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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
There wont be a big grand statement from City...we dont seem to ever do that, we dont discuss anything in public...i know people WANT an explanation, but i just dont see it happening. Id be surprised.

Khaldoon will likely touch on it in his end of season review...but i think thats all it will be
 
John Wayne said:
That is a good way of putting it, but we have no way of knowing that it happened without further explanation. As far as I'm concerned, all this "we played a blinder" talk is like a woman who has just been assaulted by the man she loves saying that he did it as an act of love. This can of course be shown to be the situation but we can't just assume that's the case just because we like owners who stick a lot of money into the club. I think we deserve some answers here.

These are the facts:

1) City have never consulted with the fans about a proposed Super League.

2) All we had by way of information was a standard statement put on the club's website very late on a Sunday night.

3) There were no appearances or references made by anyone associated with the club.

4) The club did not put the statement on its Twitter feed. It is unclear why such big news would not appear on all communication mediums.

5) The owner of Manchester United was the person quoted on our club's website in the statement. The reason(s) why nobody from the club commented are unclear.

6) The club resigned from the European Club Association (ECA) along with the 11 other clubs. The reasons for this are unknown.

7) The club had no representation at the ECA's meeting on Monday along with the 11 other clubs.

8) The club were the first to withdraw from the Super League. The reason(s) for this are unknown. It is most likely that the club did not like the backlash but this is still unknown.

Anything else is mere speculation.

So on the basis of the above, I am not inclined to view the club favourably in the absence of any explanation. I am happy to listen to the club but think it's important to hold its custodians to account, whoever they may be. Whether it's Peter Swales or Sheikh Mansour who is the custodian is irrelevant - they should ALWAYS be answerable to the fans and never be given free reign to drag our name through the mud.
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No 5 is the worst of the lot.
In the end we did the right thing.
Yesterday morning the realisation hit me that if we pushed ahead with this in its current format, I was done.
40 years of supporting City gone in an instant and hit me like a train.
Something I thought would, could never happen.
So in the end I’m glad we did the right thing.
On the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter why we did it, we did it.
Time as they say is a great healer and it’ll take time.
 
Interesting though about using laws to prevent this. What if City and United decided together to create a Manchester Cup, that only they were in and no one else. They would play four times a year, twice at home and twice away. The winner would be awarded the Manchester Cup. Should UEFA be allowed to throw City out of the CL for doing so, and FIFA not allow our players in the World Cup? Sounds like a cartel to me
 
CityBlu said:
Interesting though about using laws to prevent this. What if City and United decided together to create a Manchester Cup, that only they were in and no one else. They would play four times a year, twice at home and twice away. The winner would be awarded the Manchester Cup. Should UEFA be allowed to throw City out of the CL for doing so, and FIFA not allow our players in the World Cup? Sounds like a cartel to me
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Then the rags would have to relocate their stadium.
 
Coatigan said:
Did they really need to beat Uefa's vote on CL reforms? I'm not sure. That is claimed but I dont think it is relevant.

Agree though, they had to rush it through, but possibly not for that.
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I cant think of any other reason why this came out when it did, the night of the Sunday before. Maybe also the fact UEFA was also holding elections on the Monday and they were all planning to quit the ECA as well
 
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