The Premier League - 2020/21 - All Match Discussion In Here

Our TV masters gradually getting everything they want.

 

I mentioned this on another thread. They really are the scum of the earth aren't they. The quicker they **** off to join a European 'Super' League, the better.

Most detestable club around these days.

 

Unfortunately it won’t be just some mugs, there will be lots of mugs out there willing to part with £15 to watch “their” team

 

Apart from the fact that the PL clubs should really be making these games available for free to Season Ticket holders where they have taken payment for the season, I don't really see what the problem is. Ok the price is slightly higher but this isn't much different to iFollow or Hive Live. No one is forcing you to pay and there are free alternatives if you're tech savvy enough to find them.

BUT paid up season ticket holders should be getting free access.

 

PPV on top of a Sky/BT subscription is a bit steep in my view. It didn’t work for Sky years ago but, now that people are used to seeing all their teams games on TV when they can’t attend live, I can see many paying it.

 

Shirley the logical next step is for Manchester City (TM) to found a club in every country on the planet. The all the continents can host, local geographic competitions: The Manchester City (TM) European Cup (C) (R), The Manchester City (TM) Asian Cup (C)(R), The Manchester City (TM) African Cup (C)(R), The Manchester City (TM) Americas Cup (C)(R) and The Manchester City (TM) Oceania Cup (C)(R). The winners of these regional heats would then play for The Manchester City (TM) World Cup (C)(R).

 

The top 6 should **** off into a European league and leave the rest of us alone.

 

Can you copy and paste please? It’s behind a paywall.

 

Thanks.

Absolutely laughable proposals. How on earth do Southampton and West Ham qualify for long-term status? Getting rid of parachute payments would make it nigh on impossible for a club like us to up and stay up. And that’s without getting onto the idea of reducing the division to 18. Reads like a big club wish list and I hope the EFL and lesser PL lights tell them to cram it.

 

******* hilarious.

'Both United and Liverpool – and the rest of the big six: Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea – are growing increasingly concerned by the number of games they are being asked to play.'

Yet I've read they also want to start the league later in August so a Summer EPL competition can be shoe-horned in.

Charge £15 to watch EPL games not covered by SKY & BT because of a revenue shortage due to Covid-19 yet spend £1.5 billion during the transfer window. **** off.

Cut the EPL down to 18 sides - great. But they also want to reduce the amount of EFL clubs by 2 as well, so they're demoting 2 clubs to non-league football to support their own wealth and power. Just **** off.

So many things wrong with these proposals on the back of an agreement with the government to help clubs financially (pandemic driven) who are outside of the EPL.

**** off Premier League.

**** off football.

 

Scrapping the Community Shield and removing many of the top teams from the League Cup (or also just scrapping it altogether) = fine, do it.

But reducing the PL to 18 teams is a joke of an idea. Surely it won't pass.

 

If the top clubs had their way the Premier League would consist of just 6 clubs.

This 18 club league has to be avoided. It would mean you'd have to finish 15th or above to avoid the threat of relegation. The play off idea isn't too bad though. Third from bottom being part of the play off mix with three Championship clubs.

Surprised they want to scrap the community shield. It's a meaningless match, but it's a season opener and a glorified friendly at Wembley. Usually contested between two top six clubs. A cheap chance of glory, and I thought they'd be all for that.

Removal of clubs playing in European competition from the League Cup is also fine.

 

They are against it but the chairman of the EFL, Rick Parry is all for it and has thrown his full support behind it. I wonder what the 72 clubs he represents think of this.

The only surprise in the proposal is that it did not include B teams which Abu Dhabi seem so keen on

 

The Community Shield raises funds through gate (& hopefully TV) revenue for national & local causes, it's far from meaningless.
It is a curtain raiser to the season and now more than ever would be the perfect way for football to at least look like it gives a flying **** for the less fortunate members of society. I think the reason they want it removed from the calendar is because it gets in the way of more lucrative (for them) friendlies and the possibility of a new EPL Summer Cup that has been mooted.

I think having the EPL side in the play-offs would leave that club with a serious advantage because of the spending power the Premier League would have afforded them, even for one season. If you finish 3rd from bottom then you must have had a rotten season - tough. Go down and let those who have fought tooth & nail in the same division battle it out for that final promotion place. To me it's a way of providing a safety net just in case one of the EPL 'family' has an off year. Been **** for 38 games? That's okay, go and beat Millwall and Bristol City then come home and buck your ideas up for next season.

And by removing clubs from the League Cup I think the next step would be to take away the European place from the winners. That will probably go to another EPL side for finishing 11th but for chrissakes, don't let anyone else have a chance of qualifying. The League Cup will become meaningless and, if not scrapped altogether, it will be a competition where every small club (non-EPL) can still have their chance of a Wem-ber-leeeee final but instead of facing mix-&-match sides from the top flight, it'll be U23 sides playing instead. Pointless for anyone not in the top division.

**** The EPL

 

Best case scenario is Rick Parry is a useful idiot in this. His Liverpool links cast a lot of doubt on that though.

I see the EFL statement says 25% of Premier League ‘media net revenues’ will be shared with the EFL under the plan. Lovely. But what happens 2-3 years down the line when the big 6 force a vote to cut that to 10% (or less)? The rules changes mean they couldn’t be opposed and the EFL is screwed. The whole thing is so short sighted.

 

Yep. The idiots will make the same mistake they did with the EPP programme which is killing the youth system. Take a short term bribe to trash long term equality. Utter idiots and the big 6 are sc@m.

 

The play-off proposal is of course how the original play-offs were conceived when they were rearranging the number of clubs in the top two divisions in the late 80s. At the time I was surprised they abandoned the idea in favour of what we’ve been used to ever since, but now I agree it would be heavily in favour of the PL team.

 

That was my thoughts on the proposal, plus they will probably use their voting rights to screw the lower PL teams with the revenue distribution, something they have been trying to do for a while anyway just to make sure they continue to rule the roost.

interesting how West Ham and Southampton are selected as the special partners but not the team who has won the league and is trying to break into the top 6

 

The EFL is desperate. Don't be surprised if this goes through, certainly from that side.

 

Agreed that the Community Shield is important as a way of making football look like it cares, but wasn't it renamed from the Charity Shield because they realised so little of the proceeds actually ended up going to charity?




I'd like to think most clubs will oppose this, surely your lower Prem clubs might be nervous at the prospect of an 18 team league, and Championship clubs with hopes of breaking into the Prem would have reason to reject this, but I wonder what the smaller teams with little chance of making it to the Premier League will say?

 

What pisses me off about this is that there are some excellent ideas in there, some that will really benefit the game and wouldn't cost the big clubs much in the grand scheme of things, but they have to demand this that and the other in exchange, don't they?

 

Was an awful challenge on Van Dijk. I hope it's not a long term injury for him like the one he deliberately caused on Deulofeu was.

Actually I do hope it is. I hate the overrated ****.