20 Oct 2020 14:21:51
Hi Ed2, you have spoken about this for a while now. I value your insight in such matters over main stream media so wanted to get some information if you don't mind. Apologies if you have answered this elsewhere but has there been significant movement in this European Premier League as the media are now reporting or is there a far way to go for this becoming a reality? Appreciating anything you can share on this.

{Ed002's Note - This relates to one of the ideas floated as an alternative to try and stop the "elite" European sides breaking away to form a pan-European league. I have explained the proposal before but it surrounds expanding the pre-season International Champions Cup to a much larger event where clubs would be members of the tournament through a debenture type system but need to commit to playing their first team in all games. Those behind it want UEFA (or even FIFA) to formally recognise the tournament (there has been a discussion already) which would be a money spinner but will add many more first team games to the annual schedule. This was one of the major drivers behind the Liverpool owners proposing Project Big Foot - which was obviously nothing to do with helping out the football pyramid but simply a way for FSG to extract more money from the game. I have explained in more detail previously.}

22 Oct 2020 10:29:19
To be fair, you make it sound like it’s all FSG, when Man Utd’s owners were also heavily involved in the proposal.