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So just to check, is that one league cup for nearly £2bn in transfer fees for Manure over the last six years?
All home draws to get to the league cup final, all home draws to get to the fa cup final.
They’re fucking shite. Trying to stop your neighbours from emulating your treble and all you can do is produce a limp dick performance like that. Joke.
Still the media will fawn over Ten Haag and say Fatty-miro is world player of the year.
Not a single bit of credit for the oil cheats from me , pure and utter money , no romance , no bringing young players through. Buy the best players , buy the best coach and cheat yourself to success. Boring as fuck.
Not sure about not bringing youth players; Foden, Lewis, Alvarez are doing well in a very well-built City team.
Alvarez?? Who they signed from River Plate last year. That one?
Not a single bit of credit for the oil cheats from me , pure and utter money , no romance , no bringing young players through. Buy the best players , buy the best coach and cheat yourself to success. Boring as fuck.
Not sure about not bringing youth players; Foden, Lewis, Alvarez are doing well in a very well-built City team.
Alvarez?? Who they signed from River Plate last year. That one?
Yeah, the guy who no one knew much about and is only 23y old that is now probably valued at three digits due to his development at City. Him and Martinelli are similar in terms of their respective teams bringing them in out of nowhere and developing them to a high standard. I'd categorise that as bringing youth players through. Your Saka, Rashford and Fodens are quite rare.
Not a single bit of credit for the oil cheats from me , pure and utter money , no romance , no bringing young players through. Buy the best players , buy the best coach and cheat yourself to success. Boring as fuck.
Not sure about not bringing youth players; Foden, Lewis, Alvarez are doing well in a very well-built City team.
Alvarez?? Who they signed from River Plate last year. That one?
Yeah, the guy who no one knew much about and is only 23y old that is now probably valued at three digits due to his development at City. Him and Martinelli are similar in terms of their respective teams bringing them in out of nowhere and developing them to a high standard. I'd categorise that as bringing youth players through. Your Saka, Rashford and Fodens are quite rare.
When you get found out it’s best to hold your hands up.
Development? He was signed in 2022 and allowed to stay on loan at River Plate. He started this season for City. So how exactly has he been “developed” by City. I’m genuinely all ears. Unless you are trying to shoe-horn factual errors into your own (factually incorrect) narrative. Martinelli came to us and was developed over a reasonable period before he became the player he is now. They’ve bought well I would agree but they haven’t developed him. Unless Abu Dhabi own River Plate and I don’t know about it.
Another trophy in the bank and again not a single mention of the 115 charges of cheating they’ve been accused of.
Basil Fawlty don’t mention the war
Like watching Lance Armstrong win the Tour de France on a BMX with a syringe hanging out of the top of his cock and nobody batting an eyelid.
Everything’s perfectly normal, nothing to see here move along
Commentary today said they’d won 16 trophies in 13 years (before today) but funnily they’d won fuck all for decades before the Arab money,
Zero fucking romance in what city are doing
Not a single bit of credit for the oil cheats from me , pure and utter money , no romance , no bringing young players through. Buy the best players , buy the best coach and cheat yourself to success. Boring as fuck.
Not sure about not bringing youth players; Foden, Lewis, Alvarez are doing well in a very well-built City team.
Alvarez?? Who they signed from River Plate last year. That one?
Yeah, the guy who no one knew much about and is only 23y old that is now probably valued at three digits due to his development at City. Him and Martinelli are similar in terms of their respective teams bringing them in out of nowhere and developing them to a high standard. I'd categorise that as bringing youth players through. Your Saka, Rashford and Fodens are quite rare.
When you get found out it’s best to hold your hands up.
Development? He was signed in 2022 and allowed to stay on loan at River Plate. He started this season for City. So how exactly has he been “developed” by City. I’m genuinely all ears. Unless you are trying to shoe-horn factual errors into your own (factually incorrect) narrative. Martinelli came to us and was developed over a reasonable period before he became the player he is now. They’ve bought well I would agree but they haven’t developed him. Unless Abu Dhabi own River Plate and I don’t know about it.
Not sure about not bringing youth players; Foden, Lewis, Alvarez are doing well in a very well-built City team.
Alvarez?? Who they signed from River Plate last year. That one?
Yeah, the guy who no one knew much about and is only 23y old that is now probably valued at three digits due to his development at City. Him and Martinelli are similar in terms of their respective teams bringing them in out of nowhere and developing them to a high standard. I'd categorise that as bringing youth players through. Your Saka, Rashford and Fodens are quite rare.
When you get found out it’s best to hold your hands up.
Development? He was signed in 2022 and allowed to stay on loan at River Plate. He started this season for City. So how exactly has he been “developed” by City. I’m genuinely all ears. Unless you are trying to shoe-horn factual errors into your own (factually incorrect) narrative. Martinelli came to us and was developed over a reasonable period before he became the player he is now. They’ve bought well I would agree but they haven’t developed him. Unless Abu Dhabi own River Plate and I don’t know about it.
Agreed , sir. Well said.
Agreed. I was wondering how Alvarez could be considered home grown or developed by Corruption Citeh.
Can someone ask champagne socialist rat face Gary how their all conquering quadruple went?
And if it wasn’t for the run of 10 home cup draws in a row they’ve been handed - (the odds of that happening are a mere 1024/1 by the way - nothing suspicious there) they’d have won fuck all.
The last time they played away from home in a league cup/FA cup tie was March 2021
The complete over the top reaction after they beat the head choppers in the league cup final was a joke. Ten Haag was the second coming of Fergie and the team was going to go on to win the lot.
Reminder of their run to that final (all home draws remember bar the 2 legged semi)
Can someone ask champagne socialist rat face Gary how their all conquering quadruple went?
And if it wasn’t for the run of 10 home cup draws in a row they’ve been handed - (the odds of that happening are a mere 1024/1 by the way - nothing suspicious there) they’d have won fuck all.
The last time they played away from home in a league cup/FA cup tie was March 2021
The complete over the top reaction after they beat the head choppers in the league cup final was a joke. Ten Haag was the second coming of Fergie and the team was going to go on to win the lot.
Reminder of their run to that final (all home draws remember bar the 2 legged semi)
Villa, Burnley, Charlton, Forest.
Fucking morons.
Along the way there have been some "special circumstances" performances that would have made Wenger blush too
The walloping at Brentford, the 7-0 at Anfield, the absolute dicking in the second leg in Seville against a team of rejects who were 13th in their league at the time
Ten Hag had a dream job - Ole and Rangnick had done such an appalling job despite billions invested, anything other than progress from there was virtually unthinkable
I get sick to the back teeth of people reminding us about Pepe, when these c.unts have spanked a fortune on utter c.unts like Maguire, Sancho, Fred, Bruno and dozens before them
I don't fear them at all next season - albeit we know we're incapable of winning up there whoever the manager is (unless you count a closed ground with no fans)
There’s a definite bang of Wenger about how the media treat Ten Haag (which is a great thing for the rest of the league by the way).
As you say they’ve taken some serious drubbings along the way as well as producing a shit load of awfully bad comical performances - all while spending and absolute fortune on their squad.
Yet he gets zero criticism, not a peep after the drubbing at Anfield or the shit show in Seville or again yesterday when they were piss poor. He’s Teflon and it’s great to see, long May he reign
.....not to say I disagree with the sentiment, but football has long since been killing itself. The "fit and proper person" ruling for owners is a joke as dubious human rights records, ultimate beneficial owners, previous business dealings etc, are quickly looked over if its felt that the billions coming into the game are going to feather the nests of many and keep developing the global reach of the PL.
I'm not surprised the 115 charges against Man City have barely been mentioned, and here's why - everybody and their dog knows that there is absolutely zero chance of anything meaningful being done about it. Reading expert legal opinion, the view is that it would take between 2-4 years to conclude the outcome, as Man City deny every charge of wrongdoing and have a highly skilled legal team who will challenge every verdict along the way and continue the appeal process to the absolute top of the judicial system. If by some miracle after 2-4 years it did seem as if the verdict was going against them, then together with the other financially doped clubs the European Super League would come calling again - on their own terms - and the pathetically weak willed domestic league would bend over to every demand going.
Look at the precedents for this - a few years ago when Ferrari and the other leading F1 teams threatened to walk away. No.....please come back!
When some of the world's leading golfers last year decided to join the Saudi backed tour and there was talk of the PGA banning them - no, please come back!
My message to all of you is that you're going to have live with it. You should also forget any shit about whether Declan Rice or anyone else is worth £80m or £120m.....or £5m. It isn't your money. Football at this level will never be a sustainable business model. Your club will never be owned by someone who cares about you, or whether the 'business' is self sustaining. The FA, the PL, UEFA or FIFA are not going to implement any sort of ruling EVER that will make it a level playing field. The only way you'll ever see Arsenal win a PL or CL is to join them, or pray that once every 30 years a Leicester/Greece/Wigan happens where a set of exceptional circumstances all play out at once
Not saying I like it - but I accept it for what it is. Keep screaming about City - but sadly you're shouting into a void and praying for something that will never happen
Absolutely fuck all chance of anything coming of it SteveO, I suppose the angle I’m coming at is why it’s not even being mentioned.
It’s bizarre. Can you imagine that scenario occurring in any other sport in the world? Serious accusations and over a hundred charges of cheating/misconduct are made against a competitor and then just few months later they go on to obliterate the field but nobody bats a fucking eyelid.
There would be an outcry in every other sport other than ours.
And maybe it’s the victim complex in me but why do I think if it was us facing all those charges while we hoovered up all the trophies and payed players a million quid a week from some gulf nation’s state coffers all the talk would be of black clouds, question marks and asterisks over our achievements.
