European Super League.

It's back in the news again, with new proposals.

They are not going to give up. Too much money at stake.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64578730

With all the extra games hard to see our domestic cups continuing in their current format. Personally I enjoy the randomness of the Fa Cup rather than endless ties between a whole load of teams you don't particularly like.

The most important thing is that every team should be able to get in and out of the league. They'll want quotas per country of course but Grimsby v Barcelona should at least be a theoretically possible fixture.

The trophy crap and league Cup for me are both dieing a death and not as relevant as the fa Cup and 'it's magic'
Yes smaller clubs can benefit from the league Cup ties etc but if we had to get rid of something somewhere, for me it'd be those 2.

Nah, tell em we’re not interested

Let them eat themselves. Sick of them.

Quoted from moosey_club

Let them eat themselves. Sick of them.

Even better.

The new format for the Champions League in 2024/25 is arguably close to a European Super League. At least it has a qualification route which in theory all can progress through so probably better to go with that evolution with no doubt more games in the future.

This is been driven by Barcelona, Real Madrid & Juventus, why because Barcelona, Juventus have the highest debt of all European clubs and Real Madrid are 6th highest, interesting they are four Premiership clubs who are in the top 10 clubs with the most debt, no German clubs in the 10 top.

The Premiership is stretching away from the rest of europe with its revenue earnings, the other european leagues are struggling to keep up.

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Premier League revenue is set to rise 10 per cent to £6bn this season as the soaring value of international TV rights puts more distance between the English top tier and its European rivals.

The Premier League is expected to earn more from its overseas rights than from its domestic UK TV deal for the first time this season, thanks largely to its new $2.7bn six-year deal with Comcast’s NBC to show games in the US.

Europe’s top leagues are struggling to keep up, according to Deloitte’s annual football finance report released on Thursday. Revenue at Spain’s La Liga is projected to remain flat this year at €3.7bn, while Germany’s Bundesliga will enjoy a 16 per cent boost to €3.6bn.

Of the two smallest of the continent’s “Big Five” leagues, Italy’s Serie A is on track to generate €2.4bn this season, a slight rise on last year, while income at Ligue 1 in France is estimated to stay at €1.8bn. Revenue at both leagues has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

The widening gap is partly explained by timing — some European leagues are locked into long-term broadcast deals that are not up for renewal for a number of years. The Bundesliga, for example, is only two years into its six-year US deal with ESPN.

Bayern Munich chief executive Oliver Kahn recently told the Financial Times that increasing the value of German football’s US rights was now the top priority for those in the game. Bayern was one of a number of big European clubs that toured the US this summer in an effort to create a buzz around football leagues outside England.

But the latest US rights deal showed how far ahead the Premier League is in terms of commercialising its overseas appeal.

“There is a real sense [at European leagues] that more can be done internationally. They want to feel as though they can catch the Premier League,” said Tim Bridge, lead partner of the sports business group at Deloitte. “But the reality is now that the Premier League is streets ahead of the competition.”

The downside to english football pyamid, clubs chasing the dream to get into the Premiership, wanting a piece of the cake.

Despite the booming income at Premier League clubs, teams in the second tier of English football are under increasing financial pressure. Many clubs in the Championship have spent big sums on players in an effort to reach promotion to the Premier League. The financial gamble has resulted in large debts and high wage bills.

In the 2020/21 season, the most recent that Deloitte gives figures for, the typical Championship club had a wages-to-revenue ratio of 125 per cent, a problem made worse by an 11.5 per cent fall in revenue. Total net debt in the league rose 32 per cent to £1.8bn.

In its report, Deloitte described the finances in the Championship as “perilous” and warned that “without sustained and collaborative consideration for the English football system”, the situation was likely to get worse.

Why is this being allowed, no other industry would be allowed to operate at those ratios and losses.

The new white paper on football, does not tackle the problems within football. unless its actions and quickly the time bomb is ticking and before to long its going to go BOOM

The EFL & FA have to protect the lower leagues, and some big balls are needed to start to put things right.

Agents are taking so much money out of the game and have far to much power, turning players heads with moves, upsetting dressing rooms with players refusing to train to force moves.

First cause of action get rid of these parasites out of the game in the last 2 seasons Premiership clubs spent £544m yes £544m on agent fees, thats £544m of revenue loss from football, it never comes back into football.

That £544m alone would help the english pyamid and grassroots football be more sustainable.