Ted Hughes wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:That's a wierd one Ted, you think that they won't have their own identity and that they are only there for MCFC?
All clubs in the CFG are, and should be independent clubs, otherwise, we may as well just all be CFG supporters worldwide with no real loyalty to our local club.
Maybe one day it would be nice to watch a day of CFG realted football, starting with the likes of Melbourne City and finishing with NYCFC, but the reality is that I will only be looking for one club, and that is MCFC. Maybe that's what the other clubs in the group want, just their own club with the added bonus of being part of the wider group. That will not include having your best players stolen when MCFC have a shortfall.
No, I didn't say that, at all.
I said that the whole thing is a CITY organisation, so therefore, each club supports its sister clubs. The head of that organisation is MCFC.
If people resent City, ie rags etc, they should not become NYC supporters, as NYC are part of City, & vice versa. They should be supporting a rival club.
That's fine, so as independent clubs with independent supporters then they have a right to support whoever they want, yes?
So, if they live in New York and wish to follow their local team, they should be allowed, yes?
As a club, and a league, who have contracted a player, they should have every right to see that player turn up at an arranged time and not have another club force the issue, especially as the player in question is the lead brand?
Would it be OK for us to lend NYCFC Sergio Aguero until the start of the season, say, when we're playing a title rival, only for them to say 'Sorry, we're keeping him until Christmas.'?
All relevant questions Ted and looking at it from both a supporters and CFG position, I'd suggest that respect has to work both ways and that having a club in other countries is about teamwork, not just MCFC.
Would it have been ok for Sheikh Mansour to take over Stuart Pearce's City team, buy us a new squad of players plus David Villa & Lampard then tell us we have to wait a couple of months longer for Lampard yiou mean ?
Absofuckinglutely it would have been, 100% perfectly fucking utterly, brilliantly fine. As it should be for anyone who is being given a club from nothing.
It's not fine, by rags, Arsenal & Liverpool supporters who live in New York & want City to fail.
But allowed to support the club? How the fuck would I stop them ?
But they need to understand they are supporting a City team which is part of the City football group & is majority owned by City. I'm not sure some of them actually realise that, as they are bitter rags & scousers, & therefore want nothing to do with City, & are actually avidly against City.
They need it spelling out that they are supporting a City team, therefore if they hate City, they should not be supporting our organisation.
More like absolutely bollocks Ted, although hypothetical, I'd say there's no way would we stand for our player sitting it out in another league after the defined moment he was supposed to come to us.
And the way you are saying it, MCFC are the only thing here and everybody else panders to our whims. Well, I don't see it like that, not like that at all. Our custodians have not brought the CFG about to just better City's needs, if you think it is then I'll leave it there. However, it's far more important to break into other marketsto further their needs, not just to help City.
Fuck me mate, 'They're there to support the City team' and nothing more?
*Shakes head*