Professor Wenger has seen the future, and it is pan European
Arsene Wenger adorns the back page of most national newspapers this morning, thanks to his belief in the imminence of a European Super League. The huge-brained Frenchman says:
“I see more a European league developing over time rather than one team going out of the country. The national leagues will survive but maybe in 10 years, you will have a European league.
“I’m not sure 100% that I’m right but I feel inside our game there are some voices behind the scenes coming up to do something about that, especially if the rules become too restrictive for these clubs.”
Rather than adopting an (evil) franchise model - whereby Europe’s top teams would break away and start their own league - Wenger seems to suggest that there could be a system where ”teams would have to play in both the European league in midweek and the national league at the weekend.” That may sound an awful lot like the current system, but Wenger also says that each of the big boys would actually have two teams - perhaps Arsenal A would play in Europe and Arsenal B would play.
A part of The Spoiler - the part that is terrified of change - would not like to see a European Super League, but like Monsieur Wenger, we accept it’s inevitability. But do you think it is a good idea? Or do we already have a pretty decent method of annually discovering the best team in Europe? Let us know below…
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3 responses so far
1 Dan McKeown // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 am
How about voting option number 3:
Sack off the current capitalist crony club Champions League and return to the good old days of straight knock out cup football, optional shin pads, crunching tackles from behind and the ref never giving anything against you while you’re on your own patch.
That’s for those of us who fear change so much, we fear change that has already happened.
2 Pedro // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:33 am
An European Super League would only make the rich richer and widden the gap between poor small or medium clubs and those rich clubs that can sign practically any player they desire.
3 Ian Hough // Aug 18, 2009 at 12:52 pm
What is wrong with people? Can they not see that the super league is currently being assembled, albeit slowly, from those teams who compete in the European Champions League? I mean, the clue is right there in the name, surely?
These things take time but they WILL happen. Speculating on something like this is like when geologists used to speculate that the coastlines of west Africa and eastern South America seemed to fit together….let’s get with the programme folks….