Zinchenko, Mooy, Roberts, Moreno, and the new Spanish defender

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Is that the German equivalent of "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"?

Not quite.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

We've still got plenty of supporters though, so how does that relate to a lost soul?

Phonetically speaking, we've lost danny mills in the not too distant past...

 

[goalmole]

Phonetically speaking, we've lost danny mills in the not too distant past...

Ah so.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/buying-players-that-will-never-play.318721/ seem familiar?

"it is like a sport version of human trafficking except the players involved get well paid and are not harmed. But it is trading people for profit and to me I just don't agreewith to it."

And yet most companies out there in the real world attract, incentivise and then divest themselves of talent without so much as a by your leave Re: signing on fees/percentage cut for said talent. This however, is generally accepted as ok?

 

[goalmole]

I've no idea, I don't think we've lost our soul.

I don't quite know what it means so I can't really say if we've still got it or not but I'll try and tell you what I think people are trying to say.
They are basically questioning the loyalty and motives of the current fanbase. What they are saying is that because City fans were supporting us in adversity when we were shit, their loyalty was beyond questioning because they weren't supporting the club for glory because there was no prospect of the club attaining glory. However these days because the club is on an upward trajectory the fans motives for supporting the club are open to question because newer fans may be seen as "gloryhunters". This is a line usually peddled by those who believe their motives as supporters to be purer than of others, usually for their own self aggrandisement. In my opinion this lost soul argument is all a load of old bollocks.

 

[mcfcm40]

have a little look at the hat trick our young Turkish lad has just scored in the dutch league...with all these "potentials" out there one or more will pay dividends and the others will get a club at the level their ability dictates

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

From 1973 to 1998 we were owned by two utterly ruthless, selfish egomaniacs that were routinely dishonest with supporters, who they didn't give a flying fuck about.

imo, that should be the reference point when discussing any loss of soul since that time.