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I’m not sure football per se would cease to be, which is the fundamental argument against ESL. The qualifying clubs as well as the resident clubs will still scour the leagues for players, based on vfm. Money would still flow down the ladder. Clubs left playing in a smaller Premier league would find a new pecking order, should the resident clubs in the ESL be booted out. This actually won’t happen btw as the legalities of imposing such a draconian “bite yer nose of to spite yer face” penalty would be contested in courts for years.really looking forwards to an answer on this as no one has replied to it on the 2 or 3 occasions I've asked in whatever thread.
1, if the ESL was allowed, and the teams in it were allowed to stay in their leagues, how the hell would you have expected us to be able to compete with the other 5 teams, if we turned the invite down?
the 12 teams involved wanted to break away from those greedier bastards UEFA. if it happened the CL, and Europa would have no value and would in the end turn out to be inconvenient fixtures, due to sponsorship and TV companies pulling the plug.
2, if the ESL was allowed, and the teams in it weren't allowed to stay in their leagues, and we never accepted the invite, how would we survive?
we would never be able to clear our debts, we would never be able to pay the wages needed to keep or buy players.
don't get me wrong I am so happy it hasn't happened and really hope it never does because it would affect the whole of football, right down to the grass routes
The noisiest protesters appear to be the UEFA cartel which would lose its golden goose, the UCL. Europa would also cease to be. Maybe a new trophy would arise like a phoenix to accommodate the European league winners, runners up etc, kind of like a practise ESL competition.