Tottenham Hotspur chairman and co-owner Daniel Levy is looking on main modifications to the Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL). In response to the Every day Mail, Levy desires the English top-flight ladies’s division to grow to be a closed league. This might basically finish promotion and relegation for the division.
Levy shouldn’t be the one crew official to be lobbying for a closed league. The aforementioned information outlet claims that the Spurs chairman is one in all a number of key members of the WSL to wish to finish promotion and relegation. These executives consider that the top-flight groups would make investments extra within the golf equipment if there was no risk of relegation. Additionally they really feel that closing the league would assist develop the game as properly.
Levy and Spurs preventing for Ladies’s Tremendous League survival
Timing of Levy’s involvement in doubtlessly scrapping professional/rel in WSL is fascinating. The Spurs ladies’s crew is at present ninth within the league desk and finds itself in a relegation battle. The north London membership is within the midst of a disastrous season, notably as of late. Spurs have managed only one victory over their final 13 league matches. Their sole win within the high flight throughout this stretch got here in opposition to cellar dwellers Leicester Metropolis. The newest consequence was a draw in opposition to
Chelsea supervisor additionally open to closed league
Nevertheless, Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes has additionally beforehand agreed with Levy. The Blues are on the other finish of the desk in comparison with their London neighbors and are the reigning WSL champions. “I like the concept of relegation and promotion from a conventional perspective, however it doesn’t imply we ought to be hamstrung by it. We ought to be open about it,” stated former Chicago Pink Stars supervisor Hayes.
“We ought to be open to every thing, and every thing shouldn’t at all times be in contrast simply because it’s conventional or simply due to the boys’s recreation. I believe we must always have an openness about reflecting on the pluses and minuses.”
A brand new firm will probably be taking on the WSL forward of the 2024/25 season. Which means that the ladies’s league will break free from the FA, the governing physique of the game in England. Due to these modifications, it seems as if something can occur to the official guidelines within the WSL. Professional/rel has been in place within the high flight since 2014.
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