Serie A to do an EPL....

[serious14]

http://football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_5259945,00.html

SERIE A POISED FOR BREAKAWAY

Serie A clubs are on the verge of breaking away from the rest of the Italian football league and creating a new championship to be known as Lega Serie A.

A meeting between Serie A and B clubs failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion over financial matters today, leading to the decision by all the top-flight clubs, with the exception of Lecce, to go ahead with the split.

"Nineteen Serie A clubs today decided to create the 'Lega Calcio Serie A', with Maurizio Beretta put in charge of this," read a statement by the new league.

"The decision was made because of the impossibility of reaching an understanding with the Serie B clubs."

Relationships between the two divisions have been fraught for several years with constant battles over how much money the lower-tier clubs should receive.

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini was the first to announce the decision as he left the meeting this afternoon.

"We have created a new league for Serie A," he said. "This time it's for real. I'm not happy but it was necessary."

In England the top flight split away from the rest of the league in 1992, creating the Premier League which has gone on to become the richest in the football world.


*whistles*  Wow.

 

[bulldogmariner]

It will be interesting to what FIFA has to say on the matter!

 

[FFC Mariner]

Correct, if Eufa/Fifa refuse to sanction the breakaway, they cant play anyone except themselves and it becomes a WSC type operation.

whats the betting that Berlusconi and TV rights are involved her somewhere?

 

[tuftman]

Correct, if Eufa/Fifa refuse to sanction the breakaway, they cant play anyone except themselves and it becomes a WSC type operation.

whats the betting that Berlusconi and TV rights are involved her somewhere?

Give you odds of $1.01

So if its not sanctioned by FIFA/UEFA, does that mean that Serie B clubs play in European competitions?

 

[Arabmariner]

More money grabbing c**ts.

Some of the 19 will regret this.Relegation and a couple of years failing to get back up while the gulf between rich and poor gets bigger and bigger then disappear into oblivion.

Football worldwide needs to f**kin blow itself up and start again from the beginning.

 

[David Votoupal]

More money grabbing c**ts.

Some of the 19 will regret this.Relegation and a couple of years failing to get back up while the gulf between rich and poor gets bigger and bigger then disappear into oblivion.

Football worldwide needs to f**kin blow itself up and start again from the beginning.

Exactly. Football, sport and everything generally is prostituted for $$$$, and the current economic crisis is the come-uppance of it all. It might be the biggest wake-up call everyone and everything badly needs.

 

[clarence]

I think the Italian Premier League or whatever it will end up being called, is just following a business model similar to our A-League and EPL. Greedy, yes, counter productive, for sure.

In our case, a new league was essential as the NSL model had disintegrated and was completely discredited to prospective sponsors and many fans, but the Serie A is very well known, not perfect mind you with what Juventus was able to get away with for so long, but still very popular.

With all the clubs underneath them, there will be a lot of pressure on those 19 clubs to keep ahead of them. Personally, I am not convinced that what Juventus did with match fixing has been resolved completely within Italy, and by breaking away they expose themselves to all sorts of whoring to keep the $$ rolling in and the games up in the bright lights.

Not sure in that article just where their national body stands on the issue.

If the 19 clubs are completely rebellious to the Federation and the lower leagues they run the risk of being frozen out of a lot of games in Europe and even in any knockout comp they may have in Italy.

Did the EPL ever stop a promotion relegation system into/out of the lower leagues, as I thought the EPL came about to generate more money and give clubs in the top flight to gain more money, fix up their grounds into proper Stadiums, and attract better footballers with better pay and conditions?

 

[FFC Mariner]

I believe the EPL wanted to restrict promotion/relegation but there are FIFA rules