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[MCFC1993]

Of course if it's Ed Woodward it means fuck all.

In fact it's interesting they're discussing 'not backing down', suggests that someone is considering backing out.

 

[sir baconface]

He already had that return in the capital value of his asset. He doesn’t need a further income stream that he wouldn’t ever notice.

And yes, he should fucking turn it down if he wants to have fans paying money into the club and attending games going forward.

He will though, won’t he? Albeit some grumbling and some replaced with tourists.

 

[Brad mcfc]

1.30

Cheers

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Yeah. The football club with two local owners who aren't at all dodgy.

Doesn't make them wrong though...........

 

[SWP's back]

UCL- Bayern, PSG, City, Chelsea, Leicester, Dortmund, Lyon, Ajax etc
Super League- Spurs, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barca, Inter, AC, Atletico, United, Liverpool (almost all of whom are on a pretty reliable cycle of at least one disastrous season in every three atm) and whoever they can scrape together

In that scenario the UCL is a better product. If City and Chelsea back out then the Super League is worthless.

A-fucking-men

 

[M18CTID]

PSG because of the 2022 WC in Qatar?
Bayern and Dortmund as they are majority fan owned?

The p/w flying around shows these 3 clubs so they were obviously part of the thinking or talks originally. The fact that the 3 have said no, makes the SL a bit more of a mockery

Not sure what the score is with Bayern but don't BEIN Sports have TV rights to the CL until 2024, meaning PSG can't realistically put their name to the Super League until then at least?

 

[ScottSinclair]

With all the seriousness of the situation, I still stop and laugh everytime I get reminded that Tottenham somehow snuck into the fucking Super League

 

[MCFC1993]

It's all coming out...

 

[King Jay]

I hope that we can make a statement by pulling out with Chelsea. If we start others might pull out too. If UEFA or people like Boris can actually make English teams bleed by not having higher taxes or by not letting players play for their Nationalteams - that foolish league made by that Perez is gonna vanish before it even started. Funny thing is that - we don’t really benefit from it. Same with Chelsea. It‘s teams like Arsenal and Spurs and the two Spanish giants who are massively in debt that are actually winning from it.

 

[Sheriff Fatman]

Really hope that someone from City is on the phone to someone at Chelsea right now and for the sake of all fans of every club (bar the remaining 10) we do the right and proper thing.

Pull out now

They are currently on hold and number 23 in the queue

 

[decmancity]

Kill the ESL in the fucking womb. It doesn’t happen without Munich, Dortmund, PSG, City and Chelsea

Do you honestly trust Bayern, PSG or Chelsea enough to believe they won't fuck us over.

Some on here think we are playing 3d chess and going to fuck the yanks over, what if this is orchestrated behind our backs to truly finish our challenge off, we have never been welcomed and this is a chance to really once and for all lock us out. The CL we got into on merit and they have done everything they can to get us thrown out, their solution is to build a platform that they dictate. If we falter and pull out and the show rolls on, we are fucked.

I wouldn't trust Bayern or PSG to not just sign up for the ESL next year and then we are really left holding the shit.

 

[Brad mcfc]

It'll be interesting to see what Pep says today, although I doubt it will be much.

 

[M18CTID]

It would feel like a desperate attempt from the club to make themselves look a bit better and try and save their skins

But ultimately it's what we all want

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Mate what is it you wanted us to do when UEFA was looking at your books? Ask to have look too so we can form our own decision? They were legal contracts.

That information was confidential and between you and UEFA. We would have no knowledge on the case and we cant oppose or defend you when we dont know what was involved.

But when it was put to clubs that you should be banned we said no. Honestly dont think there was more we could do to support in that instance

No but you and the rest could have spoken out against how FFP was being introduced. Where was the support from the other clubs to get it out there that FFP was just a cartel protection racket? You and the rest just left us to it, because you wrongly assumed we would lose and this would never land at your doorstep.

We have beaten FFP but the cartel cant just leave it at that, so we have the ESL which threatens everything. I am not trying to deflect the blame here, City have signed up to this and I am disgusted by my clubs actions but more could have been done earlier, if the non-cartel clubs had shown this same backbone a few years ago.

 

[marco]

Strong rumours emanating that us and Chelsea are going to pull out. Get it done and pull out City.

yeh just googled 'city to pull out of ESL' certainly gathering pace

 

[decmancity]

It'll be interesting to see what Pep says today, although I doubt it won't be much.

"Aston Villa"

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Can't be throwing Pep under the bus at 1.30pm. Either announce we've ditched it and apologise in the next hour, or cancel the press conference. Not fair for Pep to be used as a human shield when this is the owners' fuck up.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

City can be excused for being highly mistrustful of UEFA and their motives but they simply cannot be excused for ignoring the opinions of the vast majority of not only their own supporters but fans of football full stop.

Absolutely. City can't ignore the backlash from their own supporters. Let's face it we don't have as many global fans as LFC and MUFC and a totally different business model based on community partnerships across the world. We can't afford to put all that at risk. City and Chelsea (for different reasons) have a lot more to lose from this if it goes tits up. We don't have 100 million overseas fans who will buy up digital subscriptions to watch our games.

 

[p.taker]

How strong is the correlation between the normal doom and gloom fans in the matchday thread and the ones that don't think we could hold our weight in this shitty super league, because it seems pretty strong to me. Man up, we were invited for a reason.

 

[bobom]

It's all coming out...

This was always the endgame, surely.