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[CatMan]

Ah yes email.... the ultimate faceless cowardly management tool.

 

[coolcity]

We're damned if we join and damned - and relegated to a 2nd class future - if we don't join.
Let's hope it's just a barganing chip that's being played and this all falls away in a couple of weeks time.
Fingers crossed

 

[willipp]

So the CL final could be PSG v Porto or Dortmund, with City, Chelsea, and Real Madrid possibly being kicked out.

Well it sounds like PSG are ready to sign up based on some posts a while back, so it could be all 4 out.

 

[jrb]

The Legacy 6.

Brilliant! :-(

 

[Damocles]

your posts on this topic have been excellent, and honest.

if you continue to watch the games and follow the format, good luck to you. i hope it crashes and burns and becomes and laughing stock. I now realise that i've wanted this for 15 years.

I actually want the whole of football to crash and burn in order to come up with a way in which European participation doesn't totally fuck financial parity in domestic leagues and we have genuine competition again. But it seems like a pipe dream at this point and if football is to be broken then I'd prefer it to be broken in our favour rather than us being stood on the outside.

This happens with or without us so we can take a moral but ultimately fruitless stand and get left behind or we can go along with it and maintain ourselves as one of the world's major clubs. Once they set the wheels in motion there wasn't too much of a decision for us to make in my opinion.

Again though, there's lots of details that are unclear and I'd like to see their detailed proposals before jumping on the bandwagon. But I'm not totally against it as a proposal as some are.

 

[SWP's back]

It's hard to see how a super league would be financially viable long term? Sure it would make a splash for a season or 2 and they might have some super sponsors lined up but only 12 teams - so 22 games a season?? (presuming the national leagues boot the 12 clubs from domestic competitions). If nobody is interested in watching (which I think we can safely say from all the comments online they ain't) then TV money will go away, sponsers will go away... it's a dead league

If FIFA really do ban players from those 12 from playing in the World Cup then we are going to see top players leaving in droves - only the older (last payday types) will stick around and no up and coming talent will want to move to a SL club...

It's 20 teams. 15 founder members and 5 that qualify through "merit".

 

[Keeper!]

I would love to hear what Mr Michael Summerbee's take on this is?

Come on Mike, let's hear it, is this for you?

 

[Blue Maverick]

Anyone else reading all the arguments and completely fucking torn?

I'd watch City play anyone as I support City. I would much rather have things stay the same but at the same time, the SL is going to happen with or without City so I would much rather that it happened with City. This does not mean that I am for a SL nor that I am happy about it. It feels like City have been stuck between a rock and a hard place and the management have decided that joining is the somewhat lesser evil. It would be financial suicide to decline the invoite IF the SL is happening. We'd lose our best players and the club's value would plummet through the floor.

Yes I feel shite for the Leicesters, Burnley and Wolves et al, but when those cunts were sending letters to CAS to try and get us fucked out of the CL, how much emotional energy did their supporters spend on me, or you or City as a whole?

The whole situation is shite and it's been pushed by owners that don't give a fuck but 18 months ago I was in areement with many City fans that should UEFA ban City from the CL then we should set up our own lucrative tournament and fuck UEFA off. Well it seems like that's happening.

Also I find the attacks on our owner and fans who have voted yes rather abhorrent. Suggesting "Fuck you Mansour..." as the banner isn't a great look.

Good point about the clubs against us with CAS, also it’s a fuck your to the dinosaur that is uefa but it’s still not what I want, I’d rather not be in any European competitions at all, it’s all about domestic stuff for me and there’s a good chance that could disappear. If Manchester can’t supply the fans then the franchise could move elsewhere Beijing City anyone.

 

[Cityzen_89]

Something tells me not a single shite will be given what they think.

 

[HelloCity]

This league will grow and grow until they all resign from the PL. It’ll end up being the only league they play in and it’ll have its own knock out cup etc.