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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
BlueRain said:
Another thing that's just occured to me (sorry if already mentioned - I can't keep up!)

The "Super Soccer Fussball League Bowl" teams probably WANT to be kicked from their respective leagues... at the moment the new league is midweek but if the leagues did grow a pair and boot them then they could in theory move that midweek to weekend primetime - that would properly screw the leagues and their TV revenue over.
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Precisely.
 
twosips said:
Utterly sunk by this. Can't really think straight and i've just been achingly sad since last night. It probably doesn't help now that I'm also possibly out of a job given my youtube channel was a full time endeavour. Emotionally and professionally devastated tbh.
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City are still going to exist and play games, and 99% of your YouTube audience will be there watching them, I dont think you need to worry.
 
I'm Blue said:
So all the people who stuck the knife in over the past however many years are suddenly our friends and thankful to us.
Plastic praise.
That doesn't sit well with me either.
I get doing the right thing, as for any praise they could stick it where the sun don't shine.
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What praise did we deserve in your opinion? I can hardly blame fans with no hope of getting where we are without a sugar daddy for not being keen on us or even jealous of our luck and success.
 
M18CTID said:
Gone too far I think mate. Woodward resigning his position at UEFA and Ceferin's comments about Woodward and Agnelli appears to render the position of the clubs untenable within UEFA.

Now the mischievous side of me hopes that City signing the letter of intent is actually a ploy to get all these clubs who have officials in UEFA positions to step down from them - give 'em enough hope to hang themselves and all that - and that we're actually working in cahoots with UEFA to fuck them all over.
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i think it could happen next season ?
this has been on for a couple of years and work been done in the back ground ? i think there was a questionnaire done a couple of season ago and was under the name of world football or something ?
 
Cheesy said:
The more I think about it the more likely I think that the SL teams (including City) actually want to be thrown out of their domestic leagues.

They can't quit as they would be taken to court and sued and, (in their deluded little worlds) they wouldn't want to look bad (LOL) by doing so.

However... getting thrown out? Well, there's their green light to go full on with the SL and cup competitions. Not only that but they'd then blame their respective leagues by saying that they wanted to stay in domestic competition but were thrown out so had no choice.
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If they're indeed kicked out there would be on the ESL for them. Full stop.

No FA Cup, no League Cup, nothing. Their players also wouldn't be allowed to play in any international game.
 
M18CTID said:
Gone too far I think mate. Woodward resigning his position at UEFA and Ceferin's comments about Woodward and Agnelli appears to render the position of the clubs untenable within UEFA.

Now the mischievous side of me hopes that City signing the letter of intent is actually a ploy to get all these clubs who have officials in UEFA positions to step down from them - give 'em enough hope to hang themselves and all that - and that we're actually working in cahoots with UEFA to fuck them all over.
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This is interesting!
 
If of interest -- just received this from a friend:

EFL STATEMENT: EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE

The EFL stands with the Premier League, The FA, PFA, LMA, the FSA and colleagues across European professional football in condemnation of proposals which attack the foundation of open and fair competition upon which our game is built.

A strong pyramid based on promotion, relegation and ultimately European qualification, is fundamental to our game’s continued success. The EFL opposes any reform that doesn’t support competition integrity or offer clubs the prospect of one day competing at the highest end of the game.

Collective reform efforts should be focused on creating conditions that foster long-term sustainability at all levels of the domestic football and remove the current, almost impossible financial pressures created as a result in the huge difference of revenues allocated to the Premier League in comparison to the Championship and Leagues One and Two.

The EFL has long stated that the economics and governance of the English pyramid should be re-set and we remain committed to working with the Premier League, The FA and the game’s stakeholders to deliver that vision, so that English professional football can thrive in communities across the country for generations to come.

At its heart, football is a game for supporters and the widespread rejection of these proposals must be acknowledged. EFL Clubs are an integral part of the towns and cities from which they take their name and, in many, deliver the biggest single form of communal activity in their local area.

The EFL’s collective response to the pandemic in the face of significant challenges highlights just how vital they are to the life of the nation and anything that fundamentally weakens that system must be resisted.
Having pioneered the world’s original League format in 1888, it is ironic that proposals which would serve to destroy the value of sporting merit were announced on the weekend of the League’s 133rd anniversary.
Across EFL competitions, any club can triumph over another and fans of all clubs regardless of size and status, must always be afforded the hope that successes on the pitch will be rewarded. The Championship is one of Europe’s most prominent divisions and the gateway to England’s top tier. The introduction of a predominantly closed European competition at the elite end kills a part of the game and the League system we established over a century ago.

Similarly, the rejection of these proposals, does not represent an endorsement for UEFA’s own proposed reforms, which themselves represent a significant challenge to English football’s domestic programme.

Under both proposals, the EFL has concerns about the future of the League Cup which provides vital income to EFL clubs, is the breeding ground for stars of the future and provides the top and bottom of the English pyramid the opportunity to win the first major trophy of the season.

The EFL will continue to work with colleagues across the game at home and abroad, to defend our national game, protect our members and ensure that fans continue to have a healthy, vibrant and enduring pyramid system that they can continue to be proud of.
 
bluealf said:
So are you saying as a little boy you dreamed of scoring in the European Cup Final?

Again I am relating my own tale from my own memory and that of my friends that I played football with, why have you such a problem with this?

The Fa Cup was a special trophy that people dreamed of winning, it was a huge thing, both BBC and ITV had build-ups of it all day until 3 pm kick-off, remember those?

We had three channels to watch and two of them covered the FA Cup, of course, boys dreamed of scoring in it.

ps Where did I say the European cup wasn't prestigious?
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Never said I had a problem with it, I just agree with Özil that a lot of people will have grown up watching the EC/CL and dreaming of playing and scoring in a final.

It’s the biggest club competition in the world so it’s perfectly understandable why some people will have dreamt of winning that rather than the FA Cup when they were growing up. Just like for the reasons you mentioned the opposite is completely reasonable too. I wasn’t having a go just found it funny how dismissive you were of what he’d said is all
 
Chippy_boy said:
It's worse than that.

It isn't UEFA who repeatedly tried to screw us, it's the G14 - in essence the very clubs we are seemingly buddying up with - that pressured UEFA into trying to screw us. Platini was very clear years ago that FFP was brought in as a direct result of pressure from the G14 and their threats to break away into a super league, were UEFA not to comply.

The likes of Rummenigge (fucked if I'm looking the spelling up) and Gill have had it in for us from the start and I don't see that changing any time ever, let alone soon.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear but that was my point, yes UEFA won't win any fan polls held by City supporters but..... I would liken this to being arrested pre-war in Germany by the regular German police, unlikely to be fun and being handed the Gestapo....even less fun.....
 
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