Fan The Flames

I agree that they won't do anything, Boris is just a virtue signaler.

Only because they flew too close to the sun and the string burnt. They have fucked up good and proper.

The government would have to nationalise the other 50% and give it to a supporters trust or something.

To only take affect when they qualify, sweepstake on what years Arsenal and Spurs will complete these bans. I'll go 2026 and 2030.

He's not wrong in the fact we need the big clubs in our league. But he's completely wrong about finding a way of making it work. They stay or go.

It's alright good old Labour have just raised a petition and letter to the competition commission, that'll sort it out. Nothing to see here now.

What happens if we go down and stay down, or if the tv deal is considerably smaller than the last one, or if Sky goes bust, or if the top six clubs leave. An organisation like ours should have plans in place to mitigate.

That guy was a complete prick, heard him on the radio yesterday, he didn't have a clue and it all sounded like a set up.

oh no this will wind the 'stop the count' haters right up.

and they are the two that haven't got American owners.

At least he had the decency to submit a transfer request. Instead of an out of the blue announcement that he was going to play for Sunderland on Wednesday's and Southampton at the weekend.

Go and have a cup of tea and a hob nob and mull it over.

The walking football team I play for put out a WhatsApp comfirming we will not be joining the Super League. Which is good because our best striker plays in a folk band on Wednesday nights.

More of the European TV money, future certainty and a chance to grow the Euro TV money pot. They believe the world audience wants less Krasnador v Midtjylland and more Man City v Real Madrid. So by guaranteeing that the big clubs are always in it and that they will play each other more, they will have a better offer to drive up the Euro TV deal. And whilst they are forcing these changes, they think they might as well go for giving less of it away as well, in both solidarity payments and to the smaller euro clubs. The compromise will be a CL that focuses on the big clubs whilst UEFA still slice off money for solidarity payments.

It will naturally happen, TV will pay less for the inferior product so clubs will have to pay less wages and transfer fees. They will have until the end of the TV deal to get their ducks in line. It will be painful because a lot of clubs won't be able to realign quickly enough, but they will eventually. The question is how long will the damage hurt the clubs and where will they end up.

They, Big Clubs, will be looking to get rid of transfer fees as well. Maybe compensation to players youth clubs by Big Club Co and players dished out on a draft.

It's not about backbone, they will want to preserve the value of their clubs, which no doubt will be affected by the loss of the big clubs. The owners of the 14 are in a difficult position. How many home owners would vote for cutting house values by 50% for the good of people in the future.

Fans do realise that, but I guess don't care. Football finances need a reset, it will be painful but not the end of the world.

A source within the 12 according to BBCs Dan Roan, they are apparently more interested in 'future fans'. When you consider this, they really are stealing these clubs.

I would love it if the 14 left to form a new top flight, love it.

The way the Mourinho tenure has played was so predictable to even an average football fan. So why stake so much cash on a busted flush, Spurs must have been stupid or desperate.

Not true apparently, can't see why a character like Mourinho would be against it.

I can see a big court battle if FIFA/UEFA banned players from this league playing for their international teams.

Can anyone remember the brief talk about an European Super League in the early 80's and we were listed as a possible club. We were doing well and geographically well placed to spread to coverage around the country. Big article in the Mirror and then it just fizzled out.

It went in we lost, what's your point. Your trying to tie performance to shots on target, well Leciester's must have been nearly as shit then. We contained then well but at the great expense of our forward offering, we just haven't got the quality on the break, Redmond, Djenepo and Diallo were poor and Walcott and Adams didn't add anything. Our set pieces were also shit. We tried to get the ball down amd play it but they were equal to that and then we resorted to smashing it upfield which they just lapped up. We just don't have the quality or any depth, their subs of Maddison and Albrighton made them better. We are a very long way from being a competitive prem team.