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This should shake FIFA and UEFA up a bit and maybe the FA as well. The Qatar Royals are behind a major new super league of 16 clubs with an additional 8 on an invitational bassis. Wonder what effect it's going to have and how many, if any PL teams join up?
What do you folks think of this development?

Can't see it working. There's the travel element to consider for fans and players alike. There's the additional travel then for european games. And god only knows what the ticket prices would be considering you'd always be watching two premium teams!

Besides, haven't you just more or less described the champions league?

Just looked into this a bit further....apparently ALL games would be played in Arab countries so there would be no home games at all. The majority of attending fans would therefore be arabs, locals and tourists.

Money will be made through TV rights, don't see this happening soon, same concept as the breakaway league which was the reason of doing the Champions league. This can only work during the inter season period as resistance will be huge from all country leagues, UEFA and even FIFA.

If such a league began, we certainly wouldn't qualify for it and I very much doubt we'd be on the 'invitation' list either. Still, that might give us a better chance in the prem.

is there a source link you can post for this?

i dont think it would be beneficial to any club, unless there was huge amounts of money involved. the only way i can see it working it during pre-season

I think LFC would be invited to play they are not a charity and will want the most popular (best supported) teams to play in order to make money from it.

Thanks for that CarheX, you're obviously much better with computers than I am, was dreading someone asking for a link!!!
Yeah, looks like that, but it seems the money inducement for the clubs will be huge and we know what that means! I don't think the playing conditions will be great, but conditions for owners and officials will be salubrious, maybe even salacious!

I've got my doubts. What criteria do you think they would use for auto selection and invitational selection? And what team do you think would be on the list? It might even be open to some of the massive south american clubs. Plus a few inivational spots are bound to be taken up by clubs that the oragnisers have a vested interest in, not to mention some kind of local token gesture.