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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
Elbow beards said:
Gone from looking at a quadruple and get giddy at every game to not giving a fuck if we win fuck all in the space of 3 days. We'll done City.
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You don't care about the league?

I bet you would if we lost 4 games and the Rags won it.

If that doesn't bother you then you're not any kind on Blue I've ever met.
 
MeatHunterrr said:
Because being in bed with Kroenke, Henry, Perez, Agnelli (the very people who tried to destroy us via UEFA) is much better?

These guys run this new league with City having zero say. Good luck!
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For clarity, I’m not in favour of the ESL or any of the crooks behind it - but I completely reject the idea that agreeing to UEFA’s equally reprehensible stitch up in any way constitutes a morally superior route through all this.

Which seems to be the hopelessly simplistic view of a lot of people posting on here today are holding.

There is no ‘do the right thing’ given the two options on the table.
 
Paulmcfc2703 said:
They have already taken the 'football club' off the badge.

This is not something that can be fought. The biggest clubs are already too powerful
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It can be fought though, that's why governments and organisations are getting involved because they aren't going to allow something that goes against the very fabric of our sport.
 
OntarioBlue said:
Its interesting that Sky is talking about the fight against Racism. The supporters of the ESL should ask Colin Kaepernick how the NFL’s owners (now the ringleaders of the ESL) dealt with his stand against racism.
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His idea of racism was I'm not good enough to play so this must be racism.
 
decmancity said:
Why?
You do know this is the same man currently bankrolling a league 2 up the pyramid? Had no issue accepting millions from the glazers, building businesses off the back of the rags name and has a job at Sky purely because of his past.
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I thought he spoke as an ordinary football fan tonight.

You might not like the Guy that much,me neither.

But his sentiments as a fan ,are the same as virtually every other fan.

He is right it is anti competitive,destructive,will kill our game.

And we might as well all call it a day with no promotions,and relegation etc.
 
Eoiyflem said:
I have a horrible feeling that the SL power brokers not only knew there would be this backlash, but in fact counted on it! If clubs are expelled from their leagues, this makes it far far easier to make to transition to a single 20 team league format with 38 games each which the 100% the end game here.

If you really think the plan is to run a midweek competition with 18 games per team in 2 sections of 10, you're mad.
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Just wait until this happens and the moment it becomes a full league they will find some way to kick us out and we will have to come crawling back, begging to play in the 5th tier.

And we voted for this. Think about that. Khaldoon, on the wishes of the sheik, actually voted for this.
 
PL will kick out the entitled 6 as they should.

What are they thinking ? Continue to be part of PL and play games over weekend and then also be part of SL and play games midweek.

So which team will Pep be picking to play over weekend and which he will pick to play in SL.

I guess there are two options

1 - No longer in PL

2 - In PL playing with bench as it would mean nothing to be in top four and getting used to be beaten by 10 player teams like Leeds.
 
Really hoping that the silence from the club today is a sign that they are considering their options. Being the first of the six to walk away from it would be the first step on the road to redemption with many fans. Doubt it will happen, but we live in hope.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
I mentioned this earlier, but if the teams get booted from the domestic leagues, then the Super League becomes what it's already intended to evolve into -- a new league.

The 5 "open slots" would become five permanent new members (but the SL doesn't know who that will be yet; the "open slots" are auditions for revenue generation/ fan interest in the current iteration I believe). 20 sides, 57 matches (each team plays each other team once at home, once away, and once at a neutral -- probably off-continent -- venue, to drum up offshore fan support), then 8 teams make the play-offs, and then there are play-offs to determine the champion. Plus there will be a random draw Cup of some sort.

Presto -- 70-odd matches, with not a drop of revenue shared with anyone outside the 20 Super League sides.

If it were just 15 clubs -- which I think would be the case if the SL were forced to start up immediately via expulsion -- then it'd be two home/away (56 league matches) and save the offshore matches for when the league expands to 20 later.
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What is the actual format. Had it been released. If founder members retained domestic competition how many games could they play?
 
decmancity said:
No it doesn’t. They won’t kick anyone out, they don’t even have enough clubs to do so if my maths is right. Ever consider why 6 teams, not 4 or 5. Why Super
League gave Arsenal a seat at the table despite them not being deserving of one?
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It does. There is no point in the Premier League if the ESL goes ahead. No point at all. Win the league, finish high up, finish mid table, win games lose games, none of it matters because the outcomes are all the same anyway... the same 6 get to play in the ESL, the rest are nothing.
 
MCFC1993 said:
The Premier League is taking a stance to protect the fans of the 20 clubs in this league and fans of hundreds of clubs outside of it, that's you, me and every fan on this forum.

They are saying if you join this then you're gone, why do you have a problem with that?
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Oh so now the prem have found their moral compass. Interesting.

I don’t care what they say, they can’t enforce fuck all. Regardless of what I think, the sooner people accept this the easier it is, it’s happening.
 
What I will say is this, football needs a massive fucking shake up. It's been going in the wrong direction for years, anti competitive etc. I would be happier if the Premier League just introduced a flat spending cap on all teams and it trickled down into all EFL teams. Thats the only fair way of doing things now and in the future.

This idiotic move by the big clubs might actually be a catalyst for good proper change, instead of the status quo.
 
All the respect Khaldoon has built with us fans over the years has gone up in smoke IMHO. His silence right now is deafening.
What happened to all the talk about protecting the Club's history and heritage? Turns out it was all bullshit, telling us what we wanted to hear. Unless of course the Club is seriously reconsidering it's position. One thing is for sure, how Khaldoon defends it in his end of season interview will be very interesting indeed. Or maybe we'll have Joel Glazer instead ?
 
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