Originally Posted by
eggy81
Premier leagu have already said clubs competing in any breakaway competition will be banned from domestic compete trained away and uefa have already said the same about international club competition and international competition. Thing is who even bother watching the euros or WC without any of the best players.
Originally Posted by
CCTV
That's seems like a bigger bluff. The premier league would be stupid to risk losing its bigger teams to protect UEFAs CL.
This!
Both of these.
It's a bigger bluff by UEFA, the Premier League and even FIFA to ban the teams from their competitions and players from the World Cups respectively.
UEFA and the Premier League now their respective leagues/competition would be finished without the big teams in terms of attracting big advertising and broadcasting money.
And as also rightly pointed out, who's going to want to watch a World Cup that's missing the likes of the Ronaldo's, the Messi's, the Trashfords, the Benzemas et al?
I would imagine there are serious backchannel negotiations going on now to try to stop it, because if it's really serious and they go ahead and launch it, and UEFA, FIFA and the PL and the likes are forced to go ahead with their threatened bans, then it's going to hurt them more than these clubs.
(there's effectively going to be a bidding war for broadcasting rights and Exclusivity to those games, particularly by streaming giants like the Netflix's and Amazon's who haven't been shy to throw around Billions of pounds in recent years for "content". So however it shakes out, they'll make out like gangbusters, the clubs. Especially with no PL or UEFA middle-man)
It would also effectively make the Champions' League (in the aftermath) a three team competition with Bayern and PSG (as no French or German clubs are joining this) and City as the only "big" clubs in the competition.
Again, who wants to watch a competition that's pretty much a foregone conclusion (more than it is now) between three clubs?
But at the end of the day, I still don't see it going through.
Lots of backchannel furious negotiations, probably money changing hands, a crap-ton of concessions for broadcasting rights money by the aforementioned UEFA and PL, and possibly even concessions by FIFA on the international calendar (THIS I would welcome) to peel away a couple of the club and stop the efforts in their tracks with the hard bluff having worked for them.
Can't say I have any sympathy for any of them (PL, UEFA, FIFA, the rest of the league) given how many times they've screwed us over in the last several years.
Last edited by Crimson Dynasty; 18th April 2021 at 07:28 PM.
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