Matt Slater

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3,219 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... the Super League had happened? · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

If you are taking away the race for Europe, because the bit the top six uh are in are in the European Super League, you you have stripped away some of a a big chunk of the storylines. voice-verified

So I'm thinking about the impacts on Sky, the impacts on CNC, or you know, whoever's got the contract now. voice-verified

There would have been all kinds of voice-verified

rebates and legal cases, there would have been, I think voice-verified

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massive like bitterness and antagonism from the teams that are left behind. voice-verified

Because I've already mentioned earlier on voice-verified

This was going to be, if it happened, very lucrative. voice-verified

So you are adding, let's say, they were talking about four hundred million dollars, as well as that great big bung for for for joining, which was three hundred three hundred and fifty million dollars. voice-verified

You you know, huge, huge advantages, cash advantages to the teams that were already enjoying massive advantages because they have the most commercial sponsors, they have big, you know, big ground voice-verified

and what have you. voice-verified

So, you know, you think about the divides, the tiers within the Premier League would have just been stretched. voice-verified

Now would they have been so stretch I think that I think you you would have you'd have just destroyed the competitive balance of the Premier League. voice-verified

As well as depriving it of one of its key storylines. voice-verified

So it'd be it'd be really hard to sort of imagine, you know, three, four years of this. voice-verified

W what would we be watching? voice-verified

Would would we just be watching the top six come top six, maybe some shuffling of the order there? voice-verified

Would would therefore voice-verified

you know, casual fans, new fans around the world. voice-verified

Would would this new thing, the SL, be be where it's at? voice-verified

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