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[vincent]

Pep feeding us BS last week saying we we need to build long history in the CL. Utter bollox.

 

[peter.evans]

I have no interest in watching City play in an ESL - zero - wouldn't even change the channel on the TV to watch it, certainly won't be paying for the new ESL package from whichever broadcaster makes the pitch

Hopefully this can be killed off pretty quickly - the rest of football which aren't part of the club can say OK, you twelve can run your own mini-league, you are thrown out of all competitions and any players taking part in that league are banned from any other football, enjoy the money while it lasts

with the 51% rules in Germany I'd say it was unlikely that any of their clubs will ever join

Saves the club money on upgrading the ground as I don't think many true City fans will be on board with this abomination of an idea

Exactly.it isn't a super league ! Many if the current best teams in Europe won't be in it.

 

[Akiva]

Let's face it, City didn't have their arm twisted, they jumped into bed with the very same individuals who have tried to fuck us for years.

I'm absolutely stunned and ashamed my club were party to this, but the fact it's spearheaded by the Glazers and that virulent **** Perez is, without a doubt, evidence that this is simply not my club any more.

There's still time for this all to be negated, I think, but the damage has largely been done.

 

[BlueMooner87]

I dont mind it, as long as it kills off uefa off, PL are only fucked off because they are in the pockets of uefa

 

[Coatigan]

It’s announced now to head off UEFA’s own CL reforms which are confirmed today. Could this just be a huge game of bluff forcing UEFA to change the CL to something these 12 clubs would prefer?

No way, no way back, damage is well and truly done, the only thing left now is to persevere with it. Any U-turns or changes would be worse for the clubs than sticking with it now.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

This is 30 years in the making and certainly shouldn't be a shock. It makes me reflect on what I've actually been following, as a sport, since the early 80s.

Because the cartels, the massive commercial contracts, corruption, greed and soulless branding is where we are already. This is the next level, true, and merely makes me reflect on how I've been spending my time.

2 non football fans have said to me this morning; " I don't understand what's so different". It made me think.

It’s a natural progression, we were always heading here weren’t we? Maybe we didn’t want to think about it, but here we are. I have a feeling the younger generation will just accept it. Let’s be honest, if this had been brought in 30 years ago it would have failed, but that’s when it started. It crept up on us oldies while we naively accepted every little ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ while doing nothing. It’s not over yet either, eventually the club could effectively based elsewhere.

 

[Northerndave]

Yes poor old lickle City forced into a corner by the American cabal. It is about time we accepted were just as bad.

And that's part of the betrayal. We thought we were different, we thought the owners understand us, they didn't, they don't, they sold the club to jump into bed with our enemies

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I dont mind it, as long as it kills off uefa off, PL are only fucked off because they are in the pockets of uefa

Have you even bothered to look at who is running this new competition?

 

[rickmcfc]

I’ve woken up this morning and I thought positively about this for a few minutes. I’ve asked myself a few questions and the first that came to mind was - Could we afford to not be in this? The answer was no. I feel we need to be in this for the future if the club.
Secondly, after UEFA have fucked us over so many times (or tried too) is it any surprise we have decided to leave and join this new league - again the answer is no, not surprising at all. I keep answering questions and they all point in the direction that I’m not surprised by this at all, with the clubs interests at heart it makes sense, and I voted “no” in the poll attached to this thread.

For me, the part that stinks the most, how will Leicester and West Ham be feeling this morning? In the season they have broken the mould and put in class performances to threaten the “top 4” and worked their socks off, and potentially all for nothing - we grew up to be better than this and should have fucked the new idea off. City have changed, it’s not an overnight process but this is the final straw for many, probably myself included

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Yup, you might feel that your club is being a "fondling member" (fnar fnar) but you are not, there are details of this that limit the power that helped you get a leg up.

This deal is in spite of you, not for you.

You`re not telling us something we don`t know.

Knowing the ramification for your team and as unpalatable as it is, would you do stay within UEFA or join this new Super League if Leicester were invited.

As I said in my post earlier. My real line in the sand is the closing of the new league to promotion and relegation.