The Super League | FA + PL: New Charter & Fines | UEFA: Settlement

[lee_wsm]

We should have been pulling out seems like we stick with this

 

[Manx Blue]

Here we go.

Someone opening up Word, Tahoma size 12 font

 

[pudge]

Here we go.

Now regrow that backbone, City

Please

 

[Benarbia_is_god]

Chelsea out, surely we follow next.

Roman doesn't need this and neither do we.

 

[bluemoon32]

Fuk me, Chelsea showing us the way

 

[Bluemoonadam]

They have risen up and fair play to there fans honestly fair play.

 

[M147WN]

- 6 teams receiving £300m more than the other 14 teams? Probably even more when the Premier League can't strike as good of a TV deal.
- Quality across the league heavily concentrated across just 6 teams.
- Other 14 teams finishing top 4, earning the right to play Europe's best, only Europe's best won't be there.
- Top 6 teams not having to win to achieve anything.

Again did you not watch Leeds-Liverpool last night, late equaliser that should have dented Liverpool's Champions League hopes...but it didn't because they've got a seat at the top table for a minimum of 23 years despite only qualifying 4 times in 8 years, its fucking grim.

Some folks aren’t getting this!
Nice post.

 

[Steve68]

It will be legally challenged, it’s restraint of trade...you won’t counter this with stunts that can be circumvented.

UEFA, PL need a coherent, viable alternative that gives the 12 clubs pretty much what they want otherwise they will press ahead.

The ESL will happen, the only points open to debate are when, and what format will it eventually take.

Work permits are not restraint of trade and they already apply for foreign players and soon (if not already) for European players. The Home Office sets the criteria.

 

[jay_mcfc]

If Chelsea pull out and City don't the club is gone forever. Do the right thing ffs.

 

[Sir peace frog]

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.

no competition means no interest, no interest will mean less money from the tv company's , less money will mean the 6 will start up their own league and the English leagues will go to the dogs ,is that ok with you ? your trying your hardest to come across as some hard nosed business man, when really your coming across as an arrogant dont give a fuck im alright jack like the greedy bastards trying to line their own pockets with a sport they dont give a fuck about, if that's what you want you are welcome to it, but you aren't a football fan, selfish **** more like.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

They're not going to listen to him a lot hate him for leaving Chelsea. Why is he even there??

He is part of their backroom staff, and even played a game for one of their teams this season

 

[ScottSinclair]

Wish our club were more like Chelsea

 

[Brendan110_0]

Looking like Chelsea were the team who were looking for a way out of it not us, time to follow the rent boys haha

It's a lie.

 

[decmancity]

Chelsea won't be missed. Who's taking their spot I wonder.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Well done Chelsea now come on City

 

[burning blue soul]

The longer khaldoon keeps quiet the more I think he's going to drop the mother of all bombs pretty soon.
Imho I think there is something brewing from us, if we was 100% behind it there would be something.
It's almost like the CAS decision, everyone thinking the worst and then bang we're telling everyone we're innocent.
Do you really think we'd jump in to bed with them red cunts after the shite they've flung at us?


We're up to somert here, 100%.

Sadly, we are not :(

If it looks like it, talks like it and smells like it.... 99.9% it is it!

 

[Lee won pen]

If reports are to be believed we were the last of the six to sign up I won't say big six , Come on City do the right thing and be the first one to withdraw from this bag of shit

Interesting in that, iirc, it only needs one of the 6 to withdraw for the remaining premier league clubs to then potentially have the numbers to kick the other 5 out, should they so wish

 

[MCFC1993]

Sorry for the Miguel video!

 

[I'm Blue]

Well done Chelsea (if true)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I am disappointed in my club, I think the ESL is a blatant attempt to allow an American bank to revitalise the ailing aristocracy of European football and I agree with the opinions expressed that it is the antithesis of sport an attempt to replace sporting competition by financial certainty. It is the triumph of the view of football expressed by the Southampton chairmen when his club was relegated from the premier league: he could not understand why fans were so angry at relegation because the club's corporate hospitality was among the most profitable in the league! As a fan I am outraged: as a City fan I can understand the club's position and I find assertions that the Sheikh is a traitor and that the club is betraying us are unacceptable.

In 2014 UEFA fiddled the rules introduced to put a stop to any investment plans which might threaten the primacy of the 'istorical elite and imposed a world record fine on our club. City took the pinch and prospered but UEFA's attitude didn't change and in 2018 it made an attempt, based on no evidence at all and in the face of evidence which showed their charges to be irrefutably wrong, to destroy our club. Since the CAS judgement UEFA have always insisted that judgement was wrong and they have shown no softening of their attitude to City. Far from seeing UEFA as a protector of our interests the club had to look to its own interests, and may, understandably, have been prepared to settle a few scores.

Nor was the PL equipped to stand up to the ESL. The PL itself is a monument to greed and self interest. It is no more than the collective name of the 20 clubs who make it up. They never vote on the basis of sportsmanship or fans but always on the financial interests of their own club. Half of them tried to deprive City of the right to have our ban from Europe suspended until our appeal was heard last year and they were queuing to have our titles stripped from us and damages awarded to them because City's "cheating" had seen City win money which would have been theirs. These clubs are hardly natural allies and it is hard to see what interests we have in common. They have shown a willingness to join any attack on City and cooperate in the destruction of the club.

That is the background to whatever discussions City have been a party to. The club hava had to contemplate the future in a PL where each club gets some compensation while the 5 founding members make off with enormous sums which put them well out of any competition or in with the ESL, those very clubs that have worked non stop against us. This is not a struggle between good and bad but between lousy and lousier. City hesitated and considered and it seems that the mediation of none other than Agnelli, giving City a seat at the top table, so consistently denied us by UEFA and the ECA, was the clincher. I think City are reluctant participants because it's not clear how far Agnelli can deliver what he promised. And it seems the club is reconsidering though this must depend on UEFA allowing City to play a significant part in negotiating a compromise. We are still very much in an uncertain and dangerous situation for us and the game.

I think this is a very sound analysis.

But a closed shop is the antithesis of what football is about, and if it goes ahead, I've seen my last game.