Forza AZ wrote:Ricardo wrote:I think a second tier club competition with teams like Shakthar, Ajax, Anderlecht, Sporting, Basel, Kopenhavn. Moskou could raise lots of interest!
If this means these clubs would not play in their national league anymore, I think a lot of fans would protest, since except for the wealthy few it will get impossible to visit (most) away games of your team. Which will not be good for the atmosphere at matches.
Such second tier has forcefully to be a league? Cannot be a midweek cup? Our guess it is that it will not be a cup, huh?
The way I see it. There are products born and made for TV, like sitcoms, reality shows, variety show, talents contests, many other TV shows, and so on. These are modeled upon, and adapt to TV needs. There are products born for a public in a hall or a stadium, like a violin concert or a football match. Now, if TV wants to broadcast a violin concert, it is not like it dictates rules: TV schedule adapts to such event, and the event itself it is not manipulated to please TV requests. If it is a really important event, and TV coverage is needed, then the concert organization, and the musician protagonists, can adapt a bit to TV needs, but still, in everyone mind the customer is the public in the hall, and organizer and musicians set up the final schedule, not the TV channel. In football, is the opposite, why? We got to the point that TVs dictates. I don't buy it, there is not the need to do so, there is the will to do so. Uefa should handle this evolution way better. I can understand that up to some level, it makes sense, football is very popular, and so TV coverage is needed, people watching the match at home is a lot, numerically wise. However, up to this point, I mean change the whole nature of the event, making it something completely different, it is not like broadcasting an event anymore, it is fixing something which wasn't broken (three European Cups), to make a new product (a Super League) to replace the old one, taking possession of all the history behind it. It is not like European football competitions are on TV anymore, it is more like, TVs replaced Uefa competitions with another product which they can commercialize better, and this trends, year after year, is more evident and more arrogant: it feels like soon TVs will impose clubs to wear specific shirts with colors that better adapt to TV needs or sponsor requests. So, no wonders if "the atmosphere at matches" won't be the same. No complains, it is Uefa authority to chose. Still, it is a bitter truth. Funny thing is, Uefa won the trial against G14 about who owns the rights on the Champions Cup years ago; after then, either Uefa was weak defending its competitions, or it was easily corrupted, or you chose whatever other version you please (I have my own idea about it), but seeing the results and the future plans, it feels like they lost.
Gone.
