Independent Football Regulator

It's a concern that if Simmo gets us promoted just how long we will last a level up with the outstanding debt and our present owners who have landed us in this state of limbo.

Two problems with that Aberdeen. If and we.

Neither are guaranteed.

Back on topic...

I can't see the point of a football regulator.

If clubs want to join a "European Super League" - let them, but expel them from all other competitions. It's really simple.

Businesses fail, clubs go bankrupt - that's life. You should be allowed to invest whatever you like to try and make your football club successful, if you fail - you fail - that's business, there will be plenty of clubs who haven't over stretched themselves waiting to take your place. Go to the bottom of the pyramid and start again, it's not the end of the world.

Propping clubs up with financial regulations, fit and proper tests, cost caps and all the other bullshit artificial measures is 100% anti-competitive - it's as bad as the "Super League" they're trying to prevent. The regulations are designed to keep the top clubs at the top and prevent sides lower down the pyramid from investing to become competitive and risk upsetting the established order.

I'm all for toughening up penalties for clubs which enter administration - any club which enters administration (or worse) should be automatically expelled from the professional game and should have to start again at the bottom of the pyramid (only when they've cleared their debts). That's really the only financial regulation you need.

As for Chelsea or Manchester United or whoever joining a European league - let them, it should be their choice. If they choose to resign from all domestic and UEFA competitions and forgo the revenue etc, that shouldn't be prevented. The fans of these clubs have the ultimate say and could vote with their feet.

I'm not sure watching Chelsea play Juventus on TV six times a year in empty stadiums is especially mouth watering. Ultimately the "super league" would stagnate and I'm not sure sponsors and TV companies would stick around in the longer term. They'd probably end up playing all the matches in one of the Arab oil funded countries and the "clubs" as we know them would cease to exist. Let's face it, most of the plastic fans who "support" the most successful teams would just switch their allegiance anyway.

I was just thinking it might be a good idea, for a separate thread for all the prem money shadiness !

Ha Ha clearly a man who has completely lost the plot and doesnt have a clue about what the real fans in the country want he should ask the fans of the PL clubs [ not the club owners ] who would be quite happy to see a settlement at 4 times what theyre currently offering when its explained to them just how little in cash terms it would cost their clubs each year. And the fact that they could in effect just bung the cost of it onto the foreign broadcast rights bill. And thats before you remember Sky now have the EFL rights and the deal for the foreign rights for that at present could be multiplied by 10 if they went at it properly.

The fans are sensible enough to know where half of them came from [and where at some stage they will likely return to] their rightful concerns are that the clubs in the championship would end up with the vast majority of the cash and become a threat to them but if the money was used further down the EFL  and into the National league their opposition to 4x becomes virtually nil.