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You need to get to the knockout stage to withdraw from it.
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10 years of FIFA lot of people were angered with Inter joining ESL. Just a quick question, if they designed a relegation play-off so there is a chance, although it's small, that the founding clubs to be out for a season or more. Would you have supported ESL?
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That's the wrong direction for football to follow.
The sport is dying because:
1) They killed the mid-tier leagues.
2) They killed mid-table teams of top leagues.
3) They let money dictate the sport.
4) External factors are more important than the actual game (agents, betting, sponsors, broadcasters, social media and "profiles" etc)
5) And of course, it is not 'clean'. Which can be attributed to corruption, greed and several of the external factors mentioned.
Participating in a Superleague just makes you guilty of this sporting massacre. It doesn't help the sport revive, it just kicks it while it is down.
I want no part in this.
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I have a stupid theory that originally Perez or even Agnelli wants to create a league like Nations League that clubs compete in power ranking league. The so called big clubs might be out of tier 1 but they could stay in tier 2 and bounce back, if they are out of tier 2 then they shouldn't have big money pie anyway. In the end, the main point of ESL is to take control out of UEFA and big clubs can get bigger share in revenue. The no relegation idea only comes up during meeting with some of English clubs that doesn't like relegation idea, they want guarantee slots. They have to accept that because no English clubs meaning no ESL.
If they have relegation or in-out mechanism then why not but it would kill Champions League right away
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10 years of FIFyou know that any dying industry will consolidate to give it best chance to survive
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The funny thing is FIFA has banned countries from playing in the World Cup or even play their qualifying games because of the government using football for political gain, but here we are with the UK government threatening the clubs. Neither UEFA or FIFA follow their own fucking rules...
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I think the rule is government should not interfere its country football federation affairs (it could be wrong) and FA asked for back up the plan of banning visa.
PL is their cash cow and soft power, of course they want to protect it by any mean
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Which goes against FIFA and UEFA's rules. If there was no money involved, meaning this league wasn't taking money away from UEFA and by extension FIFA, they wouldn't have said jack shit, but since these 12 clubs are in the top 15 of money generation in football, it became a problem; solely because without them being involved in their tournaments, leagues etc, the revenue for them decreases drastically.
I believe it was GdS that stated if Juve, Inter and Milan are banned from Serie A, the league as a whole would lose 60% of their revenue. 3 teams generate 60% of total revenue out of 20...let that sink in as to why they wanted to create this league.
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Forum Supporter10 years of FIFThe only outcome out of all this for Inter is that both the refs and the opponents will be extra motivated to fuck us in the next couple of matches. From a favourite to break Juventus reign, we got ourselves to being hated throughout the league.
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Best Overall PosterNo. European qualification should always depend on league position. ALWAYS. It should never be granted for free because of past achievements. None of the founding clubs deserve to be there by default. They need to earn it on the pitch.
And that's why my biggest issue with new CL format is granting some free spots based on coefficient points.
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I think Super league could have been a good thing, a place for the Elite teams to play even though i would have liked a better format.
The Super League would have transformed domestic leagues with other teams battling for the Scudetto and a chance of Champions league apart from the financial powerhouses. The allure of Champions league could have drawn more investors to clubs. I still believe Champions league needs to be expanded.
I may still support a super league in the future if it means all club home and away games rather than two groups of ten. Maybe even a 24 team table.
The Super League would have transformed domestic leagues with other teams battling for the Scudetto and a chance of Champions league apart from the financial powerhouses. The allure of Champions league could have drawn more investors to clubs. I still believe Champions league needs to be expanded.
I may still support a super league in the future if it means all club home and away games rather than two groups of ten. Maybe even a 24 team table.
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10 years of FIFIl Drago;[URL="tel:1992402" said:
Yeah that coefficient rule is BS. But good thing is the new format comes active only in 2024 and there's lot of time to tweak that. There's already a demand from ECA that coefficient rule to be removed from the new format.
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Forum Supporter10 years of FIFhttps://www.football-italia.net/169...-clauses-revealed-question-remains-unanswered
implication seems to be that it was return of the infra money rather than punitive clauses. Clearly we've not been paid any infra money yet so nothing to return.
implication seems to be that it was return of the infra money rather than punitive clauses. Clearly we've not been paid any infra money yet so nothing to return.
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interesting, according to Romano, internally Inter's happy with decision to leave and decision coming from president and owner level
interesting, according to Romano, internally Inter's happy with decision to leave and decision coming from president and owner level
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10 years of FIFSorry but can`t see how Inter "escaped total shame" when they were one of the founding clubs of the supposed "competition"
Inter were the first Italian side to withdraw from the breakaway tournament officially and the leaked document claims the remaining clubs could sue the participants withdrawing from the competition.
It’s maybe no coincidence Juventus and Milan didn’t explicitly say they pull out of the competition in their official statements.
As the report points out, it remains unclear what liabilities the clubs face when choosing to withdraw, which remains the big unanswered question about the Super League.
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This is bullshit. Serie A is a national league, the other is international. They're two entirely different competitions that ideally should have no relation to one another. Internationally Inter/Milan/Juventus pull almost all the attention. No one cares about Crotone or Benevento.
It's one thing having the old style "European Cup" where only the champions fight. Having the "Top 4" was always a money grab (and cannibalised the UEFA Cup as a consequence). The Champions League is no more moral than the Super League.