Metalartin
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I don't see this as an irreparable situation for our owner/chairman, if there is the possibility to pull out of this deal and they do that, for two reasons.
1) This was not driven by our ownership's/management's greed. I can still look at it logically, our owner has invested a lot of money and along with Khaldoon and the rest of club's hard work, they've come a long way. They don't want to suddenly have the club left out in the cold(and go backwards), so I do understand to certain degree. I'm sure the ESL is the last thing they wanted to see because they don't actually need it(that for me is the soundest logic). There are a minority of fans willing to get on board with it for similar reasons, it's fear and uncertainty, not because they want a ESL. There would be a much longer road back if it was solely driven by greed and power-lust. So I hope the usual moral crusaders among the press will be asking lots of questions to United and Liverpool fans, in respect of that, in the coming months and years. How Henry and the Glazers got off so lightly with the Project Big Picture plans, because of their reluctance to single them out, makes me think they will just do the same things again though.
2) The CL itself has been heading the same way only much much slower, a closed shop. There's only so hurt you can be, unless you really have been burying your head in the sand for 20 years or more. I'm pissed of and disappointed too but there has to be some perspective once the dust has settled. It's already been unfair for many years but most of us still want City to win the CL all the same and the PL every year. Lets not act like football(the PL and the CL both) isn't already half way there.
So yeah, there definitely is a way back from this. City leading the way on ditching it, would be a big start.
All I want, is City to pull out of the deal publicly(if it's legally possible) and an admission that they made the wrong call/lost their nerve about being left behind to the fans(probably wont admit the latter). I'm not expecting Khaldoon or Sheikh Mansour to personally kiss the arse of every fan who felt let down about this, that's naive in my view.
1) This was not driven by our ownership's/management's greed. I can still look at it logically, our owner has invested a lot of money and along with Khaldoon and the rest of club's hard work, they've come a long way. They don't want to suddenly have the club left out in the cold(and go backwards), so I do understand to certain degree. I'm sure the ESL is the last thing they wanted to see because they don't actually need it(that for me is the soundest logic). There are a minority of fans willing to get on board with it for similar reasons, it's fear and uncertainty, not because they want a ESL. There would be a much longer road back if it was solely driven by greed and power-lust. So I hope the usual moral crusaders among the press will be asking lots of questions to United and Liverpool fans, in respect of that, in the coming months and years. How Henry and the Glazers got off so lightly with the Project Big Picture plans, because of their reluctance to single them out, makes me think they will just do the same things again though.
2) The CL itself has been heading the same way only much much slower, a closed shop. There's only so hurt you can be, unless you really have been burying your head in the sand for 20 years or more. I'm pissed of and disappointed too but there has to be some perspective once the dust has settled. It's already been unfair for many years but most of us still want City to win the CL all the same and the PL every year. Lets not act like football(the PL and the CL both) isn't already half way there.
So yeah, there definitely is a way back from this. City leading the way on ditching it, would be a big start.
All I want, is City to pull out of the deal publicly(if it's legally possible) and an admission that they made the wrong call/lost their nerve about being left behind to the fans(probably wont admit the latter). I'm not expecting Khaldoon or Sheikh Mansour to personally kiss the arse of every fan who felt let down about this, that's naive in my view.
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