Pep's spending is insane (£941m and counting at City)
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Well a few things to consider. He also got rid of a few. He has improved a number of the existing players. They play fantastic footie, and they walked the league.
He has spent pretty wisely in my opinion. City, United etc will always pay over the odds... but look at what he has built. and it has already reaped reward. Remember, he said no to Alexis Sanchez. Nuff said really.
He has spent pretty wisely in my opinion. City, United etc will always pay over the odds... but look at what he has built. and it has already reaped reward. Remember, he said no to Alexis Sanchez. Nuff said really.
Yeah, truly desperate that.
In fact I was contemplating adding a "I am tired of mentioning this again but..." part to my response, but I didn't.
You would hope that it wouldn't have to be mentioned time and time again, but posters like you and a lot of Citeh fans have somehow deluded themselves into believing that you are not in fact just another sugardaddy club. The fact that you try to compare United spending with City spending just proves the point.
Never see the same delusion with the Chelsea fans.
I don't think anyone is doubting pep's skills as a manager/coach. But it is a fact that without money he cannot achieve what he wants to do. He coaches player well but he also needs specific players at a certain skill level.
If he managed to win the PL with academy players then he would be considered as a genius! I don think he is.
Zidane has won 3 CL’s in a row with Real, I dont think his ways are genius. I think Pep is a top coach but if he does not have the best players his ways cannot work. His ideas are good, but the quality of player needed to implement them to a level where you can have success is very very high.
Happy days
We don’t well at least I don’t. Its fun. I just want o laugh my face off when the mystery man is revealed
Silly post. Its the 31st May ffs, the complaining over our transfer inactivity is ridiculous.
If that’s how you regard us then fair enough. See you at either Derby if you want to discuss a bit of footy. You will be there won’t you?
Crikey, didn’t he have to get loans to bail out his business. Don’t think he can get the same leverage as the Glazzers. Thankfully none of this is true.
Top Wumming.
I second that motion
We wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are today without the Sheikh nobody with at least half a brain would dispute that. We are a challenge for the mighty Man Utd to knock off our perch just like you did with Liverpool.
Are you up for it? Your time will come again. In the meantime get your act together and stop bleating.
You need to retain the title or do something of note in Europe before you start boasting about perchs ffs.
I thought @Gentleman Jim was doing a parody of a steroetypical City fan but is actually serious.
We’ve set PL records that are unlikely to be erased in my lifetime. Many are already conceding next season’s PL to us already (not me BTW). The reason most of us follow Football is to witness whether the favourites (Liverpool or United most years, City and Chelsea more recently) prevail or whether they come unstuck and someone like Leicester comes along and upsets the odds.
Ferguson famously knocked Liverpool off their perch. Pundits consider City almost uncatchable at the moment. Can your current group of players, coaches and execs bring you back to the top of the English game?
Let’s find out and enjoy the ride.
I don't even know how to respond to this.
It's like you're narrating some crap documentary on the Premier League.
Not really suprising, with Barca spending zero on their most important players in that time period.
Choose your words carefully....yes i have noticed the date,are opinions allowed in your part of the world...
He did it by winning 13 titles. You've quite a way to go to reach that perch (another 13 titles of your own wouldn't even do it).
The posts from City fans are really strange when compared to Chelsea fans. Chelsea fans just enjoy their success and don't feel the need to parade it in everyone's faces. City fans seem to be more arrogant despite accomplishing far less. They also constantly make references to United as if that is at all relevant to their own success.
Duffer had some great banter last season, and is always good for some jokes when Chelsea win or lose. I'm struggling to find a city fan that doesn't make me sink into my chair from the pure cringe from their posts.
I never get the fuss about JM or PG spending. Their career work earned that right
Its nice cherry picking when you can only point out the big money signings we have made!.
Yes, Rio was bought for 30 M, a transfer record, but you conveniently ignore that we had players who cost peanuts in the squad as well, unlike your squad where even the benchwarmers cost more than wigan's budget!
Ever heard of Tu quoque???
Choose my words carefully, what are you talking about?!
It was a silly post, complaining about our transfer strategy when the transfer window isn't even open yet.
His spending is insane but when you win the league with so many points nobody really cares about the money spent. We simply must spend similar.
Exactly. This only works if he's not improving the team. I don't think anyone would complain if Jose spent $500m and won the league comfortably while playing mesmerizing football scoring tons of goals.
Fahcts: yes, they are funded by oil money; yes, their spending is insane; it's not going away; but they are also playing well.
Transfer windows been open for a couple of weeks, they started it early and closing it on the Friday before the start of the season
Seriously, what do you expect City fans to do when we’ve had 30-odd years of largely abject failure rammed down our throats by United fans in the name of banter? What parallel universe are you living in not to expect some of that to be returned with interest now that we’ve got a decent team? Maybe you don’t live locally, in which case I wouldn’t expect you to get it. That’s not a dig by the way but if you live in the goldfish bowl of Manchester and it’s immediate vicinity you might begin to understand it so comparing it to how Chelsea fans are towards United is akin to comparing apples and oranges.
As it happens, I can assure you I was a far bigger c*nt towards United fans when we were utter dog shit than I am now - as many of my United supporting mates will testify. I’m just happy seeing City challenging for trophies - United not quite being at the races the past few years is just an unexpected bonus.
Their spending is insane but I must say, the money is being used well.
If my team got to 100 points in the league, I'd rather our rivals had 99 points than 80, makes it all the more sweeter.
And the fact that Ferdinand was a first team player for 10 years. The only big price signing that was sold quickly under Fergie was Veron.
Good point mate but I wasn’t really referring to this season - United had their best placed finish since Ferguson retired - but moreso the 6th and 7th place finishes in recent seasons. That’s something I never really expected to see.