That's the problem mate, it is a game. They do a golf trip to Tenerife every summer where the likes of Thompson, Stelling, Kamara, Quinn and that big daft Scottish one who's name I can't remember attend.I never do not done so for ages I know their game
Preaching to the choir but I think there is an argument to made that, as an official partner, you would at least get fair, If not favourable treatment.
Maybe you have a point but where sales are to be made fairness in all other sectors of business evaporate so why should football be any different ?
Perhaps the example of Uefa highjacking the word ''fairness'' to implement FFP (ie a cartel via a barrier to entry) shows how football can be hypocritically exploited..
Oh, I was not making a point about fairness but about business investment. If you have provided money to an advertiser you would expect to receive adverts that reflect favourably on your business.
As far as FFP is concerned, I am an econonic policy analyst, so I've saved the forum my musings on that subject to avoid other posters fleeing in boredom.
I didn't intend to diminish the value of your views, just explain that I have studied FFP and will refrain from going to far into a discussion of it, especially given the subject of the thread.Apologies if you are professionally qualified to analyze things but presumably you look at the way others do things then analyse this data ?
In what way do you feel that my views are not of value then ?
Danny Murphy with a piss poor theory why Mica Richards failed at City. Not the fact he was made of glass but the fact that City decided to go spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players.
Did he not lose his place in the team to Zabba who signed before the take over and has developed into one of the best full backs on the planet during his time with us?
My recollection is that Richards didn't fail at City. He had several good seasons as first choice RB including 2011/12 when we won the prem. He was also in the FA cup winning team. It went wrong for him when he got injured at the Olympics and by the time he was properly fit Zaba had made the RB position his own. He played nearly 200 times for City so there's no way anyone should say he failed.Danny Murphy with a piss poor theory why Mica Richards failed at City. Not the fact he was made of glass but the fact that City decided to go spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players.
Did he not lose his place in the team to Zabba who signed before the take over and has developed into one of the best full backs on the planet during his time with us?
My recollection is that Richards didn't fail at City. He had several good seasons as first choice RB including 2011/12 when we won the prem. He was also in the FA cup winning team. It went wrong for him when he got injured at the Olympics and by the time he was properly fit Zaba had made the RB position his own. He played nearly 200 times for City so there's no way anyone should say he failed.
Your recollections are spot on. Micah also won a number of England caps whilst playing for us. Can n't expect pundits to know basic stuff like this as in the main they are incompetent morons who talk a load of crap. Really do not see the need for them.My recollection is that Richards didn't fail at City. He had several good seasons as first choice RB including 2011/12 when we won the prem. He was also in the FA cup winning team. It went wrong for him when he got injured at the Olympics and by the time he was properly fit Zaba had made the RB position his own. He played nearly 200 times for City so there's no way anyone should say he failed.
Danny Murphy with a piss poor theory why Mica Richards failed at City. Not the fact he was made of glass but the fact that City decided to go spend hundreds of millions of pounds on players.
Did he not lose his place in the team to Zabba who signed before the take over and has developed into one of the best full backs on the planet during his time with us?
You're talking rubbish, mate. We've definitely spent hundreds of millions on Right Backs since 08/09!!!
Sagna and Boateng were both world record fees
RIchards was a good player for us, when we were at that level. He came through the youth setup, played for England and was eventually replaced by a better player. His career wasn't a failure with us.
The irritating thing about the media is they don't mention how Cech was binned by Chelsea, how Angel Di Maria and Falcao have been treated at OT.
Or what about poor Ste Gerrard not being offered a new contract by the team he played for for 400 years?
Sentimentality about players no longer at their peak has no place at successful football clubs - never has and never will.
saw a poster for Sky Sports at Stockport train station and I stopped to look in amusement as it had a few club badges floating around, I am pretty sure it had United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Totenham and a couple of others like Norwich and Newcastle but no City badge :(
Yeah, it was either a bit ill-informed or disingenuous of Murphy that. I think he's alright as a pundit, so I'll give home the benefit of the doubt and assume the former.
Richards was immensely injury prone, and only kept out of the side by the exceptional form of Zabaleta, who incidentally cost just £6m.
Indeed, he was offered a new contract and chose not to stay at City. Not sure what more we could've done, other than pick him consistently (when fit) ahead of a superior player which would've been madness.