There is nothing intrinsically wrong with football competition or globalisation. Football is a world game and there should be a global club competition. I think replacing the current annual Club World Cup with a 4 yearly large tournament is a good idea. I agree that the football calendar needs to be sorted out but there has been a lot of nonsense written in the media about the Club World Cup, a lot of it filled by the prejudice of the BBC and liberal commentators for non-Western world.
Very disappointing. I reject the view from others than the tournament is of no consequence. It will become a fixture and most importantly, we as a club bought into it, and yet crashed the moment we played a good side, and all the old failings were exposed. Perhaps that was inevitable given that Kovacic was out and that Rodri is in the early stages of recovery.
I would imagine it is the new format Klopp has beef with which many others do too. Klopp works for a side that was in this tournament. It has nothing to do with his history with Liverpool why he was against it. I am glad we participated, glad of the money we gained from it and disappointed we went out to that level of team but can't say I am gutted that we now get to go home and rest
Buckled AGAIN? We've made a habit out of winning trophies when the going got tough.....Tore City apart??
Gaughan writing bollocks again.
It is your own fault getting optimistic off the back of a couple of games in a new tournament in the summer. Take it for what it is, at times we looked great but we still have frailties that won't be solved within a few weeks of a shit season ending whilst bedding in new players.
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Of course it has anything to do with City getting beat,the media lap it up if we had won we would have been given a cursory mention..
It won’t survive in this format. A 4 year qualification process makes no sense, the international version is 2 years but ensures at least some level of consistency is required towards the end of the qualifying group games to guarantee the team is at the right standard. Then you can’t build up support from the fans for it. Other than for those fans of the teams that qualify it means very little to everyone else, it’s such a small pool of interest and the fact it’s another 4 years to the next one makes that worse as they’ll have no memory of this one when it comes around again. The players don’t want it and they struggled to sell this one to any sponsors.
We have always been open to being countered on due to how we play. That playing style may slowly change with time which means we move quicker. Rodri is key to that but we do need to plan around any absence from him. Even what you have listed there, we will be great going forwards, even if that means we are leaky at the back, at least it won't be like the boring passive football we endured last time. It will take time mate, we rotated every game, we was playing in extreme conditions and our new coaches and signings need time to adapt and make their mark. Just as it was important not to get carried away after Juve, the same applies here. Let them now have a break, come back and look like they are enjoying it again and build.
The criticism of the Club World Club has been explained in detail by the BBC's Dan Roan amongst others. It is overtly political. If I put a football hat on, my framework for the football calendar would be a domestic league, a domestic Cup, the CL and a Club world Cup every 4 years and a reduction in international games. We are living in a global world and there should be a World Cup of clubs.Saying the football calendar needs to be sorted out seems like an oxymoron after defending a cup format that asks 32 teams from all over the world to travel to one location either right after a full season or directly in the middle of it.
If we insist on doing this, I'd look at potentially doing something similar to the World Baseball Classic next time around and localising the group stage in a different format. Maybe look at having group stages involving continents paired off with each other to avoid the travel.
Also, trying to dismiss the criticism for the tournament as being BBC prejudice and "liberal commentators" just seems ridiculous, when FIFPRO themselves called the organisation of it "abuse of dominance".
Fifpro meet with Fifa over fixture congestion concerns
Player representatives meet with Fifa over the packed fixture calendar that has led to the threat of strike action, with further talks planned.
He's absolutely wrong.
If anything, if a global club competition is needed then it’s the CL that needs reducing. It doesn’t need to be 15 games or whatever it is to win it when the CWC is only 7.
And ?? Grow a bloody pair ? I always use the name Man City when talking to other fans from other clubs.