The best players in the world are not going to play for teams which restricts their access to the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, the Champions League or the World Cup. If they want to go we shouldn’t even be standing in their way - merely standing firm and enforcing the bans.

I am catching up with this thread and saw this so forgive me if already answered by another.

I am not so sure you are correct. A guaranteed E250M a year for each participating club mean they can pay any wage they like. The remaining EPL clubs will suffer diminishing returns (and I can't see how TV revenue won't fall without the international cache of the popular clubs) and can't compete. It will attract the best players on the planet and we will just be another feeder club.

Most owners and all players alike are loyal only to money and players have long considered international duty as little more than a booster to their personal sportswear sponsorship revenue. So even if the best players are hoofed out of their national teams, all that will do is devalue the summer tournaments we so look forward to.

I would love the government to intervene to ensure no player is restricted from walking out of his rebel club if he chooses to, imposing substantial windfall tax on the 6 clubs and any broadcaster who seeks to stream their games etc. However, all this will do will be to force the teams to relocate to friendly countries and play there. Whether it remains commercially viable if the ESL is not being legally broadcast in the very continent it seeks to be the elite representative of is, I suspect, the only thing that will stop it. Couple this with full ejection from the domestic leagues and cup games and the main news media refusing to report on any ESL games, and it will disappear from our collective consciousness. Give it a generation, as another has said, and new elites will emerge as all the teams go up a peg.

Regrettably, that will not happen. Neither the UK, EFTA, or the EU will do this. And the tp leagues will be motivated by short term self interest and allow the rebel clubs to field teams in the domestic cups etc. ESL will go ahead if they wish it to, the threats will all fizzle out in in-fighting and acrimony, people will pay vast sums in pay-per-view world over, and the game as we know it will only exist in a very diluted form.

Essentially, Palace will be relegated to a lesser tier without actually going down.

They will in the next few days it will be 14 against six so they will be voted out.

Remember the failed reforms that the big six wanted last year included reducing the voting rules for the PL now we know why.

I presume they will be expelled and then the lawyers get involved and who knows where that goes but at a guess:

1. The PL has the right to decide who they're members are so I can't see the big six Being allowed to stay. Win for football.

2. FIFA banning the players from internationals will be problematic as they are punishing employees for an employers decision. I think the players will win that one. Win for the players.

3. Players at the big six e.g. Milner demanding a free transfer or release from contract. Again I think they have a good case as I expect the words Premier League, FIFA, UEFA will be all over their contracts and no mention of the ESL. Win for the players who want out of the big six.

4. Negotiated settlement. At some point I suspect the ESL and UEFA will reach a deal. However as they want more money and guaranteed spots in the competitions a settlement will favour the rebels. Loss for football world.

5. Capitulation.
My hope is that UEFA and the PL grow a pair expel the big six and refuse to negotiate. The sponsors and TV companies seeing the anger of the public refuse to have anything to do with the ESL. Even the plastic fans are not that interested. Many players force moves and the rebels find themselves in a nowhere land of having only one competition that the public don't care about and it's not making money.

They come crawling back under the current rules.

6. In for a Penny.
The big six realising the above (5) decide to set up a rival to the Premier league and invite other "so called" big clubs to join them. This rival PL will also have promotion access to the ESL. Clubs like Leeds, Sunderland, Newcastle, Celtic and Rangers will be approached. In short a rival domestic and European set up. Win for the greedy b******s.

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I have questions

1.. Where are these so called Super clubs going to buy players to keep them in this super league..I cannot think for one minute that these 12 clubs are going to have a transfer market between themselves and weaken their so called prospects of winning the JP Morgan Cup or are they going to rely on youth policy. ?
Or does it boil down to the fact that they think they can look down on clubs like Palace and say we are interested in signing “X” player and you are going to jump because we are a Super Club. Or does the terminology “ Feeder Clubs start to appear.

2/ Are not all Referees registered to UEFA and their respective Football Associations. Seeing as UEFA are against this Super League how are these Super matches going to be refereed or are they going to set up a Super league referee association.

3/ What is going to happen if these clubs players don’t want to play in this Super League how are these clubs going to enforce contracts they just cannot force a player to play nor can let they let a player walk away.,