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There will be no new leagues or tournaments that effect the status quo. Established leagues and federations will not be making any changes unless it involves a lot of money, without hindering any current revenue streams.
Football, at its core, is ingrained at a cultural level in many countries, and no amount of money from Saudi, or China, or the US will change that. True fans see the Saudi vanity project for what it is, and while they may attract the plastics, in time nothing will change.
I'm a Canadian. We play hockey. It's what we do, and it's why, despite our small population, we dominate on a global level. It's a community thing, it's a family thing, it's a cultural thing. Money won't change that. It takes generations to create that.
China failed, and so will Saudi. Minor things will happen every decade or so to suit a new generation but when I die in 40-50 years, things will basically be the same.
This could make the UCL either another competition or it could make it the lower tier competition. Perhaps smth like the Euros even.
bruh.
MLS will never be relevant globally. It's a retirement home for players well past their prime, or those who are ready to jump to a lower-tier European league.
And as far as the Saudi Clubs go: pretty much the same. They have no long standing history or big enough fanbases. As soon as all the football mercanaries that go there now either return or retire it'll be dead in the water. So technically they'd have to keep buying players but their league won't be relevant just because they have.few big names.
MLS is no longer a retirememt league only tbh. Tho the high profile moves of the summer may seem to suggest otherwise, they've been developing their own talent and bringing in Mexican and South American prospects too. It has good potential to build an identity.
It'll have an identity when Haas win consecutive Grands Prix, which is to say "good luck with that".
I've been hearing this argument for 15+ years. It's very gradually improving in quality, but it can't reach a critical mass because a) the North American market is already saturated with other sports, and b) the league is structured in a way that prohibits its natural growth (isolated league with no risk of relegation and where most teams are franchise that are artificially propped up and owned by the league). And that's not going to change.
MLS is and will remain a farming league where the best American players are cherry-picked by clubs from outside the continent. That's the goal of most of the younger players, and I don't blame them for it.
I disagree based purely on the distances involved. A global league has too much travel, so the games would be limited. That limits the revenue. An 18 game season is also worthless and wouldn't be accepted by anyone but the top teams.
You are basically asking for the Super League but with non-European teams, since no league would agree to this, with the added laughably bad idea of an 18 game league season.