Super League - Saudi style

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You only have to look at Man City's owners to see what the end game is.

Buy clubs in the various regions around the globe to give you a foothold in the regions, throw at bit of money at them to get them higher up / more successful than they have been, thus making their fans easier to manipulate, while doing this the State get into bed with FIFA and throw money at them for World Club Championships / World Cups, whilst paying massive wages to players for their league.

Before you know it it will be "Ohh look Saudi have sponsored the FIFA World Club Championship as well as the Men and Womens World Cups"

The traditional "Big Clubs" wont want to miss out on the mental amount of money so will integrate with them rather than run the risk of missing out and before you know it theres a Global Super League with the 80% of the best players in the world playing for £1 million plus a week to sold out stadiums in the Far East, Middle East, America etc
 
You only have to look at Man City's owners to see what the end game is.

Buy clubs in the various regions around the globe to give you a foothold in the regions, throw at bit of money at them to get them higher up / more successful than they have been, thus making their fans easier to manipulate, while doing this the State get into bed with FIFA and throw money at them for World Club Championships / World Cups, whilst paying massive wages to players for their league.

Before you know it it will be "Ohh look Saudi have sponsored the FIFA World Club Championship as well as the Men and Womens World Cups"

The traditional "Big Clubs" wont want to miss out on the mental amount of money so will integrate with them rather than run the risk of missing out and before you know it theres a Global Super League with the 80% of the best players in the world playing for £1 million plus a week to sold out stadiums in the Far East, Middle East, America etc
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Theyll just pull out the champions league and replace that.
It will be the end of the champions league for sure.

I have no doubt that, after yesterday, every Head of different sports (tennis, snooker, rugby, cricket..) will have had their ears pricked up. Either to take the opportunity or to take a defensive position.

Seeing the way the PGA CEO folded was as comical as it was terrifying
 
Theyll just pull out the champions league and replace that.
Yes I suppose so, but there won't be the time to play more than 12 League games a season. That is a very limited pool of teams from all the great and good of Europe. You could only really play each team once and that group of 12 isn't big enough (two from Germany, Spain, Portugal, three or four from Italy, four from England, one from Holland - this is already 15 and is that going to be it? Play each other once?)...so I just don't see how there would be the time to run a super League unless they left their domestic divisions. I have no faith that the FA or Premier League would kick them out btw.


If the Saudi's get involved isn't a global world club League a more viable prospect to replace a Super League in terms of global appeal and clout?
 
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Yes I suppose so, but there won't be the time to play more than 12 League games a season. That is a very limited pool of teams from all the great and good of Europe. You could only really play each team once and that group of 12 isn't big enough...so I just don't see how there would be the time to run a super League unless they left their domestic divisions. I have no faith that the FA or Premier League would kick them out btw.


If the Saudi's get involved isn't a global world club League a more viable prospect to replace a Super League in terms of global appeal and clout?
The clubs were willing to pull out the champions league, start a super league and stay in their domestic leagues about 18 months ago.

Very naive to think congestion would stop it. From next season the champions league will have 15 games to win it anyway.
 
The clubs were willing to pull out the champions league, start a super league and stay in their domestic leagues about 18 months ago.

Very naive to think congestion would stop it. From next season the champions league will have 15 games to win it anyway.
Yes I know, I just meant that those 15 teams are not really enough to run it on one fixture each. It doesn't encompass enough countries or teams for it to be a big money spinner does it? Which four from England, which four from Italy. And they can't really run a league bigger than this. I am just not convinced of the appeal of it in that limited format of 15 teams and any bigger and they can't play in the domestic league at the same time surely?

And if it replaces the Champions League do we care? Only if it is a closed shop as that will give massive financial clout to those teams and if it does then that will break the domestic league and something will eventually have to be done about that.

Either way I can't really see how it fits or works, but that's why I'm not in charge of shit like that. Money talks and I'm sure they'll try.
 
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Hope so, I'd hate it if it was SAFC joining it. No doubt the mags will be included, if they hadn't thought they'd lost their club already, it will soon hit home when they're playing clubs in the middle east.
If they are which three other teams? Because I can't see it functioning with more than four from England. The numbers from other nations and other big teams in Europe will make it unfeasible.
 
This is what baffles me, there's no way they are getting anywhere near that figure back, the golfers who participate may love it, but how much does the rest of the world actually care?

Just seems like a huge vanity project done for the sake of saying "look what we can do" but without any even medium term benefit never mind post 2030 when they need to wean their economy off oil.
It's called sportwashing.
 

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