Quote Originally Posted by norfolk white View Post
Surely with how the champions league has expanded over the years, originally being the European cup which was much harder to win, we pretty much already have a European super league, running alongside the premier league, and devaluations the fa cup and league cup.
"We" already do as you say, but UEFA who fashioned the Champions League take a vast chunk of the broadcast rights revenue. The proponents of the ESL asset that more if that money would go to the clubs, as neither FIFA nor more particularly UEFA, would have any claim on such revenue.

The ECJ ruling is purely one that relates to the "abuse" of the dominant position that FIFA and UEFA occupy and how they used it to remove a competitor, nothing to do with whether they also acted to safeguard the footballing structures across Europe that have created the most competitive and commercially attractive leagues in the world, but that's the ECJ for you.