Recent content by PatMagroin

What are you saying? That Chelsea and Liverpool didn’t spend that much? That Chelsea and Liverpool didn’t top City in both the Premier League and the Champion’s League during Guardiola’s tenure at City? There are examples of clubs spending less than City (and United) and beating them during...

You’re moving the goalposts. My reply was to net spend since Guardiola took over at City, not since SAF’s retirement. Regardless, City have spent £1.074 billion since Guardiola arrived. United have spent £1.077 billion since then. On a net basis, City have spent £478 million while United have...

Perhaps not, but over that period United won a Europa League and 2 League Cups. Meanwhile other clubs that spent far less have won quite a bit with less. All it really shows is how irrelevant the spending is when your club lacks effective management. Excluding City over that period, below are...

De Bruyne - Wolfsburg Alvarez - River Platte Bernardo - Monaco Stones - Everton Dias - Benfica Laporte - Bilbao Ake - Bourenmouth Ederson - Benfica Mahrez - Leicester

What is there to question? He plays on a side that requires more technically, tactically, physically, and mentally than any team in the world and is the most unplayable player on it. There are no passengers on that side and if he had material shortcomings he wouldn’t play. I understand that he...

I can’t believe people are debating about his dribbling skills while he has 4 games left in a full Prem season and has scored more than the entire Chelsea squad, among 5 others. He’s a fecking mutant doing things none of us have ever seen before. Imagine if he takes a step forward next season...

I think some people are being disingenuous about Guardiola. Calling him a chequebook manager is hyperbolic. The reason he runs the wealthiest and most talented clubs in the world is because he gets results. Across his career at the top flight, he has won the league 10 times across 13 seasons...