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[fareastblue]

12 months ago these clubs complained to Uefa to get us banned and now we post a quote from the chairman saying we share the same view on the future of football. I have no words

And there are fans who believe us and Chelsea were the reluctant ones

 

[I'm Blue]

Man City and Chelsea 'backed into a corner' over European Super League stance

Manchester City and Chelsea were ultimately 'backed into a corner' on Friday regarding the European Super League plans, according to emerging details on Sunday night.

www.si.com

As I thought, we either join or get left behind and everything we have built over the last 10-15 years count for nothing (basically)
This is FFP MK2, only this time we’ve been invited to join “protecting the elite”
I understand why we’ve done it, though I don’t agree with it.

 

[simon23]

So from the little Ive read, if us and the super league clubs get our way and UEFA?FIFA cant block this, we will play:

Prem fixtures
All domestic cup fixtures
CL league fixtures
New Super league fixtures (2 groups of 10 = at least another 18 games, home and away fixtures) - if you finish top 3 then you it goes to knock out comps from there....

Thats a lot of extra fixtures with Pep continually bemoaning the amount of games played by players (and I havent factored in International matches etc) - Penny for his thoughts right now!

IF this goes ahead and UEFA dont block it/cant sanction the clubs that have joined it, the prem league for instance could become wide open....with the number of games being played no way us and the others can continually play at peak levels and all managers will have to rotate big time......

One thing Ive only just read is that regarding transfers, under the SL rules we (and others involved) will only be allowed to spend a certain proportion of income/earnings on transfer.....is this correct? If so does that mean our transfer budget is limited across all comps or can we buy players for some comps and not others - that wouldnt make any sense so it cant be that so im presuming our transfer budget would be limited across all comps.

IF UEFA win the legal battle, what will we as a club do? We wouldnt surely drop out of the premiership and domestic comps just to play in this would we......I just cannot imagine that happening.

Have we pushed the other clubs to do this with our beating of UEFA at CAS - is it their reaction to being threatened by our growing presence, performance and power and now we have to join them because we are better on being onside with this than against it.....?

 

[M18CTID]

The 62 should hang their heads in shame

Everyone's entitled to an opinion of course but I've just looked and I'm surprised and disappointed at some of the names on that list.

 

[Patientman63]

I am appalled!

I find I agree with Boris Johnson....

 

[MAG]

This is what this is about ...

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Oh there is. It's still there in all it's glory, still in the hunt for 3 trophies, still with the best manager in the world and still with the best players in the world. Entering a new competition doesn't change any of that.

those 3 trophies mean fuck all. They've just signed them away. they've basically said 90 of the 96 clubs they compete with domestically aren't worth a fuck and they're better. Any results against any outside of the 6 are meaningless.

They are "elite"

How are we "elite". We've never fucking won a European Cup.

 

[Impeccable One]

My 2cents ...

I’m disappointed we are now part of the elite trying to look after themselves at the cost of others.

I understand that we could not afford to NOT be part of this.

I believe everything will not pan out as its described at the moment. All parties will make some adjustments, I’m just not sure what those adjustments will be.

I do know, PL can’t retain current TV contracts without the Elite teams, neither can CL.

One thing I haven’t seen IN OFFICIAL PRINT, is any statement that this elite league will replace any other competition. They have stated they will continue in domestic competitions, but is this an alternative to CL ?

Happy to reign in my reaction until everyone has played their last card and we can see who is holding the full house and who has the busted flush.

 

[vicblueman]

Spirit of Shankly taking the moral high ground now on Sky News FFS!!
Blaming "oil money" and AMERICAN owners
Oh wait....

Dickheads !

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

It’ll be the end of competition in domestic leagues though. It’ll ruin leagues.

Probably not in Portugal, France, Holland, Ukraine and all the European Leagues in Eastern Europe. The arrogant bastards think they are all small timers and don't count as they won't increase the input into their coffers.

City should be ashamed of themselves.