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.
You're last point, it never found its way to Eddie Warring or Alex Murphy on the rugby league ;-)I like those who mis pronounce Mendy as something like Maurnday, putting an affected French accent into an African name pronounced in France as we do. Strangely they do not think Benjamin might be accented.
The BBC had a very good pronunciation unit at one time. Now it's just another area in which the BBC fails.
Ey oop.You're last point, it never found its way to Eddie Warring or Alex Murphy on the rugby league ;-)
What you are missing and what Pep is highlighting especially if you listen to his press conference today is that everything related to City is about money and so he is embracing that. Even the questioners were suggesting that other clubs spending is not highlighted the way ours is. So rather that try and justify ourselves Pep is embracing itWhy do we do this to ourselves ? It’s all so unnecessary and avoidable. It’s simple, don’t give them any headlines. We were doing just fine with the media until this week.
Bet you're glad you've got that off your chest Bill .
Preston won the League and FA Cup double in 1888-89 and they were the only trophies going at the time - so logically a complete success to be fair (and they probably did it on a diet of fags and booze unlike todays namby-pambies)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.
Its a knock out or the name of a Peter Gabriel song with a French title ;-)Ey oop.
I can't think of that programme that had teams from UK and European towns doing silly things.
Eddie and pompous pervy Stuart Hall must have baffled even the English teams.
I remember the French name, don't have a clue about Peter Gabriel and lts a knockout didn't ring the bell it should.Its a knock out or the name of a Peter Gabriel song with a French title ;-)