5 years. It sets the stage for that. They’ll just expand the ESL (the money will command that) and eventually there won’t be a point to the domestic leagues. Eventually expand to 24-32 clubs, each club plays all the others 2x/season, ditch pro/rel, lock in gargantuan TV contracts.

What do you think ManU and these others prefer: to play Leicester City twice a year? Or to play Real Madrid and AC Milan twice a year? I think that’s the end goal here. They’ll eventually ditch their domestic leagues altogether.