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26 Feb 2015 10:27:56
One for Ed002 if he is about.
With the recent discussions in Qatar re holding the World Cup in Nov/Dec and the rejection of any form of compensation to the clubs from Fifa despite agreeing they made a mess up of the whole process, do you think this might push the top clubs to accelerate the idea of a European Super League and moving away from UEFA and Fifa bureaucracy
Cheers for any reply!
{Ed002's Note - It won't change the situation - the breakaway will happen when the clubs are ready and commercial agreements have been reached. A number of the clubs involved are meeting in Switzerland on March 20/21.}
1.) 26 Feb 2015 11:57:47
Eds what would this sort of league entail? Instead of the champions league for the clubs involved in discussions or the domestic leagues? Would domestic leagues be able to move outside of fifa/uefa if a breakaway occurred?
{Ed002's Note - Without going in to too much detail: (a) A number of clubs take the opportunity a once or twice a year to discuss various issues including changes in rules, television rights, the power of UEFA, exploitation issues for new technology streams, etc.. These discussions, the next will be on March 20/21, also always turn to the possibility and structure of a breakaway pan European league. Several are ex-G14 clubs, several are not, and some clubs decline involvement in such discussions. (b) The plan is that at some point a number of clubs would break away from their national leagues and UEFA. They accept that they would be banned from all existing club competition and the players would initially be banned from all FIFA competitions as well, but know that FIFA would be looking to negotiate in any case. It would be the end of UEFA in all probability and UEFA are very aware of this. It would also result in a restructuring of many of the national leagues. (c) The clubs would renegotiate their television rights, rights of distribution via other streams etc.. (d) It remains the greatest fear of UEFA and all major national authorities that one day this will happen.
There is every likelihood that the big money from television, sponsorship etc. would go with a breakaway league. It would completely rupture the operations of UEFA and I would expect it would require national associations like the FA to restructure their leagues. Nobody wants this but it is the eventual consequence I would expect. If I had to speculate, I would think (1) you might eventually see something like five or six EPL teams leave for two-tier pan European league; (2) the Premier League would be disbanded as an organisation; (3) the FA would restructure in to two 20 team divisions with lower leagues regionalised as they were many years ago; (4) FIFA would ban all players from the breakaway teams from International football - perhaps rescinding that position to stop FIFA breaking up as well. I could also see many teams lose their professional status. I would think we are probably 10 years away from any significant move at this time.
I hold a reasonably strong view in terms of the need to restructure football in Europe in any case. For me an eventual a breakaway pan-European league would force the restructuring of many of the national leagues, possibly resulting in a British league with perhaps only a couple of professional tiers and then regionalised amateur leagues below that. Financially I do not see that so many pro sides can be sustained within the sport which, like it or not, will see more and more money going in to the highest levels of the game. Governments will ensure that grassroots sport get funding but everything in the middle (Southern, Northern, Conference, Division 2, Scottish Divisions 1-3, League of Wales will not get the funding needed to continue on any sort of professional basis.}
2.) 26 Feb 2015 15:08:19
What's the main reasons for a split from uefa and fifa? Is it mainly the big clubs looking after their own interests i.e money?
{Ed002's Note - See above.}