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[onceabluealways]

The best thing about CL is the fallout when a top club misses out on top 4. They want to take that away in 2024, Nearly as bad as ESL

 

[stan bowles]

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.

Still worth remembering that we have more enemies at the top table than allies. We won't have a veto. It'll be down to majority voting so even if we object to decisions we don't agree with, they will still be voted on and passed if the others want it.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

You might raise an interesting point: the pandemic may put a lid on the protests. It depends how long before this in intended to be implemented. What I do know about fan protests is that they are often a bit weak because the only really effective one would be to boycott games but fans never want to do that so you end up with a few hundred turning their backs or arriving late or whatever.

To stop this would require the biggest mobilisation of football fans ever - even more than identity cards in the 80s. The ultimately loyalty of fans might kill it off. Will 10,000 Burnley fans give up their season tickets over this? No. They'll just sing a few angry songs and rant about it in the pub.

 

[decmancity]

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.

Hes not been sacked because of the super league. Jose might spin the media that way but its not true. Levy cant just drive to the training ground and sack him on the spot like the apprentice. This has been in the works for weeks, discussions with lawyers and agents going back and forth on a severance package etc.

 

[kupest]

You think we told Kev before he signed the extension?

 

[Ribchester]

Sadly (can't believe I wrote that) Ferguson has no pull whatsoever anymore.

Think you meant “you” well done.
And what influences do you think will have “pull”
The point of my post was not to nominate Pisscan as a “saviour” but I (“me”) believe he does have pull you clearly underestimate the network this man has, doesn’t necessarily mean he as an individual is going to storm into someone’s office shouting “stop this at once” ffs

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

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!

a big fuck off to UEFA and in parallel a big fuck off to all real fans. It's a money grab. opportunistic and crass. It's absolutely disgusting

 

[Tricky_Trev]

If it wasn’t for covid, us “legacy fans” could all get together and make our feelings be known. The cup final would have been the perfect stage for it. City and Spurs fans united.

 

[stan bowles]

On the City site it says the midweek games will start in August,wonder what year ?

2021. The clubs want the money now.

 

[decmancity]

You think we told Kev before he signed the extension?

Yes. Everyone in the club knew about this (Everyone who needed to know!)

 

[lancs blue]

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.

Why, did someone twist the clubs' arms to sign up to the rules of the PL or FA/UEFA etc? If it's not done under duress then surely the rules take precedence.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.

JP Morgan, the US bank, who are involved with... guess who?

 

[carlosthejackal]

Reported that Klopp wasn’t informed prior to the announcement and is on the verge of walking , so don’t assume our manager was in the loop .

 

[HelloCity]

 

[shevtheblue]

The best thing about CL is the fallout when a top club misses out on top 4. They want to take that away in 2024, Nearly as bad as ESL

This is what these clubs have wanted, but the reason they've left is that the new plans were to share more of the money around. They REALLY don't want that. UEFA will knock that on the head and it will return back to what it is but with more money and share for these clubs as well as not being able to be knocked out.

 

[lancs blue]

This is the ultimate two fingered feck off to UEFA and all it’s corruption.

Are you clueless, this is the brainchild of the very clubs who drove UEFA's agenda against us.

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[stan bowles]

You can tell Americans have thought this up. Only they would have a competition that you cannot be relegated or enter without an invite. This is just a license to print money and protect their investments, like the World Series and NFL, which some of them are involved in also. They will also do that to the Prem sooner than later.
I hoped Sheik Mansour wasn't cut from the same cloth as those money grabbing American owners, but it looks like he is.

The NFL divides money equally among its 32 teams. They have player free agency allowing player movement but more importantly they also have a salary cap which all teams have to adhere to prevent teams stockpiling all the best players by paying the biggest contracts. Also the NFL draft which gives the worst team the previous season first pick of the best new talent coming out of college. A Superbowl winner is not therefore decided by who has the most money.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Sorry if this has already been asked, this thread moves too quickly!

@Prestwich_Blue or anyone in the know - does the stadium lease have any clauses about the tenant (i.e City) having to abide by the rules and regs of the FA?

I don't know but I doubt it.

 

[decmancity]

Easy PR when he plays for a team that aren't in it!