United and Liverpool EFL project - proposal rejected

Seems very convenient they have released this statement now as they would of probably known for weeks if not months they were in trouble
Also makes you wonder what help Parry (via the EFL) has been holding back, everyone in football knew the status quo of the last ten years was not sustainable in the football league, and we are 7 months into Covid, so if clubs have been sat on their hands waiting for a handout because Parry has been giving em the “it’s alreet fellas I’ve got a plan” spiel, then it’s no wonder some of them are fooked
 
I believe the FA are in charge of the rules re when a club collapses such as Bury did recently. Nothing to stop the fans setting up Bury again but they have to start at the bottom. Wouldn't the easiest option be that if clubs go under and then re appear they start from where they went under given the special circumstances of this pandemic. Just a thought off the top of my head.
 
Yesterday you said
"we are up to our neck in it"
Did you believe that City had any input into the "Big picture" ?
Considering that it is the 18th draft, it has been in the pipeline for months. At the same time that these two clubs were trying to bankrupt our club. It would seem obvious to me that we would not be discussing anything with those twoclubs as they were trying to make man city obsolete throughout that period.
Of course we have to play the political game, and keep the enemy close as you stated.

I know City have been privy to this whole shit show. I'd like to think better of us, but the fact we gave a no comment yesterday suggests otherwise.

Would have been the perfect public moment to show we are not like them.
 
I agree that change is needed, but not sure a system which adds to inequality will help. Since the Championship was formed - just 16 seasons ago, 63 clubs have played in the top two divisions - that's a lot of turnover considering the league has never been so unequal.

I fully support the redistribution of TV money and it MUST come with much stricter finance rules - the clubs going bust have more money than they ever had, but it's the inequality between divisions and the over committing to try for promotion that is the problem.
Inequality has always been apart of football, I'd be confident if you went through the top 5 leagues in Europe you will find 75% of the teams have been in the top division for 80 of the last 100 years. Is it inequality that has Blackburn in the championship or is it just the natural order? Bolton, Wigan, Norwich, Burnley, teams like this are never meant to be mainstays in the top division, their population and support base simply doesn't have the means or support to compete against bigger clubs. Its normal for them to have good sides occasionally that get promoted and eventually relegated again. Just like its normal bad decision making will have big clubs like Sheffield Wednesday and yourselves previously in the lower leagues.

The issue is relegation has meant a threat to existence too many times, Burnley and Norwich are well managed but for everyone of those you have a Wigan, Bolton, Portsmouth or Sunderland. FFP hasn't worked and it needs replacing with regulation that protects clubs longterm. As I said it shouldn't be Liverpool deciding the futures of Plymouth or Exeter, it should be the FA because the clubs have proved consistently they can't look after themselves.
 
This will never happen in a million years, but wouldn't it be fun if City co-wrote and announced a plan which managed to help out the EFL, give PL clubs a little reward and didn't try to destroy the entire future of the sport?

Put in some conditions which allow owners to invest sensibly and grow their sides, put in some safeguards against having huge leveraged debts. Propose some sort of compromise on youth development that works better than loans but isn't B teams. Get the support of clubs up and down the pyramid.

Knowing Soriano though any plan out of City would probably be almost as bad as Liverpool and Uniteds. Which is his job, I suppose.
 

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