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[onceabluealways]

Perez says these clubs need to make money to cover their debts. If FFP included debt maybe we wouldn’t be in this position

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

This is the scariest thing I've seen about this whole thing.

Correct. Because what would happen? "Hmmmm . . . Ajax has told us to fuck ourselves. But Amsterdam doesn't have an ESL franchise. And Ajax only own 13% of their stadium. I wonder if we could offer 2x the rent and double the variable share of revenue. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . "

 

[Deleted member 77198]

So like the Leeds game the other week

If, at the start of the season, someone said that team that started against Leeds would be close to being our strongest XI nobody would have batted an eyelid.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Things that don’t make sense:
Pep railing about lack of competition two days after we have signed up to a league that embeds that.
Noises that we have come to this late in the day and been coerced into signing up when the President of this breakaway league says binding contracts have been signed. (That would surely have taken months of negotiation)
Bayern Munich being outside this.
Our owners throwing away all the hard won respect and not fronting up to why.

I have to say I am struggling with any reason or logic to this.

Join the club

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Perez says these clubs need to make money to cover their debts. If FFP included debt maybe we wouldn’t be in this position

BULLSEYE!

 

[TonyM]

Correct. Because what would happen? "Hmmmm . . . Ajax has told us to fuck ourselves. But Amsterdam doesn't have a franchise. And Ajax only own 13% of their stadium. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . "

But you could say the same for Athletico Madrid as for City.

 

[Stato]

What this thread needs is more people talking about Romulus and Remus...

 

[nellyonthewing]

MCFC Belongs to Manchester and English football not to a football cartel of NFL based here today gone tomorrow nomads. Come on City we stood by the club through some dark times , now listen to us and do right by us . Dump this nonsense and return to the best league in the world .

A nice idea but does it not actually belong to the ADUG? Just as it was once owned by Swales.

 

[SWP's back]

Absolutely SB. Having to find profit to the tune almost £17 million to pay Sterling or almost £20 million to pay Kev JUST THEIR BASIC SALARY is absolutely staggering. AT LEAST £37 million of profit to pay TWO players excluding signing fees/add ons/bonuses.

Players might not have a great deal of control over their transfer fees but they absolutely do over their personal remuneration and they need to take responsibility for the part they have played in the 'greed' stakes.

Turnover not profit but I agree with your point.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

The Premier League have stated quite categorically those joining the Super League can be dumped out. It's in clear violation of the rules and we are willingly walking head first into it.

You can suggest it would never happen, but there's no evidence that will be the case at present.

The PL 14 will sit and condemn the actions but won't kick them out. The 'Big 6' line their pockets to much for them to do that. Sentiment is one thing, Business is another

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Just seen the press conference and all I can say is God bless Pep! (If there is one. I mean a God, not a Pep.)

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The one thing I will say though is that, as he often is, Pep is absolutely right that everyone is in it for themselves. The PL clubs, UEFA, FIFA and the 12 clubs involved with this proposal. Maybe Burnley et al, might reflect on ‘solidarity’ and its meaning when they were busy writing a letter to CAS trying to get City punished.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Things that don’t make sense:
Pep railing about lack of competition two days after we have signed up to a league that embeds that.
Noises that we have come to this late in the day and been coerced into signing up when the President of this breakaway league says binding contracts have been signed. (That would surely have taken months of negotiation)
Bayern Munich being outside this.
Our owners throwing away all the hard won respect and not fronting up to why.

I have to say I am struggling with any reason or logic to this.

Baffling isn’t it mate? The weirdest situation I think I’ve ever experienced.

Most things, even when complicated are easy to get your head around after a bit of thought... but this... baffling!

 

[doobyedoobye]

The only logical explanations are
1) A brainfart induced by blind panic on the part of Soriano and Kaldoun, after being backed into a corner
2) This was their plan for CFG all along and so fuck the fans, fuck English football and fuck the city of Manchester

1) Our guys absolutely don't do brainfarts
2) This would be very very damaging to their brand

 

[p.taker]

Perez says these clubs need to make money to cover their debts. If FFP included debt maybe we wouldn’t be in this position

The nerve of you to bring this up.

 

[Steve68]

Perhaps we’ll never know, but that is the key question for me.

Yep. But we can be sure we weren’t bullied’ into it. No one bullies a Sovereign Wealth Fund. And I think we can be pretty certain we were involved in the planning, just that we had reservations and when it came time to choose, we chose wrong.

This sort of thing doesn’t go on without a leader of a rich and powerful State knowing all about things that affect important investment of money and prestige.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Perhaps we’ll never know, but that is the key question for me.

And me. What MCFC have had to fight over the last couple of seasons from Uefa, most of the teams in the so-called ESL, and a few hyenas in the PL would make me think that as soon as the invite dropped on the City mat the club response would have been a swift fuck off.

 

[Brendan110_0]

Mass hysteria on here. Think logically, we're dumping the UEFA CL, you know, those who didn't want us. Now we'll be a pioneer and a founder member of another competition - just as corrupt yes, but we still have the PL too.

 

[mcfcstu]

Perez says these clubs need to make money to cover their debts. If FFP included debt maybe we wouldn’t be in this position

Interesting now that we posted big losses last season only a couple of weeks ago, maybe so we could get a bigger cut of the money for clearing debts if we were to sign upto this joke of a competition.

 

[burning blue soul]

I’ve been in work for two days, first two days back, and I’ve done absolutely fuck all.

I’ll be looking for a new job once they turf me out by Thursday!

Walk out of there on Thursday with your belongings and head held high; your quality of posts have gone up a notch, or two, since this disaster happened :)