Skashion said:
When Chelsea first bought the league though they talked of nothing but. Give it five years and a steadily growing trophy haul and the record will have to switched somewhere.
Exactly - it will be the same for us in a few years too. I remember nothing but Chelsea during the first few transfer windows under Roman's ownership. There's nothing different now, except that it's about us and we pay more attention.
The article mentioned is a prime example - you'd have to read it through the most cynical of eyes to see anything anti-city in it. Maybe someone on here can suggest a way of writing an end of season financial review (of the kind that have been written for years - even before our take over) in which a team makes a loss that is bigger than any loss made by any other team ever, without mentioning that loss.
From what I've read of David Conn's articles he isn't happy about the direction football is taking (and prior to the takeover which of us would disagree?), but accepts that United, Chelsea and Arsenal have such a head start that City couldn't win catch them without spending big, so it's fair in that context.
Reading the series of articles the figures that struck me were that:
Arsenal, City, Chelsea, Liverpool, United: Average wage bill ~ £150m a year.
The other fifteen clubs: Average wage bill ~ £50m a year.
Now that is f***** up.