gullThis project risks leading to many more matches without stakes.
If the international promoter of this project has now taken care to allow teams from different countries to gain their qualification via the championship, this is not enough to convince our English interlocutor, also president of the Union Saint-Gilloise. “A22 has criticized UEFA competitions in the past for having too many pointless matches, but is proposing a pool system with 14 days, which will likely lead to many more pointless matches. I am personally rather favorable to the Swiss system currently in force in UEFA competitions and I think the last day will be exciting. Here, on the other hand, teams will quickly have little to play for. Furthermore, we know that knockout matches are the most followed by spectators… and A22 makes many of them disappear (Editor’s note: since we go directly to the quarter-finals after the first round).”
Free broadcast, nearly a hundred teams, categories and a new name: the Super League drops a bomb with a revolutionary concept
“A way to avoid financial constraints?”
Alex Muzio continues by wondering about the (r)evolutions promised by A22: “They deplored the lack of novelty in UEFA, which they portrayed as an old-fashioned model… but did not propose anything truly innovative at any level.”
In the end, the forty-year-old puts forward an explanation for this project which he considers botched: “I only see this: twelve clubs had signed an agreement with A22 to launch the Super League project and this agreement more than likely provides for financial compensation if no project sees the light of day. For me, A22 must show them that he has indeed proposed a project, otherwise he will have to pay penalties. I would be surprised if clubs really showed interest in a project that is so approximate and lacks details. For example, there are no details on how the very important qualifications will take place before the first round.”
We understand that this project, if it goes ahead, will be done without the UEC.
