Will you attend City games if we join a European Super League?

[BillCarlisle]

I'm City through & through and have been for over 60 years. I also love football so if this comes about that's it for me. I'll never stop loving City but I can't & won't go to watch a closed shop. Not for me, I'm out. Hopefully it won't happen, please God.

 

[Eccles Blue]

So was an announcement made? I can’t find anything but am maybe looking in the wrong places.

 

[jrb]

Protes what, nothing has happened yet.

So much reaction out there ahead of actual news.

You are right. Yet. But if it does?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Got to laugh at all the pundits going mental, such as superfan Neville. Presumably they are all that outraged that none of them would commentate on any of these games should it go ahead?

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

What I don't understand about these things, and it was the same when Liverpool and United tried their coup earlier, is that it's always so unprofessional from a PR perspective. The backlash has happened before the announcement has even been made, during a match for one of the teams playing. Who is leaking to the press, given that this is between the owners and that's about it. It just doesn't bode well for professionalism of anything else does it.

 

[meltonblue]

It’s been an inevitability for the past thirty years that it would come to this. Personally I hate it, but it’s a consequence of football giving such a large concentration of wealth within so few.

We’ve benefitted (and Sheikh Mansour has too) from that thanks to Mansours investment allowing us to feed from that trough but the overall landscape has never been something I’ve been a fan of. This would be the straw that broke the camels back for me.

 

[franksinatra]

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One thing that’s hurts is for years our own club was fighting against uefa and against a closed shop, at the first chance we’ve now joined that. What was the point in fighting against uefa now?

Probably because the harsh reality is we were fighting for ourselves to enter the cartel, not some altruistic reason to smash the cartel, as we were already, by that stage, part of it.

People always said on this thread why dont we challenge FFP through the courts, but the club knew it was FFP which protects our position going forward. Were one of the haves.

 

[Hagenees2001]

I'm gutted and ashamed that our club wants to be a part of this. It is a sign that real fans aren't important to them anymore. It's all about the money, not about the fans. This will be the end for football as we know it. And even though they've committed $6billion to start this bag of shit, to hand out to the competing clubs, the ticket prices will still only go up, up and up. I don't want anything to do with it.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Anyone think someclubs have signed to get more money out ouf eufa just a thought?

Arsenal and Spurs wont be getting Champions League money any time soon (unless Arse win the Europa and if they beat the rags then they deserve the increase :D )

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

What I don't understand about these things, and it was the same when Liverpool and United tried their coup earlier, is that it's always so unprofessional from a PR perspective. The backlash has happened before the announcement has even been made, during a match for one of the teams playing. Who is leaking to the press, given that this is between the owners and that's about it. It just doesn't bode well for professionalism of anything else does it.

Soon forgotten though. I still get the feeling that the media love in for the rags and dippers is as strong as it’s ever been. Money talks for the media as well as the football clubs.