I think the Government would directly legislate to prevent them joining a new league with no promotion and relegation via the English top flight. However, the value in the Super League is about a. more games between elite sides with big budgets and b. no UEFA involvement. If there is promotion and relegation, it will happen.
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What I don't get with the new proposed Super League format, is they say there will be multiple Super Leagues with promotion and relegation between them.
Say the top 4 teams in England get put in the top league. 3 might remain in the top Super League, 1 (Woolwich) relegated to the Super League 2nd tier..
Next season Woolwich don't finish in the Premier Leagues top half.. do they remain in their Super League 2nd tier then? And the team replacing them in the Premier Leagues top 4 also join the Super League? So eventually could have like 10 English sides in the Super League? The only way they could get rid of the English sides would be if they finished in the relegation zone of the bottom (4th?) tier Super League, losing every week against utter garbage. It wouldn't happen, and the leagues would eventually just end up stacked with teams from Europe's top 5 leagues.
Suppose they would have to say to retain your position in the Super Leagues you need to achieve European qualification too, but without specifics the system seems really shit?
Ultimately whatever pays best is likely to happen. Nobody should have much loyalty to UEFA, they're a joke. I can see this going ahead within the decade in some form or another.
Say the top 4 teams in England get put in the top league. 3 might remain in the top Super League, 1 (Woolwich) relegated to the Super League 2nd tier..
Next season Woolwich don't finish in the Premier Leagues top half.. do they remain in their Super League 2nd tier then? And the team replacing them in the Premier Leagues top 4 also join the Super League? So eventually could have like 10 English sides in the Super League? The only way they could get rid of the English sides would be if they finished in the relegation zone of the bottom (4th?) tier Super League, losing every week against utter garbage. It wouldn't happen, and the leagues would eventually just end up stacked with teams from Europe's top 5 leagues.
Suppose they would have to say to retain your position in the Super Leagues you need to achieve European qualification too, but without specifics the system seems really shit?
Ultimately whatever pays best is likely to happen. Nobody should have much loyalty to UEFA, they're a joke. I can see this going ahead within the decade in some form or another.
Which league has better revenue numbers than the PL?
Champions League if you reach the latter stages?
I think Shaydan is right. The imperative lies elsewhere with this. Think about it this way if the English clubs had similarly slept on their own product and fan experience, on safety, on- for good or ill-creating a more sanitised less rascist, less hostile experience, if TV revenues had not been maximised so effectively. Can you guys see the Italians/ Spaniards being so keen to junk their traditional structure and governance to allow English sides to catch up. If it was reversed they'd leave us to the issues Serie A and La liga have, and tells us to respect history and that the ECL was sufficient.
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I imagine the novelty of a “super league” would wear off pretty and just turn into an empty, soulless, commercialised white elephant.
Hopefully Premier League clubs recognise they don’t need to join something like that. The big clubs over here already have it good. Let the “giants” of European football battle it out trying to replicate the Premier League and just watch it crash and burn from a safe distance.
Hopefully Premier League clubs recognise they don’t need to join something like that. The big clubs over here already have it good. Let the “giants” of European football battle it out trying to replicate the Premier League and just watch it crash and burn from a safe distance.