European Super League

PHB

Do you want a super league is what the poll is asking


With the excitment of the CL with the big giants coming up to clash against each other I'm reminded of how much I want a champions league to happen.
Imagine a league with the last 16 of the current compo in an all out league.
You could even make it smaller, the last 8 or so, top 2 teams from each England Spain Italy and then one from Germany and one from France.
With a qualifeir or something to make it fair
How cool would this league be, it could be played alongside the normal premiership and owuld result in 14/28 matches, compared to the current 13 if you win.

It'd be so cool
Why oh why won't this happen.

What we really need is a reformation of the current premiership, changing it to say 16 teams and making the championship the same, so that good teams like say Man City will be playing with the best of the championship teams.
It'd be good for football, and it would allow some reguarly amazing matchs to occur!

I want I want I want

Chucky the tree

a European super league would be horrible.


i dont understand the poll, yes i want to keep the current format or yes i want a super league?

LegacyUser

agh i don't want...i don't want....i don't want!

thejollyrodger

No, Unless Shelbourne can get an automatic spot

Slash/ED

I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, I look at it from another way and think it could seriously improve some domestic leagues. Look at the EPL, since it became the premiership it's been won by a whopping three teams, one of those was a complete fluke one off. Say you remove the usual top three, Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal, possibley even Liverpool. The premiership title race would actually be competitive and exciting for once! Any number of teams could win it and there would be less chance of any one team to pull away and dominate.

I'm really not sure weather I'd be for or against it but it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, it has it's advantages.

LegacyUser

Now that you put it like that...hmmm

PHB

No

thats an interesting idea, but I don't see why you couldnt play in both.

The ideal situation in my mind would be the following.
A premiership of roughly 14-16 teams
A European League of roughly 12 teams

You could have 4 or 5 european leagues by the way, so even say newcastle might be in europe next year

Slash/ED

Nah, if you're going to do that I prefer the champions league format. Means it stays interesting right until the end and you wont have one team having it wrapped up early on, I prefer the knock out format it's far more exciting.

Big Ears

All the money would move from the domestic leagues to this super league and it would force more clubs into administration and would further the gap between the top teams and the other ones .

PHB havent you plugged this idea before ?

Slash/ED

Not if the domestic sides cut their cloth accordingly. And the gap between the top teams and the other ones would be irrelevent, since they'd literally be in another league.

Big Ears

Slash/ED wrote:

Not if the domestic sides cut their cloth accordingly. And the gap between the top teams and the other ones would be irrelevent, since they'd literally be in another league.

But PHB says the Premiership would be running aswell as this league , this league would just replace the Champions League .

Slash/ED

Big Ears wrote:

But PHB says the Premiership would be running aswell as this league , this league would just replace the Champions League .

Yeah and I wouldn't agree with that at all. I'm talking about if the teams broke away and formed a league.

Kingp35

Its probably the worst idea ive heard in a long time!!!

If you had a league like that all money would go towards it and almost all television coverage would go towards it too. The smaller teams would become smaller and smaller due to less and less money and could be forced into adminiatration and even out of existence. Plus where would the excitment come from if only had one league with same temas all the time.If you were gonna change the teams ie have relegation how do you decide who comes up and from which country.

If its a european league you need teams from all countries but then they wouldnt be the best teams would they. And if this happens grass roots football that produces new players would be damaged by severe lack of money as its the smaller clubs who this youngsters start out to begin with.

Its a terrible idea and lets just hope that idiot sepp blatter doesnt get wind of it and ruin this sport we love.