downendcity Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 News on the BBC website. Europe's top four domestic leagues - England, Germany, Italy and Spain - are to be guaranteed four places each in the group stages of the Champions League from the 2018-19 season. Under the current system, England, Germany and Spain have three places each while their fourth-placed teams must contest a play-off over two legs for a place in the group phase. Italy has only two guaranteed places, plus one in the play-off round. Listened to Colin Murray yesterday discussing a Super League and he said that American and Chinese investors have had meetings with major English clubs and speculating that a super league will happen at some time. Sounds like they had not been in discussion with Leicester, so will we see eligibility for future European competition decided not on merit but whether you are a big and/or wealthy club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One BCFC Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Good. The sooner Arsenal, Man U, Man C, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs are gone the better for English football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Suits us. Would do English football the world of good in the long run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 2 hours ago, ZiderEyed said: Suits us. Would do English football the world of good in the long run. It would but it would be a painful process to get to somewhere where it is better. All the TV money gone overnight with a lot of clubs going to the wall as a result. I honestly believe SL has seen this coming and is setting us up so we`re not one of them - even in the championship I can only think of about half a dozen or so clubs who are run professionally enough to ride out the storm - us, Ipswich, Reading, Norwich, Barnsley, Preston, Burton (maybe as they don`t seem to have gone mad after promotion) and after that I`m struggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo1111 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Would be hilarious if the prem money dries up. Would laugh my **** off. Why should for example bournemouth and burnley get so much money when hardly anyone wants to watch them?? Why should teams get millions for years after being relegated. It would be a tough transiton but english footy would be better off in the long run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM91 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Actually this is the opposite. this is a move which will stop or at least delay the formation of a super league. a Super League wouldn't fall under the jurisdiction of UEFA, so this is UEFA trying to prevent one. Basically, why a super league is attractive to "bigger" clubs, is because they are guarenteed to be in it, so their commercial success is less dependent on their on-field success. This rule effectively allows them more of that guarentee so at to put clubs off the risks of leaving a competitive structure which has been around for decades. It is also a recognition that the Premier League is absolutely dominant in Europe financially, it is well known that under the previous rules we were likely to drop to the 4th highest league in Europe (which only had 3 CL spaces, one of which via qualifying), which would have destroyed the rest of the European clubs payouts as UK Broadcasting accounts for approx. 40% of all CL broadcast income. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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