We have really got to them

[BringBackSwales]

Whilst being a passenger to Barrow yesterday with a work mate ( a Liverpool fan ) he gets a call on his hands free from a dealer ( a United fan ) at first I just listen to their Liverpool / United banter whilst staying silent, then decide to have some fun and start to write things down for my mate to "Rag bait" with.

My Mate :" so what about City next year ?"
Rag :" I'm pretty upbeat, we've just signed that kid from Crewe and that Chinese lad"

MM : Have you heard that on the radio today ?
Rag : No what's that ?

MM : City close to signing Bale and RVP
Rag : Silence

MM : Hello, you still there ??
Rag : sorry mate yeh, is that right ?

MM : Yeh, apparently that's why Harry left cos the deal was done with Adebayor and 30 million
Rag : Fucking bastards, I hate City, even more than you lot now.

The despair in his voice was the best feeling since the Aguero goal.

Rag : They've got no history anyway, just another Chelsea, they will come and go, not like us two, eh mate.
MM : I don't know you know, those Arabs are here to stay, I've resigned myself to the fact that City will be the team for the next 20 years mate.

Rag. : Silence ... Then ... Do you know what mate, you might be right, god I hate them.

PRICELESS, I wish I would of recorded it

This is how it feels to be City

shop the red **** if he is a dealer

 

[southern muppet]

What's 'just another Chelsea' supposed to mean anyway? Chelsea have won every major trophy there is to win in the last 10 years except the UEFA Cup and aren't going away any time soon either.

 

[Vienna_70]

I'm a postman and today's deliveries included letters from the swamp inviting applications for season tickets.

I mentioned this to a very obnoxious rag, asking, "Having trouble selling your season tickets?"

His response: "No, it's the economic climate".

"We've sold out ours", I smugly replied.

"But you only get 40 000 every match; we get 78 000."

"You don't even know the capacity of your stadium. It's 76 000 and ours holds 48 000."

He claims he is a ST holder, but I have yet to ask him after which goal he left on 23/10/11. I will at some point.

 

[45 years of gloryhunting]

Plenty of plastic rags at work , they wont even discuss football , just avoid the subject completely , they know we are here to stay.

 

[Marvin]

I found it bizarre that a lot of blues fell into the mentality, with about 10 games to go, of saying "United will win all their games".

That team were not good enough to win them all. It was a major achievement for them to go on that run early in the year. But they were bound to drop points with that midfield.

Once those debts are cleared they'll compete, of course. But right now they are way off the pace and if Ferguson wins the league again without major inestment (£100m+) then it will be his best ever achievement, and a big blow to us and Chelsea.

Dave, it will be 20 years before they are clear of the debt, because its the Glaziers debt that is being cleared and thats immense and all the while they will be shuffling money around to keep Tampa Bay going, lining their own pockets and clearing their moutains of surplus and debt ridden real estate. By which type we will be on phase 6, or 7, have a stupendous youth system an 80,000 stadium and as the mackems pointed out "all your kids are City fans!"

They're trying to re-list Utd this time in the States. If they do that they will be able to pay of large proportion of their debts, if not all of it.

 

[VOOMER]

I found it bizarre that a lot of blues fell into the mentality, with about 10 games to go, of saying "United will win all their games".

That team were not good enough to win them all. It was a major achievement for them to go on that run early in the year. But they were bound to drop points with that midfield.

Once those debts are cleared they'll compete, of course. But right now they are way off the pace and if Ferguson wins the league again without major inestment (£100m+) then it will be his best ever achievement, and a big blow to us and Chelsea.

Dave, it will be 20 years before they are clear of the debt, because its the Glaziers debt that is being cleared and thats immense and all the while they will be shuffling money around to keep Tampa Bay going, lining their own pockets and clearing their moutains of surplus and debt ridden real estate. By which type we will be on phase 6, or 7, have a stupendous youth system an 80,000 stadium and as the mackems pointed out "all your kids are City fans!"

They're trying to re-list Utd this time in the States. If they do that they will be able to pay of large proportion of their debts, if not all of it.

Its not happening, PB and another poster confirmed its being avoided by every man his dog, its the usual money with no voting rights which they thought they could sneek through in Singapore. They are running out of cash reserves and the next move will be granny shagger being sold.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

I found it bizarre that a lot of blues fell into the mentality, with about 10 games to go, of saying "United will win all their games".

That team were not good enough to win them all. It was a major achievement for them to go on that run early in the year. But they were bound to drop points with that midfield.

Once those debts are cleared they'll compete, of course. But right now they are way off the pace and if Ferguson wins the league again without major inestment (£100m+) then it will be his best ever achievement, and a big blow to us and Chelsea.

Dave, it will be 20 years before they are clear of the debt, because its the Glaziers debt that is being cleared and thats immense and all the while they will be shuffling money around to keep Tampa Bay going, lining their own pockets and clearing their moutains of surplus and debt ridden real estate. By which type we will be on phase 6, or 7, have a stupendous youth system an 80,000 stadium and as the mackems pointed out "all your kids are City fans!"

They're trying to re-list Utd this time in the States. If they do that they will be able to pay of large proportion of their debts, if not all of it.

Not as a football club, or even a sporting brand, but as a media company. Even then the money raised won't even come close to wiping their debt, thanks to Uncle Malc. Stormy seas ahead for the scum.

 

[ob]

And when United actually get around to winning something again, it will be 'City back in their place, Ferguson sees off City, just as he did with Chelsea!'

Revisionist history experts.

Every United youngster is a worldy, every defeat has a legitimate excuse, and everyone outside of a few, fucking lap it up as gospel.

I simply pose this question, what narrative will they paint when he either drops dead on the bench or his armchair, and all because his ego won't allow him to trust anyone to spend the next 20 years keeping us at bay.

When he pops his clogs, he will be their Munich for the new age.

His funeral will be sponsored and you'll be able to buy fergie coffins in the megamega store , not forgetting a new clock stopped at the minute he dies.

No doubt emblazoned in green and 'gold' lettering underneath: 'It's Fergie Time!'

Thanks mate just spat coffee out on train lol lol

 

[The perfect fumble]

Dave, it will be 20 years before they are clear of the debt, because its the Glaziers debt that is being cleared and thats immense and all the while they will be shuffling money around to keep Tampa Bay going, lining their own pockets and clearing their moutains of surplus and debt ridden real estate. By which type we will be on phase 6, or 7, have a stupendous youth system an 80,000 stadium and as the mackems pointed out "all your kids are City fans!"

They're trying to re-list Utd this time in the States. If they do that they will be able to pay of large proportion of their debts, if not all of it.

Not as a football club, or even a sporting brand, but as a media company. Even then the money raised won't even come close to wiping their debt, thanks to Uncle Malc. Stormy seas ahead for the scum.

Utd is a cash cow for the Glazers, the model they operate is to invest the minimum amount of money required to maintain the club at optimum performance, while squeezing as much money out to service their debts, a model all companies aspire to, though profit ideally would go to investors rather than debt servicing.

Why spend more money than you need to be the best? Well, suddenly to be the best costs more money, courtesy of City.

This fight between City and Utd is not just a conflict between two teams or even two managers, it is first a contest between Sheikh Mansour and the Glazers. In a straight fight it is no contest, the Sheikh can outspend the Glazers without breaking a sweat, but Utd's vast fan base and the immense income that flows from it, coupled with "Financial Fair Play", hamper City big time.

The story I'd love to know is not the infamous "trajectory of results" that saw Hughes go, but the trajectory of income. I know a little about this, with the emphasis on "little" but I'd love to know what's going on behind Khaldoons icy cool exterior, what is the real plan? On the surface it is almost impossible to imagine a business model that can control our current deficit. There is no doubt that City are doing all the things one would expect of a club trying to nurture a growing worldwide fan base and the income that will eventually flow from it, but questions remain.

Put simply, what is the "Critical Path Analysis"?..... What are the tasks which must be completed on time for the whole project to be completed on time, what is the minimum length of time needed to complete the project, and on a more basic level, when you strip out all the rhetoric, what is the project? Where will we be in five years time? What targets have we set ourselves for income generation? How are we going to get our deficit down? And if we can't get it down will it matter? Given that FFP is untested and has no "validity", as far as corporate governance is concerned.

I search high and low amongst the sea of bollocks about City to find this stuff out, but answers there are none. Truth is we know more about the Chinese space programme than we do about the "City Project".

 

[Mikeegrini]

And when United actually get around to winning something again, it will be 'City back in their place, Ferguson sees off City, just as he did with Chelsea!'

Revisionist history experts.

Every United youngster is a worldy, every defeat has a legitimate excuse, and everyone outside of a few, fucking lap it up as gospel.

I simply pose this question, what narrative will they paint when he either drops dead on the bench or his armchair, and all because his ego won't allow him to trust anyone to spend the next 20 years keeping us at bay.

When he pops his clogs, he will be their Munich for the new age.

I'm hoping he'll keel over at a Derby, preferably when they're 4 or 5 down. It's what he deserves.

We're City, let's be more gracious than the Rags, and a bit more imaginative. I want Taggert to live forever and never win his 20th title. I want him to see his successors fail, his fan base dwindle, I want him to see everything he's built at Utd crumble, I want him to live a long, healthy and miserable life.