Sorry to prematurely bump an thread but I was not sure where to post this.
It is noticeable how there are a lot of pundits recently commenting how city "are the best team in Europe" at the moment, which personally I am taking with a big pinch of salt. We have obviously improved but we have been no way near Real/Bara for years. I know they have fallen away a little but to suggest we have suddenly surpassed them, without the evidence of playing any of them in a competitive game, smacks of biased pundits trying to heap pressure on us to fail.
Now, we may have surpassed them slightly, but are of you guys CONFIDENT enough to shout that out loud? because I'm not.
Having said all that I was shocked recently to discover that we are the SECOND favourites AHEAD of said established clubs. Is this right? I don't remember this pressure on the Scum on their way to their glorious (sic) 1999 titles, of course afterwards it was fully deserved! (sic). Judging by the lucky nature of that final and their performances in the subsequent CPL campaigns they clearly were NEVER "the best team in Europe".