PSG and Bayern both came out and said they rejected the invite (along with Dortmund).
That’s not true. Games would go on and fans would still support their teams. TV rights would bring in less money, I suppose.
For the first time ever, I do believe the super league will happen. Usually, the super league is floated as a negotiating tactic by the big clubs to get what they what in champions league negotiations but they announced this after the champions league negotiations were completed. It is terrible idea centered around greed but it will happen.
I think your reaction is genuine and similar to most "Big Six" supporters. But I disagree about one thing. The outrage is real, however, I will bet you a 12 pack of Rolling Rock that City's first home girl, vs Barcelona or Juventus or Real or whovever would be sold out. As mad as most City fans are, they will still show up, support their team, and move on. Although I agree they may bitch about it for the next 100 years.
I hate the idea of the Super League and would rather the system in place stay as it is, but you can't make that point and end it with a "#SupportFIFA". They changed the football calendar around by shifting the next World Cup to the winter just so they could cash in playing the games in a country with no tradition but deeeeeeeeep pockets. And by the way, when I say cash in I don't even mean in the same sense that the Super League owners are making a cutthroat business move, I mean by accepting literal bribes to grease the wheels .
Hot take alert.
European soccer is better than the current NBA product
Exactly, I completely agree. If this happens you basically need to have these 15 or so teams just go and have their own league and not compete domestically. Domestic competitions become a complete farce and joke if you allow those teams to compete with the money advantage they are going to have. You'll have teams with players making 500k/week competing against the next highest payer in their domestic league at 50k/week. There's just no point.
I was captive and watched the second half of Lakers-Jazz last Sat. Brutally bad, nobody runs anymore.
May need the money or may not. PSG owner finds millions in his seat cushions. In one summer they spent half a billion dollars on 2 players, not including the astronomical salaries that followed.
This was my interpretation of what's going on. This is not meant to politicize this conversation, but I think European politics may explain the reaction to a certain extent. Here's how I summarize: 1) The teams looking to break away thought their fans/players/coaches would support (or at least tolerate) the move to lock in super-power status (see US professional and NCAA sports); 2) They forgot that many/most of their home countries are proudly socialist.
We tend to think of these countries as Socialist but the reality is that the EU forbids a good many things that we're allowed to do in America. For instance, there's no direct buying of bonds by the central bank, it's got to be done in the secondary market, though the CB can buy private corporate debt. The EU is much more capitalist than any of the countries on their own. Any country with a strong social culture built it long before they joined the EU, and some of the rich ones maintained it to some degree (Denmark), while others are slowly sloughing it off (Sweden), Germany hasn't really ever had as strong a system as other countries, and some refused to join the euro so they could maintain their social system (Norway).
