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[Akira]

Can we fuck of with this talk about American sport please. Start an American sports thread please. It's hard enough keeping with this thread let alone having all this American sport shit in here ;)

It's too late. They have invaded our football, now it's bleeding through to the forums.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

No he doesn't. They have decided to join the European Super League. I don't want any statement from him trying to sell this to us. We know what it is and it stinks.

Our football clubs have been slowly morphing into businesses over the years. ANd now they've gone all the way.

Sheikh Mansour, and Khaldoon finally killed what MCFC was all about. Pride in your City, loyalty to your father's club, and a family you introduce you children too.

It will go on but it will be an Americanised sport and link between fans and club is truly gone.

I can not wear my shirt or scarf any more and say I am City. We've all been coming to this for a long time. FInally we are here. FOotball is done. And very sad to say that Manchester City were part of the clubs that killed it all off for good.

Some of you will go on for a while longer. But I spent too mich time defending City trying to make out City were different so now I am disillusioned. How can you say to your nephew, niece or your boy, this is why you should support City. It's nothing more than another brand.

We're not rolling this back. The world has moved on. Community, solidarity, loyalty these are values just to be exploited and wheeled on as a stage army to create atmosphere for the camera.

Thank you my blue friend for describing my own feeling far better than I could myself.

This is an abomination.

April 18th 2021: the day the club rolled over for Joel glazer and committed hari kari for him.

 

[I'm Blue]

Then City host the ESL matches outside the UK.

What if that coincides with the premier league?
No work permits, no police, then what?

 

[kaz7]

Can we fuck of with this talk about American sport please. Start an American sports thread please. It's hard enough keeping with this thread let alone having all this American sport shit in here ;)

This

 

[hammocity]

Can we fuck of with this talk about American sport please. Start an American sports thread please. It's hard enough keeping with this thread let alone having all this American sport shit in here ;)

It's the American model, no getting away from it.

 

[Mike Cledford]

If managers do not select players will the ESL or some court over rule them? The national FA has to have the final say - even if they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

 

[west didsblue]

Well said, pal. And having plumbed the depths that none of the other members of the dirty dozen have in recent memory, only to fight, drag and claw our way back to the summit, our fanbase is uniquely placed to know and appreciate the importance of the pyramid system and meritocracy, the perils of mismanagement and the potentially glorious rewards of loyalty, of rewards earned on the pitch not in the history books or the balance sheet.
That our owners and execs could be so blithely tone deaf to this unique aspect of our support and the hard yards endured in our lifetimes is staggering. For all their platitudes, they really don’t get us after all

Chelsea were fairly shit 75-85 with some really low crowds.
I suppose that doesn't count as recent memory.

 

[TFC]

Can we fuck of with this talk about American sport please. Start an American sports thread please. It's hard enough keeping with this thread let alone having all this American sport shit in here ;)

Agreed. Love it or hate it, we dont want to be like it. Simple as that.

 

[Frenchti]

Hello all. Lyon fan here. I have a question, if you may. Why the fuck did your club jump into this giant mess ? I mean, you didn't have any interest to join, and you would be way more comfortable with the like of Bayern and Psg , playing the good guys. You don't have money issues like the debt full Spanish, so what happened ?

 

[marco]

Was hopefully around midday that City were going to announce they had pulled out of this ESL. Seems to have gone very quiet now from what I see on here. No press/media tweeter saying anything about City.
Hope I am wrong an City quit before it is really to late

was the same with me mate,i was thinking by 5pm we would hear something but it might be harder than we think to pull out depending on what the club have signed if they have signed anything,might take a day or so

 

[CityBlu]

It won't generate any more money, the Premier League is the best in the world ar generating finance, Perez and Agnelli are desperate, the fact 6 English teams are "invited" should tell you everything.

The US banks wouldn't be pumping billions into it if they didn't think so. The ESL will dwarf anything gone before it.

 

[WestGorton]

Ned is bright kid. On Sky now

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

I am way behind, only on page 907.

Just saw the tweet from Martin Ziegler. Isn't he known to be a good source? Think I have read posts previously stating he has good contacts within the club.

Or am I completely wrong on this.

 

[City Raider]

So UEFA are scrabbling around to offer more prize money now, even though their newly formatted comp is bending over to these clubs anyway.

Whatever comes out of this, isn’t going to be good for the likes of you and me. The game is corrupt and unless the Government can put it back in the hands of the people, it’s over.

The last 36 hours have been a grubby reminder of how we are really looked on by club owners.

 

[citytill1die84]

Come on City don't do this, these fuckers ran themselves into shit tons of debt, don't help them out of it plz.

 

[Marvin]

No doubt some will still lap up Khaldoon talking bollocks at the end of the season. Looking back,he has lied to the fans on a consistent basis. He couldn’t care less about the history of Manchester City or the generations of fans who created and sustained the club he now runs. “We had no choice”....yes...you did.

It was going there anyway under Khaldoon, or anyone else. LOok at the top 6 clubs. They are all involved. ALl the clubs are the same. The Evertons and West Hams would have accepted like a shot and the Premier League and Champions League are all completely money oriented.

We're not supporting a football club now that represents a City and a people, we're supporting a brand a customer experience.

Fed up with it all and thishas triggered me basically because I am tired. The CAS/UEFA spat was draining and here we are starting down that route again.

 

[Cellarite]

I’m beginning to see this whole thing in a different light.

 

[urban genie]

Have to wonder what Bayerns play is in all this. You know theyre up to something.

They have to put it to the fans to vote as of the nature of the set up, imagine if they had gone all in and then got the same reaction from their fans the rest have, the board would be fucked.

Holding off signing up was a self preservation tactic by the execs there not some moral endevour

 

[LongsightM13]

Can we fuck of with this talk about American sport please. Start an American sports thread please. It's hard enough keeping with this thread let alone having all this American sport shit in here ;)

English football is an American sport if this goes through. Might as well be Celtics...

 

[Ballosteve]

What makes me angry and gutted is that we believed and backed the club through FFP bolloxs and the CAS appeal,getting abuse just for wearing my city shirt and constantly sticking up for my club I've followed for 41 yrs,constant snipes off other glory hunting twats and it takes its toll and now they have shit on us from a great height and said thankyou but get fucked.....heartbreaking.....