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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by MisterBastahrd on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:02AM (#26911843)
The endgame of the ESL is to make enough money to leave those other leagues and just have an elite european soccer league full of the very best players and coaches. The fans would get over it. This sort of thing has happened repeatedly in American sports, and the result has always been positive.
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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by Dma54rhs on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:51AM (#26912192)
I don't think any European football fan thinks your leagues are positive. So owners can move AC Milan to Budapest when they see a market (since you can't qualify) and call it AC Budapest Raiders? It's not competitive sport, it's cheap showbiz with hot dogs.
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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by MisterBastahrd on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:21AM (#26913096)
I think it's quite funny that you think that competitive sport can be accomplished when one team spends $25M on their entire team and another spends $20M on a single star player.
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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by Dma54rhs on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:29AM (#26914534)
Leicester was not too long ago not in premiere league, now they constantly spend 25 mil a player. There are plenty of teams who do that and clubs absolutely do reborn from ashes. Nothing like that with ESL.
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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by MisterBastahrd on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:49PM (#26918461)
The vast majority of clubs in the EPL can't afford to spend like that and stay financially afloat.
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