john68 wrote:You are right Slim, as fans, we are powerless to do anything but spectate, speculate and maybe try and calculate and project what may or may not happen. Beyond that, we are wholly dependent on how the wise men you refer to at City act and respond to the situation as it changes. As fans we have the luxury of being able to sit and pick our arses, our wise men don't.
For me, the biggest and more important issue is the campaign by a small group of clubs to gain influence and control over the global game. Though the FFPR issues (domestic and Europe) seem to be more immediate, current and grabbing the headlines, this campaign is silently and subversively continuing successfully and not being addressed. I have tried to stress that the FFPR shit is only a small defensive tool being used to protect their bigger gains.
Though balancing our books and complying, coming up with extra income or mounting some form of legal challenge may be the immediate problem, this battle must be viewed in a much wider context. City are battling to be accepted. Balancing the books may get us through the door but we still remain at odds with football's major powers. We remain friendless at the top and therefore our longer term interests are vulnerable to future attack. Politically in football we are seen as pariahs that threaten the elite old order that must be stopped.
This latest round of domestic FFPR crap means our wise men have a long way to go yet.
We are not the main target of this anymore. We may have been initially, but we are now just one of a group of clubs in that position, most of which will still be around with or without ffpr. PSG are the club who are flounting this more than anyone.
Slowing down our operation is of course desirable to the rags, but the bigger picture involves finding a way to protect Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & similar elitest, corrupt, slimeball clubs in other countries.
They are already struggling because of us & Chelsea but it only need Everton & Newcastle to get a few quid & they're fucked; the Champions League system they invented in order to pull away from competition, will be closed to them. Their whole business model will be down the toilet.
They are pushing Platini to extend the Champions League & then they can attempt to pull up the drawbridge by bringing in restrictions to stop anyone else getting in. That's what this is mainly about now. They are worried that City could push up transfer fees further & ruin their profit making schemes, & would like to keep us at bay, of course but that's not the main point; they don't care if the rags win the league or if City win it, so long as their income is protected. The fact it plays into the rags' hands & handicaps us is not the main objective, apart from for the rags, who are lapping it up.
