A different style of video, I hope you liked it! Likes & Shares appreciated if you did at 09:20 is supposed to be the super league on the right 01:11 - Previous Attempts at a Super League 03:44 Why It Was Attempted Now And Not Earlier 05:22 How It Would Have Worked 06:39 The negative effects it would have 10:05 How UEFA fought back 11:16 Why The ESL was not scared 13:21 Why UEFA are almost as bad as the ESL 16:58 How fans saved the day 18:48 My Thoughts
Thought this was a great documentary. Two additional points I think perhaps you could touch on, should you ever update it. Firstly is that although Perez was the figurehead, it was very much an American project, with an American "franchise" model being promoted by American owners, in particular the glaziers and the fenway group, and funded by an American Bank. Incidentally Real and Barca and clubs like spurs, utd, arsenal and Liverpool are all in debt to American banks. This would have paved the way for games to have been played around the world, in China, America and Australia etc, and in the end with the moving of certain franchise teams from their home cities to cities internationally, and the creation of a global soccer super league. Secondly, it is easy to overestimate fan power here. There are a lot of international fans in places like China and India who loved the idea, and if sky and all the media, as well as uefa and fifs, had been promised a slice of the pie in return for their blessing, it would have been trumpeted as a fantastic development and we wouldn't have heard the fans voices anywhere near as much. Just look at how much criticism you see and hear for the new champions league format, which pretty much guarantees the same as the super league for the big 12, on sky and other media outlets. Rarely when the fans take on billionaires do they have the entirety of the media and governing institutions in their side. Look at how much success man utd and Newcastle have had with protesting their owners.
As an American who only very casually watches football this was very informative. I genuinely feel like I understand why European fans were upset. Great video!
The problem of a Super League isn’t that big clubs play big clubs more often. Or that they break away from UEFA/FIFA. It’s the fact that they had fixed spots, rather than a system of qualification.
do you pay for watch football? @faramund, who won the last 15 champions? well it was Liverpool, barcelona, milan, man u, inter, chelsea, real madrid, bayern. the last 15 years of champions was liverpool twice, milan once, man u once, barcelona 4 times, real madrid 4 times, inter once and bayern twice. what merit are you talking about? if they are there consistenly on champions and has the more fans, more fans more they expend, better tv rigths more money for the modest club, better football, better leagues if you dont see this clearly, you are not payin attention.
Because those clubs have the biggest revenues and the largest number of fans across the world. It’s their right to establish a esl if they desire. So the fickle minded mob of fans and the envious uefa should stop complaining.
@@stevedawson6979 Not their right, but they do have the power. Eventually though their power derives FROM those fans. So fans have the last say about it.
@@faramund9865 all the crying sounds like what we see so much of today, that crybabies want to get all romantic and moral about a team or company making more money as if that's a bad thing. Sounds also like people who know their quality of existence depends on those big name clubs which most of the casual fans know and care about but they want to condemn and threaten and limit those same teams earning potential. All the moralistic type speeches sound corny and ring hollow.
Let´s take Real as example, players have been asked to cut down a 10% in their wages....a dirty and filthy 10% when people have lost their jobs, people are in lines for charity foods to survive...and they justify destroying football because they are losing money....Let´s remember that these people earn more money than all of us combined will see in this comment section probably for the rest of our life. Cutting down a 10% from a multimillionaire wage is disgraceful, if football is in danger, it is smaller clubs which are in a lot more danger, and the solution is not to have big clubs richer to buy their players and see these teams become the quarry for bigger clubs...
@@brusselseastside3546 not at Real Madrid and the way they managed to keep all the employees is by reducing the players and executives salaries. They all are rich BTW.
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As an American when I first started following soccer heavily I genuinely thought this was the coolest idea, I thought relegation was stupid ect. As the years went by I started to realize why Europeans were so upset by the idea, I also learned how fun relegation battles were. Literally all of my original views changed overtime lol
It's fun watching relegation battles when it's not your team but when it's your team it's like witnessing a slow death with an air of depression around the club.
@@sheffsteel7 I like that it gives you something to root on tho, with nba ect when your team is shit it’s almost pointless to watch and you start to not to want them to win due to getting a higher draft pick the next year, your players also tend to kinda give up too since there’s nothing to play for.
I think a european super league with relegation and promotion would be more attractive, maybe 20 teams but 10 get relegated each season to allow more teams into the super league across europe which teams have to qualify through playing in a knockout stage.
A qualification tournament needs to be held for the first season including ALL European top league teams or all teams to be more fair, the eventual 20 winners leave their domestic leagues for this league which should be played like any other domestic league, 1 group, 20 teams, OR 2 groups of 20 teams for a total of 40 teams league, home and away, top of the group wins, top 10 play an extra small tourney or something, bottom 10 get relegated back to their domestic leagues, no one is safe from that or have a permanent spot, no elitism bullshit, everyone is equal, and double everything if 40 teams.
Over here in the states this is the first time I'm hearing about any of this. So I really appreciate the time you took to put this together. You earned a new subscriber.
What I've noticed, UEFA spoke in English which is really curious. Considering how the big players really want to play for their country. Looking at Zlatan, it would break his heart if he couldn't play in the world cup, especially at his response to getting the chance again to represent Sweden. I can't speak for Belgium's but the English they would riot
What a lot of people don't realize is that we are already in a Super League system by default. Football's best years were from about 1990 to about 2011, afterwards it started going downhill. With the new Champions League reform from 2024, it's about to get even worse. Two UCL spots will be given to the team with the highest club coefficient that weren't able to qualify through their domestic leagues. In other words, if a team like Manchester City were to end up 7th in the English Premier League or if a team like Juventus were to end up 6th in Serie A, both would still qualify for the UCL the next season. Now long gone are the days where so called smaller clubs like Marseille, Lyon, Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, Galatasaray, Valencia could hope to win the Champions League or give the bigger (now much richer) clubs a run for their money. Now football is no longer based on merit, it's based on what you have in your bank account.
@@creative_soul-recolo I'm still hanging on but if I was a 12 or 13 year old today as I was some 15 years ago there's probably no way I would find football as appealing to me as I did back than.
@@tarik6990 Football back then was simply magical. Every team had to earn the right to win in order to cement their status as an elite club through financial discipline. The fact that a team like Lyon could reach the semi-finals in the 2020 CL campaign, Atalanta scaring the life of PSG, RB Leipzig could outmuscle Atleti in that competiton campaign was a breath of fresh air. That proved that football should be left the way it is with strict guidelines put in place. Like the saying goes: If it ain't broke, don't fix it...
@@creative_soul-recolo Those will become even more rare in the futur. Every single change or new rule that was introduced since 2005 or so has been criminally bad.
@@tarik6990 I also believe that no player should be worth more than what the club makes. That's how the likes of Real and Barca have f***ed themselves over. Any player(s) transfer that is over 65 million euros at least/salary over 100 grand p/w (apart from endorsments), should , the clubs who participated in that incl. agents should be penalised. I think that the 50+1 rule should be used across all clubs globally.
When u realize that UEFA and FIFA actually want the money for themselves 😪💔The ESL didn't destroy Football Football was destroyed a long time ago💔and we are just to blind to see
@@dorazati4905 Blind? Real boss said they were losing football fans. There are estimated to be 3,5 billion football fans in the world. RM and Barca make their own tv deals. No others have such a deal. Ticket prizes to go see matches... Prizes to watch league football on tv. Spain already got the most expensive league. In Spain it’s not uncommon to have to pay more than double, or even triple the normal price to see Barcelona or Real Madrid. But at the same time, the highest-profile match costs an English fan only 40% more.
@@kristofferb-e1337 giving the fact that real madrid has no rich owners to inject money into them to make more money or even owners like man city or P.S.G who do that for political reasons, its fairly understandable. real madrid and barcelona are the only big clubs who are still owned by fans. but either way it has nothing to do with what we are talking about, which is ESL. the ironic thing is that the rich owners of english clubs are the ones who really destroyed football by taking the clubs out of the hands of the fans.
@@dorazati4905 your comment is stupid Why are other league fans making it look like English fans side with Uefa ? I have seen La Liga and Serie A especially la Liga fans turn this into a PL Vs La Liga talk This is absurd We all want this same thing
@@obukohwoogheneakpobo3011 the english fans overreacted and i think even you can admit that it was really stupid. i didnt talk about la liga vs PL, i am just critisizing the behaviour of the english fans, this is not the first time that they stupidly overreact. the english fans gave the victory on a golden plate to uefa and fifa. the smartest thing to do was to sit aside like the rest of us. to be honest, without the reaction of the english fans we could have got better results!
I have not seen racism in football getting such a strong response from FIFA, UEFA or the FA. We can see how far they are willing to go when their financial interest are being threatened.
There’s not an easy fix to racism dude, unless you want to live in a police state where you’re prosecuted by the gestapo every time you say something that someone else deems racist.
Congratulations: Its the best analysis i saw related to the topic, cause most mainstream media reduce the topic to a good-guy vs. bad-guy scenaria, but you push analysis a bit further. Well done
@@PabloGarcia-yb7nc hahahah it would be difficult..but we should push for more transparency and more representation from clubs themselves and a player representative inside the organization, as well as uefa and fifa representatives all chosen democratically by football clubs in ttheir majority, because this doesnt solve the problem...and football will be more imbalanced between big clubs and small clubs each year if nothing is done or if something la superleague comes
@@DR650-x2j 1.the difference is that UCL only starts getting interesting in the quarter finals, it's boring in the group stages 2. UEFA is robbing clubs in terms of revenue, so why don't u remove the middle man which is uefa because they don't do much and get alot of money, just give all of the money to the football clubs
@@mabasoKT I know. What's the point of watching Real play Sherriff Transpol at home tonight, for instance. Real will probably run up double figures! _ _ _What's that? _ _ _ They lost? That can't be right! How could they lose to a bunch of peasants from a "farmers league"? _ _ _ What's that? _ _ _ Barca lost as well? Clearly the Champions League results have been wrongly reported! At least Man U trounced that Swiss Mickey Mouse club, Young Boys the other week! _ _ _ I haven't checked the score of that game yet, but I bet Man U won by at least 20 goals!
One of the best vids i have seen. Fair on both sides showing each others good and bad side. Shown the pros and cons of the ESL. Such a detailed yet concise vid. Same old FMS, superb.
What a great video man. I’m a sports fan but not too much soccer or football as you guys call it but I’ve seen so much fuss about it. I had to check it out. This video did a great job at explaining all sides. Thank you.
It actually pains me how at 11:43 the team without ESL players just look like a better and more cohesive England side who would be better at playing attacking football.
First of all, this is probably the second time I comment on a TH-cam video, I wanna say that your channel is one of the best, and I learn so much from it, so, thank you, and keep up the good work. I have a suggestion for you, you could start something like a series explaining some of the changes in the rules and regulations of some cups and leagues, for example, the premier league in the 90s and the champions league, I hope you got the idea.
This was the most egregious example so far of the Billionaire class just expecting everyone to obey their orders. Football/Soccer is much, much bigger than the billions of $$$ that are spent on it. It is the soul of entire nations. If you are planning to tame that soul and make it your household pet, you better expect one hell of a fight.
Wow! This was an informative video. You should also do more of this content. Made ESL & the money making racket more clear to me! I wonder how did other top clubs manage to turn down the offer when there was temptation to sign looking at other clubs gaining advantage in revenue? *Side note which may give you insights on a typical viewers mind:* I prefer Nouman's tactical analysis cuz he shows movement of players in his presentation in an interesting way and also not having to pause and read notes between videos. He also predicts the role of certain players on and off the ball during the video which makes it more clear to me why some players end up making mistakes and or benefit the team during situations in games. But he doesn't analyse many games so I'm here and also has an annoying presentation voice which pushes me away.
Between 1992 and 2009, the UEFA Champions League was a tournament with fair participation, the change in the qualifying system in the 2009-10 season caused football to end slowly in Europe.
Thank you FMS for making me understand that these ppl only care about numbers, which takes us back to Stalin's quote, which is quite true in this day and age "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." And also keeping it simple worked!
The idea of no meritocracy is what ruins the idea for fans. But there is ways in which football favours the successful, more money per views, favours the rich. Personally, I'd want to see it.
well i come here time and time again to help people how the whole situation was.. thanks broh! u just made it simpler to tell how it went.. this is de best from all explanation people gave
When you have states like the Emirates or Qatar pouring in insane amounts of money to selected clubs and signing the best players and playing small teams that previously had to sell their top players to these state clubs to barely survive… Please don’t tell me it’s a fair game. I think Leicester in 2016 made us dream “modest” teams could win the tittle. I honestly and sadly don’t see this happening any time soon with the path the football industry has taken. Unfortunately FIFA and UEFA are taking advantage of us fans being emotional beings and make us take part in their fight against a few greedy clubs who declared war asking for a bigger share of the money they generate…
I will never forget that feeling of waking up early for school and going on Instagram just to read “it’s expected that tonight 12 of the biggest clubs in Europe will form a super league” and I’ll never forget the feeling of it ending lmao
I hate that ideas like The Super League have to first come up to show us how FIFA and UEFA have failed football!! These super clubs ended up creating a problem that they now think they have to solve, which is capitalizing football. In due course, some of them couldn’t keep up with the demands of high quality and spent even more to try and keep up there (Juventus, Barça and Real Madrid). That run them straight into financial problems that they themselves started. The Super League looked like an idea for them to feast on a profitable premier league to keep up their revenues (6 of the top 10 high earning clubs are from England, and all the premier league teams (20) are in the top 50 earners in Europe, yet only 6 are regular UEFA participants). The problem is much much bigger than the Super League. There is significant imbalances in clubs in Europe when it comes to finances. Nottingham Forest were promoted last season but they spent more than Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Sevilla, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Napoli, Valencia, and other clubs playing UEFA competitions regularly… that speaks a lot. On the other hand, FIFA, the global football managers make way less than UEFA. There are even allegations that Infantino was part of the Super League plans as he saw an opportunity to build up a global super league club competition that would make FIFA more money than the one competition they have every four years (World Cup). Now, I’m not saying that money is not needed in planning and running these competitions, but capitalism and greed have made the problem much worse. In conclusion, money has destroyed many things, and football is one of them.
As an American it’s so cool to see the fans make something happen. I only wish this was the reaction to conference realignment for college sports. College sports operate very similar to European football. The teams are organized into (once long ago 😢) regional conferences. The SEC in the south, the ACC on the east coast, Big Ten in the Midwest, Big 12 in the south central area and PAC-12 on the west coast with smaller conferences in similar areas for smaller schools. After the regular season the best teams from the country compete in a 4 team playoff to crown the national champion, with the smaller teams playing in bowl games so in the end half of the country plays teams from other conferences they don’t usually play. But alas money runs the world. It started with Texas and Oklahoma announcing leaving for the SEC, those two schools are traditional heavyweights of the big 12 and leaving truly could’ve ended the conference if it wasn’t for the big 12s quick additions. Then Southern California and UCLA left for the big ten and it spiraled from there, the west coasts Pac12 is now down to two teams as teams like USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will have to fly cross country for games, California and Stanford, on the west coast now play in the ATLANTIC coast conference. So sad the fans couldn’t stop it like in Europe
As an American you don't understand the English psyche. Football in this country is part of life, many people have no interest supporting the best teams, they support their local team regardless of which division they are in as football clubs are seen as family, so in England you have 4th tier teams with no success for decades who still average 20,000 and 5th tier teams that can average 10,000. Most English people are strongly attracted more to domestic football with their local historical rivalrys built up since the 1890's. Playing matches against Europes top clubs is just seen as a bonus and not as important. There are now regulations set up legally stopping any PL joining a Euro super league and also there woukld be civil war and maybe riots amongst the English fanbase. So there's no way any EPL team is going a Euro league in the near future. Where as the Spanish and Italian leagues are slowly dying compared the EPL, so this is their attempt to take the interest away from the English Premier League. Will be interesting to see what happens. Think there will be still plenty of hurdles to overcomes yet.
Really good. I don't want to be cynical but these teams don't care about what they call "legacy" fans. My feeling is that it was potential player strikes (future salary cap) and refusal of that Italian team to play the match that swung it.
That I don't laugh 😂 Yes, that's right, the English "fans" protested, that's right. Who were you protesting against? Against what, we know, but against whom ??! N / A?? Exactly! Against their oh-so-great, great, super-mega-rich club owners! Of course, they always only want "the best" for the fans and the club! Out of mercy, of course! No! In England "one" only had quick money in mind! Buy the best players! See attractive football! Let yourself be blinded! Their souls sold like at a cattle market! To put it mildly, the English fans were naive! Of course, the super-rich billionaires want to earn more and more, regardless of losses! What did you think? You can't be that stupid! And now this hypocrisy !?
A different style of video, I hope you liked it! Likes & Shares appreciated if you did
at 09:20 is supposed to be the super league on the right
01:11 - Previous Attempts at a Super League
03:44 Why It Was Attempted Now And Not Earlier
05:22 How It Would Have Worked
06:39 The negative effects it would have
10:05 How UEFA fought back
11:16 Why The ESL was not scared
13:21 Why UEFA are almost as bad as the ESL
16:58 How fans saved the day
18:48 My Thoughts
This is gonna be a banger 🔥
And in the end it got replaced by the FIFA champions league which is literally just the super league but fifa owning it 🤦
@@andrewhodyss9092 uefa and the format changes but yes
Thought this was a great documentary. Two additional points I think perhaps you could touch on, should you ever update it.
Firstly is that although Perez was the figurehead, it was very much an American project, with an American "franchise" model being promoted by American owners, in particular the glaziers and the fenway group, and funded by an American Bank. Incidentally Real and Barca and clubs like spurs, utd, arsenal and Liverpool are all in debt to American banks. This would have paved the way for games to have been played around the world, in China, America and Australia etc, and in the end with the moving of certain franchise teams from their home cities to cities internationally, and the creation of a global soccer super league.
Secondly, it is easy to overestimate fan power here. There are a lot of international fans in places like China and India who loved the idea, and if sky and all the media, as well as uefa and fifs, had been promised a slice of the pie in return for their blessing, it would have been trumpeted as a fantastic development and we wouldn't have heard the fans voices anywhere near as much. Just look at how much criticism you see and hear for the new champions league format, which pretty much guarantees the same as the super league for the big 12, on sky and other media outlets. Rarely when the fans take on billionaires do they have the entirety of the media and governing institutions in their side. Look at how much success man utd and Newcastle have had with protesting their owners.
@@andrewhodyss9092 no because teams don`t have automatic entry into the champs league, Arsenal haven`t been in the champs league for years.
i like that you highlighted UEFA and FIFA’s corruption also. they are part of the problem in modern day football.
Exactly,nobody is really talking about them and just blaming the teams,l.Uefa and fifa are one of the most corrupt institutions
@@Joker-yu5kp well so long as it is a bureaucracy without people accountability it will breed coruption you cant avoid it
Exactly this
@@Joker-yu5kp they are but this wants good v evil it was evil vs even bigger evil
Wasn’t
As an American who only very casually watches football this was very informative. I genuinely feel like I understand why European fans were upset. Great video!
Agreed! I thought it would be awesome to have a super league, but the way it was going to be set up was terrible. Very informative video.
It's called the Soccerball in the US of A.
The problem of a Super League isn’t that big clubs play big clubs more often. Or that they break away from UEFA/FIFA.
It’s the fact that they had fixed spots, rather than a system of qualification.
do you pay for watch football? @faramund, who won the last 15 champions? well it was Liverpool, barcelona, milan, man u, inter, chelsea, real madrid, bayern. the last 15 years of champions was liverpool twice, milan once, man u once, barcelona 4 times, real madrid 4 times, inter once and bayern twice. what merit are you talking about? if they are there consistenly on champions and has the more fans, more fans more they expend, better tv rigths more money for the modest club, better football, better leagues if you dont see this clearly, you are not payin attention.
@@stevens156 now whats the reality? all 15 champions broke down financially
Because those clubs have the biggest revenues and the largest number of fans across the world. It’s their right to establish a esl if they desire. So the fickle minded mob of fans and the envious uefa should stop complaining.
@@stevedawson6979 Not their right, but they do have the power.
Eventually though their power derives FROM those fans. So fans have the last say about it.
@@faramund9865 all the crying sounds like what we see so much of today, that crybabies want to get all romantic and moral about a team or company making more money as if that's a bad thing. Sounds also like people who know their quality of existence depends on those big name clubs which most of the casual fans know and care about but they want to condemn and threaten and limit those same teams earning potential. All the moralistic type speeches sound corny and ring hollow.
Thanks so much, this really made me understand the whole situation
Same
Same here
i'm afraid that there is mutch more to say about the impacts of the super league in a format without merit.
This pandemic has showed us that rich people will do anything to get more money. Great video FMS, very informative.
Have you lost money from the pandemic?
@@antares9973 I am going with you in this debate !
Let´s take Real as example, players have been asked to cut down a 10% in their wages....a dirty and filthy 10% when people have lost their jobs, people are in lines for charity foods to survive...and they justify destroying football because they are losing money....Let´s remember that these people earn more money than all of us combined will see in this comment section probably for the rest of our life. Cutting down a 10% from a multimillionaire wage is disgraceful, if football is in danger, it is smaller clubs which are in a lot more danger, and the solution is not to have big clubs richer to buy their players and see these teams become the quarry for bigger clubs...
@@antares9973 losing a job maybe 🤦♀️
@@brusselseastside3546 not at Real Madrid and the way they managed to keep all the employees is by reducing the players and executives salaries. They all are rich BTW.
Been watching your vids 4 years, but this one was on a whole new quality level
Thanks mate!!
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good luck mate ❤ , peace from Algeria 🇩🇿
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@@FootballMadeSimplefall ?😂😂 Well it's back on. Greed is something that will never fall.
As an American when I first started following soccer heavily I genuinely thought this was the coolest idea, I thought relegation was stupid ect. As the years went by I started to realize why Europeans were so upset by the idea, I also learned how fun relegation battles were. Literally all of my original views changed overtime lol
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It's football not soccer.
It's fun watching relegation battles when it's not your team but when it's your team it's like witnessing a slow death with an air of depression around the club.
@@sheffsteel7 I like that it gives you something to root on tho, with nba ect when your team is shit it’s almost pointless to watch and you start to not to want them to win due to getting a higher draft pick the next year, your players also tend to kinda give up too since there’s nothing to play for.
This just adds a whole new dimension to this channel. Incredible video, top notch quality as always.
I think a european super league with relegation and promotion would be more attractive, maybe 20 teams but 10 get relegated each season to allow more teams into the super league across europe which teams have to qualify through playing in a knockout stage.
They never mentioned anything about pro/rel
A qualification tournament needs to be held for the first season including ALL European top league teams or all teams to be more fair, the eventual 20 winners leave their domestic leagues for this league which should be played like any other domestic league, 1 group, 20 teams, OR 2 groups of 20 teams for a total of 40 teams league, home and away, top of the group wins, top 10 play an extra small tourney or something, bottom 10 get relegated back to their domestic leagues, no one is safe from that or have a permanent spot, no elitism bullshit, everyone is equal, and double everything if 40 teams.
Over here in the states this is the first time I'm hearing about any of this. So I really appreciate the time you took to put this together. You earned a new subscriber.
What I've noticed, UEFA spoke in English which is really curious. Considering how the big players really want to play for their country. Looking at Zlatan, it would break his heart if he couldn't play in the world cup, especially at his response to getting the chance again to represent Sweden. I can't speak for Belgium's but the English they would riot
What a lot of people don't realize is that we are already in a Super League system by default. Football's best years were from about 1990 to about 2011, afterwards it started going downhill. With the new Champions League reform from 2024, it's about to get even worse. Two UCL spots will be given to the team with the highest club coefficient that weren't able to qualify through their domestic leagues. In other words, if a team like Manchester City were to end up 7th in the English Premier League or if a team like Juventus were to end up 6th in Serie A, both would still qualify for the UCL the next season.
Now long gone are the days where so called smaller clubs like Marseille, Lyon, Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, Galatasaray, Valencia could hope to win the Champions League or give the bigger (now much richer) clubs a run for their money. Now football is no longer based on merit, it's based on what you have in your bank account.
Best comment. I slowly started losing interest in football around 2016.
@@creative_soul-recolo I'm still hanging on but if I was a 12 or 13 year old today as I was some 15 years ago there's probably no way I would find football as appealing to me as I did back than.
@@tarik6990 Football back then was simply magical. Every team had to earn the right to win in order to cement their status as an elite club through financial discipline. The fact that a team like Lyon could reach the semi-finals in the 2020 CL campaign, Atalanta scaring the life of PSG, RB Leipzig could outmuscle Atleti in that competiton campaign was a breath of fresh air. That proved that football should be left the way it is with strict guidelines put in place. Like the saying goes: If it ain't broke, don't fix it...
@@creative_soul-recolo Those will become even more rare in the futur. Every single change or new rule that was introduced since 2005 or so has been criminally bad.
@@tarik6990 I also believe that no player should be worth more than what the club makes. That's how the likes of Real and Barca have f***ed themselves over. Any player(s) transfer that is over 65 million euros at least/salary over 100 grand p/w (apart from endorsments), should , the clubs who participated in that incl. agents should be penalised.
I think that the 50+1 rule should be used across all clubs globally.
When u realize that UEFA and FIFA actually want the money for themselves 😪💔The ESL didn't destroy Football
Football was destroyed a long time ago💔and we are just to blind to see
100%
the response of the english fans is the most surprising thing in all of this, maybe they are more blind then the others!
@@dorazati4905 Blind?
Real boss said they were losing football fans. There are estimated to be 3,5 billion football fans in the world.
RM and Barca make their own tv deals. No others have such a deal.
Ticket prizes to go see matches... Prizes to watch league football on tv.
Spain already got the most expensive league. In Spain it’s not uncommon to have to pay more than double, or even triple the normal price to see Barcelona or Real Madrid.
But at the same time, the highest-profile match costs an English fan only 40% more.
@@kristofferb-e1337 giving the fact that real madrid has no rich owners to inject money into them to make more money or even owners like man city or P.S.G who do that for political reasons, its fairly understandable.
real madrid and barcelona are the only big clubs who are still owned by fans.
but either way it has nothing to do with what we are talking about, which is ESL.
the ironic thing is that the rich owners of english clubs are the ones who really destroyed football by taking the clubs out of the hands of the fans.
@@dorazati4905 your comment is stupid
Why are other league fans making it look like English fans side with Uefa ?
I have seen La Liga and Serie A especially la Liga fans turn this into a PL Vs La Liga talk
This is absurd
We all want this same thing
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the english fans overreacted and i think even you can admit that it was really stupid.
i didnt talk about la liga vs PL, i am just critisizing the behaviour of the english fans, this is not the first time that they stupidly overreact.
the english fans gave the victory on a golden plate to uefa and fifa. the smartest thing to do was to sit aside like the rest of us.
to be honest, without the reaction of the english fans we could have got better results!
Felt like a Rabona TV video. Superb video.
I have not seen racism in football getting such a strong response from FIFA, UEFA or the FA. We can see how far they are willing to go when their financial interest are being threatened.
There’s not an easy fix to racism dude, unless you want to live in a police state where you’re prosecuted by the gestapo every time you say something that someone else deems racist.
I swear never saw them so united and quick to respond
Congratulations: Its the best analysis i saw related to the topic, cause most mainstream media reduce the topic to a good-guy vs. bad-guy scenaria, but you push analysis a bit further. Well done
Excellent video brother.
It is the best detailed video on this topic.Thank u for the time tags too.
The has been the best explanation of the ESL saga. You have just gained yourself a sub!
European super league is the big clubs way of cutting out the middle man uefa being the middleman.
Yeah but it has it´s own danger...they could become the opaque organization now but much more obscure, more authority for a smaller group
@@Omar-bustos1997 I really doubt they become more corrupt than UEFA/FIFA
@@PabloGarcia-yb7nc hahahah it would be difficult..but we should push for more transparency and more representation from clubs themselves and a player representative inside the organization, as well as uefa and fifa representatives all chosen democratically by football clubs in ttheir majority, because this doesnt solve the problem...and football will be more imbalanced between big clubs and small clubs each year if nothing is done or if something la superleague comes
@@PabloGarcia-yb7nc Never say never.
And in the end it got replaced by the FIFA champions league which is literally just the super league but fifa owning it 🤦
UCL has no guaranteed entry. For me at least that’s what matters most. Meritocracy over legacy. Regardless of who is running it or what it’s called.
@@DR650-x2j 1.the difference is that UCL only starts getting interesting in the quarter finals, it's boring in the group stages
2. UEFA is robbing clubs in terms of revenue, so why don't u remove the middle man which is uefa because they don't do much and get alot of money, just give all of the money to the football clubs
@@mabasoKT I know. What's the point of watching Real play Sherriff Transpol at home tonight, for instance. Real will probably run up double figures! _ _ _What's that? _ _ _ They lost? That can't be right! How could they lose to a bunch of peasants from a "farmers league"? _ _ _ What's that? _ _ _ Barca lost as well? Clearly the Champions League results have been wrongly reported! At least Man U trounced that Swiss Mickey Mouse club, Young Boys the other week! _ _ _ I haven't checked the score of that game yet, but I bet Man U won by at least 20 goals!
Lol even that failed 🤣
One of the best vids i have seen. Fair on both sides showing each others good and bad side. Shown the pros and cons of the ESL. Such a detailed yet concise vid. Same old FMS, superb.
What a great video man. I’m a sports fan but not too much soccer or football as you guys call it but I’ve seen so much fuss about it. I had to check it out. This video did a great job at explaining all sides. Thank you.
you have to be the only person I've watched since this news broke that didnt take a side u gave the view of both sides to the story thank you
Very good video and very informative for someone like me who had no knowledge about the Super League prior to the protests last year
"Uefa are not your friends" - 100% this!
true
It actually pains me how at 11:43 the team without ESL players just look like a better and more cohesive England side who would be better at playing attacking football.
I rarely watch 20 minutes analysis but I didn't get bored
Awesome analysis 😍
This is the best explanation video I've seen so far. Love this channel
First of all, this is probably the second time I comment on a TH-cam video, I wanna say that your channel is one of the best, and I learn so much from it, so, thank you, and keep up the good work. I have a suggestion for you, you could start something like a series explaining some of the changes in the rules and regulations of some cups and leagues, for example, the premier league in the 90s and the champions league, I hope you got the idea.
Those are great suggestions!
This have to be the best and most analytical insight since I’ve followed your channel. Keep up the good work mate
This style really got ma attention with the background sounds and footage
I was like in a movie
This is one of the best videos you've made... continue to keep it simple
Amazing video fam. Great job. this will be look back in years as a major event in our sport.
I love this video!!! It's your best work yet!
Best clip of the ESL on the net...
More grace!!!
Thank you! That was really interesting. Detailed and well presented.
All the best from the USA.
ESL is the future of football.
Really enjoyed your take on this matter. Would love more videos on topics like this :-)
Totally brilliant video
Thank you for the effort
Never was I more ashamed to be a Spurs fan, and that's saying a lot.
This was the most egregious example so far of the Billionaire class just expecting everyone to obey their orders. Football/Soccer is much, much bigger than the billions of $$$ that are spent on it. It is the soul of entire nations. If you are planning to tame that soul and make it your household pet, you better expect one hell of a fight.
All over the entire world, old grievances, old grudges, old rivalries were put aside to save the game.
The Beautiful Game
This is so well explained, thank you. So much better than the TiFo video.
Wow! This was an informative video. You should also do more of this content. Made ESL & the money making racket more clear to me! I wonder how did other top clubs manage to turn down the offer when there was temptation to sign looking at other clubs gaining advantage in revenue?
*Side note which may give you insights on a typical viewers mind:*
I prefer Nouman's tactical analysis cuz he shows movement of players in his presentation in an interesting way and also not having to pause and read notes between videos. He also predicts the role of certain players on and off the ball during the video which makes it more clear to me why some players end up making mistakes and or benefit the team during situations in games. But he doesn't analyse many games so I'm here and also has an annoying presentation voice which pushes me away.
Great documentary. Thanks for the detail!
Between 1992 and 2009, the UEFA Champions League was a tournament with fair participation, the change in the qualifying system in the 2009-10 season caused football to end slowly in Europe.
Thank you FMS for making me understand that these ppl only care about numbers, which takes us back to Stalin's quote, which is quite true in this day and age "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." And also keeping it simple worked!
The idea of no meritocracy is what ruins the idea for fans. But there is ways in which football favours the successful, more money per views, favours the rich. Personally, I'd want to see it.
RIP ESL 18/04/21 - 20/04/21
We will never forget!
More like RIH:
Rest In Hell
@@Imaperson844 More like “RIP” (Rest in Piss)
@@Imaperson844 Rest in Pieces
I wouldn't be so sure about that
@@mirzamuhtasimfaiyaz4086 agree
This was such a great video
Do more like this
Love the documentary ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Yes!!! Fans have a significant voice! Without us, football remains alive as how it should be!
Awesome video! Keep up the good work my man.
well i come here time and time again to help people how the whole situation was.. thanks broh! u just made it simpler to tell how it went.. this is de best from all explanation people gave
When you have states like the Emirates or Qatar pouring in insane amounts of money to selected clubs and signing the best players and playing small teams that previously had to sell their top players to these state clubs to barely survive… Please don’t tell me it’s a fair game. I think Leicester in 2016 made us dream “modest” teams could win the tittle. I honestly and sadly don’t see this happening any time soon with the path the football industry has taken. Unfortunately FIFA and UEFA are taking advantage of us fans being emotional beings and make us take part in their fight against a few greedy clubs who declared war asking for a bigger share of the money they generate…
The video is a masterclass! Good job FMS
I will never forget that feeling of waking up early for school and going on Instagram just to read “it’s expected that tonight 12 of the biggest clubs in Europe will form a super league” and I’ll never forget the feeling of it ending lmao
I hate that ideas like The Super League have to first come up to show us how FIFA and UEFA have failed football!!
These super clubs ended up creating a problem that they now think they have to solve, which is capitalizing football. In due course, some of them couldn’t keep up with the demands of high quality and spent even more to try and keep up there (Juventus, Barça and Real Madrid). That run them straight into financial problems that they themselves started. The Super League looked like an idea for them to feast on a profitable premier league to keep up their revenues (6 of the top 10 high earning clubs are from England, and all the premier league teams (20) are in the top 50 earners in Europe, yet only 6 are regular UEFA participants).
The problem is much much bigger than the Super League. There is significant imbalances in clubs in Europe when it comes to finances. Nottingham Forest were promoted last season but they spent more than Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Sevilla, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Napoli, Valencia, and other clubs playing UEFA competitions regularly… that speaks a lot.
On the other hand, FIFA, the global football managers make way less than UEFA. There are even allegations that Infantino was part of the Super League plans as he saw an opportunity to build up a global super league club competition that would make FIFA more money than the one competition they have every four years (World Cup).
Now, I’m not saying that money is not needed in planning and running these competitions, but capitalism and greed have made the problem much worse.
In conclusion, money has destroyed many things, and football is one of them.
Beautiful video ❤
Awesome style of video 🙌
Great video, thanks so much for ending it with the fans' voice being so important.
This is a clear and concise video. Very good analysis mate.
This was amazing, complete. Congratulations
As usual professional content 👍🏻
The best explanation of ESL and the current situation! Thanks for the video.
Blady brilliant summary, thank you for saving me time!!!!
Your videos are outstanding...... Fantastic quality.
No wonder that coin looked so familiar. It’s the Ethereum coin!
best content I've seen on this topic. thanks!
This is a very good analysis. Thanks for that.
Very good report! Thanks for putting only the facts... I learned a lot with it!
8:28 nervously laughs in atletico madrid 😅😅😅
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@@FootballMadeSimple nah it’s fine, you don’t have to remind about it
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Man man man you are really good. Thank you for the video.
You must do more Vidz like this, something different to inform and teach fans alike. Nice work!!!
As an American it’s so cool to see the fans make something happen. I only wish this was the reaction to conference realignment for college sports. College sports operate very similar to European football. The teams are organized into (once long ago 😢) regional conferences. The SEC in the south, the ACC on the east coast, Big Ten in the Midwest, Big 12 in the south central area and PAC-12 on the west coast with smaller conferences in similar areas for smaller schools. After the regular season the best teams from the country compete in a 4 team playoff to crown the national champion, with the smaller teams playing in bowl games so in the end half of the country plays teams from other conferences they don’t usually play. But alas money runs the world. It started with Texas and Oklahoma announcing leaving for the SEC, those two schools are traditional heavyweights of the big 12 and leaving truly could’ve ended the conference if it wasn’t for the big 12s quick additions. Then Southern California and UCLA left for the big ten and it spiraled from there, the west coasts Pac12 is now down to two teams as teams like USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will have to fly cross country for games, California and Stanford, on the west coast now play in the ATLANTIC coast conference. So sad the fans couldn’t stop it like in Europe
As an American you don't understand the English psyche. Football in this country is part of life, many people have no interest supporting the best teams, they support their local team regardless of which division they are in as football clubs are seen as family, so in England you have 4th tier teams with no success for decades who still average 20,000 and 5th tier teams that can average 10,000. Most English people are strongly attracted more to domestic football with their local historical rivalrys built up since the 1890's. Playing matches against Europes top clubs is just seen as a bonus and not as important. There are now regulations set up legally stopping any PL joining a Euro super league and also there woukld be civil war and maybe riots amongst the English fanbase. So there's no way any EPL team is going a Euro league in the near future. Where as the Spanish and Italian leagues are slowly dying compared the EPL, so this is their attempt to take the interest away from the English Premier League. Will be interesting to see what happens. Think there will be still plenty of hurdles to overcomes yet.
This was very amazing.. thank you so much for this
Great video! i do think seeding is fair and not just purely greedy, we still have top teams end up in the same groups
This is fantastic work. Please do more of such videos also
This is probably gonna get recommended in the next 10-20 years
Excellent video man !! 🔥🔥
Never have I been so ashamed to be a Barcelona Fan they should be ashamed of then selves as am I of them
Well put analysis .. well done bro
Top notch mini-documentary. Pretty sure you may have to do another at some point.
Great video well done.
9:44, "Weekend squads would be on the same level" Yep, that is my career mode
Really good. I don't want to be cynical but these teams don't care about what they call "legacy" fans. My feeling is that it was potential player strikes (future salary cap) and refusal of that Italian team to play the match that swung it.
And Bojo bro
What an amazing video for a football lovers!!!
Very well made and explained!
Great video!
It'd be good if this video gets recommended in Perez's and Laporta's TH-cam xD
Knowledge about football ✅
Excellent narration ✅
Entertaining ✅
Worth while ✅
Subscribed✅ (since the dawn of time)
Happy to see the English fans were the only ones who came out to protest, protect the game you people made first in your community
That I don't laugh 😂 Yes, that's right, the English "fans" protested, that's right. Who were you protesting against? Against what, we know, but against whom ??! N / A?? Exactly! Against their oh-so-great, great, super-mega-rich club owners! Of course, they always only want "the best" for the fans and the club! Out of mercy, of course! No! In England "one" only had quick money in mind! Buy the best players! See attractive football! Let yourself be blinded! Their souls sold like at a cattle market! To put it mildly, the English fans were naive! Of course, the super-rich billionaires want to earn more and more, regardless of losses! What did you think? You can't be that stupid! And now this hypocrisy !?
Thanks for this video. It help me better understand the situation hense the reason why I subscribed and recommend others to follow suit..
Proud to be a Bayern supporter ❤️
Please make more mini documentaries
Excellent journalism
This was an amazing video
perfect well done!
European Super League is back!!
Amazing video