European Premier League Talks In Progress

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Hagrid said:
Just breaking on Sky Sports News that Man Utd and Liverpool are currently in talks with FIFA about the formation of a European Premier League. Cost approx £4.6 billion

www.skysports.com

European Premier League: Liverpool and Manchester United in talks for FIFA-backed tournament

Woolwich, Chelsea, Man City and Tottenham also candidates to join a new European Premier League, which is backed by a $6 billion (£4.6 billion) financing package
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I called this a week ago. Should've put a bet on it.

Smelled it a mile away. Cunts.
 
If we really turn English football into the NFL, I swear I am done!!

No offence any American Spurs fans on here, but 'Murrica really is killing global culture as we know it... by vacuuming it all up and morphing it ibto their own warped version of normality....
Music, sport, tv... all of it!

The fact they don't get IRONY tells you everything!!
 
This would suck away tv money, and potential sponsorship, reduced money means reduced quality in PL overall, messes up our revenue model based on minimum £400m a year to repay the stadium and be moderately big spenders at the same time - weakening the club even domestically.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Levy wanted in (albeit reluctantly)
 
TottsAmazeballs said:
Just venturing a restrained guess, but if we do this and basically adopt the US model, that would mean:

  • 18 teams in the PL with perma-lock-in, medals for attendance.
  • Winning/Biggest clubs get first pick of the University drafts
  • North-South playoffs
  • Timeouts
  • Stripey Refs
  • Specialist subs just for free kicks and pens
  • Extra-time multi-ball
  • MVPs
  • Better graphics
  • "World Series of Football" (i.e. both North and South England)
  • "Galactic Tournament of Soccer" (EPL and SPL)
  • "Universal Battle of Kickball" (add Wales)
  • "Pandimensional War of No-Hands" (Add Channel islands and any commonwealth within 3 hours on Easyjet)
Not gonna lie, that sounds awesome.

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[Update:
La Liga president Javier Tebas said: "The authors of that idea - if they really exist, because there is nobody actually defending it - not only show a total ignorance of the organisation and customs of European and world football, but also a serious ignorance of the audiovisual rights markets.

"A project of this type will mean serious economic damage to the organisers themselves and to those entities that finance it, if they exist, because they´re never official. These underground projects only look good when drafted at a bar at five in the morning"]

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Don't forget the all-inclusive, body positive, pan-gender dancing troupes to keep the crowds entertained throughout all those stoppages
 
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This is nothing new. But one day it will happen. When it does we need to be in it because anyone not in it will be fucked financially and lose all their good players to the clubs in the new richer league. I really hate it. BUT if it happens then i want in.
 
Super Jan Fan said:
This is nothing new. But one day it will happen. When it does we need to be in it because anyone not in it will be fucked financially and lose all their good players to the clubs in the new richer league. I really hate it. BUT if it happens then i want in.
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I can see your logic, but we'd be one of the pikeys of the league; just a supporting role.
 
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Super Jan Fan said:
Every club in the league will have money and will just get stronger and stronger if they cant be relegated.
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There'll still be a financial pecking order though..... Give or take, we're 5th richest club in our league and struggle to make a dent..... As circa the 10th richest in Europe we'd make even less of a dent in the super-duper-wanky league.
 
The Outsider said:
You don't pay JP Morgan a shed load of money to raise 4.6 billion for Sky just to apply a bit of pressure ... this is serious but the revolt from 99.9% of fans will kill it stone dead.

Dippers and Utd fans just as against it as everyone else
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Who's paid JP Morgan a shed load of money? Nothing I've read so far suggests to me anyone's invested more than scoping fees at the moment? And my guess would be the only party being billed so far is FIFA who are probably driving this, with cheerleading by the Glazers, Fenway, Perez, Agnelli who all see it as a win win, they either get a new more lucrative money making tournament or they get to use the threat of it as leverage to get more out of the existing CL and domestic deals. FIFA likewise, seeing this as a way to either usurp their rival UEFA or at least start to get a piece of football's most lucrative club competition currently run by UEFA.
 
How about they play matches in the most incredible settings ever, like the gardens of Buckingham Palace, the Champs Elysees or Tutankhamen’s inflated fucking scrotum? No fans present, but who cares when it’s broadcast around the world to millions paying £20 per game? Money, money, money!
 
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