Unstoppable City article

HellasLEAF said:
what I find strange is the article is good yet the picture is that of an unhappy Tevez??

why not Dzeko celebrating his goal, or Milner or Aguero, or Silva, or Mancini or...
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I think they Are saying we are so strong look who is on our bench.

Actually both Real Madrid and Barca still have much stronger squads then us and Chelsea.
 
It lost all credibility at this "A wel-run, superbly managed club like Everton". It might be a nice article for us, but the guy writing it is clearly clueless.
 
MANCHESTER CITY SETTING UNREACHABLE BENCHMARK






Manchester City can even afford to leave out Carlos Tevez




Tuesday August 23,2011


By Mick Dennis


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AT the end of this decade we will look back at this week and say, ‘That was when Manchester City began their era of total dominance’.




The continued pursuit of Samir Nasri signifies a seismic shift in football’s tectonic plates.

Signing Carlos Tevez two years ago was just thumbing the nose at the neighbours. Accumulating players like James Milner, Gareth Barry and Joleon Lescott from Premier League rivals was merely stocking the training ground with decent players.

But there are two reasons why offering Nasri a huge pay rise marks another change in status at what, reluctantly, we must start calling the Etihad Stadium.

The first is that Arsenal have not finished outside the top four of the Premier League since 1996. Despite Arsene Wenger’s increasingly manic impressions of Basil Fawlty, his club are part of English football’s establishment.

And Nasri is not a perpetual malcontent with incurable wander-lust like Tevez. He is an honourable bloke who is central to Arsenal’s ambitions. Yet City have the cheek and the cash to have spent the summer striving to entice him away. That means nobody, at any club, is out of reach or out of bounds for mega-bucks City.

The second reason the quest for Nasri is a symbol of impending dominance is that City’s squad is bloated with world-class players.

No other club in the history of the game have had so many top names nor been able to be so cavalier at leaving match-changers out of the team.

City’s substitutes at Bolton included Tevez and Mario Balotelli, for heaven’s sake, and they are ready to pay half of Emmanuel Adebayor’s wages while loaning him to Spurs, a club who will challenge for a Champions League spot.

City could field a team of substitutes who would prosper in the Premier League.

This unprecedented over-staffing is not restricted to the players. A vast retinue of backroom men and women went on the pre-season tour of North America and all stayed at opulent hotels and had a generous daily expenses allowance. Jealous? Moi?

Watch City warm up before matches and you will see a brigade of coaches, fitness experts, bibs and cones men and sundry unidentified bods with clipboards striding about trying to look useful.

Money simply is not a factor at City. Yet it is the single most telling factor in the Premier League.

I do not begrudge their fans their imminent period of smugness – well not the 28,000 who turned up regularly when City were in the third tier.


And I do not know if the Russians have a word for schadenfreude, but it is quite enjoyable seeing Roman Abramovich reduced to spending’s Little League by Sheikh Mansour.


Abramovich began a new inflationary cycle in English football by buying Chelsea and sploshing out half a billion quid in his first three seasons, but that is loose change to the Sheikh.

Even the £40m Manchester United picked up for carrying a sponsor’s logo on their training gear is little more than a weekend’s pocket money for City’s owners.

As for clubs owned by millionaires rather than gazillionaires, well they can forget it. A wel-run, superbly managed club like Everton have more chance of building a stadium on Mars than of scaling the upper reaches of the Premier League. A Sunderland fan, talking on a phone-in (before the ritual humiliation by Newcastle) said: “We’ve changed a lot of players and did brilliantly against Liverpool. We could finish as high as seventh.”

Yet if you think that is limited ambition, a plethora of Premier League clubs would regard finishing 17th as cause for a parade in an open-topped bus.

I do not have any cures for this grievous unfairness. But I know one thing. Have a look at the top of the Premier League table – and get used to seeing City there.
 
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. That's a nasty article with nothing good to say about us except that we've used our money to buy world class players.

This building us up is simply creating a stick to beat us with.
 
Some people just will never be happy. He says we are about to dominate football, have world class players and how its funny Chelsea have been shown up by our spending. We have bought all this, no point in burying heads in the sand. He says nothing but the truth in that article, and tips us for dominance.
 
Whilst the article is quite complimentary towards us, it is a shit article to be fair.
 
Let us not forget some of his other ramblings;

"In a world where we can't afford to build hospital's and school's, a rich man is putting a Billion into a football club"
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or this

MANCHESTER City’s attempt to become the new Chelsea is going well, isn’t it.


They mob referees, base their game on sterile defence and flaunt their wealth with graceless arrogance.

They will probably sack their manager soon. Chelsea had five changes over 20 months, and Roberto Mancini is finding there is more to keeping a mega-rich owner happy than wearing a scarf stylishly.

The team’s start to the campaign is worse than it was last season under Mark Hughes. After nine games under Hughes, they had 18 points and had lost only once.

Now, the baying bullies have lost two and have 17 points. And Mancini has spent more than Hughes. But something remarkable has happened at the genuine Chelsea. They’ve become, erm, nice......
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Clearly Mick Dennis knows how to agitate football supporters to enhance readership, for if he were employed merely on literary skills & football knowledge then there wouldn't be much hope for him.
 
stonerblue said:
What a pile of shite. Jealous bile very thinly disguised as complimentary.
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If people like that knew anything they would be sitting on a bench at some point running the show...luckaly they are not. Go comment bout Norwich and shut it.
Oh and btw, read em an weep

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It's not a fair and balanced article

Far too many barbed comments in there about the owner, the club, the fans and the officials, and I'm not paranoid pige, I just find it churlish
 
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