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[Damocles]

An excellent and well thought out article.
Pity some fans can`t get the gist of this.
Our Owner and his staff would have taken the view "damned if we do, damned if we don`t".

I think the idea that City didn't know about the proposed breakaway until the Thursday but signed on the Saturday is somewhat preposterous.

Personally I didn't and don't have a problem with what City did. The executives in charge are tasked with protecting and growing Man City and that's what they did. They acted in the best interests of the bottom line of City which is what I would always expect them to do.

However, this narrative emerging that poor ikkle City were victims from those mean cartel bullies is ridiculous. We knew what we were doing.

I think you're probably right in that we weighed it up and thought better to be pissing out than in.

 

[LongsightM13]

Mate, literally two hours before it fell apart you were telling everyone that the decision had been made an no club would change their mind so I’ll take your insistence that the article was a) a plant and b) makes us look grotesquely out of touch with a pinch or two of salt.

The very last thing Ian Herbert is is City’s favourite reporter. Fully signed up WhatsApp Group twat who was famously singled out by Liam G as a ‘PISSFLAP’

 

[oakiecokie]

What's the situation with Gill.?

Not changed ... he`s still a **** !!

 

[iwasthere1968]

I think the decision to join was based on the fact that it's easier to come out than get back in.

 

[vmsuhail]

Off-topic, noticed that we are 4th in the UEFA Coefficient rankings above Athletico Madrid and Juventus. Progress.

 

[SheliaTakeaBow]

I'm not sure where this notion that the ESL was replacing the PL has come from but it wasn't that at all - it was replacing the CL
It was an extra comp / league that was potentially going to give our rivals a huge boost - I can 100% see why City (relunctantly) said yes to it.

I can see i've opened a can of worms here and maybe I came across a bit strong - 1st thing in the morning isn't my best time of day lol.

I still stand by what I said though - football is a business, you need lots of money to be the best and our owners want that for the club...

Was it an error of judgement - yes and no... maybe I'm a glass half full type of guy but I really believe that our board did this without malice or the intent to "screw the fans over" like some are suggesting. From a business point of view it was a no brainer - from a fans point of view though... well I think we all (me included) thought the ESL was extremely bad for football.

The owners of the other 5 English clubs (with the exception of possibly Chelsea) no doubt saw a way of making themselves richer though and thankfully our owners don't leech every last penny that they can get out of our club

It would have terminally weakened the league if we’d been allowed to stay in it - playing the reserves for league games and the first team for the ESL, with league games eventually moved to midweek, no doubt - and anyway the likelihood is we would have been chucked out of it, quite rightly I think.

 

[give it to gordon]

I really hope others fans wake up and see what these American owners are really like.
The press/media always paint City as the bad guy as the press/media lick the dippers and utd arses. Yet it's clear twice in the last few months liverpool and utd have worked together to try and change English football for their own benefit.

The press/media have alot to answer for, they have fed the fans of these American clubs lies after lies after lies. Ignore the way their fans behaviour, ignore the way some of their players behave on and off the field.
They employe hundreds of ex utd and dippers in the press/media players to spout the lover of their teams, and hatred towards City. Just last week BT commentary on City v Dortmund for example very anti City.
The press/media have allowed these American own teams to think they are untouchable. Hopefully the press/media will now turn on these American clubs and see them for what they really are. A danger to our game.

City have spent millions redeveloping East Manchester, the campus, statium give to the NHS, work in the community.
The American clubs just take mostly, do enough to keep their teams near the top but dont spend in their communities.

The premier league and UEFA need to start removing directors of these club from the ruling bodies of the premier league and UEFA.

Yes City have taken a bloody nose on this ESL. But that's not forget the teams behind this mostly American and G14 clubs most of these clubs have huge debt. It still seems very odd that City were invited to join the ESL.

City will get abuse from other clubs for abit but I dont think City would have been the driving force in this.

It's clear it's the American clubs and G14 clubs behide this because they are badly run with huge debt.

 

[SWP's back]

Next up will be the dippers and rags asking for punishment
Not anything to do with them both being miles off winning the league!!

I’d happily see all six clubs receive a ten point deduction. That would space up the run in.

 

[M12Blue]

That’s two people that have recognised it.

didn’t know so many blues had ever visited

Oh yes, have they finished the building in the centre

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Why do all the headlines put Chelsea first, surely that is not correct. The media can not help themselves can they?

Who gives a shit? All six clubs acted horrendously and trying to claim some sort of points for pulling out first is like saying well done to someone for being the first of a group of six people to stop beating the shit out of someone.