A great win for City at the weekend. Bags of goals and stretched their lead at the top of the table..... but the only post on their thread is about Manchester United

Win, lose or draw United will always be bigger news than City

City could win the Champions League but more people would be interested in a picture of Wayne Rooney buying a pint of milk. That is how little a club City have become since the glory days of Joe Mercer, Malcolm Alison and Bell, Lee & Summerbee.

Are you talking about the brains trust of the Gallagher brothers & Mark E Smith or the drunken cokehead R*cky H*tt*n?

Them's real quality.

When the takeover happened one of the biggest fears of City fans was of hordes of plastics and glory hunters jumping on the bandwagon. It's actually quite pleasing that this hasn't yet happened, even if it inevitably will in time.

Meanwhile, at the swamp, an american chancer comes in and 'buys' the club in a leveraged deal that actually left Utd holding the debt for the money borrowed to buy the club. It's a deal that's so morally corrupt it's breathtaking. A few United fans had the balls to call it for what it was - daylight robbery. But the new owners knew they could rely on the rest to keep buying the shirts every year and to turn up at the matches.

So where are United now? They are a club that is more concerned with marquee signings to sell shirts than they are with team cohesion and a medium to long term strategy. Their youth academy is so poor United players are sending their kids to City's academy. The football is dire and is an insult to the attacking and entertaining football that has until recently been part of United's DNA. But don't worry guys, because they're top of the table on financial turnover, so that's all that matters   

How has it come to this? It's because of the supporters. For the last 12 years they have been funding the gradual reduction of the loans taken out to fund the takeover. Once the club is debt free it will be sold so the owners can take out the money the supporters have put in. All these hordes of plastics and glory hunters have enabled the club to be fleeced and for it to lose all momentum and heart on the pitch. It's no longer a club that gives any sign of knowing what its true brand is. All because it has so successfully built a machine to exploit its fanbase for every penny it can get out of them, so it no longer needs football success to make the money.

So when these goons come on here telling us how marvelous they are because of all the plastics and glory hunters they've got, and how rubbish we are because we have smaller crowds, I'll just smile to myself and think, you know what, that's fine with me thanks very much.

Very good post CP. As a rag who walked away a decade ago i can't disagree with you. Having said that i'd be equally uncomfotable about the morals of the family that owns The Project

CP you make some good points because most true United fans know that the glazers are parasites and have saddled the club with intrest of 40 million a season on the debt , but some choose not to go and a lot stayed and after the initial protests it dies away , the fact that Fergus stayed on till 2013 winning 5 more titles and reaching 3 European Cup finals took away the spotlight from the glazers , im afraid though your accusations about everybody is a gloryhunter or a plastic is complete rubbish if that is true you have found yourself 15 thousand of the same ilk over the last few years.

Don't get me started . Enjoy it while it lasts mate, yer never know what's lurking around the corner.

anxious I didn't mean to suggest all reds are glory hunters. I know many reds friends who have supported them since childhood. But the club now seems only interested in how much money it can make from the non-UK fanbase. And yes, we would be nowhere without the investment - but its because the money was invested that we've grown. The point is that United haven't invested properly in the club for years, and its really showing. I actually think its outrageous, and how it can be seen as legitimate under financial fair play is laughable. Join us in booing UEFA!!

United Fan Base Champions 2016/17..congratulations. My red nephew went to the recent derby match at OT and thoroughly enjoyed it, until he paid the entrance fee and watched the match

1 Manchester City 15
2 Everton 13
3 Tottenham Hotspur 11
4 Arsenal 10
5 Chelsea 10
6 Liverpool 10
7 Manchester United 9

Is gundogan any good? Any chance of breaking into the starting 11?

Apparently there is something wrong with an owner investing in his football club, yet United supporters are happy to be get fleeced annually by the Glazers

op.give us a score then for leic

City fans have a heated debate about their CL match last night.

Rescued from page 2 again.

For a little club like City it's always about trying to stick it to United. It's always about United

Love the write up in the MEN following on from Tottenham fans singing "Where were you when you were ****?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/
man-city-attendances-average-fans-11975875

Plenty of discussion on the Bluemoon forum, below is a link to the pre-match thread :

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/
barcelona-vs-city-pre-match-thread.324851/

City reporting new record turnover and wages ratio of 50%

#bluemoonrising