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aye, but SSN pick out the mentally fragile to stick up on the TV, i can personally think of no city fan that ever said we (oops!) would win the league after we signed robinho.
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I have no problem with Man City using their powers in the transfer market. Do Man city fans think it's ridiculous the wages they are handing out though? Yaya Toure wouldn't have got that sort of wage anywhere in the world, it's not as though a team were competing with city so they offered him £5000 a week more than their competitors. It looks to me as though they are almost blackmailing their targets to come and that's why many will say players are only going for the big money contracts and aren't committed to the club.
Toure had only just signed his mega money with City and he was saying he wants to return to Barcelona in the near future and his heart belongs there! Not what you want to hear after giving him a multi million pound contract. |
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not sure what the business plan is tbh. paying that money just means having Team Adebayor smashing the doors down to get their man paid more, it means subsidising players wages if they leave or go on loan because no-one else can pay that much, it means offering £400k a week to get one genuine world class player on board. there simply isn't enough prize money, tv rights and gate receipts to cover a squad like that
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Hopefully all the clubs will be owned by billionaires and give it a level playing field again, whilst raising tickets prices and forcing out the working class scum.
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Milner on his way by all accounts, Man City will have to add height to their dugout, the midfielders will need more room to sit on the bench with their wallets in their pockets.
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no need to adjust dugouts with 25 max squad size, gonna be some unhappy chappies
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No need to worry Wedged. That's the way it's going.
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They wont be unhappy with the contracts they're on. How many will be banging on the door asking for a move?
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and still whatever they spend i have them down for 4th place at best
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this is it buzzer .
a greedy player will still take less money in order to play for barcelona/madrid etc. man city have no choice but to go over the odds |
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pox doctors clerk 22 Jul 10 12:51
and still whatever they spend i have them down for 4th place at best Agreed |
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come on city
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Correct Man City will buy top players
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Has anyone on here commented on the stories about City paying for a new astroturf pitch in Harlem?
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There isnt a fan around who wouldnt swap place with City though. Billionaire benfactor linked with your club? No thanks. Honest.
As plenty have said, welcome to football today. City havent changed anything. Good luck to them and their fans. Have a feeling they are going to need it though. The vast majority of todays players yearn for trophies and success less than any other generation imo. Sometimes too much money / spending really can be a bad thing, especially in a team game. Hunger, desire, team spirit arent the first things you'd think of when you think of Man City would they? |
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* are they?
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How dare City spend money. Only Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are allowed to spend money.
City winning the league would be a disaster, because we only want established money spenders to win the league. Why should money spenders who come from nowhere be allowed to buy the title at the expense of the other big clubs who spend money? Just not right. |
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Hilarious stuff. City "destroying everything that is good about football?" I see. They are responsible for Super Sunday, Andy Gray, all seater stadia, alcohol bans, stewards, early kick offs, no pay on the gate, gloryseekers etc are they? Football, as we used to know it, ceased to exist many moons ago.
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good luck to them, don't particularly like them but they were getting 40,000 fans for division 2 games a few years back proves they are no "Glory Hunters" as has been said on here, pure jealousy from some quarters I believe
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Manchester City have spent an awful lot of money so far this summer - and not all of it has been on new players.
Yesterday, in the broiling heat of Spanish Harlem, we saw where some of the rest has gone. The PS72 Elementary School that stands on the corner of 104th Street and Lexington Avenue is not unlike many others in this deprived area of uptown Manhattan. It is large and in rudimentary physical shape. These days, however, it boasts an astro-turf football pitch on the roof, which City put there at a cost of more than £500,000. It is 12 flights of stairs up, but for the children of PS72, the climb is worth it. Previously they had to walk 12 blocks to play their favourite sport. School principal Tony Hernandez yesterday thanked the club, saying: 'You must realise what this means to us. |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1297019/Manchester-City-build-500-000-football-pitch-roof-school.html
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Manchester City is a nice club full of heroes and fanatical fans such as me
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Interesting thread this. My thoughts on the OP are that no, they're destroying it... but they are making it worse.
I also wonder whether, without City, football might have started getting back to normal. United, Liverpool and Chelsea were all spending more wisely - Arsenal and Spurs have been well run for sometime now. Unfortunately, this hope as fallen away somewhat. Oh, and Can't Catch Me - I know a lot of fans that wouldn't want their club to be doing what City are doing. In fact, I know some City fans who hate the developments at the club. |
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Spending 200 million on a load of third world rejects has made them the biggest laughing stock in football.
They will be passed on to some African dictator next season, that is when the real fun starts. Thaksin the mass murderer to Mohammed the Somalian warlord. Show us yer medals Stockport. |
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is this the man city that couldn't finish in the top 4? the one thats in the europa league this season?6th place imo this season.
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What the Bitter Blues are doing is a bit akin to a 60 year old millionaire buying a 20 year old Thai bride.
Oh and then deciding to sleep around with a few prossies as well, because he hasn't had any for 34 years. It's sickening, and needs to be stopped. |
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I'm loving that the fact that you're all foaming at the mouth about liddle ol' Ciddy.
A team with no history, a team with no fan base. Maine Road's record attendance was set in 1934, when 84,569 people attended an FA Cup tie between Manchester City and Stoke City, a record for an English club ground Chew on that you bitter pricks! |
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That's right GG & Stoke only brought 569 with them!
Seriously though, all the petty seething about City are doing this & that or blah blah blah etc etc etc. It is just part of the soap opera that football has become. Just enjoy the ride. How the hatred can be building up right now is crazy. We haven't won anything yet! Of all clubs how could anyone begrudge Man City fans a bit of success? We've followed that club through some shocking times. We've won nothing and still over 40k turn up week after week. Pretty much all from Gtr M/C too. The unfortunate fact of life in football is that if you aren't a part of the big money set you've no chance of competing for the big silverware. It's not the ideal situation, but it is what it is. The days of Celtic winning the European Cup with all the players being born within 25 miles of the ground are gone. Football has gone global. Get used to it. |
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Dave Edwards
I'm sorry, but it's not fair to label all criticism as 'petty seething' and then justify it by basically saying 'well, it's fecked anyway so it's not worth worrying about it'. Yes, football is in a pretty shocking state, but just when the Prem seemed to be readjusting itself - albeit still at obscene levels - City have come along and made it worse. They're by no means the cause of the problem, or the only symptom, but I'm not a 'petty seether' because I dislike the way football has become and the way that, imo, City are making it worse. |
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14 thousand for a quater final league cup home game last season just about sums City up.
Then sell out against Utd, City fans are the biggest glory hunters around. MASSIVE THREAD |
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Sky and the rush by top division sides to extricate themselves from the 'lower orders' ruined football. City's owners are simply taking it to its logical conclusion. Anything else is just seething...
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Real and Barca in Spain
Inter in Italy Bayern in Germany City in England The big clubs buy up the best talent. The difference with City and the rest is we have no debt and billions to spend. Via Va the revolution This is the decade we will rule the world. Can't wait to see the seethers in five years when we are light years ahead of the rest |
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I wholeheartedly agree. But, as Cloughie used to say, 'say nowt, win it, then talk yer head off.' Let's be patient for another season or two.
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i saw someone else post this and i agree. Can any city fans really say they have seen one of their new signings and thought "wow, what a signing, this is amazing?"
i cant see how any signing has made you think that. any city fans care to answer how they feel about their signings? |
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Robinho was pretty jaw dropping as he was way above what we were signing at that current time, but all didnt turn out so well
i think David Silva is probably our best and most balanced signing to date, for me. |