Media Thread 2017/18

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And there you have it an article comparing us to PSG in the mail , I refuse to post a link as click bait....Heres a snippet

Manchester City and PSG were the also-rans of their leagues 10 years ago... but wealth beyond their wildest dreams has transformed their fortunes both on and off the field

HOW DID THE FORTUNES OF THE CLUB CHANGE?

Manchester City: City had plenty of cash to spend and Sheik Mansour wasn't shy of getting his cheque book out. With the capability to out-bid their rivals both at home and abroad, City spent large sums putting together a side that would win the Premier League.

Among the expensive purchases in the first few years were Jo, Vincent Kompany, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy, Nigel de Jong, Gareth Barry, Joleon Lescott, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez and Roque Santa Cruz.

In 2010 and 2011, the likes of Yaya Toure, David Silva, Aleksandar Kolarov, Edin Dzeko, Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri and James Milner would come, as manager Roberto Mancini put together a winning side.
Although they did climb steadily up the table, City couldn't match the continued achievements of Sir Alex Ferguson's United until their FA Cup victory in 2011 heralded something of a breakthrough.

It was the club's first major trophy since 1976 and was followed by the most dramatic Premier League title win in of them all in 2012 following Aguero's 93rd minute goal against QPR.

Since then, despite further investment each summer, City have won only one more Premier League title, in 2014, as well as two League Cups.

Their spending created something of a trend that the likes of United and Chelsea have simply followed, preventing City from establishing any sort of dominance of the English scene.
Manchester City: According to Forbes, City are the fifth wealthiest football club in the world, with a value of £2.08billion.

It's an impressive return on a £200m takeover and testament to their growing commercial base around the globe and a new generation of fans who have enjoyed their successes.

However, they are still some way behind United, the richest club in world football, and Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich also above them.

Part of the reason for this is that City's success domestically has not yet translated into the Champions League glory the owners and everyone associated with the club crave.

City reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2015-16, losing to Real Madrid, and in other seasons they have come unstuck when confronted with Europe's elite.

In order to smash this glass ceiling, Mansour recruited Guardiola last summer, a manager who'd won the competition twice with Barcelona.

A major part of his brief is to deliver that trophy and City's owners have offered a blank cheque for recruitment, with over £200m spent already this summer, mainly on the defence.
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Now that is what you call hurting. I fucking love it.:)
 
Sometimes I think things become clearer when you see how we're perceived in Europe.

Weirdly enough, we're much less unpopular than here.

Obviously, there are people that don't like us; but it's more to do with not liking us spending (eg the holier than thou Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, who are so perfect that they only charge belly button fluff for a season ticket). But those people tend to dislike all big spending clubs, not just us specifically.
There's also the overseas United fans, and the people that don't like Pep for some reason.

But on the whole, most articles about us overseas are rather friendly. I think something important is, once you get past the money thing, we're actually a pretty likeable club overseas.

We play nice, passing and attacking football in a league filled with teams that play awful un-technical football.

We have lots of exciting footballers who also aren't pricks. They aren't particularly known for being dirty or cheating or faking injuries. Nor are they known dicks off the field, sleeping with brothers' wives as such.

Remember, our most disliked players in England are:

Sterling: The only thing he actually did wrong is leave Liverpool.
Aguero: Only by Chelsea fans.
Stones: Because he's not Baresi yet.

This is stuff they don't care about outside the UK.


Plus I imagine there are plenty of United haters in Europe who in turn like us.

And to top it all off, I think our fans are somewhat popular due to our very anti UEFA stance.


But in England, none of this is ever recognized. If only more of our players dabbed..
 
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