This is not designed as a pop at @IanDoyleSport at all, because there's been a lot of this stuff about: the idea that the way the owners of the 12 can atone for the last week is effectively by placating/bribing fans with new signings. But that's part of the problem, isn't it? https://twitter.com/IanDoyleSport/status/1385890004283580425

If you want genuine, actual change - to a place where football isn't reliant on billionaires and therefore at the mercy of their priorities - then we have to move away from the idea an owner's suitability is based on how much money they spend in the transfer market.

There is a form of change that is just clipping the wings of the big six, and that is both overdue and warranted. But if all it leads to is a place, 20 years down the line, where there's just a different powerful cartel*, then football isn't actually in a better place at all.

*And that six would ultimately have to be funded by billionaires or oligarchs or nation states, because that's the only way to overcome the massive historical and demographic advantages that the current elite have accrued over the last century.

Actual reform - more fan involvement, 50+1, proper governance, all that stuff - means ALL clubs have to get used to a game not, ultimately, driven by money, and that means far fewer big signings, it means far fewer squads stuffed with 25 internationals.

It maybe means more competitive balance between leagues, not just within them. It means that a player like Haaland stays at Dortmund for his career. It doesn't mean that the current elite are overthrown and your team gets to replace them by using the same mechanisms.

It means not swapping a billionaire you don't like for a billionaire you do, or hope that you do. It means more teams have a chance at the start of a season, so less chance that yours comes out on top at the end. It isn't just a direct transfer of power from one elite to another.

You can read all these thoughts and more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/sports/soccer/super-league-europe-soccer.html