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I love the way the entire country wanted City to lose, then they go and do us a favour
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Hallucination wrote:
I love the way the entire country wanted City to lose, then they go and do us a favour
So wait, everyone wants to see United lose the title. But everyone wants to see City lose as well. This shit is confusing me big time. So who's gonna win the league then? Wigan?
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In before some kind of not-so-funny picture or way-too-long article kpj is going to post about the, based on tonight, clearly inevitable return to glory by the grand Liverpool Football Club and their glorious manager King Kenny. I mean, even Jordan fucking Henderson seems to be scoring. The race for 7th is truly epic. Next year is their year. YNWA. JFT96. STFU.
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Angus wrote:
Hallucination wrote:
I love the way the entire country wanted City to lose, then they go and do us a favour
So wait, everyone wants to see United lose the title. But everyone wants to see City lose as well. This shit is confusing me big time. So who's gonna win the league then? Wigan?
I've found quite a few fans of clubs whose support traditionally hates United wanting them to win the league. We're nothing, it's always been Tottenham for us and you're just a team we didn't like because we were competing for the title. I'm talking Newcastle, Blackburn (alright that was 1 title but consider the geography as well). A blackburn fan at work wants you to win it, I've come across 2 Newcastle fans who want you to win it. The most intriguing 1 is a Sunderland fan. He wanted Newcastle to beat City, and Newcastle are competing for a place in the CL. As for me, I'm just glad neither Tottenham or Chelsea will win it.
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I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
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invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
Do you have some numbers for that? I saw some recently where United were quite far behind City & Chelsea.
And I’m surprised by Hallu’s comments people wanting City to lose this one. Might be true. I won’t argue. Over here, everyone who follows the EPL closely (lots of people do), are quite bored of United winning the league and want City to do. Although of course Kompany is a big factor in that.
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invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
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jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
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Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
Hahaha well of course everyone would want that in their team. That's not the point. Also, I'm not about to say that Man city has spent their money well. Chelsea made one huge mistake. Man City has purchased so many good players that they were bound to eventually hit on a couple. Man City spends a lot of money and not all of that is spent well. An example of a team that spends money well though would be a team like Newcastle or Borussia Dortmond.
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jwfocker wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
Hahaha well of course everyone would want that in their team. That's not the point. Also, I'm not about to say that Man city has spent their money well. Chelsea made one huge mistake. Man City has purchased so many good players that they were bound to eventually hit on a couple. Man City spends a lot of money and not all of that is spent well. An example of a team that spends money well though would be a team like Newcastle or Borussia Dortmond.
well yeah I mean that's fair. But at that level, it's a rich mans toy. At least that rich man wants desperately to win. Just weird that it's Man City.
If I were a long suffering Man City fan I'd be overjoyed (but then I'm not paying for season tickets either so...)
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Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
Hahaha well of course everyone would want that in their team. That's not the point. Also, I'm not about to say that Man city has spent their money well. Chelsea made one huge mistake. Man City has purchased so many good players that they were bound to eventually hit on a couple. Man City spends a lot of money and not all of that is spent well. An example of a team that spends money well though would be a team like Newcastle or Borussia Dortmond.
well yeah I mean that's fair. But at that level, it's a rich mans toy. At least that rich man wants desperately to win. Just weird that it's Man City.
If I were a long suffering Man City fan I'd be overjoyed (but then I'm not paying for season tickets either so...)
Very true. From everything that I've read of late it looks like Man City is about to get Eden Hazard. They could be scary good next season if this deal goes through.
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jwfocker wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
Hahaha well of course everyone would want that in their team. That's not the point. Also, I'm not about to say that Man city has spent their money well. Chelsea made one huge mistake. Man City has purchased so many good players that they were bound to eventually hit on a couple. Man City spends a lot of money and not all of that is spent well. An example of a team that spends money well though would be a team like Newcastle or Borussia Dortmond.
well yeah I mean that's fair. But at that level, it's a rich mans toy. At least that rich man wants desperately to win. Just weird that it's Man City.
If I were a long suffering Man City fan I'd be overjoyed (but then I'm not paying for season tickets either so...)
Very true. From everything that I've read of late it looks like Man City is about to get Eden Hazard. They could be scary good next season if this deal goes through.
Here's hoping he will drive to work in Bubba Watson's 1970 Dodge Charger
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Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
That's really hard to say. I wouldn't want us to become a rich mans play thing, but then I don't think the nationality card applies in every case. An Englishman can do a poor job, then sell to someone better who just happens to be foreign. What would concern me are a) the question of whether or not my club would get asset stripped (is the owner taking on debt and naming the club as the ower, for example?) and b) ethical issues to do with the owner. I wouldn't want Abramovic, or the leader or ex leader of a country who I felt had a poor human rights record.
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Hallucination wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
invention wrote:
I don't really get why people hate City. Their wage bill isn't that different from Man U., Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool and is far behind the beloved Barcelona. Even Aston Villa has a $100 mm squad.
It's not their wage bill that is an issue. Every good team in European soccer has a ballooning wage budget. So it's not even an argument. It's their yearly transfer budget that is absurd. The two are separate on a teams operating budget and man city is the tits when it comes to transfer budget. I think only Real Madrid is even in the same ball park.
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent? Clearly they've spent it well too. Not like Chelsea blowing terrible cash on Torres.
That's really hard to say. I wouldn't want us to become a rich mans play thing, but then I don't think the nationality card applies in every case. An Englishman can do a poor job, then sell to someone better who just happens to be foreign. What would concern me are a) the question of whether or not my club would get asset stripped (is the owner taking on debt and naming the club as the ower, for example?) and b) ethical issues to do with the owner. I wouldn't want Abramovic, or the leader or ex leader of a country who I felt had a poor human rights record.
I can understand that certainly. As a fan, I think ultimately I'd like to know or think anyway that our owner cares as much as we do about the team winning. Like Steinbrenner ran the Yankees in the 90's. He vastly overpaid for talent, but didn't care if he lost a few dollars because he wanted to win. At the same time I wouldn't want my team funded by slave labour practices either.
Perhaps if Chelsea win another title the cup could be forged from aluminum.
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Electromatic wrote:
But don't we all wish we had owners of our teams willing to spend that kind of money on talent?
NO NO NO NO NO
And I'm a season ticket holder at a third division team and have been for 15 years. So this post has nothing to do with Man Utd/Barça. I want our club to remain our club. You know, we were in first division until a few years ago, then we went bankrupt. Started over in 4th. And these last few years feel way more like "our club" than ever before. It's the most proud I've been of our team in all its history. And I've not missed a single home game, even when it meant missing Barça-Real & City-United. [Bad results anyway )
To compare it to England: give me Danny Welbeck over Edin Dzeko any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I couldn't care less the latter might score more or be better. The first one is 'ours'.
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