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Same for me... nothing's arrived.

We need to win an awful lot more, esp CL (more than once) before we are even close to being considered a 'superclub' - and that's going to take time. We're still very much new kids on the block, and whilst progress has been impressive, there's a long way to go yet. But - what does it really...

I think 'balancing the books' is always important. One of the very first stated intentions of the owners was to make us self-sustainable and be a world class club. Being a world class club means taking care of the pennies so that the pounds take care of themselves. Yes, we now turnover some huge...

It is NOT 'illegal'. However, the club is allowed to ban photography, or equipment from inside the perimeter gates. Their primary motive for this is the protection of image rights (not safety), although safety / security can also be a factor. From outside the perimeter, there's little they can...

The cream of world football in their age group is overstating it a bit when you're talking about a 9 year old (imo). By the time they're 15, yes, but by then, many of those kids will have been through more than one academy, so it's a bit misleading to think City 'produced' them - it's a tricky...

This is simply untrue. We are falling into the fatal trap of assuming that because we've bought the best facilities it makes us the best academy. It doesn't. The rhetoric you've stated their is precisely why the rules are in place, because the big clubs will say precisely this 'even if it...

But it doesn't work like that. Of course we have amazing facilities, but being at City doesn't mean it improves your chance of making it in football. It can actually work against you. Being at a smaller club, like Bury, or Oldham Athletic can improve your chances of making it - which are still...

Big clubs can exploit parents and children by giving them false hope (deliberately, or simply because parents themselves can get carried away with dreams etc). It's dangerous, because the best interests of a young player aren't just about the biggest club with the best facilities. It's also...

It's no use saying 'we reckon others are breaking the rules too, just getting away with it' - it may well be true, but it's an amateur retort. We have to look at ourselves, not other clubs and question how we are so easily caught out by these things. It's not the first issue we've had and whilst...

The way to stop people digging for dirt is to be be clean in the first place. If there's no dirt to be found, they won't find any. There's a fine line between striving to be the best in the business and get the best talent, and overstepping the mark and trying to prize talent from other clubs in...

If we take this game in isolation - then I thought we played quite well, it could have gone either way, and we gave them a real test... If we take this game in a wider context of matches against top rivals, then it's more of the same - could have, would have, should have - but we didn't. We're...

'Always' is the claptrap fans come out with. We have 'always been', or 'always will be'. Things change!

Nonsense man. But we have benefitted massively from money, and our current status is a direct result of it. You are shying away from it, because you want us to say 'with the players we have' rather than 'with the money we've spent' - yet the two go hand in hand. We only have those players...

I have seen literally dozens of 'the next great thing' strikers in the PL - it's way too early to start dismissing Aguero and proclaiming a new king. He's 3 games in and started off very well - that's it.

Two different City performances either half. First half was complete dominance, but a 1-0 scoreline was always dangerous. Second half, we lost our intensity and precision, and Swansea started to have much more of the ball. The longer the game went on, the more they grew in confidence and the...

I think they are also now facing what we face - stubborn teams set up to defend in numbers which stifles their style of play (like it does ours). They are at their best when they play teams willing to come out and attack (like us), which plays into their hands. In many ways, they have similar...

'Because of the better players we have' is effectively saying the same thing - but they didn't come for free. Why shy away from the fact that we've paid handsomely for them. The entire reason we are in the position we're in is because of money. Let's not pretend otherwise. I haven't suggested...

If you're a cynic, the deals with Etihad, Etisalat, TCA, AABar, First Gulf Bank etc will all be questioned. On the one hand, of course we're bound to have a strong influence in the middle east, but on the other hand, we're open to the accusation that deals are questionable. The Etihad deal was...

I'm not arguing that our signings were huge names at the time, I'm arguing that during the course of their careers at City, they have become big names, more so than Arsenal's players. Sanchez and Ozil were Spanish giant 'rejects' (imo) as was Toure for that matter, but Toure's gone on to become...