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[Esteban de la Sexface]

The hysteria is getting comical. Why doesn't someone go and set themselves on fire outside the Etihad or something just to really make their point.

will you support this?

 

[decmancity]

Shocker as Bayern want a closed shop, they will take what is left of the CL money for themselves and win the CL every year. Bayern v Dortmund final for the next 10yrs.

 

[Coatigan]

Devalues it a bit for PSG though, which isn't really fair on them.

Their place is guaranteed. As is Bayern's.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

One thing for certain, we have blown the title without kicking a ball, I would expect a big points deduction for all involved.

It means nothing anymore anyway, if the same few clubs automatically qualify for this new league. The PL will be devalued like the FA Cup has done. Why bother putting out your strongest team for a PL game if you are assured of a place anyway and have a game in this new league coming up. Unless you are in with a shout of winning it why bother? The thing that keeps the PL going now, as well as the few clubs that could actually win it, is the competition of CL & Euro places & relegation.

 

[hihosilva]

No doubt this will be another TV subscription for fans to pay & the most likely beneficiary will be Amazon Prime.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Survival as a top club or a return to mediocrity.

I know you will say you would prefer the latter but the owner and management don't want that. I am sure the other shareholders (Chinese & Silverlake) also wouldn't want the latter.

Staying Manchester CIty FC or becoming CFG incarnate, fully and unreservedly.

I'd take option 1. Manchester City won't exist in a few years with the globalization model. It'll be rolled in to one franchise - that's the goal

Supporting this is supporting the end of the club

 

[bluemoon32]

They absolutely knew the reaction to this and didn't care. That's why the news was drip fed to journalists over Twitter and why clubs have gone radio silent since the announcement. I bet Khaldoon will do some smarmy interview on the club site eventually where he says he "understands how the fans feel".

Khaldoon is very very slick but not even he will be able to make this sound good

 

[CC1]

I very much doubt that there is anything governments / regulators can do to stop this.

People are already filling this thread and no doubt social media with all sorts of ill informed and over emotional nonsense.

I'll keep reiterating that I am not in favour of this development but I have no doubt that if it goes ahead, and I think it probably will, City need to be involved.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. City were not included in the secret set up talks & seemed reluctant to be associated with the idea. But if we don’t join - all the work of the last 10 years will be for nothing. I’m afraid it’s a case of be in it or be left behind

 

[adaminho]

Can I respectfully ask were you embarrassed when we were taken over, went onto spend huge sums of money to give us the decade of success we are currently enjoying? Overtaking other clubs in the process?

I think the thing people are embarrassed about is the closed nature of the SL. I despised those traditional elite clubs who did everything in their power to maintain the status quo, so that clubs such as city couldn't become one of them with new investment, now it seems we are becoming something that alot of us despised.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Just read the club statement, I feel empty!

 

[Marvin]

I am puzzled that City joined up.

The political opposition seems to big for it to be able to succeed and this was predictable and yet jump we did.

I am obviously not understanding this. Our executives are not stupid. There must be a plan?

One always has to hope

 

[BluechesterCity]

I really can't get my thoughts together on this. So thanks to you lot for offering up your ideas and opinions.

I just don't understand why they didn't wait for the league and cups to be over before breaking this.

 

[Jack Hackett]

I think this is a ploy by these 12 clubs for greater leverage with UEFA. UEFA will give them a better deal and these breakaway clubs will back down. I hope I’m right as this ESL is an abomination that could destroy football.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Some arse@oles comparing this to the formation of the premier league. Very analytical.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Haven't all the clubs involved posted the same statement?

Hardly the crassest move by City but simply the most obvious one for all the teams involved to do that.

I can understand a generic statement being posted by all the relevant clubs, but that shouldn’t preclude a statement of our own from being provided to the fans. That will doubtless follow, but I still think it’s been handled poorly by the club.

In particular, to have a statement from Joel Glazer explaining why we a pushing for a historic and unprecedented change to our format, but nothing from our own leadership, is not acceptable in my book. Should we just assume that Khaldoon is happy to be a junior partner in the new league, or does he actually want to explain why it’s the best move for Manchester City Football Club?

 

[dave_blue12]

Listening to Talksport (yeah I know) and Jordan seems to think this is just a negotiating tactic to get the American owned clubs more money from UEFA.

I tend to agree.

Wenger about to come on.

 

[Craig]

Shocker as Bayern want a closed shop, they will take what is left of the CL money for themselves and win the CL every year. Bayern v Dortmund final for the next 10yrs.

So you’re slagging Bayern for doing this?!

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Woodward stepped down from UEFA, this is moving fast, even if it gets binned they shouldn’t put them back in. This could derail the whole season.

I said this late last night, every uefa board serving member associated with the breakaway clubs should be immediately removed from UEFA and not be allowed back in EVER

Even if this turns into a bluff (which i dont think it is)

 

[PabloZabeleta]

Bollocks. Neville is a fucking cünt. If Sky had the rights to it he'd be bigging it up. Fucking dirty sly little Rag vermin twat.

He's a cünt. Always has been and always will be. Don't believe the fucking hype. Fuck all to do with football and everything to do with his current employers.

Nobody has rights to it yet, and BT has exclusive rights to UEFA. So this scheme would only be a potential gain for his employer in terms of TV rights.

 

[herrock]

They tried to keep us out of the cosy club with ffp, now we want to do the same to others. The new champions league format was dreadful anyway, but turning a competition into a closed shop is even worse.