summerof69

Which other clubs have fan groups that do displays like wor flags? Liverpool, Palace? Noticed Watford and Leicester have displays too but don’t know whether or not they’re done by the clubs themselves rather than the fans.

Tbf, I kind of understand why people might need something to keep them going for a journey down to Brighton, it’s a long time to be sat on a bus. I went to Cardiff game this year, which was a similar situation with probably around 50% of the coach on sniff. Even young lads of around 17/18 years old. Not myself of course because I’m an angel.

They don’t not have a single redeeming factor, like.

Ffs

Saying?

Honestly find it hard to believe how bad Brighton are

I love Hughton, but they really shouldn’t be treating us like we’re Man City.

Yeeeeeeees

If Rafa goes, the ideal scenario would be people to stop going, and the club goes to shit. Failing that Xabi Alonso would be a good replacement, imo.

Exactly the type of player would love, imo.

Fuck off owen

Yeeeeeeeees

What a hit

Yeeereeeeeeesss

Gtfiiiiiiiiiii

Fucking hell

Fuck off. Owen

But part of that huge expenditure is the coaching. I mean isn’t Giardiolavthe best paid manager in the world?

Manchester united are a genuinely huge club who perhaps could have spent even more if it had not been for the Glaziers. They can do this because they have built their club up over a long time to be the biggest in the country, with huge revenue.

Of course there is. Man City are an incredibly well ran club there is no denying that. They have made mistakes though which might have cost them a title or two over the last few years but due to their incredible spending power have gotten out of it.

We can agree on that. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though.

It definitely does mean more to Liverpool, like. They had more league titles than any one be at one point but have been on a Barron run over the last 30 years. Man City would prefer the champions league by a considerable margin. They had a 27 year spell where they won 13 titles. The other 100 years in their history they’ve won 5. They had their spell of dominance, why shouldn’t someone like Man City have theirs? It’s not so much their dominance I have a problem with, but the way they’ve achieved it.

It's a bit silly to think it's that easy tbh, there's dozens of examples of clubs throwing money at something and still failing. The money helps obviously but when you're as good as City are it goes way deeper than money. Not to mention they only bought one player this past summer anyway, in terms of last year to this year most of what makes them good is self improvement from what's already there. We've been on that side of the scale so we should know! If money was all that's required, we should have won the league in '96, we wouldn't have been relegated in '17 etc etc There is a difference between what we did And what they’ve done. Our growth was extremely natural and a result of KK and SJH’s stewardship of the club. We made sacrifices to achieve that too. We had no training ground, we got rid of the academy. The stadium expansions were financed and paid for over many years( something else Man City got for very little too). They have artificial sponsorships which are just ways for them to get round ffp rules. We had arguably the most natural and fitting sponsorship the game has seen, with the city’s two most recognisable brands which also happened to be next door to one another.