UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[domalino]

Would anyone mind if I remind people of something I posted a couple of weeks ago?
The top 12 transfer fees of all time, and the top 10 highest paid footballers of all time, include United and Liverpool players.
There is not a single City player in either list.

So contrary to City buying success, it is United and Liverpool buying failure.

While this is true, it's always a little disingenuous to quote the top 10 transfers and pretend we haven't invested like they have.

City's management just know leagues are won by spending £300m on six £50m players instead of three £100m players.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Would anyone mind if I remind people of something I posted a couple of weeks ago?
The top 12 transfer fees of all time, and the top 10 highest paid footballers of all time, include United and Liverpool players.
There is not a single City player in either list.

So contrary to City buying success, it is United and Liverpool buying failure.

Mustard post.

 

[Newman Noggs]

While this is true, it's always a little disingenuous to quote the top 10 transfers and pretend we haven't invested like they have.

City's management just know leagues are won by spending £300m on six £50m players instead of three £100m players.

It does, however, give lie to the suggestion that it is City inflating transfer fees

 

[Dave S]

Logs in when there's bad news, tells us star players/the manager/HRH are going to leave, logs out.
I still think he's a blue though, just a manic depressive one.

Is he related to Marvin?

 

[aguero93:20]

While this is true, it's always a little disingenuous to quote the top 10 transfers and pretend we haven't invested like they have.

City's management just know leagues are won by spending £300m on six £50m players instead of three £100m players.

Teams and not players. Some are obsessed with shirt sales though.

 

[aguero93:20]

Is he related to Marvin?

There we go. Marvin is a top blue and a manic depressive one.

 

[domalino]

It does, however, give lie to the suggestion that it is City inflating transfer fees

Again that's not really true either. What both ourselves and Chelsea did was normalise what was considered pretty high, but not huge transfer fees.

Chelsea for example in 03-05 made £15-20m a normal transfer fee. Prior to that there'd been bigger ones like £30m for Ferdinand, but they were few and far between and 10m would get you a really good player. 15m+ was rare

Then Abramovic came along and spend 15 on Veron, 17 on Crespo, 17 on Makelele, 14 on Robben and 14 on Ferreira, 15 on Mutu, 18 on Duff. Suddenly good players for a top 4 side cost £15m+ as standard, everyone else had to catch up.

And we did the same with the £25m transfer fee. Pretty uncommon before 2008, but 18 months later we'd normalised that as the fee for a very good player.

In reality these are much more important to transfer inflation than the once a decade, blows everyone out of the water transfer like Neymars or Ronaldo.

My point to people who say we inflated the market would be 1) Yes, who gives a shit? and 2) You shouldn't have made us spend very big very fast by introducing FFP and making a long project get condensed into 2 summers of spending 3) Every club who we bought a player off should be thanking Abu Dhabi for their cash injection and 4) It's really only accelerating a naturally occurring process anyway.

 

[kaz7]

There we go. Marvin is a top blue and a manic depressive one.

Marv is here all the time,ken on the other hand....

 

[aguero93:20]

Marv is here all the time,ken on the other hand....

Not all blues spend all their time on here.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Irrespective of whether the journos are correct or opinion on here assuming worst case scenario. I find it hard to contemplate these accusations that given the ownership and the gold standard way MCFC operate these days and the unbelievable way the club has progressed in the last decade. Assuming" we are guilty that this has been allowed to happen?
How on earth can someone employed by us not know the rules? How on earth can a slick organisation like us irrespective of the agenda against us allow anything like this happen now?
We should be smarter we should be wiser.