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The Football News Thread 2020/21

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You would have thought it might have made sense to include Leicester and ourselves in that nine. They have won the bloody league and we are clearly upwardly mobile.

But of course that makes both clubs a threat.

The ownership veto thing is a joke. It won’t be about “fit and proper” it will be “those potential owners look a bit rich”
 
EFL clubs seem to be overwhelmingly in agreement, but if you are Crewe or Crawley why wouldn't you be in the current climate?
 
The big six bring in control makes no difference to them at all, if they get a nice little sweetener, why would they complain?
 
The big 6 and the two lower leagues will all be the winners from this. The losers will be the 11 teams in the prem and any clubs in the EFL with serious aspirations to go up.
They will pitch it that 70 teams or so will be better off and 20 or so are blocking it for there own selfish reasons.
Will be a battle.
 
Retrospective bursaries for stadium improvement s too so Liverpool would get some for the remodeled main stand and Tottenham would receive £125m for the TH Stadium.
 
The big 6 and the two lower leagues will all be the winners from this. The losers will be the 11 teams in the prem and any clubs in the EFL with serious aspirations to go up.
They will pitch it that 70 teams or so will be better off and 20 or so are blocking it for there own selfish reasons.
Will be a battle.

The PL are also against it as are West Ham and the Govt.

Kills it stone dead before anything can be done. As far as I know you need a unanimous decision from all the PL clubs currently and the PL itself.

No chance.
 
I've just bought a season ticket to my local non-league team (Basford Utd).

£150 for 21 games (assuming they don't get pandemic'd). Would rather support my local club than keep feeding Sky TV & BT and will watch Wolves via other means where possible.
 
Ronaldo has tested positive....fingers crossed for our Portugeezers.


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According to the telegraph top 6 were threatening to boycott the PL if this didn’t go through. Interesting take, sounds like bully boy tactics kind of rhetoric you’d expect from mafia bosses.
I honestly believe that some people within these so called big 6 believe we only enjoy the PL because we get to play them.


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There's an element of truth to that. Regardless of how the score turns out, I'd rather be watching us play Man City than Burnley, let alone the likes of Preston and QPR in the Championship.
 
There's an element of truth to that. Regardless of how the score turns out, I'd rather be watching us play Man City than Burnley, let alone the likes of Preston and QPR in the Championship.

Much as I agree with that - I thought the Liverpool home game last season was just brilliant: could have been a CL semi-final - you simply cannot have a competition where only a handful of the teams/players make the rules. Imagine the County Championship if only Yorkshire and Lancashire make the rules. It's like we sometimes used to say to our kids: it's just plain wrong. Impossible for the PL to retain any integrity if this goes through.

Sorry if this point has been made: this is the first time for about 4 days I've been able to access the Forum.
 
Oh yeah, I'm totally against this proposal (good job it looks to get no further than a bit of rabble rousing in the press).

But the fact that the big clubs exist and are there *is* the reason why we enjoy the PL, fundamentally. So you test yourself against the best and as fans, we get to see the best players on show.

If we were fighting Southampton and Palace for the title, while the current Big Six sat outside the structure (not sure where they'd go as there is zero appetite anywhere for the much mooted European Super League - heard that argument for 20+ years now, won't happen), it'd be incredibly hollow.
 
Hypothetically, would you guys still support Wolves if Fosun etc backed this proposal and to be part of this Europe super league?

Personally I wouldn't
 
I'll always support my club (I didn't stop being a Wolves fan when I refused to go any more under Saunders). However I don't think we have the slightest bit of interest.

A European Super League isn't going to happen though, no-one wants it. The whole point of playing say, Real Madrid is that there's a novelty to it. There's no real rivalry there built up over years. People want to go to away games en masse, that can't happen if you're only ever playing against teams across Europe for the vast majority of the season. If you're rooted in mid-table and it's Copenhagen at home, let's say, watch that be a bumper crowd. With it being a closed shop (as it undoubtedly would be), you lose so much intensity and interest, where's the consequence of having a bad season? It's an artificial creation like the IPL and the Hundred in cricket, you automatically lose all identity. As I say, I've been hearing how inevitable this is for 20 odd years, I don't think there's even been a proper proposal drafted let alone one gaining any kind of support.

Entirely probable that the Champions League will expand in some way (it shouldn't though, those years of two group stages were interminable) but that's about it. This before we get into the realities of travel in a post-Covid world.
 
There's an element of truth to that. Regardless of how the score turns out, I'd rather be watching us play Man City than Burnley, let alone the likes of Preston and QPR in the Championship.

Given a choice I’d much rather watch us v Liverpool let’s as opposed to Burnley, reality is I go to watch my own side the opposing team is secondary.


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Project Big Picture is dead already.
 
Project Big Picture is dead already.

I've not read too much on this, but how can all 20 clubs reject it when it was put forward by Liverpool, Manchester Utd etc?
 
I've not read too much on this, but how can all 20 clubs reject it when it was put forward by Liverpool, Manchester Utd etc?
I presume as 14 clubs told them to piss off they agreed to drop the idea, so when they did technically all 20 clubs were against it
 
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