The Football News Thread 2020/21

[Kenny]

"UEFA’s Alexander Ceferin confirms: “The players that will play in the Super League will be banned from playing in the World Cup and Euros"

 

[PuntsWolf]

Why do you think the other 14 clubs need the so called 'big 6'?

Their finance doesn't depend on it as Stadia would be full and the PL would guarantee the TV income.

I still don’t get the “need for the top 6”. Clubs are only paying what they are paying because they are getting £200m a year TV revenue. Matchday money is less than 10% of that.

Take away the TV money, and wages come down accordingly (the players can’t go anywhere else, they aren’t good enough for the elite clubs), and then more focus is put back to the match going fan as this is now key income.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Fair do's, my lockdown brain has muddled shit up but Sky would be all over this comp if they could get it, so going with the cost is too high for them.

Amazon on standby to make their big break in football. Now they certainly have no morals.

DAZN are the main players it seems.

Also cunts, though not as bad as Amazon.

 

[Sniffer]

13:57

Wolves’ Daniel Podence has made his thoughts clear on Instagram. “The Ball. The Song. The Dream,” he wrote. “The Zidane’s volley... Kaka’s Solo... Liverpool In Athens... Ole in Barcelona... Cris and Seedorf ... There some things we just can’t really pay for it.”
It’s probably worth noting that Man Uniuted’s Bruno Fernandes has replied with his approval.

 

[Johnny75]

Realistically you know for a fact tv deals will be a fraction without the big 6.
Plus they know they wouldn’t be able to keep players of any real quality due to wage demands.

I don't agree with this at all and I'm not sure what you're basing it on.

 

[jd1981]

I don't agree with this at all and I'm not sure what you're basing it on.

Do you think a PL without the big 6 is as huge attraction with foreign broadcasters?

 

[SSB]

Wolves’ Daniel Podence has made his thoughts clear on Instagram.

It’s probably worth noting that Man Uniuted’s Bruno Fernandes has replied with his approval.

and liked by five of our players.

 

[Sniffer]

UEFA aren't holding back...

Alexander Ceferin, the president of Uefa, takes ESL clubs and execs to task​

“If I start with Ed Woodward, he called me last Thursday evening saying he’s very satisfied with and fully supports the reforms [to the Champions League]. The only thing he want to talk about was FFP, when obviously he had already signed something else ... Andrea Agnelli is the biggest disappointment of all, I’ve never seen a person that would lie so many times, so persistently as he did. It’s unbelievable ... We didn’t know we had snakes so close to us, now we know.”

UEFA’s Alexander Ceferin confirms: “The players that will play in the Super League will be banned from playing in the World Cup and Euros. Ceferin. They will not be allowed play for their national teams

 

[YoungWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1383917434537529350

Good job Nuno didn't just play the kids on Saturday

 

[Johnny75]

Do you think a PL without the big 6 is as huge attraction with foreign broadcasters?

I do, I think the 'big 6' have overthought and over played their hand in the European market.

Nobody will give a shit about City or Chelsea as they were models based on riches not fans and their fan base in the UK isn't big and their draw isn't huge outside the UK. Not only that they were nobody's until they had money poured into them. The same would happen again ,from Fosun for example, were there to be a spot opened up in the PL with UEFA's flagship competition to play with the likes of PSG.

Arsenal, Spurs, City and Chelsea can easily be replaced. Utd and Liverpool will be tough for the league to swallow, but they will.

Also players will want to play for their national sides and in European cup competitions as the lure of money hasn't worked for China to build it's game and it won't work in Europe either.

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1383917434537529350

Good job Nuno didn't just play the kids on Saturday

Full strength for the final games, Champions League here we come.

Suddenly love this season....

 

[YoungWolf]

Full strength for the final games, Champions League here we come.

Suddenly love this season....

Raul back in time for the last few key matches?

 

[Kenny]

Raul back in time for the last few key matches?

Jose to fire home the goal that gets us an invite to the Super League

 

[jd1981]

Definitely

I do, I think the 'big 6' have overthought and over played their hand in the European market.

Nobody will give a shit about City or Chelsea as they were models based on riches not fans and their fan base in the UK isn't big and their draw isn't huge outside the UK. Not only that they were nobody's until they had money poured into them. The same would happen again ,from Fosun for example, were there to be a spot opened up in the PL with UEFA's flagship competition to play with the likes of PSG.

Arsenal, Spurs, City and Chelsea can easily be replaced. Utd and Liverpool will be tough for the league to swallow, but they will.

Also players will want to play for their national sides and in European cup competitions as the lure of money hasn't worked for China to build it's game and it won't work in Europe either.

Some good points but I think Just losing Liverpool and Man Utd wipes out a huge amount of appeal for Asian broadcasters especially.

 

[Dinowolf]

This is Americans causing this problem with their banks and money trying to create new franchises.
They have no feeling for football nor the fans, they just want a vehicle for making money.

 

[jd1981]

Yep it’s got American finger prints all over it, fully expect some fixtures to be played in New York and LA the same way the NFL comes to London.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Definitely


Some good points but I think Just losing Liverpool and Man Utd wipes out a huge amount of appeal for Asian broadcasters especially.

And?

Clubs gets less money = the Richarlison’s etc don’t get 100k a week anymore.

 

[Kenny]

and just when UEFA are looking like the good guys - "UEFA President Ceferin: "Maybe Aston Villa is a big club"

 

[jd1981]

And?

Clubs gets less money = the Richarlison’s etc don’t get 100k a week anymore.

Lower standard of players, Bundesliga in full tact would probably become the go to place to play football.

 

[WolfmanOz]

I do, I think the 'big 6' have overthought and over played their hand in the European market.

Nobody will give a shit about City or Chelsea as they were models based on riches not fans and their fan base in the UK isn't big and their draw isn't huge outside the UK. Not only that they were nobody's until they had money poured into them. The same would happen again ,from Fosun for example, were there to be a spot opened up in the PL with UEFA's flagship competition to play with the likes of PSG.

Arsenal, Spurs, City and Chelsea can easily be replaced. Utd and Liverpool will be tough for the league to swallow, but they will.

Also players will want to play for their national sides and in European cup competitions as the lure of money hasn't worked for China to build it's game and it won't work in Europe either.

There's been a number of terrific posts on this topic and I hope, and pray, this is how it plays out as Johnny75 has indicated.

My love for the game has slowly dwindled over the years, due to the incessant greed and domination of the "Sky 6" and their bastardisation of equity for the "beautiful game". Even my passion for Wolves has taken a massive hit in recent months (nothing to do with football but a life changing event that really put things in perspective).

Like many others here, if Wolves were one of the clubs, that would be the final nail in the coffin for me following them. The term "legacy fans" as I've heard is such an insult to the history and statue of the fans of the clubs in question.

This is probably the most momentous event in football in our lifetime, one, in which the standing of the clubs in question will probably never regain the trust and support of many (and hopefully the majority) of football followers in the the UK and Europe.

I say to those clubs, as Cromwell said to the Parliament of 1963:
"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

Or simply . . . FUCK OFF !