The New European Super (borefest) League

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The beauty of THIS game, is that you can win it all, lose it all, then come back from the brink and win it again. It's euphoric when experienced. Making it a closed shop destroys this simple beauty and sanitises it to a business transaction - none of it will matter if you can't lose. Losing is just as important as the winning.

Without money you can't do anything though, most League One sides don't have the finances to compete in the Championship so they go straight back down.. discover/nurture some class talent and a Championship/Premiership side buys them to play in their reserves and loan back out, the only way to really succeed is to get a sugar daddy owner.
 
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Without money you can't do anything though, most League One sides don't have the finances to compete in the Championship so they go straight back down.. the only way to really succeed is to get a sugar daddy bloodsucking rich parasite leech of an owner.
fixed that for you
 
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Without money you can't do anything though, most League One sides don't have the finances to compete in the Championship so they go straight back down.. discover some class talent and a Championship/Premiership side buys them to play in their reserves and loan back out, the only way to really succeed is to get a sugar daddy owner.

And this new 'competition' solves that how?

This is a moment where the the toys should well and truly come flying out the pram from anyone that truly cares about the game. Burn it to the ground, do not let these parasites steal the game from the people, communities and legends that have made it what it is.
 
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Sky will do everything they can to push against this as they probably can’t afford the rights. Guarantee you Bezos is involved somewhere.
possibly, and if Amazon already have the rights then definitely, but so far it's investment banks like JP Morgan who are being reported as key enablers/financiers etc.

At what point are we going to start breaking up and cracking down on these investment banks. They set food prices, commodity prices etc, manipulate markets at will, have more wealth than many nation states, etc. There's a whole UN whitepaper on the harm they do to developing nations and global food supply. But we seem incapable of suggesting that regulation and anything less than free market capitalism is a good idea. It's nuts.
 
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Against a private company? The repercussions would be enormous. They will stay well clear.

They can totally do so. That they're too cowardly to is a different matter. Private companies are not above the law.

If you want an example read up on the origins of housing reform and the creation of the assured shorthold tenancy agreement that currently is the defacto rental agreement in the UK. Created, SFAIK, in no small part, due to the malpractice of a certain property "baron" (in the loosest sense) who ran amok and they felt the law needed tightening to compel him, and those like him, to sort it out or be able to held to account when they inevitably would not.
 
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To the uninitiated, this seems a little like the formation of the Premier League, only it obviously affects all of Europe rather than just England - why are people more upset about this?

Also a genuine question - but why are the government talking about banning such a move? What have they got to do with private business, other than ensuring things aren't a monopoly? If - as some have mooted - a franchise system like the NFL comes to fruition, thats surely the decision of the business, isn't it?

Yeah, it's very similar. All this "greed" talk is true, but that boat well and truly sailed 30 years ago.

And the govt is getting involved (it isn't) like it did then, by saying "oooh this is bad" it's only populist. Next minute it it'll be "oh there's not a lot we can do" and after that it'll be "isn't it fantastic?!".
 
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And this new 'competition' solves that how?

This is a moment where the the toys should well and truly come flying out the pram from anyone that truly cares about the game. Burn it to the ground, do not let these parasites steal the game from the people, communities and legends that have made it what it is.

It doesn't, I'm just pointing out that the current setup is still just as rigged in favour of the 'big teams' it's just not as obvious and there's an illusion of being able to succeed which realistically you can't unless you join in on selling out your club/fans to billionaire owners whose idea of competition is getting together and setting the rules themselves.

If private social media companies can act like a cartel to ban/censor people and cut off their finances and that's apparently okay then why can't football club owners get together to create their own league?
 
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