Super League - Saudi style

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They'll simply put a secondary team in the domestic league and use it as a testing ground for the super League. Its not too different from what we have currently. The big clubs have massive squads and not enough games to bed in youngsters

We'll have the premier league with us and Burnley etc . Playing week in week out against man city and Chelsea reserves. Those players trying to prove themselves for a shot at the first team game in the super League

No way will English teams fully leave the domestic leagues . They'll treat the premier league they way the currently treat the domestic cups
The only thing that makes me hesitate is that they were quite prepared to do so at the drop of a hat the first time the Super League was mooted.

I think it is the “perfect” storm:

- unlimited funds on offer for clubs with fixed income
- Spanish giants broke and unable to compete with the Prem (Serie A the same)
- emotional exhaustion from fans in UK (I note with interest the majority of posters saying they would be delighted if these behemoths went)
 
But when it's a 20 team league with a cup competition with all the best players in the world playing people would tune in and advertisers would pay money.

How much do premier league rights go for? And how many times do the big clubs dominate the TV matches?
they could also buy up the premer league tv rights, i am surpised they haven't already done it to be honest, along with amazon and a few others getting in on it.
 
Look at the NFL, MLB etc all closed shops and they have huge crowds and make money.

The IPL is a closed shop and makes fortunes
I did think about the NBA (something my I have a passing interest in). This is how I figured how it would look. You are absolutely right about the IPL, which is something I have an interest in (cricket in general).

How easy is it to splinter a sport.
 
Course it doesnt work alongside it, everyone knows that. However football is a global game and fans in Asia would go nuts if Man Utd played Real Madrid in a league game somewhere in Asia. Clubs make more money from tourists and overseas fans than they do from us mere loyal home based fans.

The ball is rolling now and its a case of how quickly it continues imo.

Yes local fans will protest, but do the owners really care when they can make untold millions without the annoying FFP restrictions?

Oh I'm all for it. I want them to bugger off. there is some debate over them remaining in the Premier League at the same time, but I can't see how that is possible in a workable sense.
 
The so called Super League clubs won't be leaving the Premier League at all and that has never been the plan despite numerous clueless posters on here constantly claiming that they will be leaving the EPL, how many fecking times does this need pointing out before it sinks in. 😡

The Super League clubs would then have vast financial yearly
revenues and would literally be able to mop up the best talent worldwide so that they could have enough top quality players with basically 2 squads to be able to compete in both the EPL and the Super League, be careful what you wish for.
I’d deduct the clubs points then for purposely fielding a weakened team every time they do it. That would soon have them down a couple of divisions.
 
On the point I made about the indifference on this thread about the big clubs leaving, I mentioned I was conflicted - but what is very important is the pyramid system in England and how dependent this is on the trickle down.

If we are to move away from the big legacy clubs, then it would be a very different landscape. Better or worse - you can argue and there will be some benefits. But the result would be something very different.

I remain conflicted…
 
Oh I'm all for it. I want them to bugger off. there is some debate over them remaining in the Premier League at the same time, but I can't see how that is possible in a workable sense.
its easy enough, they build a squad for the super league, and keep one for the premer league, they do have the money to do it. city already has a second 11, just have to make that a second 25 squad.
 
I think its an absolute certainity PIF will organise its own super league
As long as the domestic associations tell the clubs that sign up to fuck off & they are banned from domestic competiton I don't particularly care

Just looking forward to scum fans trying to justify it when all other PL teams fans are absolutely devastated
 
The so called Super League clubs won't be leaving the Premier League at all and that has never been the plan despite numerous clueless posters on here constantly claiming that they will be leaving the EPL, how many fecking times does this need pointing out before it sinks in. 😡

The Super League clubs would then have vast financial yearly
revenues and would literally be able to mop up the best talent worldwide so that they could have enough top quality players with basically 2 squads to be able to compete in both the EPL and the Super League, be careful what you wish for.
The only reason for the Premier Leagues success has been it's reasonable sharing of revenue has allowed it to be an exciting competitive League. The massive asymmetry of financial possibility of your envisaged outcome (which I accept is perfectly possible) would break the Premier League. It would become defunct and unworkable leading to something else domestically being done. It would end the Premier League.
They will want to stay and use it as feeder / reserve teams, then it depends on the various Football Associations to grow a set and get rid
Won't matter long run if they cave and accept it. It'll break the Premier League and make the League disfunctional, uncompetitive and meaningless. It will just be a matter of time before it either folds or something else is created for domestic competition. Might be a long time, but that will be the result. A super league cannot work alongside domestic club participation, because it won't be competition. It'll be meaningles even if they find some way to manages the over lapping fixtures to needed to make a super league viable.
 
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The only reason for the Premier Leagues success has been it's reasonable sharing of revenue has allowed it to be an exciting competitive League. The massive asymmetry of financial possibility of your envisaged outcome (which I accept is perfectly possible) would break the Premier League. It would become defunct and unworkable leading to something else domestically being done. It would end the Premier League.

Won't matter long run if they cave and accept it. It'll break the Premier League and make the League disfunctional, uncompetitive and meaningless. It will just be a matter of time before it either folds or something else is created for domestic competition. Might be a long time, but that will be the result.
Fans need to realise that due to the global appeal, us local, loyal fans are a mere drop in the ocean. For every 1 fan here that would protest there will be 10 global fans support it
 
And thus be able to play in both at the same time, one team playing fixtures in the premer league and the other in the world super league. 🤔

That would be the plan exactly as I explained previously, it would definitely hurt football in this country as the EPL revenues would drop drastically as would the quality of the product on show, and I would be 100% against it.
 
Fans need to realise that due to the global appeal, us local, loyal fans are a mere drop in the ocean. For every 1 fan here that would protest there will be 10 global fans support it
I'm not doubting or denying that. I'm just saying it won't work for those clubs to remain part of domestic leagues.

Real and Barca have no interest in remaining part of their Leagues. So that will drive the need for more fixtures. It's possible clubs like City could buy up squads of 80 players for compete in both, but that will ruin the EPL if it happens and the financial gap would be so astronomical that the EPL simply wouldn't work as a competition. Eventually something would have to be done to have a functioning League that didn;t include super League teams. There is no plausible future of them in domestic Leagues long term.
 
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That would be the plan exactly as I explained previously, it would definitely hurt football in this country as the EPL revenues would drop drastically as would the quality of the product on show, and I would be 100% against it.
I think they may want that - have their cake and eat it - but I can’t see that as the outcome
 
I think the next stage will be first team EPL/CLG games being played in the middle East as one off games, This will give them the opportunity to assess the fall out and then put it right...
 

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