I'll repost what I wrote on Reddit about this:
I seriously feel like I'm in mourning today. This whole idea just completely ignores football as a fundamental part of modern European culture. They want to revolutionize the game, but in reality they might end up killing it. Football is a beautiful game, but a big part of what makes it so special is that sense that there's always a risk involved.
Yet at the same time, I think maybe football has been broken for a long time already. If we're really honest with ourselves, it's already been 20 years since a team other than us, Juve or Inter won the Scudetto. There's just a handful of clubs that at this point have a realistic shot at winning the Champions League, and the last time a "smaller" club (Porto) won it was 17 years ago. We certainly won't have a chance of winning it for the next decade unless something changes pretty dramatically within European football - Financial Fair Play has made sure of that. That combo of FFP blocking clubs from creating teams that can qualify for the CL, combined with massive income for the clubs that do play in the CL, has made it possible for the richest clubs to create a monopoly that I would say might be worse than the Super League. In the Super League we would at least have a shot at actually building a great team again.
So I feel really torn about the whole thing, to be honest. And part of me thinks this might be a way for these 12 clubs to force UEFA into changing the CL into something pretty much exactly like this Super League. Like Suzy Campanale over at Football Italia said, UEFA's proposal for changes to the CL is pretty much identical to the proposed Super League, except without a participation guarantee for the biggest clubs:
https://www.football-italia.net/169385/s...ining-ploy
As for Milan's situation:
For being one of the clubs that has truly made European football what it is, we've been given such a hard time by UEFA for a long time now. I am in no way thrilled about this Superleague, but AC Milan was
fundamental in making the Champions League the cash cow for UEFA that it is today. In return they started shitting on us as soon as we fell on hard times.
What kind of sense did it make to punish the current Milan ownership for the sins of Berlusconi and Mr. Li? They made an example out of us, completely unnecessarily. In a sense they are now reaping what they've sown.
Now, that said, I think we are kind of betraying Serie A here. We didn't become a great club in spite of Serie A, but because of it, and because of a lot of other, smaller clubs around Europe and the world. Many of our most talented Italian players have come from other Serie A clubs, because these clubs had the resources to develop them into top-level players. So if we're going to do this, we have to at least make sure that the money does in fact trickle down. I don't see that happening though.
(I read that they hired a lawyer to assess the pros and cons.)
