I've been to Salford play, that club is doing everything the right way. Investing in facilities, the squad, not leavaraging anything with debt, building community relations. Football has always had businessmen invest in their local (or not so local) side, and see no problem in that *if* it does for the right reasons and in the right way. These proposals kill that, they're a disgrace.Why do you have a problem with him bankrolling Salford up the leagues? This is exactly what we are trying to defend right now, that clubs can still work their way up. Do you have a problem with us having been bankrolled for thirteen years?
Bankrolling Salford is absolutely compatible with everything he has said. If he makes the right decisions, hires the right manager, who buys the right players and they play well enough, Salford should have a chance of one day playing top European football, just like West Ham should be next season if they finish in the top four.
I imagine so too. I guess my point is if pressure can be brought to such companies that this is really something they should not be associated with, then the whole project falls flat on its face. Without these guys, it's dead. And in that respect, they hold the key. The PL could say to all the TV companies, "you back SL and you get no PL coverage, period". Other leagues could do the same.I imagine Amazon and Netflix will be all over this. It's a huge opportunity for them.
Every fan probably recoiled in horror when they heard this plan. It's anti-football.Surely they cant be that naive, the yanks maybe, but im struggling to understand why they didint see this backlash coming. Especially doing this in the middle of a pandemic when so many smaller clubs and lower leagues are really struggling. It just looks plain awful.
No. For starters you are only looking at half the picture. You’ve ignored the effect on the Premier League if/when the so-called Big 6 pull out.
But they're not pulling out are they? Where are people getting this idea?
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
Like I posted yesterday we have acted poorly. We look like a kid that has been bullied and then wants to join the bullies gang. City should grow a pair and pull out now.Because it's obvious from the extent of the political response that this new league will not happen.
The maximum possible sanctions are required for the clubs who devised this. I think its obvious City are not one of those clubs. But we will be damaged because we accepted the invite to be a founding club. The executives of this club are obliged to act in the clubs best interests hence they should be looking to exit from this.
The rest of football will lump us in with Real Madrid and Manchester Utd. I doubt they have any interest in discriminating between the 12 or 15 founding members.
When this is done, there need to be changes at boardroom level. Liverpool were alleged to have stolen data from Manchester City over an extended period of time, and we ended up being in a position where we could not turn the tables on them when the club was targeted by Liverpool and Man Utd last season. We were facing a cabaal of clubs who have always been acting against us, and now we have joined them? Big mistake. I am not against the ownership of Manchester City but I am getting dissatisfied with the operational executive of Manchester City who don't seem able to properly assess the consequences of their actions.
Man Utd and Real Madrid, Liverpool, Arsenal, Juventus seemed to have hatched this plan. Put as much possible distance between us and them, and make it clear we had our reservations and have now decided in the best interests of the club and football that we do not wish to be involved.
Let us hope that there is some legal way out of this. How can City be sanctioned by a founding Super League that will never exist and is illegitimate?
It already is a closed shop, that’s my point.No.
It's about sporting principles.
It's about NOT having a closed shop that irrevocably perpetuates the elite few regardless of sporting merit.
It's about giving all clubs the chance at the dream.
If this had come in ten years ago then City wouldn't have been one of the invited few, how would you have felt about it then?
Why is it clearly fake? It looks absolutely genuine to me.Reckon I could knock up a document that looked more convincing than that in under 30 mins...clearly fake imo