An active part of the “townspeople” fans opposed the idea of \u200b\u200btheir club to establish a new tournament.
Recall that earlier Football. ua has published information about the creation of a new European club tournament, not under the auspices of UEFA, the Super League of Europe, which was founded by 15 football clubs, including the leader of the current season of the English Premier League, Manchester City.
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Thus, the Official Manchester City Fan Club issued the following statement criticizing the owners' decision:.
“Football fans have recently had the opportunity to watch media reports that six Premier League clubs - Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham have agreed to form a breakaway UEFA Europa League, along with other prominent European teams.
This information was confirmed, and, as it turned out, Manchester City was indeed involved in the creation process, about which we are very disappointed.
The official club of fans of the football club Manchester City is categorically against all the ideas that lay in the plans of the football functionaries when creating this tournament.. The proposed new competition has no sporting merit and seems to be dictated by the greed of individuals.
In addition, it was created without the knowledge or participation of any fan groups, which once again shows that the participants in this process do not respect the traditions of the game..
We are determined to fight the proposed Super League and will work again with the "
These owners, no matter where they come from, seem to think that football belongs to them - it is not, football belongs to the fans, no matter which team we support, "
Recall that organizations such as UEFA and FIFA have already made an official statement about their rejection of the process of separating a group of European clubs into a separate tournament, and threaten them with serious sanctions, up to exclusion from all possible tournaments under the auspices of these structures..
Similar statements followed from the English Premier League, Spanish LA League and Italian Serie A, and representatives of the French Ligue 1 and German Bundesliga, as well as their participating clubs, refrained from commenting on this situation..