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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
WNRH said:
Dead in its current money making format, but not dead overall.

Everton, West Ham, Newcastle, Leciester, Leeds, Southampton, Villa, Wolves all big clubs with 30k+ fanbases.

Then add the two Sheffield clubs, Nottingham Forest, Watford, Mboro, Burnley, Palace, Brighton, West Brom, Stoke, Blackburn, Derby, Sunderland, Portsmouth all with 20k+ attendances. It would actually be a great competitive league.
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Football wise it could be decent. But all the top players will be elsewhere. A mjaor reset for fotball. Not necessarily a bad thing.
 
King_Ralph_Blumer said:
EB
you just made it a whole lot worse
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I am really sorry but I was sending an email to my granddaughter who plays for her Canadian Uni team and I always have to remember to say Soccer (not that she minds as her Mum and Dad are both Mancunians and ex-City season card holders, but I just think it is polite to say the word that she uses) and it occurred to me that we would probably be using Soccer soon!! Sorry King_Ralph_Blumer.
 
ancoats said:
manchester city have to be part of any new super league and makes no sense in not signing up
football and european football needs a revamp and if city are not involved it will still happen. at lease this way we get a vote and a say on the board and any rules have to be voted

manchester city had to change to keep up ? there was no way manchester city was winning a single thing other than promotion and relegation. its was that simple and its the same thing with signing up to the super league

i don't understand why all the moaning is about. from what i heard and seen its a reforming of the champions league and not the premier league ? ok the league cup will be lost to the super league teams. but in farness its one of the lowest competition and they all ready play weaken teams in it

am a old fart and manchester city will be forever in my soul and blood nobody can take the memories away
like a old fart hate changes but in football they happen all the time and if you don't keep up with them you are lost to the also rans

MANCHESTER CITY ARE A BIG CLUB and thank god we are in a place to be seen as a big club and can take on the big boys and beat them
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Every improvement in football was resisted by those opposed to change from the Premier League, the back pass rule, to three points for a win.
 
KPXBLN said:
Added time multi-ball!

Seriously though I doubt they'll do away with draws. The fact you can draw a game in a league context is precisely the kind of superficially "unique" thing about football that they would want to preserve. It's the underlying governance and financial structure that they potentially would make more 'American' for want of a better shorthand.
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Unique ? You can play cricket for 5 days and still get a draw.
 
WNRH said:
Dead in its current money making format, but not dead overall.

Everton, West Ham, Newcastle, Leciester, Leeds, Southampton, Villa, Wolves all big clubs with 30k+ fanbases.

Then add the two Sheffield clubs, Nottingham Forest, Watford, Mboro, Burnley, Palace, Brighton, West Brom, Stoke, Blackburn, Derby, Sunderland, Portsmouth all with 20k+ attendances. It would actually be a great competitive league.
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True but if the TV money takes a big hit (which in all likelyhood it will as the big money will go to the new ESL) then those clubs are going to struggle to balance their books
 
Toulousain85 said:
I took the time to look around oversea forums. The danger is the other continents, especially Asia, don't really give a shit, many of them actually LIKE the SL idea. I guess in the US it's the same. They care more about the big teams than the rest, so there will be plenty of business cases for these bastards.
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Yep - those markets will lap it up by and large, and that seems to be what the clubs care about the most. I still think it will look fucking shit as a spectacle with only 15,000 fans rattling around the stadium when we play United though.
 
Cheesy said:

Other Competitions
L.9. Except with the prior written approval of the Board, during the Season a Club shall not enter or play its senior men’s first team in any competition other than:
L.9.1. the UEFA Champions League;
L.9.2. the UEFA Europa League;
L.9.3. the F.A. Cup;
L.9.4. the F.A. Community Shield;
L.9.5. the Football League Cup; or
L.9.6. competitions sanctioned by the County Association of which it is a member.
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So no rules broken this season then?
 
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but if we were kicked out tonight of a Premier League we are leading and a CL in which we are semi finalists, I would applaud the courage of the football authorities. It is a disgrace and for us to hitch up with greedy yank owned scum like the rags and the victims just makes me sick.
 
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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I feel the same way but we'll have to adapt. The positives are with ESL your channel will grow, I know you'll have to pretend to like it but those "soccer" fans we'll subscribe to your channel and hopefully one day a large promotion will pay you full time for your work.
 
NMB said:
Bayern know they will be invited in and we will see their integrity when they (don’t) turn it down.
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Can't see any German teams joining, I believe they have a rule that the majority of the club must be owned by its members.
 
Toulousain85 said:
I took the time to look around oversea forums. The danger is the other continents, especially Asia, don't really give a shit, many of them actually LIKE the SL idea. I guess in the US it's the same. They care more about the big teams than the rest, so there will be plenty of business cases for these bastards.
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I'm from Asia, certainly my opinion don't represent everyone. It's true most wouldn't give a shit. Most football fans I've seen or known here barely watches PL games unless it's a big match, despite their claims to be United/Chelsea/Liverpool fans etc. Some invest interest only when it's the World Cup, not even the Euros, just the World Cup. Half of them probably wouldn't even be able to tell you who their club's manager is, but they buy the odd club kit replicas here and there.

How they saw the ESL, imo, is just that, seeing the prospect of Madrid vs United, Barcelona vs Liverpool etc. They don't understand nor bother about the ramifications and consequences of said ESL. That's all they see, 'big team vs big team', mouthwatering clashes.

I presume it's the same mostly for the US.
 
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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@twosips Why would your YT channel be sunk? Are City going out of existence?
 
BlueRain said:
True but if the TV money takes a big hit (which in all likelyhood it will as the big money will go to the new ESL) then those clubs are going to struggle to balance their books
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Only if they continue to pay current PL wages? They would have to cut their cloth and the players would have to do the same as where else can they go? If they cannot go in the super league, all other leagues will be weakened as well so the PL would actually be at the forefront still as even without the big six we have bigger clubs than any other national league.
 
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