The College Dropout Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 IMO Barca / Real / Bayern etc just want more money from the CL. It looks like La Liga is making steps to develop its entire brand like the PL. They play a lot of their games at TV friendly times. Currently, they all benefit from their leagues moving games for them to prepare fro CL fixtures that English clubs don't get. They also don't lose any players to top English teams either. In fact, they end up selling players that are a tad not good enough anymore to the PL for way more money than they could get anywhere else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 There is growing frustration among football's stakeholders - the players, the fans, but especially the top clubs - that their interests have been neglected for too long. Despite employing, training and then providing the world's best players, the top European clubs feel that they are sometimes taken for granted. How detached from reality are these cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 It's the format I can't abide. Nowt against watching great players. but lets not destroy competitive league football whilst doing it eh? European cup for national league winners, UEFA cup for 2nd and 3rd placed sides and a cup for domestic cup competition winners. Increase competition and reduce the likelihood of ending up with massive financial disparity between teams. I'm sure you will be happy watching ManU play Barca every weekend and Liverpool play Juventus mid week...it's the stuff dreams are made of. I didn't say I wanted it every week. I said I wanted it to leave it the way it is. The best football every year is in the Champions League knockout rounds. Also for Foluwashola's point about it ruining clubs like us, Mike Ashley and owners like him are ruining clubs like us and Villa, not the Champions League. Teams with reasonable budgets regularly get far in the Champions League when they are run well and have good managers. Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Juve have all got to Champions League goals recently with way less budgets than some of the teams they've beaten. Spurs and Leicester are going to be in the Champions League next season. Fucking Villarreal were a bad penalty from getting into the Champions League Final. It's unambitious horseshit that we couldn't get in there with a better owner and manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I'll probably give up on football if this happens. It's been wrecked enough - even more so closer to home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 The inexplicable and continual rise of Jermain Jenas continues Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Jenas :lol: Having said that, Joey barton has also made an appearance in the past. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 FFS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 FFS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 What The bloke is fucking clueless on his specialist subject, never mind discussing the benefits of staying in Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucaAltieri Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Jenas :lol: Having said that, Joey barton has also made an appearance in the past. At least Barton is good entertainment value. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 What The bloke is f***ing clueless on his specialist subject, never mind discussing the benefits of staying in Europe. Could be a game changer for me lyk. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 "Jermaine Jenas footballer" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 This been posted yet? Klopp reacting to the news Bayern lost https://streamable.com/ydyb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Hahaha, fantastic stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 What[emoji38]The bloke is fucking clueless on his specialist subject, never mind discussing the benefits of staying in Europe. I don't know, he was quite good in Europe for us. Contributed to us staying in Europe for sure. Though I wonder if he'll refer to Europe as a giant goldfish bowl. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 WWE’s Shane McMahon Wanted To Buy Newcastle United http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwes-shane-mcmahon-wanted-to-buy-newcastle-united.php? :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 That would be class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 The look on that kid's face in your avatar Ritchie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Looks like Dean Strang. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 WWE’s Shane McMahon Wanted To Buy Newcastle United http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwes-shane-mcmahon-wanted-to-buy-newcastle-united.php? :lol: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,74071.0.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 What a load of shite! http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/04/champions-league-leicester-relevent-sports-charlie-stillitano Champions League does not need likes of Leicester, says US sports executive Associated Press Friday 4 March 2016 00.58 GMT Last modified on Friday 4 March 2016 01.28 GMT Closing off European football competitions to include only elite clubs could make them far richer, according to the American sports executive who has held talks with the leading English Premier League teams about a shake-up to long-established league structures. The Relevant Sports chairman, Charlie Stillitano, held talks with Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United on Tuesday in London about this year’s International Champions Cup (ICC), an annual pre-season friendly tournament organised by his company. Stillitano confirmed they also discussed “restructuring the Champions League” – an issue high on the European Club Association agenda amid a power vacuum at Uefa. Stillitano revealed that the European governing body has been keen on working with the ICC, which already attracts some of the world’s wealthiest teams to compete in games across the globe for a lucrative but meaningless prize. “We have even talked to Uefa in the past because they had an interest in our summer tournament,” Stillitano told the US satellite radio station SiriusXM. “That is something they would like to integrate into their portfolio.” Joining forces with Relevent’s ICC would currently be incompatible with Uefa’s existing sponsorships. There are no plans with Uefa presently on the table but discussions have not been closed off. Arsenal are the only team from the talks to go on the record in denying they advocate a breakaway Super League for Europe’s leading clubs. Discussions within the ECA about the merits of advocating guaranteed Champions League places for prestigious teams come at a time when Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United are all in danger of missing out on qualifying for Europe’s top competition next season. “What would Manchester United argue: did we create soccer or did Leicester create [it]?” said Stillitano, who met United’s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, on Tuesday. “Let’s call it the money pot created by soccer and the fandom around the world. Who has had more of an integral role, Manchester United or Leicester? It’s a wonderful, wonderful story – but you could see it from Manchester United’s point of view, too.” If the Premier League season ended now, Leicester and Tottenham would qualify for the Champions League alongside Arsenal and Manchester City. “Maybe that is absolutely spectacular unless you are a Manchester United fan, Liverpool fan … or a Chelsea fan,” Stillitano said. “I guess they don’t have a birthright to be in it every year but it’s the age-old argument: US sports franchises versus what they have in Europe. There are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful elements to relegation and promotion and there are good arguments for a closed system.” Stillitano believes Europe’s biggest clubs deserve to make more cash from the Champions League, given their contribution to making it such a financial success. He said fans are more likely to watch the Juventus v Bayern Munich and Arsenal v Barcelona games in the current round of 16 rather than matches involving PSV Eindhoven and Ghent. “This is going to sound arrogant and it’s the furthest thing from it … but suddenly when you see the teams we have this summer in the ICC you are going to shake your head and say, ‘Isn’t that the Champions League?’” Stillitano said. “No, the Champions League is PSV and Ghent.” Voicing the complaints he hears from clubs, Stillitano said: “I could make a lot more money, I can be a lot more visible, I can help my sponsors out but right now I am locked into doing certain things that are really historic.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Jesus christ if they ever pull shit like that they deserve to be thrown in the sea with weights attached. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 What a fucking twat he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Forgot Man U invented 'soccer'. Keep Americans out of the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I can see it happening, tbh. European super league of twenty or so "elite" clubs, no promotion or relegation. A glory hunters wet dream. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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