the money stick we get beaten by

[LoveCity]

Re: Success bought not earnt

How about that their entire existence as a club being down to a local sugar daddy saving them? It's true.

 

[james1910]

Re: Success bought not earnt

easy!!!
4-1
if thats all they can say then we must be doing something right

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

As the saying goes, you can't buy class...









but you can buy a season ticket at the emirates for £2,000

A supporter of a non league team was giving it the 'City are killing football' line, but went quiet when I asked who was doing more damage to the game? City by spending their own money or Arse who are charging astronomical prices to get in and thereby stopping the average man in the street from going.

 

[Champions2012!]

Re: Success bought not earnt

 

[foetus]

Give that Man(Arsenal fan) a transfer budget.

There is not a single thing noble about the lunacy at city. Your fans sold their soul in exchange for being a walking sandwich board for an unelected gang of dictators who keep ‘their’ people in line by torture, brutalisation and control.

Man city is everything that is wrong with the game on 2013 and the day they are left to fall back to type, mediocre and provincial, can’t come a day too soon.

As for the article, usmanov is on record as saying he would not bankroll the club. And besides, we don’t need not want a sugar daddy. We are a proper football club.

"SPEND SOME F***ING MONEY!"

Were you one of the Arsenal fans chanting that?

oh dear

 

[Burtonblue]

Re: Success bought not earnt

I'm fucking sick of rags using the "we bought our players with money earnt, not a sugar daddy" argument. Can someone please give me a succinct counter-argument that I can copy and paste back to these twats?

Just remind them if it wasn't for our generosity in allowing them to share Maine Road in the post war years their club would have gone out of existence.
That should do it.

 

[Puppet Master Silva]

http://shewore.com/2013/12/15/mansours-millions-the-difference-for-manchester-city/

Bitter twats.

What an utterly embarrassing article and comments section. Is there a more bitter fan base around? Probably can't take the fact that we can play football just as well if not better than them and still win things.

 

[Burtonblue]

Give that Man(Arsenal fan) a transfer budget.

There is not a single thing noble about the lunacy at city. Your fans sold their soul in exchange for being a walking sandwich board for an unelected gang of dictators who keep ‘their’ people in line by torture, brutalisation and control.

Man city is everything that is wrong with the game on 2013 and the day they are left to fall back to type, mediocre and provincial, can’t come a day too soon.

As for the article, usmanov is on record as saying he would not bankroll the club. And besides, we don’t need not want a sugar daddy. We are a proper football club.

"SPEND SOME F***ING MONEY!"

Were you one of the Arsenal fans chanting that?

Just one word sums the lot of them up.
Envy.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re: Success bought not earnt

Here's everything you need:

1) In 1931 they were saved from going out of business by a wealthy local man called James Gibson. He not only recruited Busby but paid for Old Trafford to be rebuilt after the war out of his own pocket.

2) In 1981 they, along with Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal & Spurs blackmailed the Football League into stopping the sharing of gate receipts with visiting clubs, by threatening to set-up a breakaway league.

3) In 1992, the same clubs stuck two fingers up at the Football League by negotiating the set-up of the Premier League. That meant all TV money went to the PL rather than the 50% they previously got, with the rest being shared across the other three divisions.

4) As a founder member of the G14, they were involved in forcing UEFA to pay them for players on international duty, which obviously benefitted the big clubs. Once again, using a tactic from 1981, they threatened a breakaway European Super League.

5) The G14 pushed for more and more money from UEFA for the Champions League, including the infamous second group stage. This was to ensure that the big clubs got more gate receipts from guaranteed games. The TV companies however got them to drop it as it was a tV turn-off.

6) They've forced up ticket prices well beyond the rate of inflation. They now pull in about £4m per game, far more than anyone else (bar Arsenal)

7) They've prostituted themselves to every company possible, particularly in the Far East, who'll pay them a few million quid. They have an "Official Noodle Partner" and an "Official Savoury Snacks Partner" (to name but two) who are companies no one in Gorse Hill has ever heard of.

8) Their "Official Airline Partner" doesn't fly into or out of Manchester.

 

[TCIB]

Re: Success bought not earnt

Haha nice usage of the meme.