Who's the wet lettuce defending us? :-|
A few things wrong with this...
1. The Geordie was correct in saying ManUre have spent the same amount, but so have we & we started with a better squad, so regardless of what the Rags have spent, we've maintained the same starting distance between us.
OK, so why didn't the City guy explain our accelerated level of spending in the very beginning to close the gap?
Why didn't he point out that between 2012 - 2016/17 we weren't allowed to spend fuck all comparatively because of FFP?
The plank also forgot to mention that HRH hasn't put a penny of his own dough into City's squad since 2013/14, & to buy £200m worth of full backs we sold 10% of the club to a Chinese media conglomerate? Why didn't he also mention that to further fund the rebuilding of the squad, we sold another 13% of the club for £450m to a US based sports investment & Marketing company?
2. Why didn't the City guy also highlight how much money ManUre spent during their most successful period in comparison to the rest of the league?
3. Why didn't the City guy also point out how much the Dippers spent in comparison to everyone else during their most successful period?
4. Why didn't the City guy ask the Geordie, where were his complaints when the Dippers of the 70s & 80s, & the ManUre sides of the 90s & noughties hoovered up everything in sight after out-spending everyone else?
5. Why didn't the City guy point out the MILLIONS KK spent trying to hunt down ManUre?
6. Why didn't the City guy remind the Geordie about the millions spent by Blackburn to win the league?
7. Talking about great Managers, why didn't City guy tell the Geordie look at the team Mancini inherited, & the one he left behind? Why didn't he then highlight the team Pellegrini inherited, & the one he left behind which just about scraped 4th, & were almost relegated from the UCL? Why didn't he highlight that Pep took over a City team which had TEN PLAYERS over the age of 30, & by far the oldest defence in the league?
8. Yes City have spent Quadrillions, but why didn't the City guy point out how much have we received in player sales?
9. I'm pretty sure it was reported 2 days ago that City only have 17 senior players, with the rest coming from the Academy.
10. And finally... To Josep Guardiola, the club management & the coaching staff. Give me the same money & team & I STILL wouldn't achieve what Pep has! Pep is the proper manager we needed right after Mancini, & if Pellegrini showed us one thing it's that having the money, spending it wisely & coaching the team to success are THREE completely separate things.
Yes you stand a better chance with quality players, but who consistently broke the British transfer record to no avail? Who keeps chopping & changing management regimes, with no long term plan behind these changes & changes of direction? ManUre! But yet it's City who are ruining football. :-|
The bits I agree with are the comparisons of the current iteration of City, & the Brazil side of 1970 & Pep's Barca team of 2009-2012. Pep has rewritten the footballing rule book & done it without a recognised striker or a left back. We buy what we need & if what we need isn't available, the money stays in the bank until what we need becomes available.
If we had Messi, Ronaldo, MBappe, Neymar & every other world class player in our team, the Geordie might have a point, but near enough every superstar we currently have were laughed at by opposition fans as a second rate waste of dough. It doesn't look like the bastards laughing now does it?
Not just Newcastle, but what EVERY team needs to do is to stop hating on City & follow our best practice. We've shown how it can be done, so there are few excuses why others haven't followed suit.... Having said that "There's only ONE Pep Guardiola", so the haters can go fuck themselves! :-)
