It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

Ake and Saltfish said:
It was with friction when I posted in the 'left back' transfer forum in May. About our spending and how it would be nice to shut people up and do some low fee deals and maintain our success with a good net spend and modest fees. Similar to some of the business Liverpool have done over the years with a mixture of lower and higher fees.

Now we have had that summer with akanji and Gomez... You can throw haaland's steal in there too. Surely it'll be sweeter for us all if we maintain our success after some shrewd business and nice net spend trophy at the end of it? Or is it just me?
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It won't change the City narrative where football's concerned. We'll always be viewed as FFP cheats, moneybags City, funded by illicit oil money from a terrorist Sheikh who's ruined football regardless of what we do.

It's why I stopped caring what people thought, after the penny finally dropped for me a few years ago. Arsenal were playing lower league opposition in an away League Cup tie. An Arsenal player was cleaned out in a challenge & they were rightly awarded a free kick.

The home team fans started chanting "Same old Arsenal, always cheating". They'd never played Arsenal before iirc & would probably never play them again, but decades after that chant started, this lot were chanting it. I've heard it chanted a couple of times this season too.

Will fans ever stop singing this to Arsenal, or accusing City of being FFP cheats & an oil money club? I very much doubt it. Look how much ManUre & the Chavs have spent this summer? Is anyone calling them FFP cheats, a venture capital club, or a shopping mall club?

We need to accept the labels we've been lumbered with will probably stick forever, & just make our football do the talking on the pitch... \0/
 
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Ake and Saltfish said:
It was with friction when I posted in the 'left back' transfer forum in May. About our spending and how it would be nice to shut people up and do some low fee deals and maintain our success with a good net spend and modest fees. Similar to some of the business Liverpool have done over the years with a mixture of lower and higher fees.

Now we have had that summer with akanji and Gomez... You can throw haaland's steal in there too. Surely it'll be sweeter for us all if we maintain our success after some shrewd business and nice net spend trophy at the end of it? Or is it just me?
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As long as we get players who will improve us I’m not arsed one bit what they cost. Those making these decisions on the board will know what the club can spend. I’d like to think if the right player was available and Pep desperately wanted him we would spend £200m if that’s what it took. Equally, other players for contract reasons or buy out clauses may be relatively cheap, which is also fine.

What I don’t want is for the club to decide who to sign or what to spend based on the perceived opinion of the media or other clubs. Hopefully we never do. Just do what’s best for City and gives us the best chance of winning as much as possible every season.
 
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