That's why I said in my first post it can't be a closed system. If this was done the "right way" the pyramid is just extended another level up. Whether it be 3 or 5 or 10 clubs that get promoted and relegated out of it you then give in every league new life to almost every other team in that they can actually win something. As you talk about those top 10-20 teams and them not being able to win 2-3 trophies a year, what about those teams that do everything right yet have no shot at winning anything? Do those fans pay less than you? Do those fans deserve to get less for what they pay? I guess what you get to go get shit faced and a night away from the wife and kids or out with the friends so that's all that matters?
It doesn't work. A pyramid with multiple feeder leagues at this level would be nonsensical. So Everton finish top of the English top flight four years running, but can never "move up" because the bottom three in the European Super League come from Portugal, Holland and Italy every season. Where's the incentive? It's patently unfair and it would rob all value from the English top flight to take its best clubs and players away.
You also equate supporting a football club with winning things. Fans don't go to Fulham every week because they expect them to win the title. However Leicester did win the league so your point about clubs having "no chance even if they do everything right" has been proven wrong very publicly. Wigan won the FA Cup a few years ago, and Portsmouth a few years before that. It's rare, but it does happen, and means all the more for being achieved despite competition with "big clubs". So, as regards all the "lowly" teams, its patronising to take that view. You take the best clubs away and winning the premier league becomes the equivalent of winning the Championship. It's a nice achievement but you've robbed them of the chance of a much more significant one.
You also misunderstand my point re silverware, which was that, conversely to the above, fans of the "top" clubs all have expectations, and hopes, of their team winning silverware. City fans will be disappointed if they don't win the league in a way that fans of Southampton won't be. The ownership of the clubs target it. In the current system, they have a good chance at attaining it. In your new system, most "top" clubs will go years and years without winning anything. That puts them in a worse place regarding satisfying their "fans" who will be buying into this new "product".
It's a lose-lose-lose:
- Clubs outside of the pool lose revenue because the top clubs have left their league and advertising/TV money with them. Their league also lose its significance as it becomes a feeder league which they might not even be able to escape from even if they win it.
- Big clubs who get the go ahead to join this huge competition face overwhelming odds against winning it or anything else and so go years without winning anything.
- Fans lose their club even more than they already have as they become soulless vehicles for profit.
The only people who win in the situation are the owners of clubs who would rake in more money.
Also, "I guess what you get to go get shit faced and a night away from the wife and kids or out with the friends so that's all that matters?" Seriously, I am guessing you've never been to a Liverpool game? You don't seem to understand why people go to the match. I don't only go to Liverpool games because I want to see them win the league. If I did I'd have probably stopped years ago or asked myself serious questions about how I spend my money.