Email from our CEO
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Shaelumstash
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The reason the apology sounded insincere, is because it was.
The executives did what they thought was in the best interests of the club.
We didn't want to join.
If we didn't join and the whole thing was a success, it could have led to the PL, and City, not being viable going forward.
If we were on the inside, we guaranteed the future security of the club, and left ourselves with the option to bring the whole thing down from the inside. Which is exactly what's happened.
The apology email is just PR lip service to fans who feel upset. But they made exactly the right decisions for the club and they don't owe anyone an apology.
If you're still in any doubt, read what Perez has said and connect the dots.
www.theguardian.com
The executives did what they thought was in the best interests of the club.
We didn't want to join.
If we didn't join and the whole thing was a success, it could have led to the PL, and City, not being viable going forward.
If we were on the inside, we guaranteed the future security of the club, and left ourselves with the option to bring the whole thing down from the inside. Which is exactly what's happened.
The apology email is just PR lip service to fans who feel upset. But they made exactly the right decisions for the club and they don't owe anyone an apology.
If you're still in any doubt, read what Perez has said and connect the dots.
Pérez blames one breakaway English club for Super League's collapse
The Super League collapsed partly because one club, understood to be Manchester City, was not fully on board, according to Pérez
www.theguardian.com
Shaelumstash
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Whoever was responsible for City's strategy around the SL, whether Sorriano or Khaldoon, deserves a raise and a contract extension.
The SL going ahead would have ruined football. The SL going ahead without City would have ruined City.
Our top brass have ensured neither of those things would happen.
Prestwich_Blue
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But would it have ruined us if it went ahead without us? Would it not have got the same reaction as it got this week?
In fact, by letting it go ahead, we might have really fucked up Arsenal, Liverpool & United (Spurs don't need any help) as we could have probably got them kicked out of the PL and CL. And we know that ultimately the ESL would have failed and they'd try to come crawling back.
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It's easy for us to say that about the reaction in hindsight PB, but would you have taken that risk?
And for what gain? A few positive PR pieces about City maintaining the values of sporting integrity.
Compared with the potential risk of the SL being a success and the PL, CL and ultimately City not being commercially viable a few years down the line, I don't think the reward matches the risk.
Crikey!
If Superliga went ahead without us, we would be fine but not one of the elite. That's the rub and the clue as to where the ambitions lie.
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"fine" is not what Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon are in the game for.
Its been done to death but we had to join the SL incase it worked. It hasn't and we have got away with it pretty much scot free all things considered. So let this go now and lets all join back here in 5yrs when it comes around again.
In the meantime, lets hope we can get enough pressure on UEFA to adjust their new rules because they are also ridiculous.
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I genuinely don't think that's true mate.
If the SL had gone ahead, and you add PSG and Bayern in (which seems to have been the plan all along) and then then 5 more clubs, the CL would become less attractive than the Europa.
It was clear the long term plan was for the SL to eventually be played at the weekend and replace domestic leagues.
A US bank is not doing to front billions for a competition that is played at midday on a Wednesday in the middle of a US working week. Or in the middle of the night in Asia. Clearly the long term plan was for this to replace domestic leagues.
If you take the top 6 out of the PL, is it even commercially viable? Who's going to pay to broadcast that? If the top 6 stayed in, but didn't have to qualify, it would turn the whole thing in to the Carabao Cup - weakened teams, saving your best players for the proper games in the bigger competitions.
It might have taken a few years, but I genuinely believe if the SL had gone ahead, it would have led the to the PL, CL and City not being commercially viable in the long term.
Without us and Chelsea dropping out, putting pressure on the other English teams to follow suit, the SL could still be going ahead. We know the Glazers have history of fronting out and continuing in the face of criticism from their fans, so they wouldn't have buckled. Chances are same with Liverpool, Arsenal and probably Spuds. So ours and Chelsea backing out caused the collapse. If the SL had gone ahead, with the money involved, we would have struggled to compete for transfers and player wages over the next few years. I can understand why City and Chelsea joined, And it did concrete us in the upper echelons of European and therefore world football. Glad they pulled out.
If the SL had been announced without us being included in the group, how many of us would've been aggrieved that we weren't included as much as we were when we were?