    10 months ago

    It’s honestly baffling to me how their isn’t a bigger uproar on this issue right now… English clubs are quite literally outspending other leagues by a metric of 2x or even more in some cases. Even smaller clubs from England are able to spend 40M to get the players they want and these are clubs that no one knows about outside of England.

    Premier League fans are very vocal and quite hostile towards the Saudi League for the same reason because they are doing the same thing PL has been doing to other European leagues in the past decade.

    I get that EPL came to the top with honest work and I applaud them for it but there comes a time when the gap is getting so enormous that the authorities need to step in and rectify it before it’s too late. Because if it continues like this then there is no need for a Champions League because clubs from the other European Leagues would be minnows compared to what English clubs can do… at that point, it would be better to simply make PL the new UCL then because they would collectively have more talent than the rest of Europe…

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      10 months ago

      Premier League fans are very vocal and quite hostile towards the Saudi League for the same reason because they are doing the same thing PL has been doing to other European leagues in the past decade.

      This is a terrible take. SL have mainly taken players at the end of their career.

      Spain and Italy both had their spot at the top and failed to take advantage of it.

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    10 months ago

    I love how the super league narrative has moved to an anti-premier league one, while half of the original super League member where super league clubs

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    10 months ago

    So Enrique Cerezo would support a UEFA wide wage ceiling ?

    It could be something like 50 % of the revenue of the 40 or so, top grossing football clubs.

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    10 months ago

    Why is it every time these fucks talk about the PL nicking all of the best players they never talk about Real and Barca having many of the best players in the world for the past 15 year. Look a bit closer to home pal.