SL "contract" can be broken easily. Given this new information I'm guessing City will pull out in coming days given the literal nuclear fallout since Sunday afternoon and could end up being held in high regardI wouldn't be shocked to see a walk back from City next couple days, much as I thought it impossible.
Uefa were speaking to us yesterday and it sounds like we may have been offered something to break away from the breakaway.
Football politics, eh?
Also, keep an eye on Infantino. We are much more closely aligned to him and even discussed a Super League of sorts with him which would have seen Soft Bank put up the funds, a firm Abu Dhabi has a big stake in.
The elephant in the room I suspect. I’ll be willing to bet there are a majority of blues, of a certain vintage, who feel this way. I certainly do. Every year since the takeover I’ve somehow felt slightly more disenfranchised. Don’t get me wrong, the football at times has been breathtaking and being in for world class players was a pipe dream when we were in the 3rd tier. But back in ‘99 it still felt like our club; yes we were shit, so what? Have another beer and laugh or moan. No I wasn’t at York (must’ve been the only one) but losing at Lincoln was a particular low point. I guess the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for.It's a club most of us don't recognise anymore.
Apart from the sky blue shirts, this doesn't feel like the Manchester City we know and love.
Absolute bollocks.and the guaranteed 100 of millions for 23 years says to me this will go ahead!
if you play it out with this super league>
premier will not kick out the six teams
there will be still a uefa European league competition.
5 clubs across the big leagues can qualify for this super league, so say winning the premier will get you in!
The closed shop is the one thing that is wrong!
Oh I won't forgive them, not for the silence, the audacity of even thinking of entering such a group, all I care about is keeping the club where it belongs. I've lost a lot of respect for ADUG that will be difficult in getting back. I don't believe they have the fans in mind in any future decisions of the club anymore.
But the players, the manager, the staff and the fans don't deserve my vitriol; I just want it assured that MCFC is kept far away from this Supa Leeg as possible. ADUG can sell us and move on for all I care.
Bang on, they’ve seriously underestimated the strength of feeling against this farce and the momentum against ot will just gather pace, i honestly think it’s dead in the water already, this has galvanised every right thinking football supporter, i know greed is a strong emotion bit how could so many so called clever businessmen get it so badly wrong.
UEFA was the vehicle used by the elite to stop us, look at the true bad boys, David Gill, JP Harvey and co for the real problem, and they are now our new "best" mates.Interesting perspective.
I must say, it’s a mark of the strange times we’re living through when City fans are using UEFA and ‘trusted’ in the same sentence.
As far as I can see, UEFA, Bayern, Dortmund and PSG have spent the last decade trying to cripple my club, so the last thing I’d call that option is ‘trusted’
And looking at their proposal for a revamped CL, clubs would still qualify based on ‘historic performance’, which reads like a closed shop to me. Liverpool can still finish 8th in the PL and get a place in the CL - which devalues the League just as much as the ESL!
The one significant difference is the number of clubs who can qualify - I accept that is far more favourable through the new CL. Although with the number of games, I still see that ultimately as an existential threat to the PL.
I guess it’s a case of ‘would you like me to chop off your left foot or your left hand’ - both are absolutely horrendous, but different people will view one as better than the other.
I’m just sick that these are the only two choices we have, and in my view both are morally reprehensible and a threat to the League - so I don’t see this ‘do the right thing’ argument as bearing any relation to reality!
There is no right thing here - just two wrongs!
Oliver Holt (@OllieHolt22) Tweeted:
Hearing the first cracks may be beginning to appear in the ugly, misshapen edifice of the ESL. Told two English clubs are close to losing their nerve.
Come on City do the right thing.
But they're not pulling out are they? Where are people getting this idea?No. For starters you are only looking at half the picture. You’ve ignored the effect on the Premier League if/when the so-called Big 6 pull out.
I understand the feeling but I don’t think it matters even now. We didn’t prioritise the Leeds game and we clearly didn’t turn up for the derby either. If we had a derby 2 days before a CL semi final I’m confident that the club would prioritise the latter even now.Again....
Derby Day on Saturday, City vs United competing in a match that has over a hundred years history and is a battle for local bragging rights, a source of real pride in your football club.
Three days later however City & United have games in the ESL worth millions of pounds if they win them and quite frankly, the result in the PL doesn't really matter as they'll both be in the ESL next year anyway. So, both clubs get their heads together and agree to field their reserve teams in the derby.
Who is going to watch that game? Who is going to give a single fuck about the result?
Excellent post, in some ways I want this to happen for this fucking bubble to burst once and for all.I have been in favor of that from the get go.
I grew up having to watch Rag Title procession formality year in,year out for well over a decade.God it was boring,season being all but over by Christmas most years.
No one could touch them financially,they bought all the best players.And that was that.Everyone else had to deal with it.
Their fans had no problem with all that anti-competitive bull shit,they lapped it all up,loved it.
Then along came more money Chelsea,and the Rags didn't like that.They thought that was cheating "buying Titles" Chelsea money was not earned like their morally,ethically clean money.
Their logic was our money was earned through sponsorship etc,Chelsea is a Sugar daddy,this is terrible for the game,financial doping.Fucking unbelievable logic.
Then along came others like our owners.
Then the Rags,Chelsea,Arsenal,Liverpool, that all had recent bankrolled success,all had a problem with erghhhhhh bank rolled success.Chelsea owner Abramovich a Russian Oligarch,suddenly didn't like the competition.Became a big advocate of FFP.After bankrolling Chelsea he wanted to shut the door on competition like ours.
For years we have needed a much fairer system in place, that Caps what every team can spend.Not only would it make the League more competitive,and enjoyable for neutrals. It would force teams to invest more in youth,become more organic,home grown,surely that is a good thing.
We all know though, they dont really want fair competition.They want an anti-competitive cartel.And that is where the game is at now.
I dont have much time for UEFA,they tried to kill us,lay our lifeless Body on an Alter for these fuckers.They tried to appease the Beast.In the end the Beast grew to big and consumed UEFA.
I really hope you are wrong.Lots of misinformation floating about, there's a few things to consider.
1. City are not leaving the Premierleague (unless thrown out which is highly unlikely).
2. The UEFA CL will still exist.
3. We're quitting the UEFA competition and swapping to ESL (don't recall United being persecuted for trying the European cup).
4. The ESL clubs have already submitted court orders against the "blockers" of this idea, like FIFA & UEFA.
All this City must turn back will not happen. I don't like the closed shop idea either, but one by one the big clubs will arrive in the ESL (Bayern/PSG etc) and the CL will wither on the vine.
That would imply it is us that is pulling out for me.What a disgraceful way of reporting it when we are all desperate for any/some of the 6 to show strength and do the right thing. He should be using the platform he has in the media, to ask/beg that someone does the right thing. Reporting that any of these clubs are showing weakness by considering backing out is completely the wrong message.
Nope, they released the new iteration of it yesterday. This is why they published the ESL the day before.I understand the feeling but I don’t think it matters even now. We didn’t prioritise the Leeds game and we clearly didn’t turn up for the derby either. If we had a derby 2 days before a CL semi final I’m confident that the club would prioritise the latter even now.
Reading the comments, to me it feels like people are wexed about the whole idea and fearful about what it would do to the game. I look around and see that that those things are already happening right now. UEFA will introduce a prestige and history coefficient that effectively guarantees CL spots to “traditional teams” and people will be angry about it but not to the same extent as the reaction towards ESL. Even though the impact is nearly the same. The only difference is we’re entrenched in one shit system and the other one is a new shit system.
If someone were to introduce the existing CL model as a new thing, it would be thrown out the window before the slightest consideration. But we accept it because of inertia, nothing more.
I know what you’re saying but football is part of the fabric of the society in this country and i’ve never know a backlash against something so strongly felt, there is a unity amongst all fans of every club which are huge numbers of people, mass protest can make changes, even our shithouse media are behind us in this one, it’s doomed to fail i honestly believe.Ask yourself what the target market has made of the announcement, because that’s not you, me or Derek down the road, it’s not even Francois, Giuseppe or Carlos....and their numbers are hugely enticing for those without an innate love of the game.
Edit: Ouch, did not notice your name was. Carlos :)