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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
Reading reactions from other English clubs, I'm in a position where I am thankul for our ownership group. We screwed this one up, but, but I'm glad I'm not in a position like United, Liverpool, Arsenal, where I just LOATHE the people at the top. We made a mistake here, but the positives greatly outweighs our mistakes historically.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Soriano and Khaldoon should resign immediately for even dreaming that we should take part in this fiasco. They're not to be trusted.
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That's a thumbs down from me. A lot of fans said we as a club were blindsided, do they really believe that?

I remember Khaldoon's speech, a couple of years ago I think, that the club know what our enemies are up to as they are 'at it' and I believed it at the time...... I still do after this 'show'.

Picture this scenario: The masterstroke was the statement on our OCS (and others) with Glazer getting a name check, which may have ratified this ESL rubbish in his own, the other Glazers, the snake Agnelli and Turkeyneck's minds. Some of these snakes resigned from UEFA/ECA positions of power, ho ho fucking ho, they can't un-resign so that went well for them. Was it all a ruse..........? we'll never know.

If it was, holy shit what a sting, if not, it's time to move on anyhow.
 
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The perfect fumble said:
From the Guardian and they're no friend of City....

9.23pm Manchester City become the first club to announce that they have “formally enacted the procedures to withdraw from the group developing plans” to create a European Super League.

In fact, as I type, Chelsea is the only English team not to announce their departure.
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I know this. You know this. However, the media are spinning it another way.
 
Ric said:
Feels to me like United, Liverpool and Arsenal tried to blindside us by giving us a short ultimatum - join up now or miss out forever. In a panic, we agreed but soon realised our mistake and then sensed the opportunity to bring it all down after seeing the outrage to the plans. Just my take anyway.
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I know we all want to believe that but there’s no way we resign from the CL and run the risk of being booted out of the PL because we’ve been hoodwinked by others. We may have felt that we had no choice because that’s where the gravy train was heading but we understood what we were doing.
I am sure hindsight is telling the club they would have been better off taking the moral high ground. But we didn’t and there will be permanent scars.
I wonder why the German clubs didn’t take part. It feels implausible that they were going to be part of it. We’re they biding their time or genuinely refuseniks?
 
Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how slimy the US owned PL clubs in this all are? They plotted the entire thing with Perez and Agnelli and the second it started looking bad they abandoned ship faster than Luke Shaw can clear out a Greggs deli counter.
 
I don't understand why Perez (and the CL) think that more games equals more excitement - it just means more meaningless games. Once the novelty has worn off, I wouldn't expect City fans to be much more excited by a CL group match with Barcelona or Real Madrid than one against Shakhtar Donetsk - especially when both teams will very likely qualify anyway. An expanded CL or a 20 team super league would have even more meaningless games - just because it's Juventus v Liverpool wouldn't make it any more interesting if both were already out of the play-offs with no relegation threat, or if both were already in.

Perez mistakenly seems to think that it's the big-names that make a game thrilling rather than what the game means - the drama of success or failure. The big-name teams might have the most fans, but I doubt they'd all tune in to glorified friendlies week after week.

If anything, the CL needs to reduce the number of games: how about only playing each team once in every 4-team group (H/A could be by random draw or seeding)? That way, teams would get at least 3 games, but most games would really matter (if you lost the first game, you'd probably have to win the other two the get through). It would also allow players to get three more mid-weeks off. Or they could have this one-game round-robin format for the group stage, but add another round of knockout games (round of 32) so that the teams that advance past this first round would only play 1 game less than usual, but there would be far fewer meaningless games. It would also require more groups, so that more teams would gain entry straight to the group stage, increasing the variety of opponents.
 
KS55 said:
Right, but they wont. Now Arsenal, Spurs and the scum are back in the fold, debt will not be regulated. So nothing gained at all.
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But their windfall has evaporated- so they’ll need to tighten their belts !
 
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