But then they might have found another club in our place and that club may not have been as keen to pull out as we were. That being the case, if the Superleague had got going, we really would have missed the boat and the greedy clubs would have been out of sight again. We were really between a rock and a hard place and the outcome, although not perfect, might be as close to the best we could expect under the circumstances.So we are now left in a position where our greatest enemies, the Qatari clubs Bayern and PSG have their executives taking the roles left by Woodward, Agnelli et all. If we’d have left it at least one of those positions would of been filled by Khaldoon/Soriano.
Great work City.
I suspect once we were out of the CL/PL, they'd have found a way to rid themselves of City and Chelsea altogether slowly but surely.I sill cant understand how there could be 6 English clubs in a super league the ratio's were all to cock.
I suspect once we were out of the CL/PL, they'd have found a way to rid themselves of City and Chelsea altogether slowly but surely.
Yes.They'd achieve that by reducing the proportion of money both us and Chelsea received as it was completely in favour of the clubs with positions of authority in the ESL from the very start of its brief existence.
I can see why we signed up, it was because of the 75% voting thing in the PL, if we didn't, and it went ahead and was successful, we were on the losing side financially. By being on the inside, the other PL clubs couldn't force all 6 clubs out, as they didn't have enough votes, so it was better to be in, as we retained the PL, and replaced the CL with the SL.When you look at who was running it you find it almost impossible to comprehend why we signed up to it.
Agree100%. They’ve been in it before and then fucked it up. Why couldn’t they sustain it then if they were such an attractive prospect?I think the potential of Newcastle is overstated. No way that area is competing for top players against Manchester and London (and by extension Madrid, Barcelona, etc). Even we struggle sometimes on this front. FFP will limit their ability to compensate with wages, which probably limits them to being a solid Europa league club at best.
We were cleared of cheating. Are you saying we got away with cheating?If we hadn't been allegedly cheating FFP then we wouldn't have had anything to be cleared of. So technically they're not incorrect.
Why 6 PL clubs in the 15 founding members ?I don't think we had the same luxury that Bayern or PSG had, as nobody else from Germany or France had signed up they weren't about to be displaced. I sill cant understand how there could be 6 English clubs in a super league the ratio's were all to cock. The impression that I get from everything I have read is that they needed us more than they actually wanted us. Lets remember it was going to be 15 fixed members with 5 invites. Lets assume that Bayern, Dortmund and PSG all agreed to join that would be the 15 clubs with 6 teams from England. No teams outside of England, Spain, Italy, France & Germany. Suppose they could get an Ajax or Shaktar involved to bring in Holland and Russian interest and they wanted to drop down to 5 English clubs. Which of the 6 would the Rags, Dippers, Arsenal, Barca, Madrid, Juve want to miss out on the riches they would all get?
I suspect we know who, and maybe this is why we signed up although we had reservations.
Retail for £30, course they do.I don't know if this is posted elsewhere or even if they're real but: https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar