No, no, it’s definitely a maximum of 8IEs per club

Spoiler: none of the big clubs will be leaving.

Of course, as with so many other topics, you’ll find opinions that say one thing and its exact opposite.
Everyone sees things from their own perspective.

It all depends on where you draw the line.
300 IE would certainly favour the big ones,
but 1 IE would certainly favour the small ones 😁

I suppose you’re responding to dudziak, because I’m not talking about favouring the big leagues. I’m actually saying that this measure aims to favour collective agreements involving 30 high-performing clubs, as opposed to elitist agreements involving 15 elite clubs.

And we’re not playing in the same league. The SFMC, a merger of the FMC and the SF, is a micro-league that isn’t intended to rile anyone up. We’re absolutely not getting involved in the debate or the squabbles between the big leagues because:

1. it doesn’t concern us
2. we’re not interested in it
3. it will surely never affect us
4. it will surely never interest us
5. it isn’t, and surely never will be, our style

I was simply talking about the fate of micro-leagues. It’s not just the big leagues in this game.

We’ve had enough of these big deals! You’re taking it all!

Personally, I get the impression that we’ve seen far too few new alliances springing up over the last few seasons – I mean new alliances with a major long-term project, a clear direction.

With all the experienced managers in this game, don’t tell me nobody would dream of setting up a new alliance… lol
Especially as setting up a new alliance costs just 5M.

Then there are also people who… as soon as they set up their own league, think that future recruits will come along naturally. Well, no! You have to go and find future recruits yourself, and once they’ve joined, you have to support them as well.

So yes, it takes a lot of time – several seasons, even – but as long as the alliance has a clear direction, ambition, a good team spirit and so on, it’ll be easier to keep hold of members who might be tempted to join a bigger alliance. Then again, as a well-known singer would say, you’ve got to want to want it, haha

I think it’s a shame that the ‘outsider’ aspect doesn’t really interest people much; it’s one of the reasons that made me want to found the ELU almost 100 seasons ago. Admittedly, the ELU has only won one alliance championship title in Season 70, but a title with the ELU is worth about fifty titles from the CP and LR combined, for example – I’m certainly exaggerating, but you get the idea! Haha
And anyway, the most important thing about a league is meeting as many great lads as possible who you want to play VF with and climbing higher up the league tables. :)

Let’s be honest, the problem these days is really the matchmaking system.
More and more teams are starting to analyse the fixtures of the ‘big’ opponents and/or schedule matches at the last minute.
And, inevitably, that means there are going to be some missed opportunities.

Analysing the ‘big’ opponents?
That must take ages!!

On Discord (I think), Aymeric explained that he was considering revising the matchmaking system.