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[Dirak]

Anybody who thinks we’ve played a blinder in all of this is just trying to paper over the poor lack of judgement by the club IMO - in hindsight, imagine we were sat here today and it was 11 clubs instead of 12 because City had refused to join. It would have been the biggest step forward in the press for our ownership since it happened in 2008. The club made a big mistake, it’s been rectified, but we are in the same boat as the other 5 PL clubs on this one.

I think you are wrong. PSG didn't join - how most people even on here painted it? "They need WC, they will join later" or "not even invited".

We wouldn't get great press when they would say we were left out. Now we look almost innocent - joined last, never liked the idea but feared to be left out, and destroyed it from inside leading exit. Even UEFA welcomed us back publicly.

I would not go that far to say we had it planned for 3 years, and 5D chess etc. but given cards we had in our hand we played it really well. IF the idea did materialise we would be inside it, it was easy to kill fast when we decided, UEFA cleared from some characters, and got far more good or neutral press than we would get if we did not join from the start.

"Lack od judgment"? Maybe. But if you put enotions aside, and think as businessman, they could make much worse choices from start to finish, and could get worse outcomes for the club. I think they played it briliantly even if I don't think we had it all planned for some time as others may suggest.

 

[Rammy Blue]

What legality? The EFL is destroyed, along with the clubs reputation, this will cost us dear, prestige, money, titles, 12 years of hard toil gone in a moment of greed.

Maybe in your opinion, which you’re entitled to, however I’ll choose to differ.

 

[Craig]

It has literally just funded the last 10 years of silverware on a scale never seen before, something we could have never done organically.

I know it has. So do we just back everything they do now because they’ve bought the players to win us those trophies? I don’t like the way the club has been acting and going for the last few years and feel like this week has been an absolute disgrace on a Peter Swales level. Their ignorance and arrogance towards the fans over the last few days has been shocking.

Season tickets were going up and up before the pandemic despite most clubs freezing theirs after the biggest ever TV deals were signed. They weren’t going up hugely but they’d constantly try and squeeze more from a hardcore working class fan base when in reality it would make very little difference to the club funds.It just shows contempt and a real lack of understanding from them in my opinion.

 

[01cravend]

Khaldoon's end of season interview better be a doozy.

Releasing a written statement on the website won't cut it. We deserve transparency, reasoning and a proper apology straight from the horses mouth.

 

[Keeper!]

Maybe in your opinion, which you’re entitled to, however I’ll choose to differ.

So again we have put the fans second to legal argument?

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

I know it has. So do we just back everything they do now because they’ve bought the players to win us those trophies? I don’t like the way the club has been acting and going for the last few years and feel like this week has been an absolute disgrace on a Peter Swales level. Their ignorance and arrogance towards the fans over the last few days has been shocking.

Season tickets were going up and up before the pandemic despite most clubs freezing theirs after the biggest ever TV deals were signed. They weren’t going up hugely but they’d constantly try and squeeze more from a hardcore working class fan base when in reality it would make very little difference to the club funds.It just shows contempt and a real lack of understanding from them in my opinion.

Great post

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I know it has. So do we just back everything they do now because they’ve bought the players to win us those trophies? I don’t like the way the club has been acting and going for the last few years and feel like this week has been an absolute disgrace on a Peter Swales level. Their ignorance and arrogance towards the fans over the last few days has been shocking.

Season tickets were going up and up before the pandemic despite most clubs freezing theirs after the biggest ever TV deals were signed. They weren’t going up hugely but they’d constantly try and squeeze more from a hardcore working class fan base when in reality it would make very little difference to the club funds.It just shows contempt and a real lack of understanding from them in my opinion.

Did you think it would all come for free? Those players, the stadium redesign, the managers before Pep, and the ultimate man at the helm himself?
We aren't the City all nicey nice a Maine Road and haven't been since 2008. None of this will have been thought about though when those trophies kept rolling in and we got to a place where we can place arguably one of the best players in the world on a £400k a week contract.

 

[Keeper!]

I know it has. So do we just back everything they do now because they’ve bought the players to win us those trophies? I don’t like the way the club has been acting and going for the last few years and feel like this week has been an absolute disgrace on a Peter Swales level. Their ignorance and arrogance towards the fans over the last few days has been shocking.

Season tickets were going up and up before the pandemic despite most clubs freezing theirs after the biggest ever TV deals were signed. They weren’t going up hugely but they’d constantly try and squeeze more from a hardcore working class fan base when in reality it would make very little difference to the club funds.It just shows contempt and a real lack of understanding from them in my opinion.

Spot on, the hunted became the hunter.

Some seriously poor decisions made in terms of the fans, especially from Ferran, I said yesterday, I simply don't think he like the yanks understands what this club is about and the passion and rivalry of English clubs.

His baby is the CFG, not MCFC, let him go and run the CFG but get someone as CEO who understands MCFC.

 

[City Raider]

There is no positive PR for any of the clubs involved here, if you see it, its reflected internally from partisan sources. The only positive it what may occur due to this attempted coup.

Haha spoken as a fan of a popular club in the media who has no worries about PR. You really have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be a Manchester City fan

 

[toffee balls]

I think it is pretty obvious that EUFA are not fit for purpose.

That is at the heart of all of this.