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[burning blue soul]

After a nights reflection on the recent events, I am still of the opinion this is a terrible development for City, and Football in general.

I sincerely hope City pull out of this shocking power/money grab and work to make the dysfunctional UEFA better.

Buying a Football club is not just about money. There is an essence, or spirit, of solidarity and mutual understanding between the fans - we love the same thing, but in different ways. Our owners (I don't like the word 'owner', they are not that and never will be, they are Guardians) must understand their responsibility to keep that spirit alive. It is what the game was built on.

The governing bodies needed a wake up call to jolt them back into doing what is best for Football, not what is best for a chosen few clubs who have delusions of grandeur.

This is the moment.... we, and Football, can come out of this either bums or kings. Do the right thing City!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Fair play to Patrick Bamford and in particular James Milner for saying it as it is. They don't want it.

Tonights game felt like nothing, it meant nothing.

That’s what every single domestic game of football will feel like forever more once the ESL starts.

No domestic game of football will mean anything. There’ll be nothing riding on any game.

City can finish 1st 2nd 8th or get relegated... we’ll still get in the ESL
We can be relegated to League 2 and still in the ESL.

West Ham can finish 4th, 2nd or 1st... they’ll never play in the ESL.

 

[Paul1970]

Wonder how the owners will react when we get kicked out of the champions league in the coming days which will happen . We need to pull out ASAP .

 

[dhruvblue]

To continue the poker analogy, we're considering our cards against one side who have a strong hand but are absolutely desperate to win the pot. Indeed, they're in such shit they need to win it and that makes for poor judgement. They've played their hand and gone all in.

On the other hand, you have another set of hustlers who have been high rollers but now look set to be excluded from the game if they don't win. They've got a decent hand too and have gone all in.

Bayern and PSG have folded.

City and Chelsea hold the decisive hands here and could stitch up one or the other. The one we stitch up depends on which is offering us the best long-term prospects for the club. My bet is there's a whole lot of negotiation going on in the drinks break.

What we should never do is show our hand.until we have to. The statement on our website from Ģlazer served two purposes. It showed who is really behind this and did the required minimum to keep us in the game. So far, we have kept our poker face which is exactly as it should be.

It will be a fascinating few days but all this "our owners are cunts", "I'll never trust them again", "I'm ashamed of our club" etc, etc without knowing exactly how this will pan out and our club's true role in it all smacks of adolescent tantrum throwing to me.

Time is running out. We have few hours now.If UEFa and FA says we cannot play further, players will be pissed and that is last thing you need. If players get angry bcoz they worked hard entire season only dot them to be nit allowed to play will be sever blow. Time to play has ended and action has to be taken. PL may not expel clubs right away but uefa will by Friday so we we less time left to pull out to explain thr world and also to bring the chariman and vice chairmen down

 

[Bandofblues]

That’s what every single domestic game of football will feel like forever more once the ESL starts.

No domestic game of football will mean anything. There’ll be nothing riding on any game.

City can finish 1st 2nd 8th or get relegated... we’ll still get in the ESL
We can be relegated to League 2 and still in the ESL.

West Ham can finish 4th, 2nd or 1st... they’ll never play in the ESL.

In a nutshell.

Quickly followed by the narrative that "who cares about winning the Premier League" and you can forget about Domestic cups too.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

We have blown a massive PR opportunity in my opinion, if we had not gone in, the world of Football would have thanked us, as it is unless we backtrack quickly we are done, our reputation badly damaged and our owners reputation fatally damaged in term of his ownership.

Maybe it's just me, but I think I could argue there'd be even better PR if we said, "We've listened to the fans, and we realized based on their input that we've made a catastrophic decision. While the sustainable income is tempting, and we have to look out for the financial interests of the club and its investor/owners, we cannot do so to the exclusion of our greatest asset -- our fans. We do not have a club without them. In addition, our employees have raised their voices and offered up their own concerns about the future of the club in a Super League structure. We must always balance the needs and wants of all our constituents: fans, employees and investors. In this case, we failed to gauge the balance correctly, for which we take full responsibility. Therefore we rescind our acceptance of Super League admission. Let us now all move forward together to make Manchester City the most successful sporting entity on the globe."

 

[kdbrise]

It's worse than that.

It isn't UEFA who repeatedly tried to screw us, it's the G14 - in essence the very clubs we are seemingly buddying up with - that pressured UEFA into trying to screw us. Platini was very clear years ago that FFP was brought in as a direct result of pressure from the G14 and their threats to break away into a super league, were UEFA not to comply.

The likes of Rummenigge (fucked if I'm looking the spelling up) and Gill have had it in for us from the start and I don't see that changing any time ever, let alone soon.

Just playing devil's advocate here, if they really want to screw us why did they take us in ?

For the cartel we were a threat to their monopoly and revenue, since we have joined them and everyone gets guaranteed returns it might not be the case now. In fact we are part of the cartel now.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Apology, explanation and preventative measures needed to stop it ever happening again.

They provide a meaningful fan representation on the board and a percentage ownership of the club for the fanbase (like Germany).

A reduction in ticket pricing across the board.

Some form of gesture to the rest of the football league clubs to acknowledge that they are every bit as important to the English game as we / the rest of the twats involved in this shit house project.

I'm sure I'll think of more throughout the day - they have an unbelievable amount of bridge building to do, they are going to need some set of chops..........

Edit: the lot of us should still be severely reprimanded if they allow us 'back in' at all. Relegate the lot us, and throw us out of Europe for starters.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

West Ham can finish 4th, 2nd or 1st... they’ll never play in the ESL.

Oh, they might play. They can't stay. Whereas we will never go away. All to increase the owners' hay. Might as well jump in the San Francisco Bay.

 

[Bandofblues]

Seriously?

"Real Madrid President Florentino Perez said the decision to create the new league, which his club would be a part of, was in part taken because "young people are no longer interested" in the game."

European Super League: 'No action off the table' over breakaway group - No 10

FA and Premier League officials are told they have the UK government's support to stop the plans.

www.bbc.co.uk

How about young fans are priced out the game and the ESL will only make things worse not better. It will be even more costly for fans to watch games.