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[malg]

I don’t like the plan either. I was pulling up someone calling the Sheikh “a **** who needs to get the fuck off out of our club”.

Someone on here said that?

 

[Maly]

I specifically said, we've been a constant in there for the last ten years - because we were bankrolled into it. That's us being in our closed shop in that competition, like Real, Barca etc. Not a one off like Everton.

And my point for your highlighted bit is that I dreamed of being involved in the CL when we were shit. Now we've been in it for a decade and will now, if this happens, push on with the other elite clubs to a new competition. I won't slate that when I dreamed of just one season, when the person who has spent our way to a decade in the competition I dreamt about being in.

So because we’ve been invited as an elite club, you’re all for it, but if we were still that mid table club you wouldn’t be for it?

Like I said, hypocritical

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Then you'll be equally annoyed by the announcement that the Champions League will offer guaranteed places to the bigger clubs?

The competition needed slimming down not expanding, there are far too many predictable matches which noone wants to watch.

It's tough to find a solution as the self-anointed "Big six" will only be happy if they have a permanent place in the conpetition which obviously reduces the competitiveness and credibility of it.

It made me laugh reading Joel Glazer going on about the "football pyramid." There is no pyramid if you close off the opportunity for clubs to progress higher up.

This morning I was confident that this was a bargaining tactic on the part of the clubs involved. After hearing Ceferin and others quotes from today I'm less confident a deal will be agreed between UEFA and the ESL clubs. Very worrying times for all those that care about the future of the sport.

This could split the whole sport. A bit like the Rugby Union/RL split. If City, Real, and Chelsea are thrown out of this year's CL there will be no way back. It will have to go to court. I think this is a fight to the death between UEFA and some of the biggest clubs. No one will back down.
Whatever the merits of any new form of European football competition to introduce this in the middle of a pandemic in such a tactless way seems incredibly stupid. I think it is a perfect storm. The Glazers are on their uppers financially, as are Real Madrid, Barca, and most of the others. It smacks of desperation.

 

[hilts]

Exactly.......

They would stand on someone’s head in a river to keep their shoes dry. There’s something very Tory like about them. Fake prizes for fans who lack any sporting morality.

 

[BimboBob]

Please don't post the names of posters who voted in favour of City joining the Super League. Please report anyone who does as this isn't the easiest thread to follow. Thanks.

Was it you? Was it? I bet it was. Posting like you are a mod. Coming across all high and mighty.

Well pal, I've outed you and I'll get the rest. Just you see, don't leave the window open at night, watch out as you cross the road and don't hang around when you pop out for that loaf you forgot.

Imagine having a different opinion than most on here. Heathen.

 

[Cheeky Txiki]

 

[kaz7]

Klopp denying he knew anything about it, the managers have been told to keep quiet

Waffling but saying nothing

 

[Marvin]

So you’ve got ‘an opinion’ to quote and I’m delighted for you but, I repeat, not all cartels are illegal and the breakaway group will undoubtedly have engaged very specialist opinion from the very highest echelons before starting out on their course.
They won’t have just had an opinion, they’d not be doing this without absolute confidence because quite literally £billions on their money is at stake and being wrong isn’t allowed in those circumstances.

I should add that I think the whole shebang is morally corrupt, and that I wish it wasn’t happening, but I’m not so fucking stupid as to let myself think that they’ll have forgotten to do the basics of due diligence.

The odds of an ESL must be tiny. If I were City I'd be in damage limitation mode.

We signed up to something that was deeply deeply unpopular with supporters and that's because they don't engage with fans.

This was not a City priority. That's almost certain. Tat imo makes this absolutely inept.

I will accept one excuse...we were forced into doing something that we didn't want to do...but that will only stand if we make a very rapid exit now that the writing is on the wall.

 

[Nellies left peg]

None of the six teams would speak to sky

Too busy giving exclusive interviews to Jim White for Talksport as he's universally loved

 

[SWP's back]

Someone on here said that?

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