We all know the Super League base. It’s about giving the biggest brands the most money just because of their name and not because of what they have achieved on the field.
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The 12 teams involved are all expected to be awarded hundreds of millions of pounds as a welcome bonus by the American company JP Morgan, which has promised to fund the competition to a cool £ 4.3 billion.
United’s Joel Glazer holds a seat on the Super League board | OLI SCARFF / Getty Images
It is a faulty system as it is, but according to Mundo Deportivo (via Sport Witness) there could be even more wealth sharing between these rich sides as the prize money is expected to be distributed based on a level system that simply focuses on the ‘size of a club.
These teams in level one – Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United ‘and a few others’ – are all in line to get the best part of £ 300 million before the end of the season, which is significantly more than some of the other teams could take in.
Teams that fall into level two can earn £ 200 million, with levels three and four respectively receiving £ 100 million and £ 86 million respectively.
So the rich not only get richer, but the extremely rich clubs get even richer than that. These levels can bring in more money because they already have more money to flex.
Ah, what a fair system.
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It is not mentioned where any of the other nine pages would fit in the level system, but since all that matters is money, it is probably a good call to turn to the latest figures from Forbes.
As Sport Witness points out, Barcelona, Real, United, Liverpool and City are in a league of their own at the top of the financial position, together with tough UEFA fans Bayern Munich, so that may well dictate the top level.
Drop a little further and you will find Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Juventus, who sit beautifully in their own section together with Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund. Can they be level two?
Then you come to some of the “smaller” teams (we can just as well say worse teams, because money is all we care about in this hellish world) whose value is less than 1 billion pounds. This is where Atletico Madrid, Inter and AC Milan play, so it is possible that these sides could be the third level.
Juventus Andrea Agnelli has played an important role in the planning Stefano Guidi / Getty Images
Level four can then be reserved for the disgusting normal clubs that have to rely on real football ability to get into the party. The pathetic losers who actually earn their success can be awarded at least money as a punishment for not being rich and simply being “gifted” and “hard working”. Disgusting.
Just do not touch them, otherwise you may get poverty. That’s Super League rule number one.
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