Media thread 2022/23

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BringBackSwales said:
Yet again on 5 live last night arsenal fans saying we won it because of the money we spent, unchallenged by the pantomime dames savage and Sutton.

Just to be clear, in the 2 windows this season we spent £79m on the best striker on the planet, a World Cup winner and a superb defender. We got more than that back on sales to arsenal, not to mention Sterling, and all the youth players we sold.

I also remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed the net spend of every PL team over the last 5 years and we were I think THIRTEENTH! If possible could someone re-post that thread?

Also on the same show the myth was still being peddled about our squad size, again unchallenged by those two thick pillocks. I read the other week that we had played the least players of any PL team this season, just 18 - the next lowest was Palace at 21. We have a very small squad and are being incorrectly reported as having a large one. The FACT is that we buy well, and have done for over 10 years (Spanish Dave and Yaya £24m each etc) and have invested in the country’s best academy and manager.

The cunts need to start reporting facts and stop peddling lies
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It both angers me and makes me laugh in equal measure. They’re hurting bad.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Yet again on 5 live last night arsenal fans saying we won it because of the money we spent, unchallenged by the pantomime dames savage and Sutton.

Just to be clear, in the 2 windows this season we spent £79m on the best striker on the planet, a World Cup winner and a superb defender. We got more than that back on sales to arsenal, not to mention Sterling, and all the youth players we sold.

I also remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed the net spend of every PL team over the last 5 years and we were I think THIRTEENTH! If possible could someone re-post that thread?

Also on the same show the myth was still being peddled about our squad size, again unchallenged by those two thick pillocks. I read the other week that we had played the least players of any PL team this season, just 18 - the next lowest was Palace at 21. We have a very small squad and are being incorrectly reported as having a large one. The FACT is that we buy well, and have done for over 10 years (Spanish Dave and Yaya £24m each etc) and have invested in the country’s best academy and manager.

The cunts need to start reporting facts and stop peddling lies
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It’s always the lazy go to punchline oh City have the biggest squad,every team has the same number of players to pick from out of their respective squads,the difference is not squad Size but quality which we do have from the goalkeepers to the forwards..
 
BringBackSwales said:
Yet again on 5 live last night arsenal fans saying we won it because of the money we spent, unchallenged by the pantomime dames savage and Sutton.

Just to be clear, in the 2 windows this season we spent £79m on the best striker on the planet, a World Cup winner and a superb defender. We got more than that back on sales to arsenal, not to mention Sterling, and all the youth players we sold.

I also remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed the net spend of every PL team over the last 5 years and we were I think THIRTEENTH! If possible could someone re-post that thread?

Also on the same show the myth was still being peddled about our squad size, again unchallenged by those two thick pillocks. I read the other week that we had played the least players of any PL team this season, just 18 - the next lowest was Palace at 21. We have a very small squad and are being incorrectly reported as having a large one. The FACT is that we buy well, and have done for over 10 years (Spanish Dave and Yaya £24m each etc) and have invested in the country’s best academy and manager.

The cunts need to start reporting facts and stop peddling lies
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Pat Viera stated on sky yesterday that City don't have a big squad and that it was a myth that we have.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Yet again on 5 live last night arsenal fans saying we won it because of the money we spent, unchallenged by the pantomime dames savage and Sutton.

Just to be clear, in the 2 windows this season we spent £79m on the best striker on the planet, a World Cup winner and a superb defender. We got more than that back on sales to arsenal, not to mention Sterling, and all the youth players we sold.

I also remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed the net spend of every PL team over the last 5 years and we were I think THIRTEENTH! If possible could someone re-post that thread?

Also on the same show the myth was still being peddled about our squad size, again unchallenged by those two thick pillocks. I read the other week that we had played the least players of any PL team this season, just 18 - the next lowest was Palace at 21. We have a very small squad and are being incorrectly reported as having a large one. The FACT is that we buy well, and have done for over 10 years (Spanish Dave and Yaya £24m each etc) and have invested in the country’s best academy and manager.

The cunts need to start reporting facts and stop peddling lies
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10th according to this site:-

www.football365.com

Arsenal above Chelsea in five-year Premier League net spend table

Forget the league table, it's all about the Premier League net spend table. And Chelsea have been unseated at last...
www.football365.com www.football365.com
 
schfc6 said:
They’re all just a bit mental.. We now pay players off the books? Why the fuck would we need to pay Akanji & Ake off the books. It’s bizarre that people think the best team in the league would have to underhandedly pay players under the table.
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It all stems from Mancini being paid by an Abu Dhabi company for work before he joined City.
This is conflated into ‘double wages’ and ‘off the books’ and has been ongoing for over a decade now.

Iirc What Mancini did/didn’t do for that Abu Dhabi company is moot, it was a job, he was paid. He then became City manager and got paid for that. End of.

This standard employee business practise of luckily having more than 1 legitimate paying job lined up, seems to fly by the foaming at the mouth vitriol.

And the conflating is then applied to all City players - ‘must have brown envelope double pay’, ‘why else should they go/stay there’, ‘dodgy finances’
… all the while forgetting that to accuse City of that, means accusing worldwide accountants, worldwide sponsors, lawyers, the management, the coaches, the players and the tea lady of being corrupt.

It’s farcical.
 
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RobinHood said:
Being a bit (a lot?) presumptuous here, but I would like 4-in-a-row as that's never been done before in the top flight ever. Then you'll see the media implode.
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Hopefully it will be 3-in-a-row … finally I’ve waited since 2013/2014 for it to happen (a few years of ‘bad’ recruitment around then, kyboshed that).
I’ve also wanted the 4-in-a-row, in a similar way to the centurions season and the fourmidables seasons re-writing so many domestic records, this one means the most to me personally. I remember reading Pears junior encyclopedia back in the 70’s and seeing ‘Huddersfield’x3 and ‘Arsenal’x3 in the football section listing Division 1 winners and hoping/wishing City could beat them.
The 90’s/00’s were an ongoing hope that (originally) united didn’t join them, and then beat them.

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JASR said:
It all stems from Mancini being paid by an Abu Dhabi company for work before he joined City.
This is conflated into ‘double wages’ and ‘off the books’ and has been ongoing for over a decade now.

Iirc What Mancini did/didn’t do for that Abu Dhabi company is moot, it was a job, he was paid. He then became City manager and got paid for that. End of.

This standard employee business practise of luckily having more than 1 legitimate paying job lined up, seems to fly by the foaming at the mouth vitriol.

And the conflating is then applied to all City players - ‘must have brown envelope double pay’, ‘why else should they go/stay there’, ‘dodgy finances’
… all the while forgetting that to accuse City of that, means accusing worldwide accountants, worldwide sponsors, lawyers, the management, the coaches, the players and the tea lady of being corrupt.

It’s farcical.
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They seem to ignore the obvious fact that it would only take one disgruntled ex-employee to spill the beans. Just one. The media would pay ££££££s for such a story. How can we be sure that every player who leaves will keep his gob shut forever? Intimidation? A horse's head in the bed? I think not!

They seem to take the Sheikh and his top men for fools.
 
BrianW said:
They seem to ignore the obvious fact that it would only take one disgruntled ex-employee to spill the beans. Just one. The media would pay ££££££s for such a story. How can we be sure that every player who leaves will keep his gob shut forever? Intimidation? A horse's head in the bed? I think not!

They seem to take the Sheikh and his top men for fools.
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They certainly take their red readership as fools, trotting out the fictions time and time again
 
JASR said:
Hopefully it will be 3-in-a-row … finally I’ve waited since 2013/2014 for it to happen (a few years of ‘bad’ recruitment around then, kyboshed that).
I’ve also wanted the 4-in-a-row, in a similar way to the centurions season and the fourmidables seasons re-writing so many domestic records, this one means the most to me personally. I remember reading Pears junior encyclopedia back in the 70’s and seeing ‘Huddersfield’x3 and ‘Arsenal’x3 in the football section listing Division 1 winners and hoping/wishing City could beat them.
The 90’s/00’s were an ongoing hope that (originally) united didn’t join them, and then beat them.
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That's my number one target this year also (if we had to choose one). Still want the bloody lot, though.
 
train man said:
As expected, motd yet again did not look at a stonewall City pen in their summary.
The goals were sumptuous, Gundog's speak for themselves, absolute quality, but Erling's leap from almost a standing start was remarkable and deserves a mention.
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The amount of blatant refereeing 'errors' MOTD either ignore or gloss-over is astounding, especially in our games. It's like they shit scared of rocking the boat with the PiGMOL/PL.
 
jaseisblue said:
Me too, didn’t once complain about how they had/bought the best players. Actually enjoyed watching them and thought they were bloody good.
Different world of entitlement now I’m afraid and not just in football!
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The internet makes it worse. Everyone has a voice now and journalism has gone to shit as it's just a race for clicks.
 
JASR said:
Hopefully it will be 3-in-a-row … finally I’ve waited since 2013/2014 for it to happen (a few years of ‘bad’ recruitment around then, kyboshed that).
I’ve also wanted the 4-in-a-row, in a similar way to the centurions season and the fourmidables seasons re-writing so many domestic records, this one means the most to me personally. I remember reading Pears junior encyclopedia back in the 70’s and seeing ‘Huddersfield’x3 and ‘Arsenal’x3 in the football section listing Division 1 winners and hoping/wishing City could beat them.
The 90’s/00’s were an ongoing hope that (originally) united didn’t join them, and then beat them.
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I was more than happy with 1 in a row especially after winning the FA Cup the year before, I honestly could have died a happy man seeing my team win 2 trophies to break the 35 potless years, having been at Wembley in 76 never did I imagine this level of success. I’ll be at Wembley again, I’ll never stop supporting and smiling at our club, best in the world.
 
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