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[SJT]

IF you go to the Etihad after this you do not believe in the City I do, this WILL RUIN football...
Football is NOT soccer - this is NOT City

Talk about overwhelming dislike for the idea?

each player should stand up now, each manager, each fan.

 

[Corky]

It just seem like a negotiation, there is likely to be a hybrid compromise between the ESL and the new UCL.

You don't start a negotiation by saying you want to stay.

The other version is the ESL expanding to take in any up and coming club expanding like the PDC did and drain the life blood out of all else.

The Gov can't stop it as thy will end up being based in Switzerland, Luxembourg or the UAE.

 

[Don Karleone]

There was an article late last year or earlier this year where Pep said he was against a super league if I remember rightly.

Hope he still feels that way

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

From a Liverpool supporting trader at my firm . . .

(Bloomberg) -- UEFA is discussing a 6b-euro financing proposal from U.K.-based asset manager Centricus, as the soccer body seeks to stop a new breakaway “Super League,” people with knowledge of the matter said.

• Top UEFA officials have been discussing the potential financing package with Centricus, which would help bankroll an overhaul of its flagship soccer tournament, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private
• Negotiations are ongoing and there’s no certainty UEFA and Centricus will reach an agreement, the people said
• A spokesperson for UEFA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, while a representative for Centricus declined to comment

 

[Marvin]

True but far too late, we have shot our load, the damage is done and the same for all 14 clubs, Bayern are the clever ones, waiting for the mess to settle and take it from there.

Why is it too late. SOme sort of financial penalty?

The reports suggest City joined for pragmatic purposes. It seems an impossibility to me so exit, and do it quickly. I am still hoping that there is a way out here that leaves me with a football club I can support.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Can't wait to see him on the gravy train commentating on games being show on Amazon. Happy to throw money into his own team that means they beat everyone around them and doesn't allow them to compete then goes crying to the masses when it happens elsewhere. Hypocrite.

I'm beginning to think this is a ploy by Sky. All day "pundits" on Sky have been saying how bad this is for everyone involved in football.

however I absolutely guarantee if Sky were behind this and were bidding for the TV rights they would be saying the exact opposite.

They are towing the Sky line as Sky are shitting themselves because if this happens and I think it will they would lose millions in TV subscriptions and the Billions they spent on TV rights will be for fuck all. Make no mistake they'll be part of this meeting of the premier league teams tomorrow trying to convince them to let the 6 clubs stay in the league and to come to some kind of agreement with them.

Or am I being too cynical?

 

[Snoogy]

In the next five to ten years the Rags are going to release a statement to say they've assessed the costs of renovating the swamp, found it makes no economic sense and so, inspired by their Italian founder ESL members, they are delighted to announce they have agreed to ground share with their English founder partner, Manchester City and I WILL BE FUCKING SICK.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

This is going to collapse. An error of judgment I feel. UEFA will ban City from this seasons Champions League. Indeed if I were them I'd cancel all revenue we've earned to date.

If I were City I would move very quickly to exit from this. We've probably got 48 hours to get out.

Too late.
All clubs involved, including City, have resigned from the ECA.

 

[decmancity]

Why is it too late. SOme sort of financial penalty?

The reports suggest City joined for pragmatic purposes. It seems an impossibility to me so exit, and do it quickly. I am still hoping that there is a way out here that leaves me with a football club I can support.

You have lost the plot.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I think the UK government reaction kills this one stone dead. Good.

Why what can they do to United, a foreign based company?