Hold on guys, you seriously think that you are not massive oil cheats?
Is this for real - you honestly think you have got to where you are by playing fair and that the media is out to get you?
No one cares about any trophies you win because any idiot could assemble your squad with an UNLIMITED budget.
How can a team playing by the rules have an unlimited budget, how is that possible?
Sensible replies only please.
I would be interested to know which team you support as it helps my reply.
It had to take outside money to break the cartel operating that meant the same 4 clubs from England qualified for Europe every season (with the exception of a freak season when Everton and Spurs got in).
You see the so called big four and their European counterparts in the cartel financially doped the European Cup so it became the Champions league and with a format that pretty much guaranteed 3 home games and a huge chance (via seeding) that they would all make the latter stages (= more money via home games and TV).
No one ever mentions this cartel as financially doping the game. It meant the big four got richer and the gap between the rest widened. So the big four could buy the best players (how many times did the rags break the transfer record?) and pay the most in wages.
On top of this, the big four are on TV more in the premier League than the rest so they get more TV revenue and further widen the gap. No one EVER said ''this isn't a level playing field''. The poorer clubs never complained but just got on with it.
And then Chelsea and City come along and all of a sudden fans from the rags, Liverpool and Arsenal are screaming like the spoilt brats they are ''it isn't a level playing field'' ''how can we compete with that?'' - these self serving fans see no difference between forcing UEFA to give them more money or they will form their own league and demanding more money from the premier League at the expense of others and money coming in from outside sources. One is deemed ''self earned'' the other is dirty money. These fans are like MP's fiddling the expenses whilst saying ''it is within the rules'' - yes because the rules were created by themselves to be able to still feast at the trough. Money the rags, Arsenal and Liverpool ''earned'' during the period when they were in Europe year in and year out is tainted. It was money earned whilst being able to play sides from Albania and Estonia in a tournament designed to ensure no big club was knocked out in the first round and no big club was pitted against another big club in the first 3 rounds..... but that is seen as clean money.
So as I said, the cartel / non level playing field needed smashing and the only way it could happen is via outside investment.... I don't hear fans from Fulham complaining loudly, or Watford or Burnley.... the only fans who seem to really be griped by City are the ones knocked off their guaranteed top four perch..... Liverpool, Arsenal and rags.... funny that, isn't it...
