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2 minutes ago, janpawel said:

 

Would you rather it was Man U / Liverpool / Arsenal at the top rotating who wins the PL? 

 

Honestly yes. They have history. It's a lot more interesting. City just pass the ball around with their technically superior players till they inevitably win. It's boring and I hate it. 

 

Every game 80% possession, it's not even a contest. 

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Astroblack said:

 

Honestly yes. They have history. It's a lot more interesting. City just pass the ball around with their technically superior players till they inevitably win. It's boring and I hate it. 

 

Every game 80% possession, it's not even a contest. 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't really disagree with any of that, despite what I said earlier about how I personally see City being the least of the evils.

 

City's football is excruciating to watch, it's like being slowly suffocated and digested by an anaconda. 

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13 minutes ago, Moose said:

 

I can't really disagree with any of that, despite what I said earlier about how I personally see City being the least of the evils.

 

City's football is excruciating to watch, it's like being slowly suffocated and digested by an anaconda. 


After being blinded by retina sizzling LED advert boards 

 

 

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2 hours ago, J7 said:

Can’t remember being as raging about an outcome in football, away from Newcastle, as that Celtic title. The pen Hearts didn’t get at Motherwell, the failure of VAR to spot the Johnson clear sending off in the OF, then that ridiculous decision on Wednesday. Should have all been over. 
 

Add to it all the ref having to blow early twice in a row because of pitch invasions and the zero consequences for Celtic over and over. Horrible club. That old horrible cunt O’Neill didn’t even have the grace to mention Hearts, never mind say anything their players being attacked.

 

He a classless prick, him.

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54 minutes ago, Astroblack said:

City 08-09

 

Jo - 18m

Vincent Kompany - 6m

Shaun Wright-Phillips - 8m

Pablo Zabaleta - 7m

Robinho - 32m

Wayne Bridge - 10m

 Craig Bellamy - 14m

Nigel de Jong - 16m

 

09-10

 

Gareth Barry - 12m

Roque Santa Cruz - 18m

Carlos Tevez - 25m

Emmanuel Adebayor - 25m

Kolo Touré - 16m

Joleon Lescott - 22m

 

10-11

 

Jérôme Boateng - 10m

Yaya Touré - 24m

David Silva - 24m

Aleksandar Kolarov - 16m

Mario Balotelli - 24m

James Milner - 24m

Edin Džeko - 27m

 

11-12

 

Gaël Clichy - 10m

Stefan Savić - 15m

Sergio Agüero - 36m

Samir Nasri - 24m

 

They fucking bought it. I can't respect that. Sorry, but I can't. And you could say we bought some players but we didn't buy an entire team. And we weren't buying the crem de la crem. We spent within reason, these bastards steroirded their way to the top. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Many of the biggest clubs in the world bought it at some point, it’s only very recently that we decided that it’s a form of cheating.

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6 minutes ago, Kimbo said:


Many of the biggest clubs in the world bought it at some point, it’s only very recently that we decided that it’s a form of cheating.


To the extent that City did? 

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10 minutes ago, Astroblack said:


To the extent that City did? 


I don’t know how we would work that out, it would have to be how much they spent relative to how much other clubs were spending in that time period. The richest family in Italy bought Juventus in the 1920s and turned them into the biggest club in the country. AC Milan were bankrupt and on a downward spiral when Berlusconi bought them, he immediately broke the world transfer record with Ruud Gullit and built the Sacchi team. Maybe they would’ve become the next Pro Vercelli, but instead a rich man bought them and created arguably the best side ever.

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1 hour ago, Astroblack said:

 

Honestly yes. They have history. It's a lot more interesting. City just pass the ball around with their technically superior players till they inevitably win. It's boring and I hate it. 

 

Every game 80% possession, it's not even a contest. 

 

 

 

 

Liverpool's history was worse than ours until the mid 70s when their era of dominance started so people could have said the same about them during that relative to Aston Villa or Everton e.g . 

 

 

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Kimbo said:


I don’t know how we would work that out, it would have to be how much they spent relative to how much other clubs were spending in that time period. The richest family in Italy bought Juventus in the 1920s and turned them into the biggest club in the country. AC Milan were bankrupt and on a downward spiral when Berlusconi bought them, he immediately broke the world transfer record with Ruud Gullit and built the Sacchi team. Maybe they would’ve become the next Pro Vercelli, but instead a rich man bought them and created arguably the best side ever.


I’ll give you Milan. I didn’t know their history and as hard as I tried as I searched through their squad list I just kept seeing some of the best players of the generation joining in 1987 and onwards. 

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3 hours ago, Kimbo said:


Many of the biggest clubs in the world bought it at some point, it’s only very recently that we decided that it’s a form of cheating.

 
Newcastle were able to break the world transfer record in 1996 and it ended up that we bought fuck all silverware.

 

And we gave that world record transfer fee to Blackburn, who were the very definition of buying silverware.

 

The world moves in mysterious ways 

 

 

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Football has been in a death spiral for a long while and now we’re seeing it quite obviously start to consume itself, the PL being the tip of the iceberg.

 

Lid is off Pandora’s box and so I haven’t the faintest fucking clue how they’re going to make football an entertaining spectacle again. 

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I mean, the best team in the league being able to freely buy the two best players from their respective teams, mid season, is all that needs to be said.

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2 hours ago, CallumG6 said:

I mean, the best team in the league being able to freely buy the two best players from their respective teams, mid season, is all that needs to be said.

We tried to do that with Tino and Batty. Manchester United did that precisely with Cole. Arsenal with Ian Wright when they were champions and had a bad start. The only problem with Man City doing it now is that nobody else was is able to because of the new rules.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said:

We tried to do that with Tino and Batty. Manchester United did that precisely with Cole. Arsenal with Ian Wright when they were champions and had a bad start. The only problem with Man City doing it now is that nobody else was is able to because of the new rules.

 

 

 

The rules have also worked very well for the selling clubs - Palace and Bournemouth won’t be grumbling about what they brought in.  If PSR didn’t exist, then there’s a good chance that the likes of Man City wouldn’t be buying from those sides, but instead offering super clubs crazy money for their top players. 
 

The likes of Newcastle and Villa are the only clubs negatively impacted by the current rules. 

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All-time horrible VAR decision ruling out a perfectly good goal in the Charlotte-Toronto MLS game there.

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22 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

Your friendly neighbourhood Celtic fans making cunts of themselves.

 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yegmxv883o

I for one am shocked that the clubs whose fanbase widely sing IRA songs including when visiting places like Birmingham and Manchester, as well as their support for Palestine being more linked to anti-semitism amongst their catholic support have supporters who would do this.

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There's no way that Celtic/ Hearts game should have been ended by that pitch invasion. In reality the game was out of Hearts reach but the game should be ended when the referee decides and not Celtic fans.

I think if it happens elsewhere, abandonment would at least be threatened but the authorities are shit scared of the old firm arse cheeks.

Rod Stewart's a prick too 😡

 

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16 hours ago, Astroblack said:

City 08-09

 

Jo - 18m

Vincent Kompany - 6m

Shaun Wright-Phillips - 8m

Pablo Zabaleta - 7m

Robinho - 32m

Wayne Bridge - 10m

 Craig Bellamy - 14m

Nigel de Jong - 16m

 

09-10

 

Gareth Barry - 12m

Roque Santa Cruz - 18m

Carlos Tevez - 25m

Emmanuel Adebayor - 25m

Kolo Touré - 16m

Joleon Lescott - 22m

 

10-11

 

Jérôme Boateng - 10m

Yaya Touré - 24m

David Silva - 24m

Aleksandar Kolarov - 16m

Mario Balotelli - 24m

James Milner - 24m

Edin Džeko - 27m

 

11-12

 

Gaël Clichy - 10m

Stefan Savić - 15m

Sergio Agüero - 36m

Samir Nasri - 24m

 

They fucking bought it. I can't respect that. Sorry, but I can't. And you could say we bought some players but we didn't buy an entire team. And we weren't buying the crem de la crem. We spent within reason, these bastards steroirded their way to the top. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We sort of did buy an entire team though. In the space of under 4 years since our takeover we spent £750m on a new team and after that expenditure the only remaining 1st team player was Joelinton.

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