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[Gordyola]

Whoa - hold on there cowboy ;-)
I think you’ve either you’ve not read or not understood what I wrote.
And maybe you should also consider that those setting up this ‘cartel’ might just have run the notion past a seriously well qualified legal team before moving forward?

Also, as awful as they may be, most cartels of this description are not illegal, in the same way that a brewery could set up a darts league, with paid entry and cash prizes and where only tied pubs could enter etc.

I understood what you wrote A sports lawyer on the radio has said that it could be deemed a cartel for the reasons I wrote. Its also been mentioned by one of the associations I don't doubt that the lawyers have been consulted however, a lawyer's opinion is only of value once its been challenged in court.

Your example isn't a cartel as they aren't colluding to increase profits or dominate the market

Here's a few other opinions
Elsewhere, sports lawyers have warned there is a “massive risk” that the new European Super League could be blocked under EU sports law, with one leading expert only rating the chances of it being allowed as “50-50”, reports Tim Wigmore.
“My instinct is under the current legal framework and approach that it is 50-50,” said Darren Bailey, a lawyer and consultant to Charles Russell Speechlys’ sports group who was formerly the Football Association’s director of football governance and regulation.

 

[SJT]

NEVER thought I’d say this...Gary Neville has more balls than my Club MCFC...I’m deeply ashamed to be a City fan, well, no I’m not..but this ISN'T City anymore, and I think we all know that now...gutted.

See Nevilles passioned speech below here.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

im a rare one on here with the opinion it wont get up and running, we have only declaired our intention and nothing has been signed, this is now resulting in not national but worldwide condemnation,i think the presure to have it stopped will be to great for it to continue

One factor worth considering is the reputational damage associated with it. If the backlash is strong enough then sponsors will not want to get involved and advertisers will not use the broadcasting platforms. That could kill it before it gets off the ground. They are supposed to be launching it in August.

 

[PabloZabeleta]

Americans don't like football. I don't know why I have to keep saying this - it's about the sixth most popular sport on TV over there and this predicted US boom has never emerged.
And who are these people who don't know how things work in European football? Flo Perez? Agnelli?

The American owners than make up the majority of the PL, and three of the five executive positions in the breakaway league other than the two you chose to name.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

That’s why I have a fluffer.

I'd recommend David Silva's guy.

 

[teddykgb]

No, I was never perfectly happy with any of those things, but I was guilty of being used to them, they were normalised elsewhere while City were basically crap, and then one day I woke up and we had joined the party. Had no idea what to make of it all tbh. None of us did. Everyone just carried on and we got used to it, cos as much as we spent it at least felt like nothing we hadn't seen before. This though, well it feels different, cos it is I think. It's a vastly bigger step because of the clearer, stronger and obvious effects to the domestic game. We're all a bit hypocritical, but we also all have our limits, and that's inherently human. There's a reason this has sent shockwaves around football and got to the point where its being debated by politicians and not just us City fans - I would guess it's because its clearly a bigger step, and one too far for the vast majority of football fans, and the reaction has proven that. I get it, you're not arsed, fair enough, but this unquestionably changes the game much more structurally than anything else has in my lifetime. There is also no way the domestic league changes exponentially from this, the cups included, and that is something im not used to either.

The old system was far from perfect and it granted us tremendous competitive advantage but it was still competitive. The task before was extremely tough for any team but it has now changed to impossible. Without the founding club nonsense I think a lot of City fans could have squared this but of course the founding club nonsense is the basis of the entire escapade

 

[manimanc]

Oh yeah we can all just hop on a plane every other week for an entire season to watch us in Milan or Madrid.
Fuckin ludicrous.

 

[why me? Blue Manchester]

WWF Soccer FFS

 

[andyhinch]

I’m starting to think I’m not a real fan, don’t even feel like setting fire to my balls as an act of protest.

 

[Bluesince1979]

I wont ever stop supporting City, no matter what comp they are in.

but this will push me a little further away to the point ill give up my season ticket and just watch on the box (and they wont be getting a penny of that either... if you know what i mean ;) )
VAR, FFP, players cheating, fuckin awful ‘bantz’ ... its all turning me off the game totally.

this will just be another nail in that coffin

my lad is 6 and just getting into it, my oldest lad never got the bug (his first 6 games we never scored , thanks pearce) and i feel sad that we’ll maybe never share those moments together i always dreamed of