The 'LOL' is because people keep confusing their own wishes with reality. Of course all of us here would love a world where nation-owned clubs and sportswashers were booted out of leagues and cup competitions and out of any future developments, whether it is an ESL or something else.*
But that's not what the previous ESL was about and not what any future ESL will be about either. The club ownerships do not have the same view of this as you and I do. The ESL was, and will be, a massive, massive cash-grab; a way of concentrating the majority of incoming money in one uber-wealthy setting. The trad clubs see that as the way of ameliorating and evening-out the influence of nation-level funding. i.e by everyone getting even more money thus reducing disparities. It was an incredibly cynical exercise and fans rightly fucked it off, so to now see some fans panting for it, because they are angry at some aspect of the current situation is both dispiriting and unedifying.
The ESL was not, and nor will it in future be, a philanthropic attempt to cleanse or purify football in the way you or I might be wishing for. City and Chelsea and most probably PSG will be part of any future redeveloped ESL (and if, say, PSG, is left out it will be due to their historic underachievement on the biggest stage, not their ownership).
Sportswashers and sugar daddies and nations as potential buyers are not anathema to the existing clubs like they are to you or I. That's the big difference.
If we want to get rid of these scourges from the game the momentum will have to come from somewhere else; from governments or legislation or from massive, sustained fan campaigns. It won't come from proposals like the ESL. Stop investing your hopes there and start aiming your efforts in ways that might actually do some good.
I'll stop there because this is really off-topic
*In fact if it were up to me I would go much further than most of you, I suspect, in imposing even stricter curbs on finances and wages and the influence of money on competitiveness. I regard even my own beloved LFC as being far too moneyed-up compared to other clubs to truly sit right with me. Ideally I'd want all clubs to be much closer as far as the impact of money is concerned so that the competition is fairer and purer. But I know that this idealism is not likely to be matched by the reality.
