Sorry, I have to reiterate my disagreement. I can see your point but to me what you are suggesting is actually the end of football I as a European have grown up with.

First of all, moving the top clubs to an international, top division is a travesty, believe me the last thing I want to see is Madrid play with some random club from Saudi Arabia because they have Ronaldo. And I reckon the majority of the match-going fans feel like this.

Second, you'll be surprised how disinterested people from a given European country are with the football of another. Just look at the demeanor English clubs have towards European competitions.

Third and maybe most important, football is the game of the people, this fixation with money, TV rights, international tours, Messi and Ronaldo is slowly drowning the life out of the game. The last thing we need is another plastic competition, this time with some random clubs nobody cares about. I'll say it again, this is not the NBA, not the NFL, not the NHL, you get the picture.

I don't agree with you, I think you fail to grasp the social aspect and tradition of European football. This Americanisation of the game won't easily fly here.

There are rivalries, banter, fan interactions which were cultivated throughout the decades, you can't just pluck teams out of their natural leagues and expect things to stay the same. Betis and Seville is arguably the biggest game in Spain, yeah the legions of Barca and Real fans across the globe don't give a crap about this game but still it's part of the culture, it's part of what made LaLiga attract global attention.

Yeah, end of the day money speaks louder than anything but expect a lot of resistance from traditional fan bases. If something like this is to emerge, I reckon new teams, akin to North American franchises will have to be established.

To give you a sports metaphor, this is like taking the ball in midfield, dribbling towards your own goal and scoring a spectacular own goal.

It's not something I usually listen to but I kinda like it, thanks!

I hope you are right, but I have my doubts, people in Eastern Europe, for example, share the scepticism and outright denial presented in the article above without having Ron DeSantis.

The thing is Mother Nature does not care about the American political and social divide. I just wonder how future generations are going to view us, how our prevalent negligence for the planet is going to be portrayed?

I think it has something to do with the language settings, for example I couldn't see the comments on this thread, I logged in via the web version changed my settings to include Undetermined, English and my native language and now I can see the comments (both using the web app and Sync).

Hope that helps :)

PS: And in order to post this comment, I had to select explicitly that it is written in English...

PS2: Setting the language settigns also resolves the issue that OP reported initially.

Fair play, he might have been like that before, I admit the guy is not someone I follow closely. I also never intended this to sound or mean that "trans people hurt him", sorry about that. It seems that I'm drawing a false connection between his recent, to the best of my knowledge, bigotry, transphobia, homophobia and right-wing gusto and the split with his partner and their new partner's identity.

All I intended was to mock Musk for being the stereotypical macho asshole who can't accept the end of a relationship with dignity. I apologise if it came out wrong.

Still he can go fuck himself.

This could very well be the case, the guy is bonkers.

Man, Grimes kicking him out and replacing him with a trans woman really messed up his head. This is some pathological level of obsession.