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Agree with all of that.
Sickening, but not surprising that we are at the heart of this.
I think they have miscalculated though. 95% of fans (probably a higher percentage if you count match going fans only) are against this. What will it look like when 8,000 turn up on a Wednesday to watch Utd vs Milan?
Woodward and co have shown their true colours now, its shit or bust for them. They cannot possibly stay if this doesn't go ahead.
The Super League statement is on both clubs official sites mate. Whether or not the intentions is to make money (it clearly is a part of it) they still agreed to join up. I can't believe anyone is naive enough to believe some random bullshit twitter narrative that they were bullied into joining.
Roman was one of the main voices calling for FFP let's not forget. They want their ticket onto the boat and to pull the ladder up behind them.
No you didn't mate but the tweet that started all this implied it.
I think this was an exercise in introducing the idea, dip the toe and see what reception it gets.
Unfortunately, a lot of the resistance to it seems to be that it's not based on a meritocracy - teams can't get relegated. A lot less of the ire directed at it is based on the fact it's fecking over smaller clubs, travelling fans and the history of the clubs.
I dont think it will happen this time, but I think they know what they need to re-jig to try again in a few years.
Bullied is too far and I don't believe that for a minute, but I do think it's increasingly evident that Chelsea and City were not the driving forces behind this and therefore that we were more reluctant. Just look at which clubs are represented in the hierarchy of the SL - that's all the proof you need.
Anyone that lives and is somewhat in touch with the UK football culture. The Yanks leading this are not.
They thought it'll be fans, networks and players at most, not governments and the EU. Also they banked on full greed from all top clubs but some clubs resisted for whatever reason.
I can't tell if you want this club to stay owned by the Glazers just so you are proven right in the end.
I think it will happen.
Here it is. Might as well end the thread here since this was the logical conclusion to it all.
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Go on Spartak, tell everyone.
I normally hate official account banter but that tickled me.
Its PR nonsense. The media have been up both clubs ass for a long time. Your lot fecked over football like the rest of us. There are no degrees of blame.
Dr Skankenstein AKA @Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær certainly is in approval of this message!
One thing the Russians know how to do is troll.
Like a Cafe photoshop thread
Please be Ed Woodward, please be Ed Woodward, please be Ed...
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Sadly I think it will happen in some form, the clubs have no way back at this point.
Ideally it would get squashed and all these owners run out of the English game by the government. But the most likely outcome is UEFA caving to a load of concessions and the CL gets dressed up as compromise version of the Super League these clubs want.
I mean we're obviously fecking this up but personally at least I'd make a distinction between those doing all they can to push this and those who are accomplices. Perhaps I'm just splitting hairs though.
I don't think it will go ahead now.
Those involved couldn't have anticipated such a heavy backlash from the fans, players, even the Prime Minister. Reckon they'll get cold feet before long.
Can't remember the last owner of United liked by the fans. If the Glazers go someone else will replace them and it's not going to be someone chosen by the fans. United is an enormous club and will be owned by some rich powerful people who undoubtedly will be disliked.
Yeah those Racist dicks can feck off too.
Directly form Florentino Perez' garden shed.
That would have been obvious, it doesn't absolve them of any of the blame for signing up though.
The ESL will happen. Be it as the ESL or a reformatting of the CL to be like the the ESL.
I can never remember, is this the reliable ebola?
And now it makes sense why it was incorporated in Spain.
But those six taking part in both the Super League and in the Premier League is untenable. That'd reduce the PL to nothing but a sad farce.
Is it just me finding all these cnuts eating each other so fantastically entertaining? UEFA, FIFA, state PR clubs, Glaziers, FSG, PL, Sky...burn it all down! Genuinely starting to believe Joel is going to be driven out of town.
I don't think Uefa will guarantee places to those 12 teams. So it won't be exactly like ESL. You'd still have to qualify.
That would require him to be in town in the first place...
Thought Real Madrid were broke and needed the ESL money to start paying their stooges again.
Was this all an elaborate ruse to get UEFA to give the big clubs more money? I don't think UEFA needs to be doing this now.
Bit harsh on Crystal Palace lol
Exactly this. The premier league is the most watched, and most commercially successful in the world. The rest of Europe know this and want a piece of the pie, and we've agreed to it like idiot's.
tbf burning down the Glazers is what we've been doing for the past 150 years
On Sunday night I thought it was just posturing, given that the CL revamp talks were happening the very next day. I'd hoped it was just a bluff to throw a spanner in the works of the new CL format, but it looks to be much more than that. I think it will happen in some form, but I'd predict there will be a lot of compromise in its final form.
Surely if the players aren't on board as a whole, then it has to stop? I think as soon as top players start batting away the idea, it would spur a re-think. It doesn't work without the players, particularly the stars that they're banking on being the centrepiece.