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[rickmcfc]

......... and like that, City lost to PSG

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I just cant believe any club let alone City are prepared to throw everything away, all the tradition, history, excitement and challenges for a few extra quid. What about the fans, clearly we dont mean anything anymore to the owners.

I dont want to watch a closed shop competion run on the back of a sham domestic league. Wheres the pleasure in that.

I would feel embarrassed watching City play another team outside this cartel, knowing that however badly we play, however much we lose by, we will still qualify for this super league and the other club wont.

If this happens, and im preying it wont, that's the end of it for me as a match going fan im afraid, its just not what im about or into as a person, I feel pretty low at present.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Diego Simeone

When quizzed on the decision Simeone said: "I am the coach and I'm ready to coach where they tell me. I have no doubt they will take the best decision for the future of our club."

Simeone is the highest paid manager in world football by some distance so that's no surprise.

 

[domalino]

I wonder if UEFA are still going to announce their new Champions League formst this morning?

 

[mcfc_ms]

All those saying we had to do it, no we didn’t. If Bayern and PSG can go without, then so can we.

I’m disgusted at the club

 

[rowarta]

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

who knows, have the club had a gun put to their head over the weekend stating "your either in the 15 now or you'll never be in"

 

[Coatigan]

Is there a legal reason they're using THE Super League and not EUROPEAN Super League?

Probably so they can in the future involve clubs from other continents. Beijing Rovers vs Miami Whatevers final 2025.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Did you ever?

I did more than you'll ever know. But objectively, not blindly.

This is disgusting

 

[dickie davies]

I'm not as against this as everybody else. I'm not entirely convinced by it but I don't think it's a disgusting outrage either.

Firstly let's get real for a moment. Football has been broken since the 1990s. People talk like we're in the 1960s where all the clubs could have a similar chance of competition. We aren't and we haven't been for decades. A Leicester could happen once but the idea that you can build a sustainable challenger to the league using your academy, good management and transfer guile is farcical. United saw to that many years ago - to compete you need a billionaire to invest in you. That's the broken part, by the way. That you need that to begin with. The English game has been financially lopsided and killed competition 20 years ago.

So the competitive morality out of the way, we look at other things such as what will happen to poor Stoke and Burnley? Nothing, presumably. More to the point, I give as much of a fuck for their future as they did for us when we were going bankrupt. My emotions are tied to Man City and whats best for them.

The Super League is what's best for City. As a founding member, we're now one of the big boys forever. If there's a revolution in the UAE tomorrow and Shiekh Mansour/his family is deposed and he's forced to sell the club then its no problem. We're in the tent pissing out, permanently. The fact that we get to fuck UEFA on the way past is icing on the cake.

My only actual concern here is for the fans. It sounds like potentially 18 European away games to the final and you just know that the Final is more likely to be in Beijing than Birmingham. Affordability is going to be a significant issue and it's the only thing that's making me doubt it. If the club did something like a European equivalent of subsidised coaches then I'd be happier with it.

But yeah. It guarantees our post UAE future, it establishes us as one of the world's biggest clubs, it fucks UEFA, it will be the competition all the biggest players want to play in, it will earn us fucking bank, what's not to like?

I've woken with different thoughts as well
The CL is an invitational tournament (that's what we were told when we were banned from their tournament) so we can refuse to play in it
Now when we're on pre season tour in the far east, raising our profile by playing Wolves and Shanghai Villa, is that a UEFA sanctioned tournament!
So surely we can participate in whatever we want so long as it doesn't interfere with our domestic calendar

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

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

Pretty obvious to me he didn't know. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see him walk.