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Yeah, I'm completely different. I have no interest in watching North Korea get steamrolled by Argentina or APOEL play Bayern. Occasionally you'll get a good story, but my favorite parts of every Champions League or World Cup tourney involve two great teams going at it.
I also don't think it will be 100% closed. There will be too much dissension internally for that to happen. It may be the same core of 8-10 teams (ManU/Barca/Real/PSG/Bayern/pick your favorite Italian team, etc.), but there will have to be some flow from either domestic competitions or weaker leagues to get buy-in to start.
Making the Super League into an American-type sports league would be very bad for me.
How often does that happen in American sports leagues? The owners may have to sell, but the franchises retain value. The 20 to 30 teams in the Super League are going to be the 20 to 30 teams with the most revenue because their TV deal is going to blow all the other league's deals out of the water.
I don't think anyone is proposing these super clubs will leave their domestic leagues. No one would ever agree to that. I'm not following it closely though. I saw a Bundesliga official essentially came out in favor recently, but can't imagine the English FA would support this. The race for top 4 is a huge value component of its product.
another reason I'm against this- allows the big teams to get bigger, further separating the quality domestically.
the genesis of the Champions League came from a direct threat of the big clubs forming an association and talking about leaving their domestic leagues to form a super league.
The Bundesliga heaed specifically addressed both a Champions League 2.0 proposal and a Super League proposal. It was actually hard to understand what he meant, because he said that Bayern being in the "Super League" would help German football.
Well the big clubs definitely don't want to expand the CL. Their big gripe is they play these relative minnows in Aug-Feb which basically means they think they are missing out on bunch of bigger gates and TV revenue. I can certainly see them wanting to form a something more formal that would better use the 15 CL matchdays even if was just a 16 team, 2 division RR league with a championship between the 2 division winners.
Just checked this out...still only 17, and came into a Bundesliga match that was 0-0 on the way to a 2-0 win.
We have been chatting about him a lot in the US thread this past month. It is really impressive.
He put in two great balls that were close to being converted but just got blocked. I'll have to check these games out more for sure.
A Dons supporter? Ephus won't be pleased ...
Not especially. I'm more of a Leeds and Brighton guy in the championship. FTR, Rochdale in League One and Portsmouth in Two. Yes, I'm sort of a glutton but those clubs chose me, not the other way around.
When the real Dons played at Selhurst Park, they shared a car park with a Sainsbury's
Juventus is a machine; unbelievable how they managed such a drastic roster overhaul with such patience. They were 3(w)-3(d)-4(l)at Halloween, & have since won 12 straight...most impressive is how they've slowly& deliberately incorporated Dybala into their system (from lowly Palermo). He's a sensation...beginning to think they might actually trouble Bayern in CL. No me gusta.
