SWP's back said:Fuck them. And yes I would accept it but seeing as City and CFG are run by the same man, with the long term goal being the success of City, that will not happen. And hopefully then you'll give up whining seeing as you ignore all pertinent points and pose questions but then ignore it when posters rebut you in a way you hoped they wouldn't.moomba said:Neville Kneville said:The Lampard who left Chelsea was a faded memory going to he states because that is his level.
The Lampard we are handing back to NYC has a rekindled fire & is a much different player.
He still doesnt guarantee us winning the league, or his absence guarantee us not winning.
Him missing the first three months of their season guarantees losing supporters, credibility and positive media coverage. It probably costs them points in their inaugural season.
I presume those who don't think NYCFC supporters should be upset about losing Lampard will happily accept it if the CFG decides he should be in New York for the start of their season.
yayas trusty right foot said:Couldnt they just sign another big name player as a replacement in the Jan window ?
moomba said:yayas trusty right foot said:Couldnt they just sign another big name player as a replacement in the Jan window ?
No. They can only have three designated players. If Lampard plays at all for them this season he'll take one of the spots.
Only possibility is he misses the entire MLS season, or never plays for NY.
No it's not, the long term aim is the promotion of Abu Dhabi and spreading their money around the world as the oil runs out. As a Blue I'm comfortable with that because the main side effect we can all see on the pitch.SWP's back said:Fuck them. And yes I would accept it but seeing as City and CFG are run by the same man, with the long term goal being the success of City, that will not happen. And hopefully then you'll give up whining seeing as you ignore all pertinent points and pose questions but then ignore it when posters rebut you in a way you hoped they wouldn't.moomba said:Neville Kneville said:The Lampard who left Chelsea was a faded memory going to he states because that is his level.
The Lampard we are handing back to NYC has a rekindled fire & is a much different player.
He still doesnt guarantee us winning the league, or his absence guarantee us not winning.
Him missing the first three months of their season guarantees losing supporters, credibility and positive media coverage. It probably costs them points in their inaugural season.
I presume those who don't think NYCFC supporters should be upset about losing Lampard will happily accept it if the CFG decides he should be in New York for the start of their season.
S04 said:Would love to see the reaction on here if Aguero went over there on loan during the summer and they suddenly wanted to keep him for a couple of month more.. ;D
Neville Kneville said:Scaring Europe to Death said:OK, I’m obviously in a small minority, but I’m quite looking forward to the summer and coming home from the pub pissed and discovering that New York City are live on ESPN or BT Sport.
This doesn’t mean that I’ll support the Yankees. In contrast if you’re going down that route then every City fan should embrace the Chicago Cubs who’ve got far more in common with the old Typical City than any other sporting institution on Planet Earth.
Lampard has clouded the issue, mainly because nobody at City, (including virtually everybody on Bluemoon) realised just how good he actually was. Either way we’re only talking a few games in a long season.
New York City’s first game is in Orlando and unless we progress to the FA Cup Quarter Final we won’t even have a game that weekend. The two surrounding games are Leicester and Burnley so if we can’t win without Lampard then we won’t deserve to be champions.
The other games will take care of themselves. We might have a fixture pile-up, but then again we might not.
Lampard will still be at City when we go to Stamford Bridge and it's not as though he's starting every game. He's done brilliantly, but let's not over-egg his overall importance.
In the long term the progress of NYC, Melbourne City and Yokahama can only be a good thing.
His importance is in his experience, & the fact he is a master of scoring key goals, hence we are 3 points behind Chelsea now, rather than six.
In a title challenge that can be the decider.
Will you back against him doing it again in the league or in Europe ?
I intend to watch as much of NYC as I can & hope they are eventually as important in their league as we are in ours, & have their own fans rather than a bunch of wankery bitter rags etc.
Those fuckers need to understand that this is part of CITY & if they don't want to be part of that, they should fuck off & support someone else.
Barcon said:Once the team becomes established it will gather it's own set of supporters that do not already have a premier league team that they support first and foremost. The ones that are there now, jumping on the bandwagon will either choose them as their team, or fuck off, sniveling and bitching. I keep my eye out occasionally for the T.F.C scores, and will watch them if there is nothing else on but, if they were owned by the rags, I wouldn't piss on them. Those that are rags and still going to watch NYFC are sad c**ts that have absolutely no idea about the team that they claim to support is all about. The others (spuds, pool etc) are just fucking deluded and have created an imaginary rivalry between us and the mid table team that they support.