citysince88 said:MSP said:citysince88 said:Remember Bayerns GK Neur or however you spell it crying when he left Schalke saying he wanted to win trophies so he had to go to Bayern, it's rank. Go an win trophies in another league then you prick.
Bullshit. I hate Bayern as anyone out there but calling someone prick because he went to the other club for whatever reason is bit rich. Do you call Nasri and Clichy pricks? Or would you call Barkley a prick if he joined City? Would you my ass.
He grew up a Schalke fan so to compare to Nasri or Clichy leaving le arse for us is not the same thing. If as a fan of city I went to the rags when they were cleaning up 90s early 00's when instead I could have gone to a top club in Spain, Italy or England and win trophies there in my book that would make me a prick too. If you support a club you don't leave them to play for their rivals.
no you're the fucking prick. he came across as more honest than most people, all substantiated by a second individual.graham baker said:citysince88 said:MSP said:Bullshit. I hate Bayern as anyone out there but calling someone prick because he went to the other club for whatever reason is bit rich. Do you call Nasri and Clichy pricks? Or would you call Barkley a prick if he joined City? Would you my ass.
He grew up a Schalke fan so to compare to Nasri or Clichy leaving le arse for us is not the same thing. If as a fan of city I went to the rags when they were cleaning up 90s early 00's when instead I could have gone to a top club in Spain, Italy or England and win trophies there in my book that would make me a prick too. If you support a club you don't leave them to play for their rivals.
Jordi Hiwula grew up as a United-fan.
Now the youngster is ready to bang in goals for City.
What a prick.
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graham baker said:Jordi Hiwula grew up as a United-fan.
Now the youngster is ready to bang in goals for City.
What a prick.
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Richard said:Saw that Marc Albrighton has signed for Leicester on a free. Decent little signing for them.
citysince88 said:MSP said:So what if he grew up as Schalke fan? He is football professional and plays it for money first, then for achievements. If there's more money and more chance to make achievements at Bayern he is perfectly entitled to move there. It's not even their bitter rival.
It's like that in any other industry except in football where fans view themselves as sacred cows and think someone should throw away millions, trophies and medals just so them, the "righteous ones" wouldn't consider him as a prick.
The truth is nobody gives a shit about that except handful of players who played/play in big clubs where they already earn as much or close to what they would earn by moving to other club so don't have many reasons to move. And they are perfectly right.
So if you were the number one GK for city back when we were mid table would you take move to Man united ?
As for them not being big rivals you might have a point the only thing I have to go on is the opinion of my mates German cousin who at the time was livid, if they don't view each other as rivals then fair enough.
As for football fans being sacred cows and it's like that in any other industry I think your wrong, footballs tribal it's part of peoples Identity (the same cannot be said for the fizzy drinks industry) so for a member of your tribe to join the enemy it's rank especially when there are alternative places for them to go and win stuff.
I think such a thing could have been possible in the past when local pride used to mean something but not these days not for long time.
citysince88 said:MSP said:So what if he grew up as Schalke fan? He is football professional and plays it for money first, then for achievements. If there's more money and more chance to make achievements at Bayern he is perfectly entitled to move there. It's not even their bitter rival.
It's like that in any other industry except in football where fans view themselves as sacred cows and think someone should throw away millions, trophies and medals just so them, the "righteous ones" wouldn't consider him as a prick.
The truth is nobody gives a shit about that except handful of players who played/play in big clubs where they already earn as much or close to what they would earn by moving to other club so don't have many reasons to move. And they are perfectly right.
So if you were the number one GK for city back when we were mid table would you take move to Man united ?
As for them not being big rivals you might have a point the only thing I have to go on is the opinion of my mates German cousin who at the time was livid, if they don't view each other as rivals then fair enough.
As for football fans being sacred cows and it's like that in any other industry I think your wrong, footballs tribal it's part of peoples Identity (the same cannot be said for the fizzy drinks industry) so for a member of your tribe to join the enemy it's rank especially when there are alternative places for them to go and win stuff.
I think such a thing could have been possible in the past when local pride used to mean something but not these days not for long time.