Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
The rules aren't going to make a blind bit of difference, as City have already demonstrated. What we really need is for much, much tighter control of agents. It's in the interests of these cunts to run around destabilising players and teams and fragmenting the game. That's hoe the slime skim their money.

Fabregas is better than anyone City have now or will ever have. We built him here. RvP could well be the best striker in Europe right now. Built at Arsenal. We've never needed City's billions, all we ever needed was a few million invested in experience at key moments. But those uber-cunts on the board wouldn't do it and they still won't. They are the problem. For all City's cash, with a couple of choice signings they'd still be on our coattails. Admittedly they have now spent such a stupidly huge amount getting 2-3 world class players per position they will be hard to beat simply because they won't suffer as much from injuries and suspensions. So yeah, the big money tells in the end but it was our refusal to spend a little rather than their determination to spend a lot that has made the difference over the last few seasons.

So there is something the board can do to correct this. They can kill themselves.
I agree with you, in the past mistakes have been made but we don't know the ins and outs (maybe the money wasnt there). However I feel now we've reached a point where City have eclipsed us and will continue to for the forseeable future much like Chelsea did, until their chairman gets bored. Them getting in the CL was the end of our hope and I'm not quite sure what everyone keeps complaining about, we shouldn't be expecting to win titles anymore, not with all that money at their disposal.

Yes we created a Fabregas, a Van Persie but they're 1 player in 20, we can't expect to have a team full of them. I do think we should be going for better players than Arteta, some young up and coming stars like M'Vila or Martin but players like Arteta are useful in adding squad depth and experience. That should be our model, get the young stars before they become world class and load them with some experience.