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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
FogBlueInSanFran said:
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."
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The fact the club ignored fan opinion and jumped into bed with the Glazers etc, after their repeated attacks on us, will leave a sour taste in the mouths of most Blues, unquestionably. The best PR would have been to stand on our morals, on our history, on our status as a club of the people and not of billionaire cartels, and tell pompous twats Perez et al to get fucked.

That opportunity is gone and a lot of good will with it too - but it's not the end. If City back away, before the government pushes them, apologise and promise to involve fans more in the future, it could be a second best scenario for PR.

It needs to be fast though. Our manager and lads are out there fighting for the badge in competitions we could get thrown out of. The window of opportunity for a turn around is rapidly closing.
 
Akiva said:
The fact the club ignored fan opinion and jumped into bed with the Glazers etc, after their repeated attacks on us, will leave a sour taste in the mouths of most Blues, unquestionably. The best PR would have been to stand on our morals, on our history, on our status as a club of the people and not of billionaire cartels, and tell pompous twats Perez et al to get fucked.

That opportunity is gone and a lot of good will with it too - but it's not the end. If City back away, before the government pushes them, apologise and promise to involve fans more in the future, it could be a second best scenario for PR.

It needs to be fast though. Our manager and lads are out there fighting for the badge in competitions we could get thrown out of. The window of opportunity for a turn around is rapidly closing.
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That's all fair. I can see that point of view for sure.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Competitions..any competitions must be run independently of the clubs participating in them. You think UEFA was bad wait till our direct rivals make the rules with no buffer at all.

The clubs will decide which extra 5 clubs to invite into the ESL each year for a little holiday will they? Based on what? Do they only get a year? How do they get more? What happens to the teams that are not invited but thought they might be..what competition are they in? Do they expect that a team waits to see if they are in the ESL before declining a UEFA competition for a year?

Some of the rules are based on the more popular clubs being paid more than the rest. That’s not a competition in a sporting sense it’s who has the most fans around the World. It will be like boxing with an A side and a B side with teams choosing who they fancy beating.

Scratch beneath the surface and its unworkable Unless it’s a complete break from all other clubs forever which is what they would eventually insist on.
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Wasn't the 'lack of enough interesting games' the main argument put forward by the SL clubs ?

Why would they damage their own product by forming another cartel within the super league, that's suicidal.
We are part of the cartel if this goes through, that's it. We are all the same.
 
ninjamonkey said:
For us or anybody else to back out now shows them up to be such an amateurly run club. Who makes the decision to join this monstrosity being fully aware of the impending backlash and the massive shit you're taking on the fans without being entirely sure about backing it all the way?

Let's entertain the thought of us backing out for a second though, does it change people's feeling towards the club?

For me it's like being in a loving long term relationship, very happy together only to discover one night your girlfriend agreeing to go back to another guys house with them after a night out. You go home alone ready to cut all ties with them then 10 minutes later she walks through the door having had a change of heart on the way back to the guys house. She admits everything and acknowledges how wrong she was. You love this girl, you've spent your entire adult life with them, all you want to do is reconcile, forget it ever happened and carry on with your happy life together but there's a new deep lying nagging feeling of distrust now that's constantly eating away at you. you just can't completely trust them again like you once did, you try make it work and get back to the pre-betrayal days but it's just never the same again.
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Pics or it never happened........ ;-)
 
MCFC1993 said:
Congratulations! 7,700 posts in 2 days across this thread and yours is the worst. That takes some doing!

Instead of slagging off the concept or the cartel of clubs behind the idea, you actually go one step further and slag of the fans who have no say and want a fair merit based system, well done!
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Another 'Say no to drugs kids' indeed........
 
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