Media Thread - 2021/22

[CharliesRightPeg]

I haven't followed exactly what was claimed but I have a spreadsheet with net spending of City and Utd populated by transfermkt that has City and Utd's net spending back to 2012/13 season (Fergie's last year).

The figures are in £m.

You can justify whatever you want if you select the right time period but over the last decade, using transfermarkt data, Man Utd have a higher net spend than City. A decade seems a fair enough time period to me. That takes us into the Fergsuon era.

	United			City
	Buys	Sales		Buys	Sales
2021/22	126​	27.63​		114.75​	84.42​
2020/21	75.42​	17.55​		155.07​	68.99​
2019/20	211.32​	73.06​		143.57​	63.9​
2018/19	74.43​	27.5​		70.73​	51.84​
2017/18	178.56​	40.95​		285.75​	82.22​
2016/17	166.5​	42.53​		193.5​	31.82​
2015/16	140.4​	90.6​		187.38​	60.69​
2014/15	175.82​	42.03​		92.52​	27.27​
2013/14	69.42​	1.62​		103.95​	10.17​
2012/13	68.81​	8.69​		55.76​	39.87​
	1286.68​	372.16​		1402.98​	521.19​
		-914.52​			-881.79​

He's claiming that City have the largest % of top 20 purchases with sterling in there but not Fred

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

The narrative is just getting it in early, as they want to again smear the legitimacy of another (hopefully) City title triumph.

It's reached fever pitch because they know the only way to prevent us dominating for another decade is to soil both our brand and the Premier League product, so the brain dead masses will be fully compliant when the old guard co-conspirators try to rig the rules and jury again.

The greatest payback we can deliver this season is to win Prem, FA Cup and Champions League, followed by Haaland signing and Pep extending this summer.

It will kill them all.

Absolutely spot on. I honestly believe one of the reasons we are so dominant is that we know we have to beat the officials as well as the opposition and hence the relentlessness of our play.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Did he then block you or is that a stupid question?

I think I gave up on him at that point and blocked him. But he also blocked me.

And talking about Nob Harris, is it my imagination or has he calmed down a lot these days? In other news, UAE and Qatar restored diplomatic relations recently.

 

[Claytop]

Has he released his smoking gun piece yet?

Must still be going through the lawyers….

How many years has it been now?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

His best mate McKenna similarly and quickly went off the deep end into a thoroughly self destructive spiral of Ian Brown-style Covid denier conspiracy madness. This was not only indicative of an obsessive and delusional personality disorder which drove his ludicrous and defamatory campaign against City, but has rendered him even more unemployable than he already was.
At least he used to get sympathy commissions from his mates. Now he has fallen out with nearly all of them as well and is reduced to begging for spare change on Twitter and his barking at the moon blog.

Interestingly, Mackenna is still tweeting regularly but nothing about us this year so far, which is strange given our accounts came out recently. I wonder if he's another we've had a quiet word with. Or our lawyers have, more likely.

 

[solley attwell]

It would be some achievement to be fair.

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

 

[JGL07]

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

Similar to the Pardew award?

 

[cheekybids]

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

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[Moss Side's Finest]

Decent read this one. Seems we're not the only team to ruin football after all.

It’s Manchester City’s time, but eras of dominance have always existed

MANCHESTER CITY are now red hot favourites for the Premier League title and if the forecasts are accurate, it will be their fifth in 10 years and third in four campaigns. It is beginning to look li…

gameofthepeople.com

 

[Groke]

Decent read this one. Seems we're not the only team to ruin football after all.

It’s Manchester City’s time, but eras of dominance have always existed

MANCHESTER CITY are now red hot favourites for the Premier League title and if the forecasts are accurate, it will be their fifth in 10 years and third in four campaigns. It is beginning to look li…

gameofthepeople.com

Ironic really - the ones mainly moaning about it are the 2 sets of red plastic fans, but they only chose to support those 2 clubs because of their respective eras of domination.