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[M18CTID]

I'm hoping it happens. If it does I'll be part of it. But I'm not convinced there will be enough who care enough.

I think the only thing stopping mass protests is the pandemic and the rules surrounding protests but I believe there is enough of a groundswell amongst match going fans to want to make a stand on this, whether that's in the form of a protest or something else. You can tell from the poll on here that the vast majority of match-going fans are against this idea, and I suspect the numbers are similar amongst match-going fans at all the other clubs too. I think the clubs have misread this one spectacularly because if huge percentages of regular match-goers are saying they won't attend games in this competition then these games genuinely will be played in front of half empty stadia or worse. It's one thing a few hundred or a couple of thousand fans voting with their feet, as the clubs can probably find enough fans to take up the slack, but if tens of thousands do it there's not a chance any of these clubs - not even United or Liverpool with their huge global support bases - will be able to fill their stadiums. Don't get me wrong, I think a few dissenters will cave in over time as the hysteria dies down, but I honestly believe many fans will stick to their guns on this.

 

[JASR]

Just thought I'd see what the thoughts are of fans on a Man United Forum.

Surprise Surprise, they seem far more open to the idea than City fans. Idiots!

If the super league happens, will you still support Man United? Now with added poll

Sorry for yet another thread on it. Just want to gage this. Poll would be awesome if possible.

www.redcafe.net

The cafe’s posters are majority nonMancs. Ie they aren’t the Legacy fans , and therefore they are the target audience.

 

[Salford_Blue]

Wenger coming onto Talksport next apparently.

 

[manimanc]

Fuckin yanks.

 

[stan bowles]

If Spurs were top of the league and in the CL semis, there's not a chance he would've done that. He was getting sacked anyway so he's probably just used all this as an excuse to come out of it looking like the good guy for a change

Due to get £30million apparently for his contract being terminated.

 

[Dogtanian]

Heartbroken

 

[Stoned Rose]

Damn, people on this forum really fucking hate Americans.

Daft comment and you know it.

 

[Coatigan]

It isn't going to happen. I must admit the sheer scale of the avarice behind the thinking leaves me cold, but a few European clubs taking on the might of Fifa, Eufa, and their respective domestic leagues is only going to end in isolation for the teams taking part.

Players will be barred from playing for their countries, and the teams involved will be expelled from their domestic leagues and cup competitions, which, in my view, doesn't leave anything interesting to watch. Playing European teams has always been an aside for me compared to the nitty gritty of playing domestic rivals.

If this does go ahead, I'll have no interest in it at all.

I'll not be paying £50 or whatever to watch a competition that will be boring beyond belief without any of the historical rivalries that are fundamental to the game being respected.

I'm disappointed we've agreed to go along with this. It's a new low as far as I'm concerned for our club.

They will have taken all that into account. They know the risk, they know their strength. Game over.

 

[hgblue]

Typical of a football forum. I haevn't seen a single post by a single fan who wants this to happen.

Wants what to happen? A European Super League that screws over UEFA? Absolutely I support that.

 

[supersonicblue]

Just thought I'd see what the thoughts are of fans on a Man United Forum.

Surprise Surprise, they seem far more open to the idea than City fans. Idiots!

If the super league happens, will you still support Man United? Now with added poll

Sorry for yet another thread on it. Just want to gage this. Poll would be awesome if possible.

www.redcafe.net

Look at the location, look at the way they phrase their sentences, mainly Americans. 7 pages to our 87 on the same topic.

 

[kupest]

I think we will back out of this, gut feeling. Otherwise maybe we can have a club in League 1 with Zaba, Kompany etc?

 

[lancs blue]

Due to get £30million apparently for his contract being terminated.

Got to hand it to Jose, it's a brilliant move, tell Levy to stuff the Super League and walk away with a nice pension pot.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Legally, any threats to kick clubs out of the Premier League or ban players from internationals will probably not survive legal challenges.
Which is a shame.

 

[Academica]

Stop talking paranoid rubbish about things you don't know anything about. I keep telling you that it doesn't matter who is chairman or vice chairman. What matter is voting rights and vetoes. Not a cat in hell's chance City ahve signed up to this without equlivalent status to every other club. No chance.

So you think if the yanks want to bring in their own version of FFP they will allow us a veto, yeah right.

 

[ancoats]

ask yourself would this be happening without united ?
would everybody be happy to sign up to the super league if united was not part of it

it stinks that united have had enough of not being top dogs and want to change the rules. they want more money and power with new rules and FFP ? manchester city should be checking the small print because i would rather sign a deal with arthur daley or del boy trotter than with united

 

[stan bowles]

If Spurs were top of the league and in the CL semis, there's not a chance he would've done that. He was getting sacked anyway so he's probably just used all this as an excuse to come out of it looking like the good guy for a change

Due to get £30million apparently for his contract being terminated.

 

[Airbags Optional]

I have no idea on the details, but for me this is not football. We love promotion, relegation, the level(ish) playing field, the joy of seeing a smaller club pull off a shock (from the fa cup to the Leicester league win), we love the local derbies especially when we play in cups. I am very disappointed that we have put our hat in the ring for this, I have no enthusiasm for a European league and can’t see me watching City in that type of competition :(

 

[Burtonblue]

Do you genuinely believe this?

City are one of the biggest fucking juggernauts at this table, Khaldoon has more in his back pocket then the rest of the clubs combined. He has far more important things to be doing that sat on some "vice-chairman board".

We dictate the rules (along with the other clubs) just how it should be, UEFA orchestrated for years to fuck us over with Bayern at the head of it, the other clubs had no choice but to go along with voting for FFP etc even when they didn't want it. Now we have turned the tables.

Fuck UEFA and FIFA and everything they pretend to stand for, it has been coming for a long time and I am glad City are the forefront of putting these "football federations" into the ground, you keep poking the bear and asking him for 20m FFP fines and this is what happens, we didn't go away the first time you tried it and now we have gone and chopped both your arms off. I expect UEFA and FIFA now to be scrambling their little rats in the media to portray what a bad day this is but it is not.

Funny how quickly they mobilised the media for a response to this but they continue to throw a blanket over racism like it doesn't exist. That is the real scandal here.

Well said!
Have the booers forgotten what they were booing for??
This is the ultimate two fingered feck off to UEFA and all it’s corruption.
Personally I would welcome seeing the best clubs in the world with the best players doing battle in a league.
I very much doubt the national federations and UEFA will be able to sustain national leagues without the big clubs included as financially this will not be sustainable for them and will hugely diminish the importance of the leagues.
If this is all just a bargaining gambit to wrestle power from UEFA I am also in favour of it. They’re rotten to the core and need showing who earns their wages for them.
Screw UEFA!

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

ask yourself would this be happening without united ?
would everybody be happy to sign up to the super league if united was not part of it

it stinks that united have had enough of not being top dogs and want to change the rules. they want more money and power with new rules and FFP ? manchester city should be checking the small print because i would rather sign a deal with arthur daley or del boy trotter than with united

there is no moral high ground here. None whatsoever.

Instead of blaming someone else, look internally at what your own club has become.

Focus your anger there. This needs to be coordinated by all real "legacy" fans

 

[dave_blue12]

I wonder who is providing the finance for this ?

Can anyone think of someone with oodles of cash who might be interested ?

Maybe, just maybe, it is AD pulling the strings here. In comparison the other owners don't have a pot to piss in.