Having UEFA people talk about how unethical, greedy and acting against football fans the new league is was almost as cringy as the YouTube CEO awarding herself a free speech price.
Under the system of UEFA competitions and coefficient rankings, teams from outside the strongest divisions have a chance to participate in big money tournaments and attract viewers. They also make the tournament more interesting and unpredictable. Last year Atalanta (Italy) made the semifinals of UCL. This year Slavia Prague and Dinamo Zagreb knocked out Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur in UEL.
This cannot happen in a system where the 12 biggest teams in Europe form a cartel and sign TV deals that leave nothing for the development of the sport at grassroots levels.
I can't believe the hypocrisy of FIFA and UEFA and how everyone is making some moral case for being against the super league, when we know how insanely corrupt fifa and uefa are. It's an absolute joke how everyone is taking the moral high ground here.
The super league idea was so far out that for a wee while FIFA and UEFA actually had a moral high ground to someone at least.
Just look at the players' transfer fees, agent fees and weekly salaries. Where are all these money coming from to pay for such inflated expenses? In the end, it is us, the average football fans, who end up paying for all this greed (I pay $40/month in cable to get NBC sports to watch SOME of Manchester United's English Premier League games; $5/month to watch Peacock, which is owned by NBC, to watch SOME of Manchester United games in Premier League; $6 to ESPN Plus for FA cup; and finally $6/month for CBS Sports, which has now become Paramount+, to watch Manchester United in Champions League, which is what the super league is trying to supplant). These fees will only keep increasing every two years or so. Of course, I do not live in England and if I do, I might end up buying match day tickets, which could easily cost me ~$100 a game. If I buy a Manchester United jersey (not including the shorts), it costs ~$120 (it used to cost $90 ~4 years ago when I last bought one).
So yeah, it's greed all around (after all, we live in a capitalistic society) and UEFA doesn't have much to hold itself over the super league group to taut its virtues in my opinion.
It's money laundering. Only a few talk about that. It's from the regional league local construction tycoon football club president laundering his money from black construction work all the way up to the top.
The sport is incredibly popular, so the TV companies hand over billions to buy the rights, that money is given to the clubs who then use that to build a squad. Which when divided up means the best players earn insane amounts.
The top players are just very lucky to be in an industry where their skills are so rare and highly valued and employers are so rich.