primitive man wrote:Liking Bluenoseys comments.
Do you not think the sooner a proper European League is drafted the better for the other 86 league teams? Then the top 6 can bigger off. We'd soon get used to not seeing them on our fixture list. At SAFC we already have.
And it would open up the Premier League to a host of potential new champions. We could let the Manchesters etc of this world enter the FA cup, for potential Giant killing purposes, - providing they entered "proper" teams.
Let's not kid ourselves, the sooner this happens the worse for a lot of the aspirant clubs - or put another way the 'also ran but better than most of the other premier league' - clubs, and I suppose even some big name championship clubs.
The big TV rights deals will go to where the big clubs play, which will be in the new European super league, as will the TV coverage, as will the publicity media coverage and hype, and an even greater share of wealth besides prize money when all the commercial profits and sponsorship weigh in.
All new investors from the mega rich will want a piece of the new pie not the crumbs left behind. Big money will attract big money but many will get hugely and substantially poorer.
The other premier clubs will be cast adrift and be the permanent poor or starving relations with absolutely drastically less tv money, massively less prize money, substantially smaller crowds, less potential, less hope and no future. They would have to release players, cut wages and slim down the whole operation, any hopes of returning to former glories will be gone for ever in what would be a defining moment in their club's history.
Potential aspirants to any big league in the future will in effect be cut off. There may be a nominal ladder up to the top at first, limited and for a very finite time, a theoretical escape route only, but in effect the trap door will be locked and bolted in no time.
A bleak future indeed would await any but the six, no potential investors would even look at them for a millisecond.
They will be largely third or fourth class with only the club's fans watching or paying much attention to their fortunes.
A type of second class championship (as at least there's promotion now and a feasible escape route) would be born or rather like the current Scottish league with only partisan local interest and noone else even knowing what went on or caring at all.
Atm there is a chance that the likes of Everton or Newcastle could make the jump, very unlikely in the short term admittedly but very much possible in the medium term, the Usmanov connection with Everton could easily still materialise within a year or two or Ashley sell up to mega rich investors, or like Spurs it could happen more gradually, its hardly inconceivable.
The truth is that while unlikely in the short term its not inconceivable in the medium one.
While a European super league does look inevitable. The day it materialises will have consequences, and they're far from good for all the other 86 clubs, maybe some would hardly notice a difference but this is not the case for all by any means, certainly not at the top end anyway.
Players want a 1/4 million pounds a week, whilst a lot of people are struggling. The gulf between players and fans has never been wider. I don't think it will end though. I'm waiting for someone to get 1/2 million a week...and then complain they didn't get a birthday card.
