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[QUOTE="Chuck, post: 3951747, member: 1646"]
Follow-up question.  This isn't me picking a fight.  My son and I have gotten into international soccer for a while.  Primarily EPL.  He's a big Man U guys (because his first soccer coach was a fanatic).  I have less rooting interest.  I've come to enjoy the set-up of the league with relegation.  I didn't love a lack of playoff because the champion is generally a foregone conclusion a month or two before the end of the season.  But the Champion's League and Europa League qualification helps.

Other than the qualification slots changing, what's the big difference in what is proposed?  The big 5 wouldn't share in their new league profits, so that's a hit.  They'd need to revise Champion's League qualifications and you could have a team totally mailing it in during a difficult season because they won't lose their spot in the new league.

But I'm clearly missing the death knell that everyone assumes this would result in.  This wouldn't be like the top of the P5 leaving their leagues.  It would be like those teams setting up their own football playoff.  It kind of sucks for the other teams knowing they couldn't make that playoff, but it's only a dream for them to make it now.
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