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
Good.. the sooner they fuck off on the gravy boat the better.
 
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
That’s about how I see it. The ‘big clubs’ are welcome to it all.

i would hope by that point we are a premer league club again, because one all the best players start going to the super league, however i doubt it will end up like that, honestly they don't even need a super league all they need to do is buy the world club cup, and turn that into a champions league style, competition.
A logical next step. With all the semi & finals played in the locations of the highest bidders….namely Saudi Arabia.

Can’t just blame the Saudis / Quataris either. There’s a reason the Americans are investing so heavily too. This is their dream scenario as much as anyone’s.
 
So far in golf

They’re waiting on the valuation of this new entity and will put capital in based on the valuation

They’re ploughing billions into golf

They could easily put 10s of billions into football

They could but putting a billion or 2 into golf isn't the same as 10 billion a season into football.
 
That’s about how I see it. The ‘big clubs’ are welcome to it all.


A logical next step. With all the semi & finals played in the locations of the highest bidders….namely Saudi Arabia.

Can’t just blame the Saudis / Quataris either. There’s a reason the Americans are investing so heavily too. This is their dream scenario as much as anyone’s.
exactly, so all this can't wait till they fuck off, is rubbish, they don't need to.
 
This huge money pit of vision 2030 plan is to move Saudi away from oil reliance, and encourage tourism etc.

Will paying Messi and the likes hundreds of millions per year really help tourism that much? The locals will have a great time but I can't see any significant return on investment.

"Soft power" will be the answer but having over the hill superstars playing for their internationally irrelevant local sides, who will become more irrelevant when Ronaldo and Co leave, and even potentially hosting a world cup won't improve tourism, and won't improve their image to the point where it becomes a serious destination .
China and Russia are very recent examples of how this will go
 
China and Russia are very recent examples of how this will go
They aren’t trying to enhance their domestic league necessarily, they are positioning the buy the sport, or chunks of it. That is the “I” in PIF. Their investment will return a profit (cash and sports washing)
 
ESL will happen at somepoint, it's inevitable and I hope it does cause I can then ignore most of the so called 'big' clubs.

Only problem is I don't want it to be a halfway situation where they can still play in the English league, just fuck off altogether and see how your 'super' league fairs.

If they stay they will continue to moan about how many games they have to play in leagues they have personally set up themselves because they know no bounds when it comes to hypocrisy. Will want out of the domestic cups but will want the Premier League money on top of the ESL money.

Whether Saudi can just buy that for them is another issue and I'm guessing the can and will want to as it's probably they only way they can legitimise the Saudi teams.
 
ESL will happen at somepoint, it's inevitable and I hope it does cause I can then ignore most of the so called 'big' clubs.

Only problem is I don't want it to be a halfway situation where they can still play in the English league, just fuck off altogether and see how your 'super' league fairs.

If they stay they will continue to moan about how many games they have to play in leagues they have personally set up themselves because they know no bounds when it comes to hypocrisy. Will want out of the domestic cups but will want the Premier League money on top of the ESL money.

Whether Saudi can just buy that for them is another issue and I'm guessing the can and will want to as it's probably they only way they can legitimise the Saudi teams.
What if they just want out of the league cup, and replace that with super league fixtures.
 
I hope it happens me. Send them all to the super league, mags included. They’ll be kicked out of the prem and it’ll be like the championship is now, competitive. It’ll be big for a couple years then no one will be interested in Real Madrid vs spurs in Jeddah for the 4th time in 2 seasons
They’ll come back and the FA will smash them with embargoes etc when they join.
Fuck em
 
I hope it happens me. Send them all to the super league, mags included. They’ll be kicked out of the prem and it’ll be like the championship is now, competitive. It’ll be big for a couple years then no one will be interested in Real Madrid vs spurs in Jeddah for the 4th time in 2 seasons
They’ll come back and the FA will smash them with embargoes etc when they join.
Fuck em
Yeah I’d like to see them start again in the conference north. Twats
 
What if they just want out of the league cup, and replace that with super league fixtures.
Possibly will but then it fucks off one of the cups that teams not in the top echelons of the Prem can possibly win on a extremely good year.

The sport is already rigged so that only 6/7 teams can really win anything, this would just turn the screw tighter on that. A team like Sunderland would go from having about a 2% chance of winning some to a 0.5% as with most of the English clubs.
 
This huge money pit of vision 2030 plan is to move Saudi away from oil reliance, and encourage tourism etc.

Will paying Messi and the likes hundreds of millions per year really help tourism that much? The locals will have a great time but I can't see any significant return on investment.

"Soft power" will be the answer but having over the hill superstars playing for their internationally irrelevant local sides, who will become more irrelevant when Ronaldo and Co leave, and even potentially hosting a world cup won't improve tourism, and won't improve their image to the point where it becomes a serious destination .
The hubris of it all is hilarious. Saudi envisioned as a tourist destination while you can get imprisoned for criticising the regime on social media:lol:
 
Sooner they form a super league and fuck off out of the domestic league the better.

The Premier League is currently rather pointless and odious in the way its contested and will only worsen.

I've no interest in a global League between fans I'll almost never meet. I want to be champions of England amongst fans of various clubs I will see and meet and know. The super league is a vacuous future that will lack ties and meaning. They are welcome to it.
Agree with this completely.

When the idea was first bandied about, I thought it was a ludicrous idea like many others and wanted to see it fail. Now however, I’d sooner see a huge shakeup of things and allow us to be in a far more competitive league which will see us challenging on a more even playing field.

Though we all want to see the club progress and ultimately get in the Premier League ASAP, I can guarantee the novelty will soon wear off when we are having to spend upwards of £100m+ on average footballers just to stay afloat.
 
Agree with this completely.

When the idea was first bandied about, I thought it was a ludicrous idea like many others and wanted to see it fail. Now however, I’d sooner see a huge shakeup of things and allow us to be in a far more competitive league which will see us challenging on a more even playing field.

Though we all want to see the club progress and ultimately get in the Premier League ASAP, I can guarantee the novelty will soon wear off when we are having to spend upwards of £100m+ on average footballers just to stay afloat.
So accept our place and remain in the football league, as long as we win a few games that is.
 
Bring it on.
Let's have our game back.
Let the greedy twats fuck off to some super saudi funded league, play boring games week after week, go play a few games in Saudi in a dead stadium, then have their photos taken with the worst people on the planet, go to China for a few games to build the brand.
 
Bring it on.
Let's have our game back.
Let the greedy twats fuck off to some super saudi funded league, play boring games week after week, go play a few games in Saudi in a dead stadium, then have their photos taken with the worst people on the planet, go to China for a few games to build the brand.
how to do you imagine them, giving you, the game back ?
 

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