the money stick we get beaten by

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Born in Salford, plays for nothing.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Funny how the money never figures so prominently when we lose! There's a constant comparison between the amount Xfc have shelled out and what MCFC have shelled out. We are listed in the millions whilst The Dog and Duck have only coughed up fourpence ha'penny!

Well, the world saw what yer get for yer money yesterday! Quality across the pitch!

The other one which crops up with monotonous regularity is the lack of English bodies in the starting eleven. If we have English in the starting eleven it's pointed out that there are no English players on the bench.

All part of the concerted world agenda that fauned on the likes of Cantona and Bergkamp. Now there's two players who played for the love of the shirt and wouldn't take a penny for the privilege.

And certainly NOT English ;-)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The one's who go on about us buying the title are the same ones who said a few years ago that we couldn't buy success.

 

[samharris]

That poor team that won the Title,and that poor team that won the champions league..

Their names are on the tip of my tongue...I just cant remember who they are???

 

[jrb]

it's like.

United fans hate Scousers until they play for United. United fans hate Scousers if they ask for a transfer, until they back down and start scoring again.

Of course Rooney is there for the love of the club and shirt, but successive new contracts and large pay rises help.

 

[lordloverocket]

What ever u do today dont read that red twat
ray ansbro's column in the sunday star its the biggest pile of bitter shite ive ever read in my life.
(Ime useless with computer stuff so i cant do a link or wotever) but in one paragraph he calls our owner sheik n vac and then carrys on with more crap, the blokes a 1st class wanker and apparantly hes the sports editor!!! Oh and he lives in manchester really hope i meet him someday.

The daily star you say? This is a paper who, when the world is unfortunate enough to have had something major happen in it, prints which soap star is fucking which footballer on its front page. It's the equivalent of a comic.

i dont post a lot on here and i dont normally by a paper but this sort of crap written by a biased bitter red is about as bad as it gets.

 

[Uptop]

"Look you t***, you cost us £40 million!" * How the f*** are we supposed to take the piss out of City and their spending anymore?"

Very good! Arsenal have possibly the most hypocritical fans in the world. They have been fooled by Wenger into thinking that they are doing it the "right way" and they deserve to be at the top as they "earned" it, despite their past where they bought their place in the league at the expense of spurs, received loads of investment from a wealthy owner in the past and were one of the main teams pushing for the formation of the PL and the gravy train that followed securing their "rightful" place at the top of the table forever more.

Until we came along and spoiled it for them that is...

Fuck them, in a few more years we will have stabilised our squad and no longer need to keep buying players every year, once our new academy is up and running we will hopefully be able to produce a few of our own players and attract other young talent and develop them ourselves. The last stick they beat us with will be gone, we won't need to pay over the odds and give massive wages as players will be flocking to join our project. We are already making massive progress towards becoming self-sustaining economically and will no longer need to worry about Sheik Mansour pulling the plug on us like some desperate opposition fans would like to fantasise about! We are here to stay.

I for one can't wait for the day we produce our own fully homegrown player capable of being a world beater.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Chelsea get it some 11 years on. It's nothing to remotely care about at the end of the day.

But they don't though, do they, or at least to nowhere near the same snidey extent. We get little put downs all the time; Chelsea don't.
Neil Ashton on Talkshite on the subject of Hugo Lloris's error that led to our opening goal against Spurs for example.
".......and you can't make mistakes like that against a team of City's (....?....) ...Flair? Ability? Ruthlessness? No, the missing word was "resources". You think he'd have said that if Rooney had scored after 15 seconds, or Ozil?
And I also think you're quite wrong on the subject of it "not mattering". A lone dig from a sad bitter hack like Ashton might constitute a whole heap of nothing in isolation, but put the remark with all the others from Ladyboy, Custis, Howard, Ogden, Barclay, Herbert etc etc, the loaded questions at press conferences, the shit stirring about having no English players, the sniping from Tyler, ikkle Mickey & Co on match days, Sky Sports News' spiteful little squad price comparison charts every time we play in Europe and so on and so on, and it has to have an effect on our marketability. We are trying to build up a global fan base and attract sponsors. You could argue that we're doing a good job of it, although the empty seats at every home game tell me we've still got room for improvement, but the reality is that we've no way of telling how much better we might be doing if we'd received the positive coverage our football has deserved the last 4 years. Common sense tells me that if you're relentlessly portrayed as nouveau riche arrivistes, who know the price of everything and the value of nothing, most people will eventually buy into those lies. How does that "not matter?"

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

The powers that be should actually be pleased that clubs like City spend big. It makes the game big. It sells papers. It grabs TV audiences. It pulls in advertising revenue. We see star names in our league. Kids see these stars on the box and want a piece of the action and adulation for themselves. All in all, it makes the sport grow and it all leaves the old days of mudheap pitches in crumbling stadiums which are surrounded by slag heaps and factories back in the last century where it belongs. Its a big business now, and anyone who cannot accept this change just has to look at the game at lower levels where there is little money and even less interest because of this.

 

[CITYROBBO]

Southampton paid 15 million for a player Norwich paid over 10 million for a player, its good to see ... Arsenal spent more on ozil chelsea on torres no idea why we get labelled it when uniteds been doing it for years ever since they signed Roy keane for 3.5 million and went on to break transfer record numerous times over..

Money to spend knowadays doesnt mean as much as it did when the rags had a free pick of any player for so many years its a lot more fairer in terms of chelsea spurs rags even scousers can pay whats required makes it a much better league ..