Comments on: A Top Secret European Super League

By: Banjo

Banjo — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:50:08 +0000

Good Points:
– Best players in world in one league
– Very glamorous idea
– erm…

Bad Points
– Potential threat to international tournaments as clubs become more powerful than national FA’s
– Death of “smaller” football clubs (unless clubs become feeder clubs…urgh)
– Restriction of potential growth of “smaller” clubs
– Money not spread equally to all areas of ground level clubs
– Rich clubs rule TV exposure
– History of the game destroyed due to Greed (almost getting that way with ECL teams dominating national leagues)
– Fans get forgotton
– Fans get financially squeezed out of game

So, good idea or bad idea?

By: Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:22:19 +0000

Horrible idea without a lot of thought beyond the $$s that could be made; I completely agree with what Ian said. No Merseyside or Manchester derbies? No Southend knocking Man U out of the cup?

Not to mention if it is the G14, then Chelski will be winning the league until the next millenium with Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal gone. Who wants that?

Besides, if they sold out and went to a Superleague, all three clubs would be trashing proud traditions and a hundred or so years of history and makes them — what? — the EU of football? Bad news for fans, even if it feeds the fat cats. In the long run, what is the price of the integrity of this game worth? (Might not want to answer that.)

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:20:37 +0000

im not sure…it definately has its flaws but there is a certain appeal about it….especially if they used a system where teams could be relegated back to the domestic leages and promoted into the ’super league’

overall though it will probably never happen

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:57:17 +0000

Not while I live. It that were to happen, or if UEFA started talking about it, I would turn into Petition Sam.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:44:02 +0000

I think it would be a terrible idea, for all concerned in the long run. The big clubs might gain some control over their TV broadcasts, etc, since it sounds like they’d essentially be partners in the super league. But they’d lose their identities as domestic teams. Domestic rivalries are a huge part of football, and they’d be all but lost in this plan. The big teams would give up some of their most important rivalries, and essentially all the leagues would give up their biggest clubs. The small clubs would lose their chance for the occasional upset. We’d never see a West Ham over Man United surprise victory again. This is a short-sighted plan by a couple of money-grubbing executives that care nothing for the game. Bad for clubs, bad for fans, bad for football.