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[lancs blue]

Not jumping into that bed would be a far less sensible decision and anyone who thinks The Sheikh wouldn't make it has not been paying attention.

Do you seriously believe that the likes of Glazer, Perez, Kroenke, Henry and Agnelli are suddenly going to be all lovey-dovey towards City? What are the voting rules in this cosy little arrangement, for starters?

 

[Gumzy97]

Loads of rumours online that this is why he was sacked if so fair play

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

What's brought this on is the pandemic, the clubs have realised that they don't really need the fans to make money. We're just surplus to requirements.

They do need fans, without them there is no one paying to watch on TV or stream, no one to advertise to and they have no income. This new thing about legacy fans and fans of the future is what they are looking at though. Good luck to them. Having a load of people in China watch streams will not be the same as having passionate fans following the team. Without the passion it's just souless shite. Let them enjoy their "soccerball super bowl". People will soon tire of empty stadiums, people have put up with it short term due to the pandemic but won't long term.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Obviously you're at liberty to vote with your feet by not renewing your Sky Subscrition and Season Ticket. The only thing that could possibly stop this would be a mass, organised fan movement/boycott.

real fans of the 12 clubs - "legacy fans" would need to coordinate and work together - that won't happen. Everyone will clamour to be "morally correct" and blame someone else.

City defeating FFP will be blamed for fast forwarding this, and it did to a certain extent. This is the only way the other clubs can compete with us and PSG.

I called this last month

 

[dhruvblue]

Wonder what Guardiola’s thoughts on this are ? Maybe we could be managerless within days

I will wait for What Ugly teeth says today. I believe Pep may walk away at end of season

 

[Coatigan]

Not since peak Messi Mambo or the CAS threads have I been this far begind yet unable to skip ahead!

 

[SWP's back]

why? why would you rather be a part of it? genuine question btw.

Search my posts in the thread. I explained at length. I’m on my phone and trying to do 6 things whilst keeping up on the thread.

 

[BimboBob]

So do I.

But they are doing it and we had one decision: to be part of it or not. The Sheikh will not have thought twice about it. He's not in this because he went to York away or hates Man United. The fact that he's only been to matches once tells you all you need to know. He wants City to be the top club in Europe and after spending his billion quid or whatever we have to accept that.

Accept it?

Why should we?

The CL reforms were bad enough but a closed shop money making machine with little or no thought for the fans?

It's a fucking disgrace.

What they should do if they want to make money is collectively make a max of 50k per week on the wages and stop paying the huge agent fees.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I will wait for What Ugly teeth says today. I believe Pep may walk away at end of season

And go where? Barcelona are also in on it. I imagine he’ll also state he doesn’t believe in it but won’t do anything too daft to ostracise himself.

 

[Cityzen_89]

2024?! They won't even exist then! This ESL looks like it is going to start asap from what i've read. You have to laugh.