I'm presuming it's because we've heard nothing from Pogba or Juventus.Daily Mail is reporting the Pogba deal is done for £100 million while SSN say it's not done and negotiations have stalled, presumably over Railoa's fee.
This is so true, and in saying this I draw a clear distinction between what their supporters have said (which is always going to be OTT, whichever club you're referring to) and what the club, and those at the very heart of its power-base, have been boring the arse off the rest of the footballing world (and dissembling) about for the last generation.
One of the most refreshing aspects about the way City handles itself publicly is that the club, through its officials and management, isn't constantly making references to what the club is about, or what it claims to stand for, because any such utterances are invariably hollow, disingenuous and based on selective memory. They can also make you a hostage to fortune.
I have no real issue with this fee, and through the prism of the money swilling around the upper echelons of the English game, it isn't an egregiously ridiculous sum, taken in isolation. However, the surrounding narrative is of a player who they released, in no small part due to personnel decisions that were forced upon united in the 2011/12 season, when City and united were both chasing a title, and it speaks volumes about the shifting sands of football fortune and how clubs are often forced to abandon all they claim to hold dear to retain a competitive edge. Nothing wrong with that btw, it's footballing Realpolitik.
Above anything else, I hope with all my heart that whatever the next few years bring for us as a club, that officials at City don't start pontificating about "the City way" or claiming that our club is somehow spiritually different from others, because it never can be - not outside our own biased, blinkered footballing minds. The day that happens a part of me will die inside, not least because I know, just like that stretford end banner, that had to be taken down in 2011, it will only come back to bite us in the end.
That is one footballing history lesson that we should try and absorb from united.
Hilarious if they are.I'm presuming it's because we've heard nothing from Pogba or Juventus.
United have briefed that many media outlets, had Addidas promote him. Fuck they've even had his hair dresser quote him.
My bet Juve are playing the role of Liam Neeson in Taken whilst negotiating with the Albanians.
Juve, "for that our fee has just gone up".
United have told the World they've signed him effectively. Surely Juve are going to push them as far as they can. United simply can't afford to be snubbed here.
Bravo sir!'Values' my arse! (no disrespect intended to previous posters) but, that club has never had any 'values' any different to any other club other than those dreamed up and peddled by their over active PR department and over gullible self interested members of the fourth estate.
Ferguson smashed the transfer record more times than any other manager and they happily and without shame batted everyone else away with their bigger wallet and bullied and pilfered other clubs academies.
The best thing that happened to the EPL was firstly Abramovich and then Sheikh Mansour. Then there became two that could kick the sand back in the face of the bully who previously did all the kicking.
They are basically shitting themselves and are everything now they always were but previously pretended they were not.
They will never go away because they are too big with too much money. What is funny is what they are having to do/spend and what is even funnier is the transparent bullshit that will undoubtedly follow by way of their ever more desperate attempts to portray their strategy as something different than what it actually is.
F*&k off United. Nothing better in the world than seeing a bully get its comeuppance!
Ferguson smashed the transfer record more times than any other manager
I like'Values' my arse! (no disrespect intended to previous posters) but, that club has never had any 'values' any different to any other club other than those dreamed up and peddled by their over active PR department and over gullible self interested members of the fourth estate.
Ferguson smashed the transfer record more times than any other manager and they happily and without shame batted everyone else away with their bigger wallet and bullied and pilfered other clubs academies.
The best thing that happened to the EPL was firstly Abramovich and then Sheikh Mansour. Then there became two that could kick the sand back in the face of the bully who previouslyy did all the kicking.
They are basically shitting themselves and are everything now they always were but previously pretended they were not.
They will never go away because they are too big with too much money. What is funny is what they are having to do/spend and what is even funnier is the transparent bullshit that will undoubtedly follow by way of their ever more desperate attempts to portray their strategy as something different than what it actually is.
F*&k off United. Nothing better in the world than seeing a bully get its comeuppance!
I'm starting to get a vibe that you're not Ferguson's biggest fan.But it's never ever mentioned in the media. Us and the Chavs have had all manner of unjust accusations thrown at us because a rich benefactor has come along and invested in our respective clubs. It has happened several times over the years with the rags and yet not one of the media has called them out over their hypocrisy.
The pisscan made an enemy of every fucker during his time at the sty: falling out with players, other managers, referees, the BBC etc, and yet he's fucking lauded to the rafters. All he did was throw an absolutely incredible amount of someone else's money at the team until they finally won a trophy.
From then on it was spend, spend, spend, (order referees and officials to turn a blind eye to their fucking cheating), spend some more, and then if it doesn't quite gel, spend some more (and refuse to speak to the BBC because they dared to speak the truth about the evil, manipulative **** that is the GPC).
One day, maybe not in my time, but one day the whole truth about the vermin and the years under the pisscan will be revealed. Problem is the Govan coward will be six feet under and thus will get away with it - like Jimmy Saville.
Could this go belly up ?
In a nutshell my friend.'Values' my arse! (no disrespect intended to previous posters) but, that club has never had any 'values' any different to any other club other than those dreamed up and peddled by their over active PR department and over gullible self interested members of the fourth estate.
Ferguson smashed the transfer record more times than any other manager and they happily and without shame batted everyone else away with their bigger wallet and bullied and pilfered other clubs academies.
The best thing that happened to the EPL was firstly Abramovich and then Sheikh Mansour. Then there became two that could kick the sand back in the face of the bully who previously did all the kicking.
They are basically shitting themselves and are everything now they always were but previously pretended they were not.
They will never go away because they are too big with too much money. What is funny is what they are having to do/spend and what is even funnier is the transparent bullshit that will undoubtedly follow by way of their ever more desperate attempts to portray their strategy as something different than what it actually is.
F*&k off United. Nothing better in the world than seeing a bully get its comeuppance!
Unbelievable ****? Hardly! ;-)As laughter fests go, I think we're quids in whether it does or it doesn't. The notion that Madrid might sweep at the 11th hour is a delicious one, but the rags spunking £175m (inc wages) on one player, who'd have been theirs for nowt if Baconface hadn't been such an unbelievable ****, will more than suffice if Real show no interest