I'm strongly in favour, with the caveat that they no longer play in the EPL

It's an entirely separate thing from the football pyramid. Or maybe whoever wins the new top-six-less EPL gets a season in it or something idk, promoval would not work though cos of the money so they'd have to win the EPL again to stay in the ESL or something idk.

The impact would be far less money for EPL and Champs clubs let alone everyone else. This in turn mandates a fairer sharing of revenues, which would be diminshed, down the pyramid, which will drastically affect player salaries, and football will be much more like it used to be in the 70s and 80s - less technical, less skilled, much more fun in terms of competitions and the EPL would become much more like the chumps in that the top team could realistically be beaten by the bottom team on their day.

Or something.

But money and the EPL structure has sucked the life out of football and some kind of major system shock like this, even it means less money for everyone other than the top six, is what we need. It would be messy for four or five years but would then settle down.

Let them have their shiny things and let them have their money and let them f**k right the f**k off and leave the rest of us to play proper football again.

(No this is not a coherent, thought-through position)

Posted By: Old Man on December 5th 2024 at 21:50:51

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Return of the ESL .... (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 5, 18:13:40
- That’s ok these teams will work their way up the pyramid like AFC Wimbledon did (Other Football) - footymadman, Dec 5, 19:48:25
  - Liverpool (Other Football) - footymadman, Dec 5, 19:49:51
    - Spurs (Other Football) - footymadman, Dec 5, 19:52:33
- They won't f*** off though (Other Football) - mr carra, Dec 5, 19:05:28
- Can’t be any worse than the club World Cup next summer (Other Football) - SCC 28, Dec 5, 18:34:04
- I was dead against it but have warmed to the idea over the last 2 seasons (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Dec 5, 18:29:54
  - I'm strongly in favour, with the caveat that they no longer play in the EPL (Other Football) - Old Man, Dec 5, 21:50:51
  - Agree, get them to fuck off, set up a proper league, install var properly (Other Football) - Lentil Weaver, Dec 5, 20:03:32
  - Doesn't it just replace the existing Champions/Europe/Conference League competitions? (n/m) (Other Football) - The Gaffer, Dec 5, 18:43:05
    - If it does theres been an insigbt into what itll be like (Other Football) - Lentil Weaver, Dec 5, 20:07:12
  - me too ... but it only really works for the majority of clubs (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 5, 18:34:49
  - I agree - get rid of them all (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, Dec 5, 18:31:59

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