Liverpool thread 2018/19

[Neville Kneville]

And if it was United we'd pipped to the league - as we did in 2012 - they'd all be celebrating the fact.

Not anymore.

 

[Metalartin]

Apparently nyt sold there shares in 2012 (I don't know if this is true), can anyone confirm?

Yes they were still the second largest shareholder of Liverpool for a time though and they left on very good terms.

You'd think they have a good relationship with their owner after they got a stake in the Boston Red Sox(or Globe one of the two) out of him which they later sold on for a tidy profit.

 

[decmancity]

What makes me laugh is they seem to genuinely believe that if the Sheikh packed up one day and left the club would just fold. We would have no trouble finding a buyer, not that we would ever need one as ADUG are going nowhere. Do they not understand that they will stop at nothing to make this a success, it would be embarrassing for them to walk away.
Don't get me started on their primary sponsor either, Standard Chartered. Just google 'standard chartered scandal' and you will find just how lovely they are.

 

[M18CTID]

RAWK post of the day - manages to bring Hillsborough into it:


City's owners have arrogantly tried and to date succeeded in smashing into oblivion the rules introduced to attempt to make the sporting playing field within football at least a weeny bit more level and fair. These being rules to which other clubs bar PSG have broadly adhered - we'll leave the Chelsea of a few years ago, Barca and real madrid out of it so as not to muddy the waters. City's owners have done this across 5 or 6 years having cynically selected Man City as their chosen flagship because City were able to entice them with a ready made brand new stadium paid for by hardworking tax paying soft c*nts like me. The rule flouting has gathered pace since Guardifuckiingola arrived. All told it has been cheating to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds. They have then - a la the Authorities over Hillsborough with the lies and misrepresentations they promulgated concerning the blame and responsibility for that fateful day - wilfully sought to disguise those financial breaches by - amongst other things - inventing hugely inflated sham sponsorships to make it appear that the rules they have shat all over have not been shat all over.

It is irrelevant as to whether what they have done constitutes criminal fraud. What matters - the sole thing that does matter - is that they have cheated the sport in which they participate by ensuring as far as possible that the weekly league competition in which they participate is no longer anything approaching a fair and reasonable one but rather an annual 'fait accompli'.

Had the owners of Barcelona not been so fucking stupid and gifted Liverpool Alison Becker and Virgil van Dyck on the backs of football's most ludicrous transfer fee then the cold sobering reality would have been that for the second successive season Manchester City would have clinched the Premier league title by 20 to 30 points. Moreover, such a putrid state of affairs would have continued indefinitely.

The defrauding that has taken place has been the defrauding of proper sporting competition and of the public that rightly believe in and cherish the same.

One further consideration in this shambles of a situation concerns the collective British sporting media which virtually across the board have either chosen to deliberately turn a blind eye to the cheating instigated by a once great club or else are as fucking dumb as some of the posters within this thread who seem to believe it is in order to do likewise and even congratulate this obscene institution that City have become.

The absolute fucking state of that!

The most hilarious thing in all this is that half the clubs in the Premier League have multi-billionaire owners and any of them could've easily afforded to invest what ours has. The fact that they choose not to because they're mainly tight-arsed ****s who won't dip their hands in their own pockets - and in some cases actually take money out of clubs - isn't our fucking problem. So no, City haven't been playing by a different set of rules - and any lurking dippers don't even start with FFP because you breached it yourselves - as the resources to do what we've done have been available to many other clubs in the league too

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Spot the similarities in the accusations re financial doping, no fans etc in this piece from a Chelsea supporter in 2011 entitled 'Know your own istory' in response to the abuse they were getting from dipper pundits and fans when the bought Torres from them http://www.chelseasupportersgroup.net/2011/02/know-your-own-istory/

One can only hope that the Sultan of Brunei buys Everton one day so that their heads finally implode forcing them to have a special second kit design with the rainbow flag on it.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Since January 2018, they have spent £375 million.

The Coutinho money stretched a bloody long way.

No matey Pegguy Arphexad money.......

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Has John Aldridge congratulated City yet?

Choking on his own bile.......

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Hahahahaha the palace scouser 2014 game is on now ch 402 sky ...

I someone going to put the gif on - you know the one guys.............. :-)

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Have a chance to go meet a certain Liverpool legend tonight in a professional capacity and I'm going to turn it down as it will cost me a business relationship.A City legend will also be there who I'm none too fond of these days.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

To be fair last time they won the league it was two points for a win, fans took rattles and the air raid sirens had only just fallen silent

Made me giggle anyways.......