Media Thread 2020/21

[ZanteWeatherman]

Good.
I'm glad Pep finally said something like that, I often agree with dippers and rags when the play the money card....embrace it, brag about it....don't be defensive about it....rub it in their jealous whiney fuckin faces........we're rich, REALLY FUCKIN RICH.....hahahhaahahaha

FFP still counts. We are the same (allegedly) as the rest of the big teams. Spending is linked to income.
Except for Chelski, they have a crowd limit of what - 40,000 ish and 'have the green light to buy Haaland'. In what universe can that happen?.

 

[Gazza]

Somebody summed it up on here (GITG?) - City's owners spend all the generated cash on the team, United and Liverpool's owners have bought the clubs as a cash cow and obviously then cannot spend the same on the team as City do which means that they use their friends in the media to slag City's spending.
edit... It might actually have been you bobbyowenquiff

 

[KPXBLN]

Thinking about it more, I even agree with Jordan saying we should be disappointed if we don't win the quadruple.

The closest we've ever come was when we did the treble. I don't know about anyone else, but I was gutted when we went out of the Champions League that season. I'll be disappointed if we don't beat Spurs in the League Cup in April, I'll be disappointed if we get knocked out of the FA Cup or CL, and I'll be beyond gutted if we don't win the league. In fact, every single City fan I know without exception would be disappointed too.

That is not to say that in some way "only" winning two or three trophies this season would be some sort of disappointment, or that City have let themselves down. In a one off game, that can happen. It's not a reflection on your season overall, it's a bad day with unfortunate consequences.

It is truly bonkers to suggest that anything other than complete victory in every competition is somehow failure. By that standard, every single English team ever is a failure.

Agree with this. Also 'disappointed' covers a wide range of emotions. Should we be happy if we win "only" the league this year? Yeh, of course. It's the one we care about most, it's (IMO) the biggest test of a team, a lot of people wrote us of in early winter (including me, to be fair), it's been a difficult and weird situation with Covid, we've introduced some great new young players. And so on. Obviously we'd be happy and rightly so. But I'd still feel regretful and wonder what might have been vis-a-vis the other trophies, and I would feel that by rights we could and should have won more.

Similarly, if we won all the domestic trophies but not the champions league, the sense of achievement and pride mentioned above would apply, and more so. But there would still be regret and disappointment for missing out on what looks like a good opportunity for us this year. So it's not to say that we should be inconsolable if we don't win the CL, or that not to do so would represent a failed season for us. Just that we are capable of winning all 4 and so - with humility, and with awareness that nothing is certain in football - we should aim to do so.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

City do it so much better.

 

[City_rabin]

The whole spending debate and City is an old story rehashed. We are compliant as far as FFP is concerned so what the club does with its finances is of no one's business.

City does not get to field 12 players in each game so I really don't get this squad cost nonsense. Kepa and Alisson cost more than double the transfer fee of Ederson who has been head and shoulders above both.

If all clubs invested well at infrastructure at the youth level if the football pyramid was better managed, you would have a lot more flow of talent and hence the transfer inflation will come down. The current structures in all leagues are that there is too talent available only for one or two teams. That's due to a lack of investment flowing at the grassroots level. The issue is systemic and has very little to do with City.

Championship and League 1 are in the top 10 leagues in Europe in terms of fans in the stadium, how has that not translated into commercial revenues? That's because they are poorly positioned/managed commercially. I think EFL is being mismanaged badly (and if I put my tinfoil hat on mismanaged intentionally) and piss poor journalism has been a great enabler in the process.

 

[Chris in London]

Agreed. But to win four trophies will require a large slice of luck somewhere along the way. Having a brilliant team is a great start but you can be derailed by a poor decision or a missed penalty (we are good at these) or a sending off, or a key injury, etc etc. It's never boring watching City is it? (expect for the Pearce years of course)

I only disagree because we will need more than one large slice of luck along the way. It is unreaslistic in the extreme to expect that we will not win every single game between now and the end of the season, but I will be disappointed every time we fail to win.

By the way, even the Pearce years weren't boring. We had the hope to cling to that one day, eventually, we might actually score a goal...

 

[kippaxwarrior]

City do it so much better.

 

[aguero93:20]

Pulis is a complete nob. He couldn't train a puppy to fucking sit. End of.

Bet you he could train it to trip you, bite your ankles or chase an aimless high ball though.

 

[trumpton]

Pep's correct in what he said, "we've spent a lot of money and bought some great players"

Now for all the media twats who frequent bluemoon, why don't you ask yourself the following questions..

1. Have City complied with FFP and spent within their means ?

2. Do the dippers and rags generate more income than City ?

3. Do other so called 'big' PL clubs generate similar incomes to City, teams such a spuds, chelski and the tarquins ?

4. In fact, the dippers, rags, tarquins and chelski all have players in their squads in excess of £70M whereas nobody in our squad comes anywhere near this number..

The rags spent even more than this on the dabber, slabhead, lukaki, wasted millions on the piano player, Tia Maria and memphis meat pie to name but a few..

We are a fkin well run, well managed, superbly owned club that plays brilliant football that any true football fan would appreciate their team churning out week in, week out..

So the media can get fucked and suck it up..

Write the fkin real headlines here you fkin bunch of cowards and ask the real questions like, 'why haven't any of the other so called big teams in the PL invested as well as City.'. ?


Cnuts..!

Moaning, whinging twats..

Well said Bill.

Transfers is only one part of the business and a stick to downplay our achievements. What about other costs involved in running a club. Why don't the press moan about say one club spending £10mill and another £30mill on admin costs, ground maintenance, security, shareholder dividends etc.

A bit like stupid things the media seem obsessed with, i.e. scored the most goals, had the top scorer, most clean sheets, player with the most assists etc.

It's all fucking irrelevant if your team finishes mid table.

Basically, look at the business as a whole culminating in the trophies won rather than singling out the cost of individual players.

 

[Burtonblue]

The Quad is another unrealistic goal that we will not be able to achieve. The league will be enough for me and anything else is a bonus. The constant narrative change each season is getting more and more pathetic.

1. Never win with mercenaries- check
2. Must do back to back titles- Check
3. Must win domestic treble- Check
4. Must win the Quad - erm twats.

City as a club are doing amazing things on and off the pitch. Why dont we look back through time and see if Liverpool or united had to win the quad due to their high spend on players?Quick search says fuck no...world club championship does not count scousers:)

I hear what you say about the quad and agree it’s an unrealistic target to set.
Mind you the odds were 55/1 with William Hill back in jan when I put a cheeky £20 on and now we are 10/1 so maybe not so crazy....
Apart from the obvious financial benefits I would really love us to win it just to piss on all these cunts’ chips who don’t realise just what an amazing squad we now have.
That would be some statement.