Rags upset with City youth strategy (merged)

[Corky]

When was the last time city were fined for poaching players?

Why has the world forgotten about what really went on in the late 1980s?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm sure we an all cast our minds back to an encounter sometime fairly soon after the takeover when some rag or other tried to lecture us about youth development and how we could never possibly hope to emulate what they had in that regard at united for reasons of......well in actual fact they never came up with a well argued reason. It was just how it was, and how it was always going to be.

The whole club; management and fans alike just assumed that football history stopped in some alternative universe sometime around May 2008, with an immutable balance of power contained within it. It's fucking absurd when you think of all the change, money and chaos swirling around in the modern game, that they thought that those were forces that could be contained by wheeling the ticket tout out to say how united were going to finish above City. Fuck me, have some self-respect, man. You were European Footballer of the Year once.

They are in so much pain.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Is there a chance they could become insolvent if they don't make the champions league for a few years? Really think they could finish out of the top 4 this year.

With the amount of money sloshing about these days I doubt it. The danger period for them was around 2009/2010 when the Glazers were almost certainly in severe financial trouble. Had they failed to get top four then, they could really have been in big trouble. Even today, the Glazers are probably in debt to the tune of something like $2bn

They scraped through the crisis debt wise and accounts are looking better but the current mess must have a lot to do with the lack of cash they would have had!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I got a theory. Maybe the Sheikh bought all the Glazers' shares in a secret deal about three years ago and he's been pulling the strings ever since. It would explain a great deal.

Maybe that "not in my lifetime" comment really pissed him off.

 

[BlueAnorak]

A couple of great posts on the caff:

These articles are very misleading.We're boycotting it because they use it as a mean to easily scout and chase our players.

It is worrying when a club is using our scouts and beating us to players by offer massive money. I heard a story last week that City bought some kids parents a new house and car for him to sign with them.

Clearly this one doesn't do irony.

Or perhaps they do, though I grant you it is much more likely that they don't.

 

[andyhinch]

I got a theory. Maybe the Sheikh bought all the Glazers' shares in a secret deal about three years ago and he's been pulling the strings ever since. It would explain a great deal.

Maybe that "not in my lifetime" comment really pissed him off.

Now this might just be in my own little brain, but did he not once build a casino to piss off a casino owner ?

 

[stony]

I got a theory. Maybe the Sheikh bought all the Glazers' shares in a secret deal about three years ago and he's been pulling the strings ever since. It would explain a great deal.

Maybe that "not in my lifetime" comment really pissed him off.

You know how these things work mate. Within a month that will be retold on the caf as the absolute truth.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You know how these things work mate. Within a month that will be retold on the caf as the absolute truth.

You've got to be honest; there are less plausible explanations in circulation.

 

[stony]

You've got to be honest; there are less plausible explanations in circulation.

All empires fall, some more spectacularly than others. I'm in two minds about how I want theirs to go. Devastatingly sudden or a long slow death. Both have merits.

 

[richards30]

All empires fall, some more spectacularly than others. I'm in two minds about how I want theirs to go. Devastatingly sudden or a long slow death. Both have merits.

I want us to torture them both on and off the field for years to come yet!!!