Champions League reform/Breakaway league...

Originally Posted by dunk

https://twitter.com/utdreport/status...201587201?s=21

Admirable, but he’ll be retired by then anyway.

Yep

Said similar about klopp, he’ll probably be taking some time off after this season or the next.

Gaz covering his arse when asked if he’d consider commentating on a he super league games

“How can we after everything we’ve said about it over the last couple of days.... under its current guise anyway”

Originally Posted by AK14

Yep

Said similar about klopp, he’ll probably be taking some time off after this season or the next.

Gaz covering his arse when asked if he’d consider commentating on a he super league games

“How can we after everything we’ve said about it over the last couple of days.... under its current guise anyway”

At least Klopp and Milner have come out and said they are against it. Let's see how many sit on the fence over the next week or so.

Originally Posted by andyroo

Go on...

Big teeth just had a rant about Neville criticising liverpool....said he doesn’t understand ynwa.....said nev has no right to comment on his team..

And Neville responded with “no idea why I’m living inside his head”

Originally Posted by andyroo

Go on...

Wasn’t happy with Nevilles rant yesterday when mentioning YNWA (which he’s taken completely out of context)

Klopp says Neville should keep his mouth shut because he doesn’t understand the anthem and never will

He said he goes where ever the money is instead of sitting in the hot seat

Neville basically said he’s living rent free in the goofy @#%&!s head

Klopp also said the owners are great people and don’t make a decision at the click of their fingers...

Fair play to Neville he’s making Klopp look like an even bigger mug here.

At this rate, Neville will be screaming SCAB at the players as they disembark the team bus next weekend.

Great TV and Neville is smashing it.

Originally Posted by AK14

Klopp also said the owners are great people and don’t make a decision at the click of their fingers...

woah this is new. It was being portrayed like everyone just knew he'd be dead against it because he's such a great guy yada yada yada, so I thought that quote would be everywhere by now. Has he only just said it now?

The Nev stuff is funny but it's sideshow. This is a bigger deal.

Neville would be a right annoying wum on here.

Klopps £#%&!ing lost it

Originally Posted by andyroo

woah this is new. It was being portrayed like everyone just knew he'd be dead against it because he's such a great guy yada yada yada, so I thought that quote would be everywhere by now. Has he only just said it now?

The Nev stuff is funny but it's sideshow. This is a bigger deal.

Yeah post match interview.

https://twitter.com/sporf/status/1384259697423708161?s=21

What a massive #@&%!

Neville has made Klopp look a right @#%&!

Nevilles reply...

https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/1384261467470327819?s=21

Always liked Gaz me

This has been on the way for a while, businesses don’t like uncertainty in terms of revenue streams but City and PSG have had a major hand j in causing this, inflating transfer fee levels to utterly insane levels, not just in one off transactions but in number. The demands of the fans of the clubs involved for hundreds of millions to be spent each summer is unmanageable, particularly if there’s a risk attached to it. For instance, imagine we committed to the £3-400m for Haaland over the next 5 years, only to have a Liverpool of a season and finish 7th, absolutely £#%&!ed financially and looking down the barrel of several years to put it right. That’s something we’re in the midst of, Barca, Madrid, Inter, Arsenal and Spurs are on the cusp of and Milan and Liverpool have frequent, painful experience of.

Can only think City and Chelsea, although they had a couple of years out of the CL, are trying to get out from under FFP.

They’re going about it the wrong way, instead of bringing prices and wages down, they’re continuing the trend of inflation, but trying to guarantee the money to compete. They still want to be seen to be making huge transfers, as it’s good for business and marketing, but they want to be able to realise the profits on their investments. If we bought Haaland, next season United could reasonably say our viewing figures are miles more than for any other club due to everyone wanting to watch Haaland and as a result should receive TV/Ad revenue that properly represents the product United are bringing to the screen rather than a similar amount that Norwich or Trabzonspor will receive, for instance.

Can sort of see their point. UEFA and the PL want these 12 clubs in their competitions and want them signing and fielding the best players in the World so their competitions can be marketed on the back of these clubs/players and can they thrive and profit from it. They certainly didn’t chuck us any additional money for bringing Schweinsteiger, Falcao, Di Maria etc. to the club and competitions, despite the interest it generated and money it undoubtably made them, when it all went horribly wrong and cost the club fortunes to sort out.

By removing UEFA they can remove the cut they take and realise a greater profit for their product, ostensibly to allow further investment, but in reality to line their pockets rather than the corrupt @#%&!s in charge of UEFA. Once UEFA are marginalised, they can further squeeze the PL for greater split/control of the TV money here, as at that point all the best players will only play for the 12-15 clubs and the leagues will be utterly dependent on them and have to accede to their demands.

Lots of talk about Covid losses, and that’s fair enough. Obviously it’s difficult for the clubs to cost cut when players are on multiple years deals on ridiculous sums, but surely the reality is you have to sell your players to generate funds and get the contracts off your books, even if it’s at a lower fee than you’d like? If they all did that then the transfer market would deflate, wages would come down etc. Problem there is the likes of PSG and City who have no money concerns and could properly blow the rest out of the water; that and player and agents refusing to take pay cuts or pay offs to move and demanding massive wages to move. It’s a £#%&!ing mess.

Can only hope that this announcement is the catalyst to finding a way to sort the whole shitshow out.

TLR, NRAT etc.

Originally Posted by andyroo

woah this is new. It was being portrayed like everyone just knew he'd be dead against it because he's such a great guy yada yada yada, so I thought that quote would be everywhere by now. Has he only just said it now?

'They're great owners and Youse are all £#%&!ing idiots'

You can tell Klopp is pissed off.

As Neville said, the owners have hung him out to dry. Fancy making such a £#%&!ing monumental footballing decision and not even bothering to tell anyone at the club.

It seems they've all done the same thing. Nobody outside of the boardroom knew anything of this until they dropped the bombshell. It just shows they have total and utter contempt for the footballing side of the club, no regard whatsoever for how its going to completely derail their teams' season.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

You can tell Klopp is pissed off.

As Neville said, the owners have hung him out to dry. Fancy making such a £#%&!ing monumental footballing decision and not even bothering to tell anyone at the club.

It seems they've all done the same thing. Nobody outside of the boardroom knew anything of this until they dropped the bombshell. It just shows they have total and utter contempt for the footballing side of the club, no regard whatsoever for how its going to completely derail their teams' season.

Suspect plenty in the board room didn't know either. This has been in the making for months and no real leaks about it.

Originally Posted by AK14

Yeah post match interview.

https://twitter.com/sporf/status/138...423708161?s=21

What a massive #@&%!

Cheers.

Crikey. It's Fregglesque, like History says.

https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/1384264806690017294?s=21

It should be forbidden to mention that £#%&!ing song

Originally Posted by Coracao

Suspect plenty in the board room didn't know either. This has been in the making for months and no real leaks about it.

I’m sure the FIFA statement I linked earlier on in the thread (the one about them banning players from representing their countries) was released in Jan or Feb. This isn’t anything new, but I think the sudden decision to do it has taken all by surprise.

Originally Posted by Coracao

Suspect plenty in the board room didn't know either. This has been in the making for months and no real leaks about it.

That would make sense given the complete lack of any kind of 'feeling out' of how it would be received. On the one hand I don't think they really give a £#%&! about how fans would react but on the other i genuinely think they're that far removed from normal fans that they probably thought most would love the idea of it.

They've obviously been working on this for a few months but it appears to me, on the face of it, that most of that time has been spent drumming up the money and trying to get the other clubs to agree to it because the actual plans for the logistics of the league itself are all pretty vague. The fact they don't yet have the other 3 teams they've 'invited" signed up all smacks to me of them just ploughing through with it to get infront of UEFA's new champions league format.

It honestly wouldn't surprise me, given the people at the helm of this and our own experiences with that £#%&!wit woodward.