Newcastle United might well be the biggest losers from the shocking proposals to shake up the Premier League that are being floated by Liverpool and Manchester United.
The wide-ranging plan - branded 'Project Big Picture' and launched in response to the cash crisis which is threatening to tear apart the fabric of English football - would change the sport forever.
Details broken by the Daily Telegraph this morning included reducing the number of clubs from 18 to 20, scrapping the League Cup and reshaping the Championship play-offs in exchange for the Premier League supporting the ailing EFL.
But make no mistake: it is a power grab by a few of the biggest clubs and their owners who want to etch their dominance into the tablets of the professional game.
Newcastle - along with other historically important clubs like Leeds, Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest - would find it even harder to exert their influence as one of the biggest parts of the proposals is to abolish the one club, one vote system.
The Premier League's constitution currently affords every club a vote of equal importance, regardless of how important, powerful or financially strong the club is.
It requires a majority of 14 to get any law change through: which means the interests of the few are not always followed (although, in practice, it usually is).
The plan being put forward - and supported by EFL chairman Rick Parry - would give the nine longest-serving clubs in the top flight the votes. And only six would be required to get sweeping changes passed - so the influence of Manchester United, City, Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal would be set in stone.
Among the powers that they would have - and this is the crucial one for United fans - is to veto new takeovers and potential new owners.
That looks suspiciously like something inserted in the wake of what happened at St James' Park this summer.
Clubs denied it at the time but Amanda Staveley said that the big clubs had voiced displeasure at the prospect of a Saudi-funded deal for United. Subsequently, it was outright denied by the league.
But there's no doubt that the prospect of another well-funded club in the Premier League, potentially a challenger for the Champions League riches, would not be especially welcome.
How is it in any way right that a few clubs with a vested interest in keeping Newcastle in its current, diminished state should be able to decide whether a takeover is right or not?
Newcastle fans will rightly be furious about it. Having been patronised all summer when they've raised their voices about the Saudi deal - "Lucky Newcastle", one reporter wrote when the deal was pulled - they now face an ever greater existential threat to their club ever pulling its weight again.
We can only hope this horrible plan is the first gambit of those too greedy to see the damage they are doing to the game they are lucky enough to be the current custodians of.
That they think if they come up with something as outrageous as this, it is the start of the process and what they eventually end up with is bad but not quite as ruinous as this.
It would change football for the worse. And few clubs would find themselves worse off than Newcastle.
