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[PragueBlue]

I grew up wanting us to win the first division and European cup. That then changed to PL and CL. Football still survived.

 

[marpleman]

You should be ashamed of yourself

Why? Who gives a monkeys any more? I've had a ticket at this club for 47 years and I feel utterly utterly let down that we're even a part of it. We're tarnished, and now no better than that lot over the city. The season has now fallen completely flat for me. Count me out

 

[give it to gordon]

If the English clubs stay, then the TV rights would be similar and the SL will just replace the CL.

Why ? I wouldnt be interested in watching a second string liverpool taken on a second string City or Utd . When in the super league I could watch a full strength liverpool play a full strength City.

Not that I would be watching anyway

 

[MarsLlama]

Could well be right, VAR decision quickly turns into a 10 second ad slot for budweiser etc etc

There are loads of games where no long VAR decisions happen at all. No sane company will pay money for an advertising slot that might never exist.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Until Soriano speaks I find it hard to believe we and Roman buckled to their authority at the last minute..

 

[J_MCFC21]

New 36 team, league-based CL coming soon.

 

[jimbopm]

Do you think that every single decision/idea is some kind of ploy against us? Literally everything you post is as though everything is anti City. Your club is invited to a league formed from other super clubs from our nation and others. One of the elite. And all you can think about is how it is going to be another plot to topple us?

Really weird.

Why do you think we've been invited? Do you really think they wanted to invite us? Some of these clubs have been railing against our ownership for years, they've never agreed with how we've been run.

The reason we have been invited is because a 'Super' League doesn't carry much weight if City (assuming we win the Premier League this year) aren't in it. Us not being invited would mean no champions of England, no champions of Germany and no champions of France. Not very impressive is it?

We're merely being used a pawn for reputational purposes to get the league up and running. Imagine City not being in it and Tottenham and Arsenal are with no promotion/relegation, people would see it as a joke.

 

[aguero93:20]

Don't they need 20 teams for their format of two groups of 10?
As it stands they are 8 shy. I hope everyone who wasn't asked originally fucks them off if they come crawling.
All this is because utd and liverpool are in debt and their nobhead American owners are fat greedy fuckers who think they are the top dogs.
Am absolutely seething that these cunts one way or another have ruined the English game and they've made every other **** jump into bed with them.
It was last October these rumours first surfaced and utd and liverpools names was the frontrunner of this new league forming.
I hate these red mardarse cunts a million times more than I did yesterday, they have ruined the beautiful game for each and everyone of us and if, and it's a big if, if it all goes tits up and it doesn't form then these two shithouse clubs need fucking from every angle.

This is the biggest obstacle to stopping it if the national associations and UEFA stand firm on banning clubs imo.

Imagine the first year in they invite Lazio, Lyon, Everton, Wolfsburg and Ajax to be the first of the 5 rotating teams and it's a scenario where all 5 clubs know that they might only have a year in the ESL but they'll get a lengthy ban from their domestic leagues and UEFA comps, say 10 years? None will join and they won't have their 20 teams. There's nothing to lose financially for the 15 permanent members but there's an awful lot to lose potentially for the 5 temporary ones, they'll be gambling with the very existence of their clubs.

 

[PragueBlue]

Why ? I wouldnt be interested in watching a second string liverpool taken on a second string City or Utd . When in the super league I could watch a full strength liverpool play a full strength City.

Not that I would be watching anyway

Because people will still watch those games just as they now watch both the PL and CL. I would expect us to try and win both.

 

[JoeD]

Very few clubs, if any, of those who have joined will have any trouble filling the away end for every ESL game.

We'll see about that.