The sweet tears of Man Utd and Liverpool taste so GOOD

i think i am looking forward to this season more than any other

Thanks for that interesting incite

I hate everyone.

Gloryhunting reds, The Big Four, Sky, Richard Keys, 'New' fans, Target demographic fans, the FA, Team England, Ferguson, people 'supporting' teams from miles away (that are never $hit teams), football club owners, spin merchants, footballing bull$hitters - all to$$ers.

Oh yeah, Garry Cook - top bull$hitter and spin merchant too.

What can you do though?

Vornader" United fans are smug because they are supporting a lifelong passion"

Jesus wept....

As a Villa fan, Man City shaking up the 'Big 4' is hilarious. Never seen Liverpool and Utd fans so worried. I wish them well!

Been a while since I had a fan club. Pleasing to see.

Mighty Whites 2008 Joined: 27 May 06
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they were almost top 4 last season.

They added a number of players and will be stronger. They will be top 4.

Remember the window is 2months from shutting not forgetting the second window in january when they can go again
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2 months?!

last season when spurs finished 4th seems never to have happened already. apparently it was a fluke and the ragbag that are citeh and liverpool in decline will just zoom past next season.

I like the notion from the OP that it's Man City destroying everything. Football's integrity disappeared down the pan a long time ago in case you hadn't noticed.

I think it's more the Premiership's integrity disappearing down the pan.

What City are doing is no different from what Chelsea did.  Chelsea spent £250m in the space of 12 months and so City need to spend a bit more in order to catch up with them!

god forbid another billionaire takeover.!

[;)]

Man City are just buying players for no reason, surely you should be buying players that fit into your team, also their manager is weak, hes spending more time trying to convince the supporters that he loves the club by wearing that scarf in summer, as we all know he had never even heard of City until they approached him with a job offer, city fans = deluded fools.

Perhaps someone could let me know when the Betfair forum has determined  whether City are bad for football because (a) they’ve bought success or (b) because they’ve bought a bunch of money grabbers who won’t gel because money doesn’t buy you success.

In the real world, money makes the world go round. The fascination of Brian Clough was that he achieved success at ‘unfashionable’ (i.e. small) clubs but that was very much the exception rather than the rule. Even when Lancashire town teams dominated football at the beginning of the last century that was an era when Lancs was the industrial and therefore economic heart of the country. Club football here and abroad has been dominated by metropolitan clubs for a long time.

The bottom line is those with money win very much more often than those without. And those who win then get more money meaning they keep on winning. And so the gap between rich and poor gets wider.

We like the romantic image of a small club slowly building to be a big club purely through hard work, sourcing and nurturing local players, gradual growth in attendances etc.  But if that was ever possible, the money now paid out by TV, Premier League and Champions League has made the gap so ridiculously huge that the only realistic way to bridge the gap is to outspend those with the money. At which point, cue wailing and gnashing of teeth from those whose monopoly is threatened or those who don’t have a rich benefactor.

The problem in football, as in any business, is when clubs spend money they can’t afford. That plainly isn’t the case with City.

By the way the attendance for the quarter final with Arsenal last season was 46015. Correcting misinformation about City is a full time job.

so when do we take them seriously,when the win something?

Ok i know we will have the 'man utd generate alot of their money' but ffs look how much they spent(by the way ) i dont care a toss how much clubs spend,didn't in the 60s/70s and dont now.
GL to city fans i say.

have to disagree AJSmith, city fans didnt think they'd won the league last season. dunno which ones you had dealings with but seriously, a massive majority did not think city would win the league last year, and most still dont think this year either.

Whether anyone takes City seriously is a different question. The thread alleges City are destroying football, an assertion which is at best naive as to the extent to which the concentration of money in a small number of clubs has long since destroyed the romantic possibilities of a so called level playing field. If everyone having an equal chance each season is your aim, you might as well accept it all went pear shaped when clubs turned professional.