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By Simon Stone
BBC Sport in Geneva
What was meant to be a meeting on the road to significant reform in football stopped in Geneva on Tuesday afternoon.
It was not exactly what the European Clubs’ Association (ECA) had envisaged if they met in Malta summer time. Then, they expected, this week they’d be finalising adjustments that could be passed on to Uefa for rubber stamping in advance of their inception in 2024.
The measure of the problems his coworkers and ECA chairman Andrea Agnelli are currently confronting was emphasised in discussions off from their main press conference. The overall message was the same although the design differed depending upon who spoke. Forget Plan A. Plan B is required but, in this stage, nobody is completely sure what that needs to be.
Agnelli attempted to deal with the situation however, the Juventus chairman, normally rested, had no definitive responses.
It was all rather unsatisfactory when Agnelli was asked whether it was true he had asked the national leagues for a reduction in the number of teams that play 43,, and a closing press conference came into a fittingly terse end.
“Nono,” he said, climbing to his feet, before responding’no’ again when he asked if he’d ever mentioned it.
Agnelli and the ECA believe an overwhelming majority of the member clubs want reform of European competition.
The initial proposal was for three contests with group phases containing four teams of eight clubs, promising 14 games. The idea was to own promotion and relegation between different competitions.
It was never made clear where the additional match dates – eight over the present system – would emerge from. However, it was envisaged TV earnings would be generated by the fluctuations and expand contest, both in regard to the amount of clubs along with the matches they played.
Immediately, some strong voices declared their resistance. Even the Premier League clubs released their collective announcement, and individual clubs made their feelings known.
ECA personnel have spent the past 3 months attempting to find common ground that would allow the formulation of a plan that could be carried forward. It has become clear this is impossible.
“The suggestion will be in the interests of most and it is a good proposal,” explained Agnelli. “Can this be the one that arrives first at the finishing point? It may not be.”
Although no-one said it openly the blame for the current impasse has been credited to the big five leagues of Europe, from France, Spain, Italy, England and also Germany.
The feeling is those leagues are concerned about protecting their national TV markets out of any erosion than they’re about the improvement of the continent as a whole caused by the growth of the sport.
1 club from a large country told BBC Sport he had no issue with England’s biggest clubs, nor, grudgingly, the Premier League as a complete awarded fascination that is historic and its competitiveness. However, he contested the Italy’s sixth greatest club should gain from enormous additional TV revenues, a few of which came from his own nation, while the finances of his club were reducing.
“The attractive we’re the fewer people want to come into our games and the quicker our players wish to depart for clubs in other nations,” he said.
“The big leagues are only considering themselves. They do not care about competition. For us, it is all about European contest. That’s where the interest is.”
It is the self-centred pursuits of these huge leagues Edwin van der Sar was speaking about if the prior Netherlands and Manchester United goalkeeper, today building a remarkable reputation as chief executive at Ajax, was speaking about when he stated of the previous 3 weeks:”There was lots of suggestions and opinions from different stakeholders – some relevant, some untrue and insignificant, which is odd.”
“In the top, some things need pruning,” said former Crystal Palace midfielder Aki Riihalahti, currently chief executive in Finland’s most renowned club HJK Helsinki. “In the opposite end, I have rarely seen such arrangement. Change is needed.”
The problem is the proposals were announced with such fanfare, a component of wariness has been introduced within the procedure for knocking them back.
Despite numerous sources saying that first idea is’dead’, a minumum of one delegate Switzerland has taken an opinion which he will not believe a notion he believed could have’disastrous’ consequences for the national league his club plays has gone , until an alternative strategy was imposed.
Ideas that were floated around the borders of talks in Geneva this week have included a return for the group stage of the Champions League, that was abolished after four seasons in 2003.
Such notions will be taken on board or discarded, together with Agnelli stating when Uefa must go into the marketplace for its TV rights cycle that runs from 2024 as that is the concrete deadline for change is 2022.
The chances now are on a set of smaller changes, taking place to modernize the European soccer landscape, although clubs were warned by Agnelli not everybody required to be on board before proposals were set to Uefa.
“We will not get beyond an 80% satisfaction rate,” he explained.
“You have to remember, the ECA is still there to guard the marketing of soccer across all European countries, not merely a few who have been a little more vocal lately ”
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