city beat a championship side at the second attempt. well done them
city beat a championship side at the second attempt. well done them
They haven't just been spanking them in tonight though have they?
why do you always defend city? yes they've been scoring lots of goals at home, but they keep failing away from home. this time cost hundreds of millions of pounds and people are wanking over them for beating a championship side in a replay.Originally Posted by Özim
I made a comment about them putting teams to the sword, they do.
You said it was a replay against a Championship side and doesn't matter.
I said they've been doing it against lots of other teams.
It's not defending them it's stating facts, money is irrelevant from a pure footballing point of view (the way I look at it) they're a ruthless side who score a hatful of goals and generally play great attacking football. Pellegrini is a top manager and obviously there was going to be a settling in period, they are starting win away now however.
My personal opinion is from a pure footballing point of view they set the bar and are the team to beat. Chelsea are too but I don't think we'll see the best of them until next season when Mourinho has his team setup as he wants it.
yeah of course, money is totally irrelevant here. its not like city spent 100's of millions to buy players who can play football like that. nope not in the slightest.
I don't really care about the money, it's part and parcel of football nowadays and it's not going to change, you need to accept it and get over it. Based on that we need forget about it and stop feeling sorry for ourselves and get on with it.
It's all relative anyway, sure they have spent a lot but there's always been big clubs with greater resources outspending other clubs, it's just been magnified now due to the bigger transfer fees, Italian sides use to spend a hatful on players in the 90's an won stack loads of trophies.
justifying spending on players like city and chelsea do
there is no justification. you can only do that when you are backed by oil money, city and chelsea could have stadium debts etc and not care about it because they are bankrolled by so much oil money they can pay them off and spend 100's of millions each season. no other clubs in england can. thats not a level playing field at all. its not even competing with greater resources. who else can spend 25 million on jovetic and not play him? who else can sell a player for 3 million and resign them at 20 million and not care about it.
and?
Maybe we should just get a huge benefactor and join in, will that keep you happy? If not then you need to get over it and move on.
I can't be asked to focus on the money, I prefer to look at how the teams play, we've got plenty of resources ourselves so we're hardly the paupers of the football world.
City is a once distinguished now despicable club that has been hijacked by arabs who stole a fortune based on some archaic notion they have a God given right to gather the resources of a nation into their own hands. They have tried to use the proceeds of their immoral activities to buy some sort of respectability in the UK, via ownership of what was once a football club. Because the FA is staffed by weak, greedy and incompetent cowards these arabs have achieved their goals, technically speaking, though surely nobody is really fooled?
Even with the obscene amounts of money they have ploughed into the attempted purchase of titles and trophies they have come up laughably short, beaten by a mediocre Man Utd last season and headed by an Arsenal in transition this year, not to mention a series of humiliations in the Champions League. It really is comedy stuff, like a heavyweight constantly being knocked out by a featherweight - you'd laugh your arse off if that happened but because there so much money in the equation people barely mention just how poorly they have performed comparatively.
Now they have ploughed hundreds of millions more into their efforts and by trail and error have eventually managed to staff almost every place in the squad with high fee/ high salary mercenaries to the extent they are virtually immune from the effects of injuries, suspensions and general fatigue.
If this is achievement of any kind then why not find the next boy scout selling lemonade, whip out your wallet and set up a bigger stand and put the kid out of business then gloat about it? See how it feels to be al-manchester city. Of course some people admire them for this, hard to know why but they do.
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As for Arsenal, as much as we have all hated it, they run the club as a proper business. There is absolutely no comparison between the two in terms of business practices and the spirit of the game in general. The arabs are trying to buy what we already have, but they'll find their money can't buy everything.
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