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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
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BBC Archive 1994: The future of football?

Standing Room Only imagines how football might look in the year 2004.
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This is from the BBC in 1994

'Imagine a world where the very best teams in Europe play each other on a regular basis and viewers pay to watch on TV without regard to the fans who have supported them for decades'

Nah! That could never happen

Newcastle! - well it was 1994, nearly 30 years ago
 
Manciniera said:
Maybe they should fax it out, I didn’t receive any! I don’t recall giving the CEO my email address.
Seriously, a statement on the main site for every City fan would have been far more appropriate. Anyway,, we move on.. lessons hopefully learnt, listen to the fans.
8 points!
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I got two.
You can have one of mine.
 
The_Dude said:
I haven't checked if someone's already translated everything Perez said about us so I'll do it here (I speak Spanish)

"There was a club in the English group that weren't that interested. They started to contaminate the others. They signed the document but I don't think they were ever committed. (Interviewer asks whether it's Man City and Perez says he will not say). Because this club pulled out now all of the rest of us have to pull out and leave this project. (Interviewer says that it's interesting that Man City being an elite club can take this decision and back out of something so quickly) The owners of the Manchester team started a campaign, a completely manipulative campaign, to take away the domestic leagues and to not play based on merit. (Then he starts talking about something else)



I don't really get the last part but that's definitely what he says. Quickly and without challenge from the interviewer, he just touches on a Man City (unless "the Manchester team means United??) led plan to take away domestic leagues and then doesn't go into any more detail. Really weird.
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Something lost in translation? Obviously this is Perez here so it's difficult to take anything at face value but I don't think he means that City planned to destroy the domestic leagues, and what he's alluding to is that City warned all those involved that the Super League format would destroy the domestic leagues. He implies that City were of that opinion from the off and we never really wanted to be a part of such a project (rather than just coming to that realisation when the backlash started), which naturally begs the question why we signed up to it in the first place................
 
M18CTID said:
Something lost in translation? Obviously this is Perez here so it's difficult to take anything at face value but I don't think he means that City planned to destroy the domestic leagues, and what he's alluding to is that City warned all those involved that the Super League format would destroy the domestic leagues. He implies that City were of that opinion from the off and we never really wanted to be a part of such a project (rather than just coming to that realisation when the backlash started), which naturally begs the question why we signed up to it in the first place................
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FOMO
 
I don’t buy the Perez conspiracy theory that this was orchestrated all along, though I like the bit that we we drove pretend Chelsea fans to London to protest.

If it was a plan we would not have signed (like Bayern) and risked Millions on a gamble. This isn’t the way City operate.

However, I do believe that, having seen the fans, players, managers, and then the Government pile in to finish it....City saw an opportunity and were in constant contact with UEFA to plan the exit out and influence the other EPL clubs.

We made the best of a bad job, thought quickly and brought it down.

The interesting thing to me is would it have gone ahead if City were not in it. My guess is still “no“ but I’m glad we were in it as, in the end, we made sure.

I also think we have emerged with more power than before we entered this. We will be UEFAs favourite club right now and the old boys have, in the main, lost a lot of influence. UEFA’s comments as soon as we left were pre-prepared of that I am sure.
 
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Project Restart seems to have been forgotten by everyone in the media. The dippers and rags wanted to run the Premier league. When they were told to do one the ESL was dreamt up. I have said before on this thread, this will not go away. They will break from the league cometely. I haven't got a problem with that.... As long as we are not in with them
 
Essentially it all seems to boil down to a handful of clubs thinking they have the right to be the biggest spenders in the game, but at the same time don't want to have to spend so much being that. They're completely incapable of even considering just running like every other club in the world and making financial decisions as to whether they can afford something.
 
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