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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
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
In the middle of more important issues, I must say that it intensely annoys me that Johnson and Macron have stuck their oar in. Neither of them could give a toss about football.
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I’ll have you know Boris watched Eusebio when he was a lad at Huddersfield Town.
 
city2 said:
If reports are true that City and Chelsea were backed into a corner to sign up surely seeing the outcry this has created it’s not to late to come out now and say we have changed our minds and no longer wish to be part of this. Both clubs would be seen as saviours of the English game and fuck the other 4 clubs who have tried every trick to stop us progressing.
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That's bollocks mate. If you listen to all the clubs the rhetoric outside of Real Madrid and United will be we had to join and didn't have a choice.
 
Marvin said:
No one is I think too bothered about the CL. Don't care what you call it. What matters to me is a closed shop league divorced from the rest of football. It's elitist boring nonsense. it would have no long term future anyway.

If I were City I would be seeking talks with the Premier League, UEFA and Government.

So far I suspect City have just been pragmatic and done what we think is in the best interests of the club, but if we get the feeling it's not going to happen we should blow it up.

I hate the idea but I can see that City have been put in an almost impossible position. Easy to say we should just refuse but Utd and Liverpool are basically burning the rest of football, and if they are successful we'd be Kings of a nothing league.

The best hope is that the regulators kill it,and City make a sharp exit. I'd be negotiating.

This is of course assuming we don't have our noses firmly in the trough with the rest of them.Logically, the Premier League and UEFA CL were great for us. We were on top. It makes sense for a Spurs. It makes less sense for City. We are likely the weak link in this. COuld we exit from this? I suggest City are just motivated by pragmatism.
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What regulators are you referring to?
 
Well, after the mess of the ESL and the awful changes to the Champions League, where the "history clubs" get in over teams which finish above them in the league, then this is really putting me off this type of football. I would be much happier if City just played in the domestic league and cups. At least we can watch home and away games regularly.

I guess if our owner wanted too he could always pull us out of any European competition and organise a one off end of season game against the winners of these two competitions, sell the TV rights and we could earn £1 billion extra from these games alone...It's a thought...!

We wouldn't have to play a load of meaningless European league games, and could concentrate on leagues and cups and then earn a load of money at the end of every season. I mean, weren't half of Real Madrid's European cup wins when only a few teams took part through invitation only..?
 
Akira said:


LOL. "We are gonna fuck you over, but IF we are not ready to fuck you over yet, you let us fuck you over later."
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They know this is all heading to the Courts first.

Please can we still play in the Champions League until it is rubber stamped.

The audacity, there are no words.
 
Split it into two sports. These lot can keep their 'soccer', make it just like an American league and be stuck in it for eternity as punishment.

We'll keep football going without them.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
Taking the format of the competition on its own terms, imagine getting drawn with Arsenal and Spurs and having to play them both at least four times every season.
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Arsenal in a dead rubber super league game in early December when they're bottom of your 10 team league, they have nothing to play for but can't get relegated, you've already played them in the premier league in September, have already played them once in the super league home leg, you've drawn them in the semi final of the league cup, and you still have to play them again in the league at the start of February.
 
nmc said:
Sad But true. In the US people support NFL clubs hundreds of miles away - franchising etc has all but destroyed any links between club and community.
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The first bit is true but not the second part.
I currently live in Michigan and there is a strong tie between the community and their sports teams. In the NFL, the local team Detroit Lions get 65,000 every home game and they've never come close to winning, so people will still go to watch the games.
 
Being a foreign fan, I probably won't have the same emotions as the lot of you on this, but hear me out. In fact I may even have a small selfish motive of hopefully getting to watch a City game live somewhere in South Asia if it happens in future and having more new City fans as mates.

Whatever City do, we won't be seen as the good guys in the media. The self-censorship on positive articles about the club would still be present, applies even to the global media. The narrative would be 'City are not a historical big 6 so they weren't invited anyway'. We won't receive the plaudits we deserve if we stay and win titles even if the proposed ESL flops, but imagine the loss of missing out on what could be the next big thing in sports. So it's not as bad as you think, City are no longer some outsiders as you think. We are here to stay and are 6th biggest club in that 12 team league in terms of fanbase and revenue.

Having said that, I hope we are clear in the terms and written agreement of the ESL so we aren't used as pawns by the 'eestree' clubs in future.
 
twosips said:
Probably. I have to 'act' though and pretend to be interested, which is something ive never had to do before. Dunno if I could to be honest.
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Give it a few days and i think you (and a lot of others) will realise there's not a lot of difference between City joining this and joining the new Champions League format and its not that much more revolutionary to the 1992 creation of the CL.

Its just a jump in the direction the sport has been moving for 30 years.

There will be some negotiations, give and take, more details will come out and we'll see the positives of the new competition - which will exist. We still don't know how the 5 others will qualify etc.

Nothing this big is ever as good or as bad as it first seems.
 
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