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Eating caviar every day will make you puke eventually. The thrill of big match will be lost when every week is a big match. Remember 6 el clasicos in 2011 between Barca and Madrid (cmiiw about the figures)? It was exciting at first, but no one gives a shit anymore in the end.

Super league is a terrible idea and a pure cashgrab project. Although our current football landscape is imperfect, it still has some goods. The examples are Leicester winning EPL or the emergence of Bologna, Girona, and Leverkusen. ESL would eliminate the possibility. Thus Inter should stay away from such a soulless cashgrab agenda and the fans should urge the club to do so.
Inter played milan 6 times in the last year. Don't recall anyone not being excited about any of the games.

Inter should do what is best for Inter not protect bologna,girona or leverkusen. The fans should protect Inter. The rest are irrelevant while we are being forced to sacrifice players each year and being outbid by epl relegation battlers.
 

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Inter played milan 6 times in the last year. Don't recall anyone not being excited about any of the games.

Because of the context of those games.

Two standard league games.
A mini final that honestly most people didn't care about
A Coppa KO semi
A Champions League semi final

Change that to 6 TIM Trophy games and no one cares.

Inter should do what is best for Inter not protect bologna,girona or leverkusen. The fans should protect Inter. The rest are irrelevant while we are being forced to sacrifice players each year and being outbid by epl relegation battlers.

This has nothing to do with the discussion. Trying to make it about this means you've allowed some media gimmicks to get into your head.
No one is planting a secret money tree with this thing.

This is honestly a bad vs evil situation and you're siding with the evil guys. Best course of action is to sit this out, but if you really have to take a position, don't side with evil...
 

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Football is dead, anyway. It's like capitalism. Whoever is at the top wants to stay at the top, no matter how much they trample on others. The gulf between a Serie A contender and a midtable club is getting larger.

If you only watch Inter, you only care about how good Inter does. Life goes fast, some of y'all have kids, I understand it all. No hate to y'all. If you like to watch football and you go to games on stadiums, then you really care about football in general. I want to watch good football no matter what team plays. I don't want to be excited only about the next Real Madrid - Bayern game.
 

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Imagine to have top 4 rating teams in 5 leagues.

Italy- Inter, Milan, Juve, Napoli
Spain-Real, Barca, Atletico, Bilbao
France-PSG, Marceille, Nice, Monaco
England-City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs
Germany-Bayern, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Leverkusen

20 teams, 38 games. Wonderful. No Coppa games, No Cl semis or finals. Pure result. 1st place=Cl winner

Look at the winners of CL for the past 20 years. Only Porto and to the certain extent Liverpool surprised winning it. The same teems over and over. So, the argument, give outsiders a chance to win CL is not going to fly.
 
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Inter played milan 6 times in the last year. Don't recall anyone not being excited about any of the games.
But there is a difference in how derbies are perceived. A big difference, for example, between derbies in Italy and derbies in England. In England only 3 points count and that's it. With the fact that they have to be close in the league standings. While in Italy a win is worth more than 3 points, here it is glory and prestige. Even if Inter is first and Ac Milan is 5 on league table, Derby della Madoninna will still consider it prestigious. Everything is more artificial in England, and it would become just as artificial in the Super League.
 

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We will be the tottenham of the league playing for the 15th place... lets see how long people will enjoy this.
Really?:)
 

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Good posts regarding this shithousery.

You can't make this about "Inter only, what's best for Inter". It becomes irrelevant if we are richer, if the games we play do not matter. And Super League matches would not matter to anyone. If top Serie A clubs become even richer than now and the rest are left out, wonder how is that gonna suit to the rest of the league? I think Serie A has gone forward in the past years, smaller teams have become better, specially the midtier teams, but also some of the really small tier teams aswell (I'm talking standings of the past few years). Super League would destroy this as financial difference would just grow more and more.

Also disconnecting the domestic standings to the euro league spots would make everything but title race and relegation avoidance races less relevant.
 

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I'm a bit confused - is this league going to be something like CL tournament or the clubs that will participate are gonna say "fuck you" to the domestic league and play only in that Super league?
 

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Eating caviar every day will make you puke eventually. The thrill of big match will be lost when every week is a big match. Remember 6 el clasicos in 2011 between Barca and Madrid (cmiiw about the figures)? It was exciting at first, but no one gives a shit anymore in the end.

Super league is a terrible idea and a pure cashgrab project. Although our current football landscape is imperfect, it still has some goods. The examples are Leicester winning EPL or the emergence of Bologna, Girona, and Leverkusen. ESL would eliminate the possibility. Thus Inter should stay away from such a soulless cashgrab agenda and the fans should urge the club to do so.
Every season, we play against almost the same clubs as we did last season, with the exception of a few; most of them are mid-table teams. So, it's not going to be boring facing Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich twice every season.

Then, since there's going to be relegation, facing new teams will be part of the experience too.
 

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I'm a bit confused - is this league going to be something like CL tournament or the clubs that will participate are gonna say "fuck you" to the domestic league and play only in that Super league?
Only the Champions League is going to be replaced with the ESL, and nothing will change in the domestic league.

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Only the Champions League is going to be replaced with the ESL, and nothing will change in the domestic league.

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Unless the domestic leagues decide not to invite the ESL clubs to participate.
 

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Only the Champions League is going to be replaced with the ESL, and nothing will change in the domestic league.

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I am sure verona, genoa, salernitana and such clubs will wanna play in a league where they get nothing, but the big clubs get 200-300M just cause they are in the premium club.
 

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I'm a bit confused - is this league going to be something like CL tournament or the clubs that will participate are gonna say "fuck you" to the domestic league and play only in that Super league?
The idea is it replaces the cl but you stay with your domestic league.
 

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Unless the domestic leagues decide not to invite the ESL clubs to participate.
lol .Lecces amd Frosinones?
 
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I am sure verona, genoa, salernitana and such clubs will wanna play in a league where they get nothing, but the big clubs get 200-300M just cause they are in the premium club.
How many of these teams have a shot for top 4?
 

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I am sure verona, genoa, salernitana and such clubs will wanna play in a league where they get nothing, but the big clubs get 200-300M just cause they are in the premium club.
for me it's not about earning, but rather the opportunity to get rid of UEFA's constant scrutiny regarding the FFP which they don't carry out when it comes to EPL clubs. That fucking sickens me. And that's why I don't care what replaces that shit called UEFA, I want anything that frees us from that monopoly.

speaking about 200M-300M, well then small clubs will have a motivation to produce talents and sell them to big clubs. Income creates new business.
 

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for me it's not about earning, but rather the opportunity to get rid of UEFA's constant scrutiny regarding the FFP which they don't carry out when it comes to EPL clubs. That fucking sickens me. And that's why I don't care what replaces that shit called UEFA, I want anything that frees us from that monopoly.

speaking about 200M-300M, well then small clubs will have a motivation to produce talents and sell them to big clubs. Income creates new business.
Well said, bro.
 
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