EPL 2020/2021

[KiwiPie]

Talk about news happening in real time! Hard to keep up ....

[Bovidae]

Atletico Madrid too.

[sparky]

What a shambles. The whole fiasco remains me of the failed coup against Gorbachev in August 1991, although that made it through three and half days before collapsing.

[dogmeat]

From Jordan Henderson (and others)

[dogmeat]

So there were six English breakaway clubs. 13 EPL clubs have issued a statement condemning their move.

Who is / was sitting on the fence?

[gt12]

Dead in the water. What a huge cock up.

[mofitzy_]

Amazing to me that with so much money behind it, it could still be executed so poorly.

[Bovidae]

This demonstrates the arrogance of the US owners, and the likes of Perez and Agnelli.

[Kiwiwomble]

this is crazy, had they done no research into how their fans might react, are they honestly that arrogant?

all theyve ended up doing is taint their brand a little

[mofitzy_]

Spanish clubs are broke, Italians are fading into irrelevance on a European level, and Americans can't comprehend relegation. This could end doing a lot of damage and good in football.

[Kiwiwomble]

i dont know enough about the other leagues so i can only talking about the EPL....when was the last time any of the big 6 got close to relegation?

[canefan]

@mofitzy_ said in EPL 2020/2021:

Amazing to me that with so much money behind it, it could still be executed so poorly.

Yeah, definitely gave them far too much credit

[dogmeat]

@kiwiwomble All except City have been in since the beginning. They were in the 3rd tier as recently as 1999

[Kiwiwomble]

@dogmeat so not since they got they're current backer, these owners are either paranoid or they are tired of paying for a good squad and wanted to be able to ease off investment

[mofitzy_]

It's more about not being in Champions league than relegation from the PL, La Liga etc. Pay-outs are also tiered based on position too.

[dogmeat]

@kiwiwomble I think they thought they could get a bigger piece of a bigger pie.

However they were obviously relying on pay per view as both Amazon and Sky said they weren't interested in TV rights.

So appealing to the Netflix generation and as has been said probably East and SE Asia more than Europe.

[Bovidae]

@kiwiwomble said in EPL 2020/2021:

i dont know enough about the other leagues so i can only talking about the EPL....when was the last time any of the big 6 got close to relegation?

As @mofitzy_ says, it's not so much relegation from your domestic league that is the motivation behind this, but not being an automatic qualifier for the CL (top 4 in EPL). Playing in the CL brings in money which allows you to make a profit and strengthen your squad. The rich would just get richer.

[Kiwiwomble]

in other good news Wimbledon have now won four on the trot and scored 14, not yet safe but putting up a bloody good fight, fourth in the form table

this whole debacle might make a lot of fans look at things like the "german model" or fan owned models like us

[Bovidae]

Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham have joined Chelsea and Manchester City in signalling their intention to withdraw from the European Super League.
The announcement on Sunday by the 12 clubs to form a breakaway Super League prompted a furious backlash across the continent.

The grovelling has begun.

https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2020-2021/all-six-premier-league-clubs-withdraw-from-european-super-league_sto8282646/story.shtml

[Kiwiwomble]

@bovidae :cat_face_with_tears_of_joy:

They've folded so quickly!