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Top clubs plan Super League?
Friday 14 September, 2007

There are reports that Inter, Juventus, Milan, Roma and Napoli staged a secret meeting to propose a new Super League.

The newspapers in Italy suggest that the clubs came together on Thursday after the Lega Calcio – the union of all Serie A and B sides – voted for Parma’s Tommaso Ghirardi as a representative rather than Juve candidate Giovanni Cobolli Gigli.

This left the giants with no voting representative in the Lega Calcio, so they walked out on the session and Milan general manager Adriano Galliani pledged: “We will not stand by impotently.”

It is now claimed that they are planning to set up a new Super League that will split off from the Lega Calcio.

“These five clubs represent 84 per cent of the sport’s fans in Italy, so they cannot be given the same political weight as the other 15,” added Galliani.

However, the same reports note that it is probably a scare tactic to force the other sides into giving them some leeway within the Lega Calcio.

Above all, there is a battle over pay-per-view television contracts, which from next year will be sold collectively, as they are in the Premier League.

At the moment, each club negotiates its own television deal with the companies, which has led to some contracts massively outweighing the others.

The issue has particularly hit Serie B, as none of the games from 2007-08 are on Italian television due to the failure to secure the rights.

The Serie B sides have threatened to go on strike and halt the campaign if a new deal is not negotiated.

“We are working together to find a solution,” assured FIGC President Giancarlo Abete. “However, we cannot think this will be sorted out overnight.”


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(IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) ... They want that place...

[kurtsimonw]

It is all opinion.

In my opinion Spurs, Newcastle, Villa and Everton are better than Lazio, Viola, Palermo and Napoli

wow wow ... hold on ... I hope u notice this is milanfan.com not Unitedfan.com  . Cuz there is no way u can compare that hyped up league to Serie A !!

Oh, I see. But it's okay for you to bash my home team with a team like Napoli. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

So what does Napoli have to do with Milanfan?

Money ?! Yeah the EPL has the money, what has that got to do with anything ... For us here, we hold Serie A in high esteem, higher than La Liga or the EPL. It is the most difficult league in the world!

Money? What about money? I'm saying our signings were no worse than Napoli's, I was replying to what Max said about our transfer, which usually involves money.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't HAVE TO think Serie A is the best league in the World just because I like Milan.

How is that going to be easy?

There is a huge difference in the meaning easy and easier. Easier is the word I used. It is easier to beat Serie A mid-table teams than EPL mid-table teams, that is what I'm saying.

But again, you say Napoli are better than Villa, with a superb history and whatever, yet my team apparently doesn't? As soon as I move to defend my team I'm apparently anti-Milan and hate Serie A because English people can never be right because they only live by hype. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Sep 15 2007, 02:14 AM

[Rossoneri7]

It is all opinion.

In my opinion Spurs, Newcastle, Villa and Everton are better than Lazio, Viola, Palermo and Napoli
Oh, I see. But it's okay for you to bash my home team with a team like Napoli.  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

So what does Napoli have to do with Milanfan?
Money? What about money? I'm saying our signings were no worse than Napoli's, I was replying to what Max said about our transfer, which usually involves money.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't HAVE TO think Serie A is the best league in the World just because I like Milan.

No u don't have to think. It's ur opinion and `i feel sorry that u haven't experienced the Napoli of Maradona, which explains a lot (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Well, u were talking about the money u spent and the ambition, etc etc ... Seriously, who the f2ck cares .. I mean ur the ONLY one in here talking about Villa in every single thread !!! Stick to the EPL thread with that stuff !

Well, Napoli has a lot to do with Milanfan, first off we will be playing them twice this year and if we get them in the Coppa then 4 times .. Which has a closer correlation than the EPL second string teams (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

p.s. I don't mean to offend u, and I don't mean to bash ur team (u know I was joking..) ... Obviously Villa have greater prestige than Chelsea and u know how I respect thing slike that. But lets try to keep the EPL talk in the EPL thread, that is what I meant by Unitedfan.com (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)