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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
The club has been here before back in the 90s with the Premier league. The big 6 got a bigger share of the tv money than the other founding members of the premier league which wasn’t exactly fair. There would have been opposition to that but reluctantly we have to be inside the tent.

If you were Mansour and Khaldoon the bottom line is you protect your asset. Saying no would have left the invite going elsewhere.

The thing I can’t get my head around is the 6 invites for the premier league clubs being more than what other countries got. What must Atletico Madrid be thinking who have been mainstays in getting to the latter stages of the champions league over the last few years. Everton building a new stadium and showing some ambition, should they even bother now as it won’t see top level European football.

It’s scary our owners have jumped into bed with the Glazers and Fenway sport. They cannot be trusted and this super league will make sure it benefits them more than it does us.
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Ath Madrid are in it
 
Regardless of what happens now it feels like the damage is already done with us signing up to this shit. I'm fucking disgusted with our football club seriously fuck right off.
The authorities really need to come down hard on these clubs. Then again the problem is the clubs hold the power these days hence why this shit is taking place.
 
Damocles said:
OK let me perhaps phrase it another way.

The cartel happened. This league will be a massive money spinner. We can either be in it or out of it. For me, the reasons to be in it outweigh the ones to not be in it.
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Absolutely shocked that you decided to take this opinion. When I say absolutely shocked I mean not at all shocked.

Everyone can see the financial benefits of it. But we're not owners or investors we're fans and this fucking stinks.
 
Much of the harking back to the formation of the PL in the 90s misses the point. Even then a well run lower division team could rise to the top division. We know more than one 3rd tier club could get up to the PL as we did it along with Fulham, Wigan, Leeds and probably a few others. They could then play in the CL if they qualified. It might have been easier before the PL but it was still possible. This proposal removes the possibility of lower division teams reaching the top tier of the sport. I think it is an abomination, and I also think the club's involved will settle for much less. UEFA should hold their nerve and just say "piss off".
 
Coatigan said:
Putting the (fucking terrible) decision to join aside, why on earth did this need announced now?

Couldn't they have bloody waited till the end of the season so I could have at least enjoyed the remaining games and chance at the CL in ignorance bliss. Could have had one last moment before it all goes to crap.

In some ways I'm now glad we lost the fa.cup semi. One less thing to be tainted by this.
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It’s announced now to head off UEFA’s own CL reforms which are confirmed today. Could this just be a huge game of bluff forcing UEFA to change the CL to something these 12 clubs would prefer?
 
I wonder if the football will actually get more boring as clubs refuse to lose so they start parking the bus against each other to avoid dropping points. Luckily for them it won’t matter as you can’t get relegated but it seems like a stupid idea
 
Already disillusioned with football with the constant cheating/play acting of players, how its become a non-contact sport, VAR and the ridiculous wages and money involved and I think this is the final straw. I've saved a lot of money and time travelling etc over the last 12 months and if this is the way forward then I am more happy to continue not going to matches
 
bluemoon32 said:
Ath Madrid are in it
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And yet Atlético Madrid are only an Athletic Bilbao copycat club who were only formed in the wake of the proper true El Classico (Real Madrid v Athletic Bilbao) by Bilbao fans in Madrid who didn’t like Real Madrid.

Wonder what Athletic Bilbao fans think of this?
 
Just talking about it now on sky sports news, seems according to the City supporting anchor that we had reservations about joining but were concerned about being left behind

Doesnt make it any nicer though
 
You know a follow a pee poor team in League 2 and it’s hard it’s tough losing the giants of Harrogate ........ but after what’s gone on thank god I do support them ...... last night was a dark day in footballs history it’s just a shame that a club like yours was involved in it :(
 
Damocles said:
I'm not as against this as everybody else. I'm not entirely convinced by it but I don't think it's a disgusting outrage either.

Firstly let's get real for a moment. Football has been broken since the 1990s. People talk like we're in the 1960s where all the clubs could have a similar chance of competition. We aren't and we haven't been for decades. A Leicester could happen once but the idea that you can build a sustainable challenger to the league using your academy, good management and transfer guile is farcical. United saw to that many years ago - to compete you need a billionaire to invest in you. That's the broken part, by the way. That you need that to begin with. The English game has been financially lopsided and killed competition 20 years ago.

So the competitive morality out of the way, we look at other things such as what will happen to poor Stoke and Burnley? Nothing, presumably. More to the point, I give as much of a fuck for their future as they did for us when we were going bankrupt. My emotions are tied to Man City and whats best for them.

The Super League is what's best for City. As a founding member, we're now one of the big boys forever. If there's a revolution in the UAE tomorrow and Shiekh Mansour/his family is deposed and he's forced to sell the club then its no problem. We're in the tent pissing out, permanently. The fact that we get to fuck UEFA on the way past is icing on the cake.

My only actual concern here is for the fans. It sounds like potentially 18 European away games to the final and you just know that the Final is more likely to be in Beijing than Birmingham. Affordability is going to be a significant issue and it's the only thing that's making me doubt it. If the club did something like a European equivalent of subsidised coaches then I'd be happier with it.

But yeah. It guarantees our post UAE future, it establishes us as one of the world's biggest clubs, it fucks UEFA, it will be the competition all the biggest players want to play in, it will earn us fucking bank, what's not to like?
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Good points, made well.

The establishment of the Premier League was the beginning of the end. This is just the next step.

That said, for me its over. I don’t want it, I can’t believe in what I’m watching any more, VAR has put paid to that.

in time there will be Quarters not halves, a draft system, fucking multiball... its beyond bullshit.
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
Just talking about it now on sky sports news, seems according to the City supporting anchor that we had reservations about joining but were concerned about being left behind

Doesnt make it any nicer though
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Would have send an amazing message out if they’d have told them where to go
 
lonestay said:
Champions League final each year would be Bayern v PSG ! is this clever brinkmanship from Bayern and PSG ? if they didnt join this breakaway league and it fails to get off the ground those two clubs are going to be very very cosy with UEFA.
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It's only in PSG's interest to stay within the fold. Bayern are as cosy with Uefa as a flea in a mouse's ear.
 
Utterly disgraceful. I’m ashamed to be a blue this morning.

what’s the point of next week’s cup final as the club are saying the tournament is dead to them?
 
JASR said:
Has any manager/player of any of the 12 made any comment on this corporate carve up yet? Or has the biggest story in world football seen then gagged?

just some idle speculation... but from the lack of enthusiasm on display on Saturday at Wembley, was it known to them at that point?
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Diego Simeone

When quizzed on the decision Simeone said: "I am the coach and I'm ready to coach where they tell me. I have no doubt they will take the best decision for the future of our club."
 
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