A Rags comment to me today......

[dario2739]

Football these days is a business - of that there's no doubt, whether we like it or not.

Now if I had a bit of cash and wanted to invest in a business... any business - as an example let's say a printers.
Now i'd want that business to flourish, so i'd invest my money - buy the latest presses, employ better staff etc., and i'd then try and make it the best printers in the town, country etc.
Sure the competition wouldn't be happy... but answer me this Bumbles... would it be wrong?

And how about you - do yo do the lottery, have a cheeky flutter in the bookies, go to bingo..?
If you won millions would you not spend them, as that would be money you haven't earned... or are you the curtain twitching, jealous bastard neighbour tut tutting?

I would just like to point out too that this statement...

but at least the money came form the fans...no sugar daddy...so the succes was " bought" by the fans...I can live with that ...it feels better

is very very wrong - the money the Rags made, in the early 90's leading up to this golden period for them was predominantly made from merchandising and prostituting the club.
To do this they shafted (and continue to do so) the fans left right and centre.
So basically that statement says that while you think having a 'sugar daddy' is terrible a club exploiting it's own fans is ok!

United are the football personification of Gordon Gekko from the film 'Wall Street'
"Greed is good" was the motto of your board!

 

[BufordUSABlue]

I once put an A-Z of Manchester on the bar for a non-trafford attending Rag in the local pub.
He lost it big time, one of those "hold me back lads" moment (tosser!) he even went as far as actually walking out of the toilet in the pub when he came in and saw me in there at the 'stones'...........needless to say i took an age washing my hands afterwards while he waited outside with his mates sitting x-legged no doubt the pr*ck!!

So try doing the same and put a picture of an alarm clock on the front of it as well...........

 

[oneyeartillheaven]

but at least the money came form the fans...no sugar daddy...so the succes was " bought" by the fans...I can live with that ...it feels better

On many occasions the scum only been saved from bankruptcy or other disaster by the appearance of a Mr Big who has staged a last-ditch rescue.

And you call yourself a fan. Just like the rest of em PLASTIC

 

[Mancini's Second Contract]

please, twat the fucker!!

 

[BufordUSABlue]

but at least the money came form the fans...no sugar daddy...so the succes was " bought" by the fans...I can live with that ...it feels better

Oh you poor disillusioned fool you, it’s really very sad how you have become so over the last few years…..

We really need to find some better class and serious rivals who will also be still be around for the next decade of so.

However, please continue to watch our ascendancy with appropriate bitterness and jealousy, whilst you wallow in your cynical and rhetorical state of mind!

 

[bluemanc]

but at least the money came form the fans...no sugar daddy...so the succes was " bought" by the fans...I can live with that ...it feels better

That was a lie last time you posted it & it's a lie now.
You only exist because of rich owners from L&YR,to john davies who bought the swamp for & a shitload of players to earn you the nickname"moneybags utd"to james gibson who saved you from folding & with his OWN money helped re-build the swamp, not forgetting the edwards clan that ended with martin broke because he couldn't afford to keep pouring money into a bottomless pit.
Not one mention of bonds or share issues.

, a power struggle emerged between the club's manager, Alex Ferguson, and his horse-racing partners, John Magnier and J. P. McManus, who had gradually become the majority shareholders. In a dispute that stemmed from contested ownership of the horse Rock of Gibraltar, Magnier and McManus attempted to have Ferguson removed from his position as manager, and the board responded by approaching investors to attempt to reduce the Irishmen's majority.

You must see the funny side.
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See you in 6 months when you think we've forget what your club really is.

at least the money came form the fans

That's as funny as having a 34 yrs banner when you went 37 yrs without a trophy.

 

[Balti]

so the stock market is purely for rag 'fans' is it?

these idiots really have no idea do they!

 

[blue remix]

We haven't won anything for 34 years as they keep pointing out so what they worried about?

I'm sure the fans of ANY club would love it if a multi billionaire took over their club.

It's nothing more than jealousy of a MASSIVE financial muscle we now have acquired (thanks to the clubs owner) at Manchester City Football club. The club that was created for Mancunians.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Been at this place 5 weeks everyone okay etc but this rag who i work with approached me today and said"The yaya toure deal has single handedly ruined football,nobody wanted him,and city pay over the top and then offer 200 plus a week!!Its pathetic your just buying players so nobody else can!"


With this he stormed off before I could reply!

Im fuming now and just want to whack him but as stated im new so cant rock the boat yet and words are better for dummies like him.....anyone got a great reply thats quick and to the point for the next time he spouts off?

I gave him tick tock last week to no avail.....asked how much a ticket for his living room cost nowadays...he answered that he goes to the pub to watch it! Smarmy tw@ is seriously en route for a slap but its my last resort!


Must add I wouldnt just be whacking peeps for comments theres a history in the last weeks of him stitching me up etc...work related!

You should of stopped listening when he mentioned 200k a week, I do, the only fans that believe that are the ones that read Teletext and The Sun.

I made a similar thread a few days ago and a very helpful piece of info was posted on it about how LITTLE United have spent in the past I will share for your benefit.

£10m for Hernandez
£16m for Valencia
£31m for Berbaflop
£17m for Hargreaves
£17m for Nani
£18 for Anderson
£17m for Carrick
£27m for Rooney
£7m for Vidic
£6m for Evra
£5m for Park
£6m for Kléberson
£4m for Djemba-Djemba
£12m for Ronaldo
£13m for Saha
£7m for Smith
£7m for Heinze
£29m for Ferdinand
£19m for van Nistelrooy
£29m for Veron
£7.5m for Forlan
£8m for Barthez
£4.5m for Taibi
£11m for Stam
£12.5m for Yorke

Its amazing how they spend so LITTLE but win so much

£340,500,000 for 25 players, David Dickinson would be shitting his pants.

 

[charliebigspuds]

Ask him if he has ever supported Utd, when he looks at you wondering where you are going with it just say to support a football club you have to go to the game, you can do it two ways verbally and financially and going to the game does both, you are not supporting a football club by sitting in the pub cheering as the players can't hear you. Watching rags on telly means you just prefer them to other teams, much the same as my missus prefers Eastenders to Coronation St.
I've been using this to piss off armchair rags/ pub rags/ internet rags for years and it always hits the spot!
Also mention the fact of when Wio refused to sign a contract a few years ago until they offered him £120,000 a week, can't blame us for trying to sign players and paying them loads now, when they were doing it years ago.