UEFA Superleague - 2023/24

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When I was growing up, 20 or so years ago, there was a coverage of English football on our local TV station. 4 games per week, and it was amazing. Then the news came out that they simply didnt have enough money to get the rights for English football. There was still Italian and German football on TV, just not English.

And it remained like that for a solid 10 years until digital and cable TV finally became standard.
It was Sport Klub (club) that had the rights for the games. But when their contact expired, they were outbid by Arena Sport. They are regional TV and they did great job with the coverage of the football. However, for people on Balkans, they are really expensive and they have to be to continue broadcasting the games.

General interest in football is in all time low, at least to watch it on TV. That 10 year of limited football is kicking in right now. And current lack of interest is going to kick in soon, real hard.
 
3.5 millions fine each. pathetic.

ESL Fine should have been at least 10-20 mil each if they bottled the points deduction, with an agreement to play 3-5 local clubs in friendlies and donate the gate.
 
wkdsoul said:
3.5 millions fine each. pathetic.

ESL Fine should have been at least 10-20 mil each if they bottled the points deduction, with an agreement to play 3-5 local clubs in friendlies and donate the gate.
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No argument to any of that save for the highlighted. There should never have been a points deduction as it had F all to do with the clubs and EVERYTHING to do with the outright greed of multi-billionaire owners.

The fine to come out of the owners own pockets should have been WAY heftier than that insulting pittance no question. But in NO way, shape or form should the clubs have been hit.
 
I'd have been fine with it, Clubs are punished with dedutions for **** owner decisions up and down the pyramid. They walked away from this with barely a ticking off.
 
I'd have been fuming personally if the clubs were hit. All the owners went completely behind most everyone at their respective clubs back in a shamefully clandestine power play by the super-rich.

It would have been just as disgraceful to me as the attempted breakaway to then punish players/ managers/ coaches/ staff/ fans who knew F all about the ESL and almost to a man rebelled against it.

The only winners here, the pittance of a fine for the owners aside, are UEFA who have free reign to push on with their equally F up CL expansion which is effectively a closed shop ESL to all and intents and purposes. They must think all their Christmas's have come at once in Nyon.
 
Theatre of Dreams83 said:
For this *****. They can try it every year. ****** joke that fine
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As they've all agreed to support rule changes that would see any similar future actions hit them with a 30-point deduction and a £25 million fine, I don't think they'll be trying it again any time soon.
 
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