All 12 of these teams should at the very least be immediately kicked out of the currrent champions league and replaced by teams knocked out in previous rounds and then excluded from next years competition.
I asked the same thing in another thread. I think they will end up paying a lot of money and poaching officials perhaps leading to a shortage of experienced officials in certain countries who will likely be banned from officiating elsewhere if they succumb to the ESL greed.
It'll be massive list to try and avoid:
Man Utd alone has the following sponsors/partners:- Chevrolet, Adidas, AON, Kohler (Water), Aeroflot, Apollo Tyres, Cadbury, Canon, Casillero del Diablo (wine), Chivas (Whiskey), DHL, Gulf Oil, HCL (?), Konami, Maui Jim (?), Marriott Hotels, Melitta...
74 year old ESL President, Florentino Perez, claiming that the ESL will save football! This is due to his expertise in what young people like and it seems he thinks young people are "no longer interested in football" because of "a lot of poor quality games". Not about money, after all, it's...
Presumably, UEFA and national FAs will also sanction any registered match officials from officiating in any ESL matches which means they will probably have rubbish officials from S.E Asia or the Middle East which would add another dimension to the fixtures. Any scab Refs and Linos would...