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Originally Posted by devo22
it's amazing, really. We are talking about extremely rich businessmen looking over some of the biggest football clubs in the world, you'd expect they'd have some kind of plan when they do stuff like this. But they had absolutely nothing, it's incredible. I guess if you want to do a coup like this, you'd have to do it bit by bit and ensure you have actually have people on your side. You'd have to try to have your sponsors on board, then the fans (at least a part of them) and you'd need to work out all the details regarding the format, the setup and so on. And they had nothing. Even their website looked like something from 20 years ago.
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Yeah it should have been a better designed venture with more answers to the questions that were obviously going to be asked. I think they wanted to get ahead of the champions league changes announcement, and continue working on it after that. For such a seismic change, which they probably should have been able to expect a lot of voice and noise over, a half baked solution doesn't cut it.
As I had said earlier, I was definitely liking this setup, but you cannot have such a proposal without answers the fans/media/coaches were demanding. Wrong place, wrong time and on top of that wrong leadership and wrong methodology.
I hope they do something about the lack of FFP. Violations should count for something. Man City shouldn't have gotten away with what it did. Some other clubs are also guilty of pushing the edges and going beyond.