The simple truth...

Dribble said:
Apparently so. Remember Real have sold many fringe players for big money & had Ronaldo who'd make a massive difference to any team. They bought him for £80m, rinse him out & sold him 11 years later to Juve for £100m.

A £20m transfer profit on a 34 year old player has gotta be one of the smartest bits of football business in history.
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Or stupidest, depending on the perspective! Wages alone would have been a huge gamble.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I'm talking about Juve! They've won two Serie A with him, having had some terrible CL moments and having just surrendered their decade long consecutive leagues.
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I suppose so. £100m for a 34 year old Ronaldo made me raise an eyebrow (Roger Moore stylee), not to mention the astronomical wages he must be on.

Ronaldo for £30m on a 3 year contract & decent wage, yeah. But not the figures I heard Juve throwing around. It's utter madness, but yet it's City ruining football????
 
i never known anything like it over the weekend ? little old city we don't care about your club
city are small time come back when you won titles ? even their so called number one fans andy tate was chasing the coach of PSG shouting saying go on psg do them. holy fucking shit what have we manchester city done to them

it truly think they have gone over the edge and lost the plot ? turning on the club. players. stadium.
because they are blaming the glazers for not winning the league again ?? fuck me if VAR was not giving them soft pen every week they fans would be really in the shit fighting at a middle table game vs liverpool

we have done the impossible not only turned our club into champions we have fucked united up big time
the rats are jumping off the sinking ship faster than the speed of light
 
ancoats said:
i never known anything like it over the weekend ? little old city we don't care about your club
city are small time come back when you won titles ? even their so called number one fans andy tate was chasing the coach of PSG shouting saying go on psg do them. holy fucking shit what have we manchester city done to them

it truly think they have gone over the edge and lost the plot ? turning on the club. players. stadium.
because they are blaming the glazers for not winning the league again ?? fuck me if VAR was not giving them soft pen every week they fans would be really in the shit fighting at a middle table game vs liverpool

we have done the impossible not only turned our club into champions we have fucked united up big time
the rats are jumping off the sinking ship faster than the speed of light
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was he?
 
Dribble said:
I suppose so. £100m for a 34 year old Ronaldo made me raise an eyebrow (Roger Moore stylee), not to mention the astronomical wages he must be on.

Ronaldo for £30m on a 3 year contract & decent wage, yeah. But not the figures I heard Juve throwing around. It's utter madness, but yet it's City ruining football????
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I think their logic was "everything domestically is a chore, our game is slower, we have got to the CL final and come short, he can get us over the line", which has an internal logic to it, but still...it was a massive gamble. And yeah, the mad thing about City is we haven't overpaid for a player or blown up our own wage structure in, what, a decade? For one Ronaldo they could have had a Gundogan, B. Silva and taken a punt on a younger player.
 
coolcity said:
Yes, exactly that. They've managed to get the match called off, which one of the protesters claimed was exactly the aim, and this is the difference between our protests in yhe 90's or any other protest that has gone before.

I totally agree that's the logical case, but I still think the fact that they know the media would have claimed that they'd "handed us the title" if they had lost the match wasn't entirely lost on at least some of them.

There are other matches they could have chosen, and Thursday's match was hardly a daytime match so I don't buy that as a reason for them not protesting then, they would have still been able to rustle up enough fans to make the protest count at the Roma fixture. In which case they could have picked the Leicester Match or the Fulham match at the end of the season, the only difference being we will have probably won the title by then so any disruption wouldn't have affected us. Too much of a coincidence for me.

I'm more interested to know why the PL or FA don't seem to be concerned in the slightest that a match has been postposed. Run on the pitch at the end of the match and there are potential punishments; break into a ground and run onto the pitch and get a match abandoned doesn't seem to be a problem.
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I expect a fine or at most a points deduction that still sees them finish top 4. Let's what they get
 
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