The ESL is all about revenue. Spurs will be involved because we're one of the 10 largest revenue generators in the football world.
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I mean that's slightly backward. Spurs are an elite revenue generator over recent seasons almost entirely because of the TV contracts of the competitions we've had access to (PL and CL).
That said, with a big (and moneyed) fanbase both within London and around the world, as well as top of market facilities and infrastructure, Spurs are an appealing prospect for any potential Super League, one of the most appealing in England.
That can be dimmed by a slide into mid-table, but only so much.
Anyway, I think this is right, I think Levy & Co. believe the machinations around UEFA (wage limitations, CL expansion, the reemergence of the ESL, something) will ride to their rescue.
Possible in theory, but the more appealing the system becomes for profit-greedy capitalists, the more entities better funded than ENIC are going to barge in, leaving Spurs with more and more competitors surging up behind and reliant on Levy's dogshit football management to make the difference.
Newcastle have already surpassed us and aren't going to need to violate a single FFP rule the way City did in order to stay there indefinitely.
The chance to win "the right way" has already passed. It's over. It's time to sell.
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Sounds awesome.
The only competitive advantage Levy ever offered Spurs was that he understood the landscape and important driving factors of the football business of 2015 back in 2003. We got a first mover advantage adopting important practices during the 2004-2014ish period.
It's now 2023. Those insights are now universally adopted and thereby worthless, he and the club are rudderless, and it only gets worse from here.
It's now 2023. Those insights are now universally adopted and thereby worthless, he and the club are rudderless, and it only gets worse from here.
No, just realistic.
We can’t complain it’s all about the money and then pretend it’s not about the money.
Some wanted him back, some didn't. Regardless of anything I've gone from a die hard never miss a minute supporter my whole life to barely caring to watch a game and it's been a slow bleed since poch was sacked. Gave Jose time, gave Conte time but it feels like we peaked the moment Moura scored the third at Ajax and we've just been on a slow spiral downwards since then.
Levy never backed Poch despite him deserving it and he never re hired him again despite deserving another chance. Now our best manager since Bill Nick is going to chelsea with a huge budget and backing.
We on the other hand knocked back Nagelsman..... ..... Whilst knocking back Poch.....
We will end up with Brendan Rodgers
I've never in my life been so far from this club.
I enjoyed AVB and Tim Sherwood times way more than I do today and those teams would actually destroy the current sad squad we have today
Levy never backed Poch despite him deserving it and he never re hired him again despite deserving another chance. Now our best manager since Bill Nick is going to chelsea with a huge budget and backing.
We on the other hand knocked back Nagelsman..... ..... Whilst knocking back Poch.....
We will end up with Brendan Rodgers
I've never in my life been so far from this club.
I enjoyed AVB and Tim Sherwood times way more than I do today and those teams would actually destroy the current sad squad we have today
It's not, that's not my point. I've said repeatedly I hope we're left out.
Dead to me
Ffs man even though I didn’t want him back here it will hurt to see him there! 
I obviously take the revenue point, but the Super league will, if it is to be taken seriously, have to demonstrate some sort of sporting credibility by being a showcase for the best teams in Europe.
If we’re lolloping about in 6th or 7th, with absolutely zero modern success to our name, it would be embarrassing if we’re allowed in.
Anyway, this is years away.
I’m fucking gutted.
Particularly when you look at the car crash we have infront is us every week.
Didn’t realise how much it would hit me until I saw the announcement
Particularly when you look at the car crash we have infront is us every week.
Didn’t realise how much it would hit me until I saw the announcement
They need numbers, and the reality is that pretty much every European league has basically 2 or 3 valuable brands. 3 from Spain, 3 from France, 4 from Italy, 3 from Germany, 1 from Holland. That's 14. The ESL will likely be 24 clubs. 2 from Portugal. Maybe they take the Old Firm. Anyway, it's probably gonna be 6 English clubs.
I actually think the likeliest next gambit for the ESL doesn't involve any English teams at all, rather it's FIFA getting in on the conspiracy with their Club World Cup expansion.
English and Continental clubs are at the moment united in opposition. But if Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, maybe a few more revenue-desperate continental clubs, were offered permanent entry into the competition and a hefty sign-on fee? I think a viable TV competitor to the CL that circumvents UEFA control may be born.
You'd start by having year-by-year CL winners get automatic bids, luring the English teams in. Make a beachhead, expand over time.
FIFA being a co-conspirator changes everything, because the hammer of banning players from the World Cup is off the table.
English and Continental clubs are at the moment united in opposition. But if Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, maybe a few more revenue-desperate continental clubs, were offered permanent entry into the competition and a hefty sign-on fee? I think a viable TV competitor to the CL that circumvents UEFA control may be born.
You'd start by having year-by-year CL winners get automatic bids, luring the English teams in. Make a beachhead, expand over time.
FIFA being a co-conspirator changes everything, because the hammer of banning players from the World Cup is off the table.
Told you guys this dude was a fucking punk.
YOU SHOULD HAVE ACTED LIKE A MAN AND PLAYED MOURA IN THE CL FINAL YOU CHUBBY ROUND FACED CUNT!
YOU SHOULD HAVE ACTED LIKE A MAN AND PLAYED MOURA IN THE CL FINAL YOU CHUBBY ROUND FACED CUNT!
Depends entirely on whether UEFA are on-board or not. There just aren’t enough viable competitors outside Europe to make this anything other than bad exhibition football. Maybe it still goes over with third world fans but it won’t get traction where the money is…..
Damn Poch, I thought we was gang. Slidin with the opps now smh
