City launch legal action against the Premier League

[JASR]

Is

Is it right that Everton value Branthwaite at £80m and rags offered £35m?
Small time shithouses..!!

That’s their entire summer budget offered, until they manage to sell themselves.

 

[the talisman]

Sounds a good point but they still spend what they want on players, just very badly...

They do indeed
I just love pointing out that everything they won was done without any restrictions on spending

 

[metalblue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

Brilliant that pal.

 

[CC1]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

Great response :-)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Tell him all their titles are tainted. They were won without any spending restrictions. They haven’t won the league since FFP came in, I wonder why?

And tell him they had not just one, but two sugar-daddies pretty well continuously from 1901 to 1951. Davies saved them from bankruptcy in 1901 and funded them all the way to 1927, when he died.

They were in severe financial difficulty after that and on the verge of bankruptcy again in 1931, when James Gibson bailed them out and continued to fund them, paying for the rebuilding of the swamp after the war. When he died in 1951 they managed to survive on their own for the first time in 50 years.

When they say we'd be in League 1 if not for Sheikh Mansour, tell him they would have ceased to exist completely if not for their two sugar daddies.

 

[the talisman]

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

I suspected that, I was hoping to sneak it past the fact checkers :-)

 

[ganganvince]

FFP came in 2011 and they won the league in 2013. They haven't won it since because they've never replaced Baconface.

Wasn't prem ffp 2013

 

[laserblue]

And tell him they had not just one, but two sugar-daddies pretty well continuously from 1901 to 1951. Davies saved them from bankruptcy in 1901 and funded them all the way to 1929, when he died.

They were in severe financial difficulty after that and on the verge of bankruptcy again in 1931, when James Gibson bailed them out and continued to fund them, paying for the rebuilding of the swamp after the war. When he died in 1951 they managed to survive on their own for the first time in 50 years.

When they say we'd be in League 1 if not for Sheikh Mansour, tell him they would have ceased to exist completely if not for their two sugar daddies.

Davies also gave them a free stadium. The club didn't pay a penny towards its construction. Rags don't like to hear that and their Pavlovian response is angry denial.

From the rags' own website:

"Davies himself paid for the building work, which commenced in 1908 under the supervision of architect Archibald Leitch. By 1910, the club had moved lock, stock and barrel from their old home of Bank Street. United's opening fixture at Old Trafford was played on 19 February 1910."

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Davies also gave them a free stadium. The club didn't pay a penny towards its construction. Rags don't like to hear that and their Pavlovian response is angry denial.

From the rags' own website:

"Davies himself paid for the building work, which commenced in 1908 under the supervision of architect Archibald Leitch. By 1910, the club had moved lock, stock and barrel from their old home of Bank Street. United's opening fixture at Old Trafford was played on 19 February 1910."

I wonder what the logic was for relocating to the borough of Trafford at that time. Presumably there were plenty of plots available in and around Manchester. Was it expanding at the time? Were the transport links better? Maybe the land was especially cheap.