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[Deleted member 77198]

The staff are livid. Does seem it was a very late decision.

Which is worrying! We've all done things in a rush before or as a snap decision and not delved into the details properly, only for it to be a complete shambles or to bite us on the arse afterwards.

Very worrying that there are rumours we did this at the 11th hour.

 

[Cellarite]

The competition and meritocracy is starting to show that is does exist and work though.

The fact the the Sky 4 is not even an entity anymore shows that (after 6 years out of 8 before City were taken over of them finishing as the Top 4 together). The fact that Leicester and West Ham can finish in the Top 4 shows that it's not a closed shop. The fact that in the last 10 years Spurs Donetsk Shalke APOEL Marseille Benfica Malaga Dortmund Galatasaray Atletico Porto Monaco Wolfburg Paris Leicester Roma Sevilla City Ajax Lyon Leipzig Atalanta have all reached the Quarter-final stages of the CL (with a number getting to the semis or final), shows that meritocracy works.

Is it perfect? No by no means!

FFP was concocted by these clowns we're getting into bed with to stop the teams above actually sustaining any threat. But Ateltico Dortmund Paris and City have shown that we can smash through that. and others could easily follow in the coming years because we were slowly eroding the Cartel's grip on things. Finally, some of them were starting to look like they were going to start fading away after financial troubles or lazy ways of being run. Madrid and Barca are in massive financial strife, Arsenal are a pathetic outfit, Liverpool have spent 7 out of 12 years outside the Top 4, Milan and Inter had disappeared from the top of Serie A for a while (with Inter almost going bust this Winter trying to win the league again)...

And then they come out with this shyster attempt to wipe their debts and keep themselves relevant with this Super League, and City have gone along with the snakes despite being at the forefront of knocking them down a few pegs.

I'm replying simply in the hope that more people read this.

 

[blue5ter]

Absolutely. But I would've expected a bit more from those non-American owners who get it a bit more. I certainly didn't think the people that own and run City would want to see the Americanisation of our club and the sport itself. Not Abramovich either. Or even Barcelona for fuck's sake. Speaking of which, I'd have thought Barca's members would've had to be canvassed on something like this.

You would hope, but is it realistic given the choice they had to make ?

My reading, certainly the one the media seems to be running with, is that we would have preferred UEFA to change from within rather than breakaway, but once it was happening (and whilst anything's possible, it's odds on to happen IMO), the risk of not joining at inception was greater than the risk of joining at inception

I'm not saying we deserve credit, but as a statement of fact, our owners are patently not one of the big driving forces behind this. So the club could take a stand which might scupper the whole thing, but there is no guarantee. I'm afraid that any owner faced with that choice would have likely had to take the option we did. Lets be realistic, does anyone think for one second that Everton, Newcastle, Leicester, West Ham, etc would have turned down the chance to be a founder if offered ?

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[Eccles Blue]

This all feels like copping off with the most stunning woman at a party, drinking chamagne all night and making love until you fall asleep in each others arms.

Then waking up to realise she's a 75 year old cross-dresser from Barnsley...

I hadn’t realised that Wayne Rooney is your real name, @york away to this!! ;-)

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Even Utd and lfc fans are begging for City to pull out of this. Jeez our club, they're run so brilliantly but they've fucked up big time here. Just drop out of it

 

[burning blue soul]

statement from Brighton, below. what wouldn't i have given for City to have rejected this crazy Super league nonsense and come out with a statement like this. oh City, what have you done?

"These plans are the latest in an alarming and growing list of clandestine attempts from a small group of clubs whose actions would be wiping out close to 150 years of football’s tradition, competition, and sporting progress through merit. The ups and downs of football – promotion, relegation, winning titles and cups, challenging for, or missing out, on a European place – are all part and parcel of the drama, jeopardy, joy and heartbreak that makes our game the most watched and most loved in the world.
“These key attributes create significant value from which we feed a financial support structure which helps to sustain football at every level in our country and well beyond. By contrast, a European Super League would concentrate value for the benefit of a small number of clubs. The efforts to create a closed-shop for all but the largest clubs demonstrate a clear lack of respect for the contributions of all clubs within the domestic leagues in this country and across Europe.
“Plans for a European Super League also totally disregard fans, the lifeblood of our sport at professional levels, and fly in the face of the views and wishes of the overwhelming majority of football supporters of all clubs. These clubs, like Brighton & Hove Albion, invest heavily to support their own dreams, and those of their fans, to play at the highest level they can, and to help create a sense of pride in their own clubs across the country.
“Off the pitch, we remain custodians of our clubs on behalf of past, present and future generations of fans and the communities we all represent. This is a responsibility we believe we must all take very seriously.
“It has been hugely encouraging to see universal opposition and widespread condemnation from across the game from various football authorities, fans, players, commentators, pundits and media, and all-party opposition in government. We will continue to work with those groups, including the UK government and MPs of all political parties, football’s governing bodies and all of our colleagues across football to oppose and defeat these plans.”

 

[MCFC1993]

Got to be us, surely!?

 

[TFC]

Back to the two cheeks of the same arse argument, the revamped CL format is fucking shite too so I can see City being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Still hoping common sense prevails though, I am still astonished that anyone in their right mind thought 1. this was a good idea and 2. anyone would watch and/or give a shit about it. The closed shop aspect of it already makes it wank in my mind so I know I'm not interested.

Still waiting to see who the other 8 cannon fodder teams are going to be. Its going to be as unbalanced as every other fucking league in the world with the same teams in the top 4 every go around.

Fuck. Ing. Wank.

 

[SWPISHOME]

 

[Dubai Blue]

Short memories on here. Uefa tried to destroy city. Fuck me wake up people.

They did. But it was at the demands of the very people we're now jumping into bed with. What a fucking mess