If this ever happens I’m done with elite football.
‘There would be among 15 permanent founding members and five other clubs, who would qualify on an annual basis’
yeah. Fuck off
- The remaining 15% would a “commercial share based on club awareness”
- A cap of 55% of revenues permitted to be spent on salaries and transfers (net)
- A ‘Financial Sustainability Group’ would monitor clubs’ spending
hahahahaha fucking hell so transparent. So this is their next attempt to stop us
I can see our owners don't want to be left behind, but the 'rules' in the first quote above show that the actual cartel just want to suck us into a position where they can fuck us over properly.We’ll be kicked out over our spending as soon as it begins. Worth remembering most of these clubs wrote to UEFA complaining about us.
A shame if so.
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.
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?
It’s ruined this season.
I now don’t care whether we win or blow the title, whether Spurs beat us 1-0 in the 93rd minute with a Dias own goal after them having no shots next week, or that we get humiliated over two legs by Paris.
I just don’t care!
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?
Exactly.it isn't a super league ! Many if the current best teams in Europe won't be in it.I have no interest in watching City play in an ESL - zero - wouldn't even change the channel on the TV to watch it, certainly won't be paying for the new ESL package from whichever broadcaster makes the pitch
Hopefully this can be killed off pretty quickly - the rest of football which aren't part of the club can say OK, you twelve can run your own mini-league, you are thrown out of all competitions and any players taking part in that league are banned from any other football, enjoy the money while it lasts
with the 51% rules in Germany I'd say it was unlikely that any of their clubs will ever join
Saves the club money on upgrading the ground as I don't think many true City fans will be on board with this abomination of an idea
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?
It’s a natural progression, we were always heading here weren’t we? Maybe we didn’t want to think about it, but here we are. I have a feeling the younger generation will just accept it. Let’s be honest, if this had been brought in 30 years ago it would have failed, but that’s when it started. It crept up on us oldies while we naively accepted every little ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ while doing nothing. It’s not over yet either, eventually the club could effectively based elsewhere.This is 30 years in the making and certainly shouldn't be a shock. It makes me reflect on what I've actually been following, as a sport, since the early 80s.
Because the cartels, the massive commercial contracts, corruption, greed and soulless branding is where we are already. This is the next level, true, and merely makes me reflect on how I've been spending my time.
2 non football fans have said to me this morning; " I don't understand what's so different". It made me think.
And that's part of the betrayal. We thought we were different, we thought the owners understand us, they didn't, they don't, they sold the club to jump into bed with our enemiesYes poor old lickle City forced into a corner by the American cabal. It is about time we accepted were just as bad.
Have you even bothered to look at who is running this new competition?I dont mind it, as long as it kills off uefa off, PL are only fucked off because they are in the pockets of uefa
Yup, you might feel that your club is being a "fondling member" (fnar fnar) but you are not, there are details of this that limit the power that helped you get a leg up.
This deal is in spite of you, not for you.