United and Liverpool EFL project - proposal rejected

[Newman Noggs]

This reminds me of the story of the con-man who "sold" Tower Bridge to some gullible Americans. Only here we have Americans trying to sell our own game back to us.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

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This reminds me of the story of the con-man who "sold" Tower Bridge to some gullible Americans. Only here we have Americans trying to sell our own game back to us.

they're probably still bitter about it

 

[M18CTID]

I'd imagine a lot of his stuff goes through lawyers before publishing, and you'd end up with a lot of libellous statements if you added the comments.

I thought some of his stuff around City/FFP was nonsense (e.g. making out the ex-PM of Belgium MUST be a good guy, when his background is decidedly iffy and the decision on the PSG case clearly suggested otherwise), but at least he advocates for lower league clubs, as most reporters don't.

You can comment on twitter as he shares his articles, and he's getting unanimous criticism for this. Not sure why he's taken this stance - maybe like a lot of league clubs he's blinded by the money, but I'd have thought the power grab would repel him as much as it does most fans.

He’s a fucking snake, and IMO he’s letting his ever-increasing dislike of our club override his own much-publicised footballing principles to the extent that he’s now jumping into bed with this idea when he ought to be against it.

 

[Bluebeemer]

This reminds me of the story of the con-man who "sold" Tower Bridge to some gullible Americans. Only here we have Americans trying to sell our own game back to us.

The Americans did get their bridge, "London Bridge", however, they thought that they we're buying and getting Tower Bridge! "London Bridge", a fairly anonymous design, is at Lake Havasu in Arizona.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

This will be great for us IMO.

I trust our lot to do a better job, we're 10 years down the line from them anyway, and nothing is going to kill the outcries about how bad it is to own multiple clubs than one of Liverpool, United, Bayern, Barce or Real doing it.

What we also have which the Dippers don’t, is the “CITY” in our name.
Utilising the City bit connects all clubs under one umbrella, CFG, a brand that is now recognised around the world.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Absolutely bang on the money. I'm just sorry I can only like it once.

He failed to mention the banner.

 

[citymad]

What gets me is these two clubs actually think they rule football in England and everyone else has to bow down to them. I find it incredible that the PL and FA is even discussing it.Its disgusting, I wish these two clubs would just waltz off into the sunset and let them set up a little league between them.

 

[basokla]

Back during the beginning days of the pandemic when the sport was shut down I read comment after comment on how this will change the game going forward...smaller budgets, more attention to the supporters, a return to the roots of the sport.

My how wrong that was. What we are seeing is a doubling-down. A leveraging of not just a few vile clubs but the entire operation in the name of saving the less fortunate. How noble.

If City go along with this it will be shameful and naive.

 

[Blue Feather]

Hope we state that the EFL clubs need help and we are in favour of that but anything instigated by those 2 clubs will almost certainly have ulterior motives

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I find it strange that the BBC have quotes from the American owner of Leighton Orient saying what a good idea this is. A man who knows the owner of Liverpool well. Just what is it about football that US owners want to put there money into clubs. Is it that they know how much US teams make so think they could do the same over here. It seems to me this a step along a US model league and needs to be stopped

The BBC are bent as fuck and an absolute fucking disgrace.