Having seeing alot of teams like madrid,barca,man u,chelsea,arsenal,inter,ac milan,bayern,e.t.c dominate their leagues,i think it would be nice if UEFA put them in one league called the galactic league. In this league,clubs will no longer participate in their usual league,but will still compete in the champions league among their confederation. This will also mean reshuffling the leagues in the other countries to fill the void left by the big teams that left with the best performers from the lower division.the galactic league will also have at least two division with all champions league qualifying clubs and few other top clubs (europa league) in the other leagues engaging in a series of play-offs to determine the teams in the top and lower divisions. Each division must not necessarily contain 20 teams,MLS format of 8 teams per division is fair enough. Brave idea?,share your view

Wall of text. No.

straight up no.

i dnt know why people feel like football needs to change.

no super leagues, no video refs.

the game is beautiful as it is.

michael1 wrote:straight up no.

i dnt know why people feel like football needs to change.

no super leagues, no video refs.

the game is beautiful as it is.

what nonsense. what's beautiful about wrongly disallowed goals? diving to win penalties? diving to fake an injury to get other player sent off? these happen every game and there's nothing beautiful about those. they can be cut out

saying that, i don't agree with the super league at all. the fact that most teams don't play each other every year is what makes the CL exciting

andiii wrote:

michael1 wrote:straight up no.

i dnt know why people feel like football needs to change.

no super leagues, no video refs.

the game is beautiful as it is.

what nonsense. what's beautiful about wrongly disallowed goals? diving to win penalties? diving to fake an injury to get other player sent off? these happen every game and there's nothing beautiful about those. they can be cut out

saying that, i don't agree with the super league at all. the fact that most teams don't play each other every year is what makes the CL exciting

Its beautiful cause its human, everything u mentioned is a human thing, every team has benifitted from things like those and have lost cause of those things it all evens out.

Last thing i want to see if the play stoppin every 5 mins to watch replays of a tackle,offside or watever else it could be.

This is the way the game is and people need to deal with it

I live in australia and nrl use lots of the video replays to judge things and u know what, the calls are still wrong sometimes and it holds up the play.

Its called the beautful game for a reason.

The only technology that should be used is goal line and that its simply because it would rarely come into play and almost impossible for a ref to judge correctly if its border line.

I mean geez inter won over the weekend cause of a ref mistake.

The sport is fine and doesnt need that crap

michael1 wrote:

andiii wrote:

michael1 wrote:straight up no.

i dnt know why people feel like football needs to change.

no super leagues, no video refs.

the game is beautiful as it is.

what nonsense. what's beautiful about wrongly disallowed goals? diving to win penalties? diving to fake an injury to get other player sent off? these happen every game and there's nothing beautiful about those. they can be cut out

saying that, i don't agree with the super league at all. the fact that most teams don't play each other every year is what makes the CL exciting

Its beautiful cause its human, everything u mentioned is a human thing, every team has benifitted from things like those and have lost cause of those things it all evens out.

Last thing i want to see if the play stoppin every 5 mins to watch replays of a tackle,offside or watever else it could be.

This is the way the game is and people need to deal with it

I live in australia and nrl use lots of the video replays to judge things and u know what, the calls are still wrong sometimes and it holds up the play.

Its called the beautful game for a reason.

The only technology that should be used is goal line and that its simply because it would rarely come into play and almost impossible for a ref to judge correctly if its border line.

I mean geez inter won over the weekend cause of a ref mistake.

The sport is fine and doesnt need that crap

Pretty sure the person who coined the term "Beautiful game" didn't envision diving, disgusting tackles and disallowed goals in their vision. That is not beautiful. A 40 pass team move culminating a sumptuous goal is beautiful. A defender intercepting a striker one on one with a clean, crisp tackle is beautiful. A winger bamboozling his marker with silky smooth footwork is beautiful. A defense splitting pass is beautiful. A keeper making a world-class double save is beautiful. That's what this game is about and that's what's always been at the heart of it. That will never change.

In order for the game to keep it's inherent beauty, enhancements will have to be made eventually, just as they've been continually made as the game has progressed from where it was 30 and 40 years ago.

Video technology is the next logical step in the progression of football. Sepp Blatter obviously doesn't have the balls to do it, but then again, he won't be president forever. Someone will eventually have the ambition and overall vision that he obvious lacks. Its inevitable.

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Hmm look i dnt disagree with the fact something needs to be done.

Just dnt agree with video tech if anythin it should like tennis where each side can go to video ref once or twice not sure how many times there allowed but i know its limited.

One call for each team, max 2 so for big decisions they can use video but everything else they cant.

So its kinda win win for veryone video ref wont be abused and big calls will get called correctly with the play being held up as little as possible

I'm for it! But the Galactic league should be done as a separate thing. Cut all 20 teams down to 16, cut the number of teams in the CL, and somehow make a league with the top teams, making it a league format rather than having this BS home and away tie. it would prevent teams from being defensive and every team would have to play each other. Twice over the course of the whole year.

jibers wrote:I'm for it! But the Galactic league should be done as a separate thing. Cut all 20 teams down to 16, cut the number of teams in the CL, and somehow make a league with the top teams, making it a league format rather than having this BS home and away tie. it would prevent teams from being defensive and every team would have to play each other. Twice over the course of the whole year.

So effectively, we'd be watching the same 16 teams over and over again with no one else able to break in and try their luck. That sounds hella boring just imagining it.

lol hell no, football shouldn't go down the plastic way.

McLewis wrote:

jibers wrote:I'm for it! But the Galactic league should be done as a separate thing. Cut all 20 teams down to 16, cut the number of teams in the CL, and somehow make a league with the top teams, making it a league format rather than having this BS home and away tie. it would prevent teams from being defensive and every team would have to play each other. Twice over the course of the whole year.

So effectively, we'd be watching the same 16 teams over and over again with no one else able to break in and try their luck. That sounds hella boring just imagining it.

The bottom 3 teams get relegated to Europa league and the top teams get promoted from europa.

Europa is a cup competition, you can't relegate/promote that way.

A super league would be the end of club football as we know it. The "lesser" clubs in the national leagues would struggle to survive as their tv funds dried up... broadcasters would only be interested in showing the Super League. The small teams would die or shrink will the super league ones would continue to grow as businesses. International footy would suffer for the lack of options in their player pools while many of the players that develop late on would probably be overlooked by the big clubs' academies and never get their chance.

The ONLY people that would benefit from the super league would be those that make money off of football, and even that would likely only be a short-term gain.

Hell No

I am with the Hippo.

well the NBA is somehow a closed super league and its doing fine

zizzle wrote:well the NBA is somehow a closed super league and its doing fine

Completely different sports culture, league set-up, and sport. Apples and oranges, really.

RedOranje wrote:A super league would be the end of club football as we know it. The "lesser" clubs in the national leagues would struggle to survive as their tv funds dried up... broadcasters would only be interested in showing the Super League.

Well, I would rather watch English football than such a Super League - even if Liverpool played in the latter - and I'm sure there would be more people like me. So you would still get TV broadcasts of those domestic leagues, even if it was something what the nPower Championship is at the moment.

But the whole idea of a super league is so absurd to me that I don't think it even deserves serious debate.

RedOranje wrote:

zizzle wrote:well the NBA is somehow a closed super league and its doing fine

Completely different sports culture, league set-up, and sport. Apples and oranges, really.

well im not calling for a euro football league myself, im just pointing out that a closed league is not a bad thing if it's managed right. Matter of fact a super league will facilitate any future financial regulations like a salary cap instead of the yet-to-be-effective FFP.

Art Morte wrote:

RedOranje wrote:A super league would be the end of club football as we know it. The "lesser" clubs in the national leagues would struggle to survive as their tv funds dried up... broadcasters would only be interested in showing the Super League.

Well, I would rather watch English football than such a Super League - even if Liverpool played in the latter - and I'm sure there would be more people like me. So you would still get TV broadcasts of those domestic leagues, even if it was something what the nPower Championship is at the moment.

But the whole idea of a super league is so absurd to me that I don't think it even deserves serious debate.

Completely agree

zizzle wrote:well the NBA is somehow a closed super league and its doing fine

Is this a joke or?
I mean, aside from the comparison between the NBA and football in Europe (structure wise)

The NBA is on lockout, the players and owners are struggling with the division of revenue (players-owner splits)

Luca wrote:

zizzle wrote:well the NBA is somehow a closed super league and its doing fine

Is this a joke or?
I mean, aside from the comparison between the NBA and football in Europe (structure wise)

The NBA is on lockout, the players and owners are struggling with the division of revenue (players-owner splits)

the conflicts between the NBA owners and the players has nothing to do with the success of the leauge, matter of fact that problem came out because the league is making so much money the players think they deserve a bigger peice of the pie

but anyway this isnt a joke, coz if you actually read the thread, and my reply to RedOranje, you would have known that im not comparing basketball to football but i only used the NBA to dispute the logic that a closed league is bad for football.

The league is actually BLEEDING money for the most part (few teams actually profited after last season) so the owners want the players to take pay cuts

Oh ok, then I do think it could work for football to be honest, just not crazy about the NBA example but there are different things to consider I guess

Meh.. Would be another 2 horse race i believe.

Another Sunny SPL according to Redcafe dudes.

exactly, it could work, but that doesnt mean we'd want to see it