Millwallawayveteran1988
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Is the correct answer!!
Buying the league?
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Is the correct answer!!
In respect of the OP, Gabriel Jesus doesn't seem to be there, was it £27 million in 2017?
Nice to see how much Liverpool paid to buy second place though :)
roy.or.r
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Well even if we bought the titles and won everything (well except the CL), what are they gonna do about it? Cry maybe? That's the only thing they can do.
But it is still all dirty oil money, because we don't take anything at the gates, have no sponsorship deals and no £ millions from Sky, last time i was in the City Store at the Etihad it was empty, and there absolutely wasn't a queue half way round the shop buying merchandise.
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Marky Lundie
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They will have to get used to it! You’s aren’t going away, anytime soon. The haters can’t appreciate what a great team and squad you got! You’s are a great club and the media and fans of other clubs are just jealous of your success. I reckon it only matter of time, maybe next season or season after before you win champions league too! That will be the final nail in the coffin for your haters haha!
ChicagoBlue
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One word: Galacticos!
Show me a decent team that doesn’t improve their squad. Then, ask them why they did it.
If it was anything other than “we want to be better and give ourselves the best chance to win some silverware/stay in the Premier League,” then they are lying!
Football IS money, and has been long before City began ruining football by copying Chelsea and getting a deep pockets owner willing to help finance success, not milk it, a la Glazer Family Business!
League position = £££
Cup run = £££
Europe = ££££££
Success = Sponsorship deals = ££££££££££££
FFP was brought in to stop clubs overspending. Have City done that? Results would say a definitive “No!”
However, those results have created a problem for some clubs because even in the world of billionaire owners, there is always going to be one who is bigger, one who is more willing to spend his money, one who is more committed to the long term commitment to long term profits than others....and they’re all mad we got him!!!
Let’s stsrt with a quaint premise: Everyone wants to play by the rules.
From there, if the rich, powerful, and completely expected winners don’t win, what to do? Change the game? No! Change the rules!
Accordingly, the entrenched interests changed the rules to protect their financial interests. But, even then, there were s couple of savvy businessmen running clubs who had a work around....go out and get massive corporate sponsorship to inflate otherwise reasonable revenues, which, in turn, allowed outsized expenditures!
Damn and blast! They figured out how to play catch up quicker than we were able to pull away from these financial interlopers!!
Not to worry, simply investigate them, put a cloud of suspicion over them, denigrate them, allow member clubs to denigrate them, and continue to attack any weakness you can find in them! Oh, and change the rules again, both for the biggest €€€ competition and the FFP imperative.
It WAS all a big joke, but then they even upped the ante, by exonerating one club (PSG), accepting hundreds of millions of Euros from them for ME TV rights, then electing their boy to The Star Chamber!
YCMIU, do why worry?!
Anyone who tries to take what Sheikh Mansour has built and penalize it with trumped up sanctions will face the full weight of the law raining down on their heads.
To be continued....
Show me a decent team that doesn’t improve their squad. Then, ask them why they did it.
If it was anything other than “we want to be better and give ourselves the best chance to win some silverware/stay in the Premier League,” then they are lying!
Football IS money, and has been long before City began ruining football by copying Chelsea and getting a deep pockets owner willing to help finance success, not milk it, a la Glazer Family Business!
League position = £££
Cup run = £££
Europe = ££££££
Success = Sponsorship deals = ££££££££££££
FFP was brought in to stop clubs overspending. Have City done that? Results would say a definitive “No!”
However, those results have created a problem for some clubs because even in the world of billionaire owners, there is always going to be one who is bigger, one who is more willing to spend his money, one who is more committed to the long term commitment to long term profits than others....and they’re all mad we got him!!!
Let’s stsrt with a quaint premise: Everyone wants to play by the rules.
From there, if the rich, powerful, and completely expected winners don’t win, what to do? Change the game? No! Change the rules!
Accordingly, the entrenched interests changed the rules to protect their financial interests. But, even then, there were s couple of savvy businessmen running clubs who had a work around....go out and get massive corporate sponsorship to inflate otherwise reasonable revenues, which, in turn, allowed outsized expenditures!
Damn and blast! They figured out how to play catch up quicker than we were able to pull away from these financial interlopers!!
Not to worry, simply investigate them, put a cloud of suspicion over them, denigrate them, allow member clubs to denigrate them, and continue to attack any weakness you can find in them! Oh, and change the rules again, both for the biggest €€€ competition and the FFP imperative.
It WAS all a big joke, but then they even upped the ante, by exonerating one club (PSG), accepting hundreds of millions of Euros from them for ME TV rights, then electing their boy to The Star Chamber!
YCMIU, do why worry?!
Anyone who tries to take what Sheikh Mansour has built and penalize it with trumped up sanctions will face the full weight of the law raining down on their heads.
To be continued....
goalmole
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If only the goal line was a bit thinner.
Starr Gate Blue
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The media reported that City got £150 million for winning the prem? This can't be right. They have been telling the world and his wife that we are state financed and that our success has been bought 100% by dirty Arab oil money. They may eventually admit that we have other income streams; Champions League money, foreign tv rights, gate receipts, 10 year kit deal, sponsorship deals, merchandise, academy player sales etc. More chance of it snowing this weekend.
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CelesteItis
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Amazing figures, indeed.
We could say (á la dipper scum) that we are still spending the SWP money, lar.
goalmole
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We don't sell enough prawn sandwiches.
AdamMarrett
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I hate this argument from the media and opposing fans. It's a load of bollocks. Someone show me a team that had won titles, that is made up of only academy prospects. It doesn't happen. If a small club had that, the team would develop a bit have a couple of good seasons then it would be picked off and apart in the market by the bigger clubs. Fact of football.
We had to spend big to get to where we are, that's the way it is. The so called birth right big clubs have been doing it for decades, and no one bats a eyelid. To compete at the level we are now, the huge investment was needed early days, and is still needed to build on what we have to challenge the squad going forward.
Hell the media forget part of the reason Liverpool competed this season was they spent big coin on a keeper, defender, in their midfield and up front. But that gets glossed over cause they sold Coutinho for a ridiculous price and their net spend is never ending apparently.
I'm all for it, I hope we continue to spend big to spite them all.
We had to spend big to get to where we are, that's the way it is. The so called birth right big clubs have been doing it for decades, and no one bats a eyelid. To compete at the level we are now, the huge investment was needed early days, and is still needed to build on what we have to challenge the squad going forward.
Hell the media forget part of the reason Liverpool competed this season was they spent big coin on a keeper, defender, in their midfield and up front. But that gets glossed over cause they sold Coutinho for a ridiculous price and their net spend is never ending apparently.
I'm all for it, I hope we continue to spend big to spite them all.
goalmole
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Yeah fuck'em. May their wailing, and the gnashing of Klopps teeth get ever louder.
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The Rags, Arsenal and Liverpool weren’t spending money they earnt when John Henry Davies, Henry Norris, James W Gibson or John Moores were spending never been seen before amounts of money on failing clubs who had either never been successful, were about to go bust or were just nothing Second Division clubs.
If it wasn’t for huge cash injections Newton Heath and then a few decades later Manchester United would have gone bust and never been seen again and Arsenal and Liverpool would have just remained down in the league below.
None of the success any of those clubs have had would have happened without big investment. None of them started out their most successful periods spending money they earnt from previous success.
Even United before Ferguson’s successful era spent transfer record after transfer record in the 1970s and 80s while going 26 years without winning the league. Their 1989-90 team was the most expensive group of players ever assembled at the time but it wasn’t bought through money earnt through success. It came through huge funding from the Edwards family.
Liverpool’s recent good looking net spend is only there because they’ve won next to fuck all for years and their best players want to leave them for clubs that win trophies so they recoup a load of transfer fees, it’s not some brilliant business plan, it’s lack of success that’s evened out their net spend.
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01cravend
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If only we were a selling club like Liverpool. Then we could sit on our net spend pedestal and look down on all the clubs that keep their best players.
It has always been the case. Look at the early days of Shankly.
"To deal with what he saw as a below average playing squad, he placed 24 players on the transfer list. All of them had left the club within one year. Shankly resolutely pursued his strength through the middle goal and always knew which three players he needed to achieve it"
"Liverpool's recovery depended on new players being acquired and, in his autobiography, Shankly recalled the struggles he had with the board to make them realise the club's potential and the need to spend money on good players. He said there were times when he felt like walking out. He found a valuable ally in Eric Sawyer, of the Littlewoods pools organisation, who joined the board not long after Shankly's appointment and shared Shankly's vision of Liverpool as the best club in England. At one board meeting in 1961 when Shankly insisted the club make offers for two players in Scotland, the board's initial response was that they couldn't afford them, but Sawyer stepped in and said: "We can't afford not to buy them"."
Liverpools success that made them famous was all bought and paid for. They were making british record signings in the 70s (to overcome a city side filled with homegrown talent lol), just because Liverpudlians have the memory of a goldfish does not change that fact.
"To deal with what he saw as a below average playing squad, he placed 24 players on the transfer list. All of them had left the club within one year. Shankly resolutely pursued his strength through the middle goal and always knew which three players he needed to achieve it"
"Liverpool's recovery depended on new players being acquired and, in his autobiography, Shankly recalled the struggles he had with the board to make them realise the club's potential and the need to spend money on good players. He said there were times when he felt like walking out. He found a valuable ally in Eric Sawyer, of the Littlewoods pools organisation, who joined the board not long after Shankly's appointment and shared Shankly's vision of Liverpool as the best club in England. At one board meeting in 1961 when Shankly insisted the club make offers for two players in Scotland, the board's initial response was that they couldn't afford them, but Sawyer stepped in and said: "We can't afford not to buy them"."
Liverpools success that made them famous was all bought and paid for. They were making british record signings in the 70s (to overcome a city side filled with homegrown talent lol), just because Liverpudlians have the memory of a goldfish does not change that fact.
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I believe it's impossible to 'buy the EPL'.
When you weigh up Plastic United's spending and the level of football they produce, compared to the football and number of goals that the champions produce, then everybody in the league should be thanking City for showing them what domination really is.
When you weigh up Plastic United's spending and the level of football they produce, compared to the football and number of goals that the champions produce, then everybody in the league should be thanking City for showing them what domination really is.