duo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 7 minutes ago, TheInfiniteOdyssey said: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bonk Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Disco said: It’s the amateurishness that annoys me as much as anything. Genuinely think I could devise better rigged super league myself that would at least not be overtly shit and destroyed within 48 hours and if it was I’d at least front it out. Honestly man. That and it being different levels of shit of course. Not that the current alternative is in anyway good or well run from a sporting perspective. Would be a great bonus pack for Football Manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 11 minutes ago, triggs said: Florentino Perez offering a nice little bonus to Mundo to smear the English clubs I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza ladra Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Ameritoon said: Literally went forward with it without a TV deal in place and not even a full league It was a farce from the beginning and it's no surprise considering some of the people involved are operating a few of the worst run clubs in Europe. Somebody is desperate. Got to be somebody in some serious financial trouble to be pushing ahead so recklessly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, triggs said: Strange how they were able to get the JP Morgan deal approved while everything else was so amateurish Would be class if the whole thing was an elaborate grift Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Anyone think this was all part of their grand master plan to get even more power? "ok ok we'll come back but you must do a few things that we want? Deal?" Masters would have been begging them to not leave him behind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Nobody said: Florentino Perez offering a nice little bonus to Mundo to smear the English clubs I reckon. Barca paper I think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Nobody said: Like you said Disco, any of us could have done a better job of thinking up a super league. Yes. 1. Win your league to enter it. 2. Commentary from away ties to be done over landline phone, barely audible. 3. Sub-teletext style team line ups which align diagonally top left to bottom right pre match. 4. Ties in countries formerly behind iron curtain to be played in full 100,000 stadiums where 90% of the crowd are in military grey. 5. Occasional match in black and white. 6. 50% of ties to have no television coverage at all, all fan access to events to be limited to local regional newspaper sport pages almost 24 hours later. 7. All English teams playing in it to have at least 4 Scottish players in team. 8. Prior to away match in Europe, obligatory tabloid photo stories featuring players from English club dressed up as questionable, often inaccurate national stereotype of country visited (ie Bryan Robson and Norman Whiteside dressed in ponchos and sombreros prior to away game in Bilbao) 9. Immediate 300% increase in outbreaks of police violence at away games (some countries clearly never moved away from this in the first place) 10. Barry Davies. There you go, fixed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonShandy Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 15 minutes ago, triggs said: If this is true, find out how much and fine them double. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Liverpool's statement is a joke. Discontinued. Unless all these clubs get their current owners out, then these types of deceitful plans will continue to go on behind the scenes. It's clear the motivation of these types of owners, greed. I hope this leads to some sort of legislation written in to stop owners of clubs going behind their fans backs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenkoDaLuz Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Easy fix: 1. Champions play the European Cup 2. Cup Winners play the Cup Winners Cup 3. 2nd to 3rd or 4th or 5th depending on the ranking of the League go to UEFA Cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 10 minutes ago, brummie said: The Spurs one is the best one. Levy genuinely said this: "“We regret the anxiety and upset caused by the ESL proposal. We felt it was important that our club participated in the development of a possible new structure that sought to better ensure financial fair play and financial sustainability whilst delivering significantly increased support for the wider football pyramid." That conceit alone tells me that this can not end here. He’s absolute fucking scum. Never mind this, the arrogance he’s shown in managing to regress Spurs thinking he’s bigger than club in a couple of years. Comes across as a right snivelling little runt, always grasping at coat tails of the bigger boys who despise him. Certainly seemed that way on the Spurs programme. Gasping to be everyone’s mate but they look at him like he’s shat his pants again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Scotty66 said: Anyone think this was all part of their grand master plan to get even more power? "ok ok we'll come back but you must do a few things that we want? Deal?" Masters would have been begging them to not leave him behind. It's looking exactly like that, and i'm not a bit surprised, whole world is corrupt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Let us not forget Jose Mourinho the only Super League manager to ever be sacked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonShandy Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 (edited) If the PL's Officers and Directors criteria mean anything, they must mean that the PL can remove officers and directors who have actively conspired to sabotage the league. Edited April 20, 2021 by GideonShandy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Disco said: He’s absolute fucking scum. Never mind this, the arrogance he’s shown in managing to regress Spurs thinking he’s bigger than club in a couple of years. Comes across as a right snivelling little runt, always grasping at coat tails of the bigger boys who despise him. Certainly seemed that way on the Spurs programme. Gasping to be everyone’s mate but they look at him like he’s shat his pants again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInfiniteOdyssey Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Surprised Liverpool didn't put out a statement by Joel Glazer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 13 minutes ago, Yorkie said: Makes you wonder if they ever intended for it to happen. I'm leaning towards it being a cock up but if they get better deals in thy CL or whatever, was this the plan all along? Probably not. Just can't get over the abysmal delivery of the whole thing. I actually said the same thing to someone at work today. Was it a bluff to get what they all want? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInfiniteOdyssey Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, GideonShandy said: If the PL's Officers and Directors criteria mean anything, they must mean that the PL can ban officers and directors who have actively conspired to sabotage the league. Of course nothing will end up happening, but it is just crazy how these owners could still be viewed as 'fit and proper' of the respective clubs according to the Premier League regulations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, mighty__mag said: I actually said the same thing to someone at work today. Was it a bluff to get what they all want? I don’t think so, just a clusterfuck. They are in a far weaker position now to be making any demands for more. They’ve shown their colours. This is a win, maybe not as big as some might suggest, but certainly a win for football. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out now over the next few weeks/months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I'm busy just laughing at Perez made his whole supervillain speech only for it to fall apart less than 24 hours later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Super league did exactly what they wanted. They called everyone's bluff and uefa and likely the leagues have folded and given them more money and power. Whole thing was set up as a smokescreen to get what they wanted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, toontownman said: Super league did exactly what they wanted. They called everyone's bluff and uefa and likely the leagues have folded and given them more money and power. Whole thing was set up as a smokescreen to get what they wanted. they do seem to have somehow won Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I don't think this was a bluff, if it was they'd have spent longer in the leak unofficial stage, or conversely, held out longer, doing it like they have they've made total arses of themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenkoDaLuz Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, toontownman said: Super league did exactly what they wanted. They called everyone's bluff and uefa and likely the leagues have folded and given them more money and power. Whole thing was set up as a smokescreen to get what they wanted. Sorry but it can't just work like this. They can't just threaten and bluff everyone and win at the end of the story. They have to be punished hard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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