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[ShaunMCFC]

Each founding club receives £3.5b just for signing up, I wonder why the majority of these clubs with huge debts are interested in being involved.... pure greed.

I think it’s 3.5b spread over the 12 clubs

 

[Jimmieblue]

Well there's always Stockport County Oldham athletic etc..;)

It’ll be back to Boundary Park then!!!

 

[mikemcfc]

Is this why it took so many attempts to find a “suitable” new PL chairman a while back?

Ha! Probably.

 

[radcliffe1309]

You won’t get an honest statement mate
Once you sign up you tow the party line
We won’t say we only joined because everyone else day and really we didn’t want to
We’ll repeat the same shit in the joint statement as if we really believe it

Yep I guess I I already know that....so disappointed

 

[Deleted member 77198]

How would those opposed to this feel if this was the plan all along? The Sheikh knew eventually this would be formed, and his investment comes home to roost? The players we've been lucky to see, the trophies those players have given us, through that investment. How would you feel about all that if this was the long game from day one?

With all the bollocks Khaldoon says in his end of season interviews, I’d lose all respect for him and the Sheikh.

All that blood and thunder talk last Summer from Khaldoon, it felt like that was the best one yet where we’d eventually run out in the face of these cunty clubs and connect with a few swings... now we are just another one of those cunty clubs.

 

[Damocles]

I'm not as against this as everybody else. I'm not entirely convinced by it but I don't think it's a disgusting outrage either.

Firstly let's get real for a moment. Football has been broken since the 1990s. People talk like we're in the 1960s where all the clubs could have a similar chance of competition. We aren't and we haven't been for decades. A Leicester could happen once but the idea that you can build a sustainable challenger to the league using your academy, good management and transfer guile is farcical. United saw to that many years ago - to compete you need a billionaire to invest in you. That's the broken part, by the way. That you need that to begin with. The English game has been financially lopsided and killed competition 20 years ago.

So the competitive morality out of the way, we look at other things such as what will happen to poor Stoke and Burnley? Nothing, presumably. More to the point, I give as much of a fuck for their future as they did for us when we were going bankrupt. My emotions are tied to Man City and whats best for them.

The Super League is what's best for City. As a founding member, we're now one of the big boys forever. If there's a revolution in the UAE tomorrow and Shiekh Mansour/his family is deposed and he's forced to sell the club then its no problem. We're in the tent pissing out, permanently. The fact that we get to fuck UEFA on the way past is icing on the cake.

My only actual concern here is for the fans. It sounds like potentially 18 European away games to the final and you just know that the Final is more likely to be in Beijing than Birmingham. Affordability is going to be a significant issue and it's the only thing that's making me doubt it. If the club did something like a European equivalent of subsidised coaches then I'd be happier with it.

But yeah. It guarantees our post UAE future, it establishes us as one of the world's biggest clubs, it fucks UEFA, it will be the competition all the biggest players want to play in, it will earn us fucking bank, what's not to like?

 

[Mayor West]

Plenty of seldom seen posters in the "yes" camp, I see. Hmm. Along with one or two that I wouldn't have expected to see in there.

CoughTevezCityCough

Edit: sorry thought you said WOULD have expected to see in there

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

I think it’s 3.5b spread over the 12 clubs

Rumoured 400m each

 

[John Wayne]

I couldn't sleep last night. These people are filth. They deliberately timed it so most people in England, Italy and Spain were in bed but before UEFA could announce their abhorrent revamp.

Where's that guy who used to stand outside Maine Road telling us the end is nigh when you need him?

 

[Goats left knee]

I think they’ll happily walk away from the premier league

city v united
Liverpool v real
Chelsea v Milan
Arsenal v Real Madrid

Leeds v Burnley
Everton v Newcastle
Villa v wolves
Brentford v palace

which games would you watch over the weekend?