Plastic teams, plastic league.
FA Cup Final (slaughter)
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Maybe there isn't a need to do it, but you can clearly see why we do and that the intent isn't to be racist/anti-semitic but merely to own what other clubs fans have used as an insult against us. You're making out like it's insidious in intent.
Villareal got to a semi, not a final. They also didn't build the best stadium in Europe, and were never projected to start catching up with their biggest rivals (Arsenal, Chelsea) in terms of revenue, which we are. What master plan? Other clubs like Atletico and Dortmund have stayed high up the table without huge investment, we can do the same. We obviously will have to spend, but within our means and sensibly whilst also pushing players like Kane, Winks etc through .. we've been doing it a while, we will be fine. Obviously we won't win trophies every year, we're not a plastic club built on hollow success, but we can still be successful and compete.
It's nothing to do with you being on top. Liverpool would be impressive if they won the league, United were impressive under Fergie, I can praise loads of teams who are/were on top. People just refuse to recognise success which is based purely on investing ludicrous amounts of money (over a billion) on players, it's not impressive or clever .. it's just expected. You're a hollow club with hollow success, what exactly do you want people to say? Yeah they've been great for City, you're their puppet so they can hide their atrocities.
Also, you have no evidence for literally any of this. Other posters have already discussed this so I won't talk about it in depth, but the idea that you/Chelsea haven't impacted the league in dramatic fashion is absolutely absurd. PSG just took it to a whole new level with the Neymar transfer, clubs like you have broken the transfer market because money means absolutely nothing to your owners. You can spend billions and your owners won't blink, so 50m transfers are completely irrelevant, you're not a sustainable business at all.
No effect on us? Man it's funny how delusional and blind your fans are, what world do you live in where the sugar daddy clubs haven't impacted emerging sides? Even if it didn't I'd rather see De Bruyne, Hazard etc line up for actual football clubs with history and genuine revenue streams, rather than a plastic excuse for a club who have to lie and cheat their way to trophies. Hopefully these latest investigations lead to the hammer being brought down because that's exactly what you deserve.
It's embarrassing counting the Community Shield as part of the "quadruple". It's as prestigious as the International Champions Cup trophy.
It's an official trophy and it is a domestic quadruple whether people like it or not.
Barca harped on about the 'sextuple' in 2009.
So who will City go up against in next year's Community Shield? Themselves?
Liverpool since they were second in the league I guess.
Liverpool.
If the team that wins the premier league wins the fa cup too, they play the league runners up.
Because:
1. The media are full of ex-Liverpool players.
2. City are a plastic club with plastic riches.
3. Liverpool are United's main rivals.
Man Citys cup draws this season:
League Cup:
Oxford Utd
Fulham
Leicester
Burton Albion
Chelsea (Final)
FA Cup:
Rotherham
Burnley
Newport County
Swansea
Brighton
Watford (Final)
UEFA Champions League:
Lyon Shakhtar Hoffenheim (group stage)
Schalke (round 2)
Tottenham (quarter final)
Not too many challenging ties there and when they sit down to watch the Champions league final they will know they got knocked out by a team that should never be beating them...
League Cup:
Oxford Utd
Fulham
Leicester
Burton Albion
Chelsea (Final)
FA Cup:
Rotherham
Burnley
Newport County
Swansea
Brighton
Watford (Final)
UEFA Champions League:
Lyon Shakhtar Hoffenheim (group stage)
Schalke (round 2)
Tottenham (quarter final)
Not too many challenging ties there and when they sit down to watch the Champions league final they will know they got knocked out by a team that should never be beating them...
Wish he would but there is no chance of that happening whilst they still haven't won the champions league, maybe after that happens it is a possibility, however under no circumstances do I ever want them to win the proper quadruple ever
Should have been the quadruple then in 94 if Eric and Schmeichel hadn't been suspended
2008 we were so damn unlucky with that quarter final against Pompey that saw Rio have to go in goal for their crucial winning penalty earnt by ex scouser Baros if memory serves me right.
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Those people were wrong.
My thoughts:
Wolves would have put up a real fight. Its a shame they lost out.
We could do with a De Bruyne right now in our team. See the way he changed the game when he came on. Makes you wonder if Liverpool would be that close to them in the league if he was available for much of the campaign.
Wolves would have put up a real fight. Its a shame they lost out.
We could do with a De Bruyne right now in our team. See the way he changed the game when he came on. Makes you wonder if Liverpool would be that close to them in the league if he was available for much of the campaign.
Wow, didn't watch the game but also didn't expect this level of bitterness.
City were awesome. Pains me to say it but they are seriously good.
I was skeptical of Pep when he came to the league but it's now time to eat my words. He's the real deal and I don't see how people can now argue that.
If we'd have got pep instead of City we'd now have another title or two.
I was skeptical of Pep when he came to the league but it's now time to eat my words. He's the real deal and I don't see how people can now argue that.
If we'd have got pep instead of City we'd now have another title or two.
Once again, if we swap Pep and Mourinho to City/United in that fateful summer...
Pep would have walked out in the very first summer when he discovers how inept Woodward and the Glazers were. And Mourinho would have won back-to-back treble with how great City's structure is organized. Mourinho was a fighter and he wanted to prove something at Manchester United while I don't think Pep would have such patience for our board.
It’s difficult to say how well the club would have done under Pep (probably not worse than it is now) as he’d have more work under his belt. He’d still have guys like schneiderlein, Fellaini, Darmian, Smalling, Jones, past it Rooney, Young, etc left over from the previous tenures to deal with. It would be a lot more work to revolutionise the squad and get them playing his brand of football.
The stars really aligned for him at City as the core players that he relies so heavily on were already there when he arrived (De Bruyne, D.Silva, Aguero, Sterling, Fernandinho, Kompany). Even then he still had a tough first season.
He's made Agureo, Kompany, D Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling all better players and they were already amongst the best players in the league anyway!
Pep has a clear vision of how his tems play and the players required to do that. He quickly got rid of players who couldn't fit his style.
Unied seem have tried to get the same dud players to fit the various systems our various managers have tried. The squad we have could really cope with what Van Gaal or Mourinho were trying to implement. This club took too long to refresh the squad and subsequently we've been left behind.
Can't see anyone else winning the league while Pep is at City. Hopefully City's dominance is the kick up the arse United's heirarchy need and the major squad issues are addressed quickly.
I disagree to be honest. In theory we could have signed players like Gundogan, B.Silva, Laporte, Walker, Sane, Jesus, Mahrez and Stones instead of Matic, Mkhitaryan, Lindelof, Lukaku, Fred and Bailly. We'd have been right in the mix for honours.
Always amuses me when the cameras focus on a proper original loyally-supported-through-the-shitty years City fan in the crowd winning trophies and tournaments at Wembley and the like. Even after a few years dominance, they still look like a disbelieving tramp at an aristocrat's wedding reception.
Short players are quicker over the first 3-4 steps than taller players. That’s why they typically win the most second balls.
Short players are also usually better at dribbling in tight spaces and ball retention.
Many on here are in denial about that. I tried to explain it several times questioning Mourinho's policy to build a team of giants.
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Anyone ever realized that Guardiola's teams are usually shorter than average? Wasn't his Barcelona full of really short players? Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Alves etc?
Well his Bayern team was not short but thats normal for a german team. Its not exactly delibarately but Guardiola is using one basic Cruyff rule - the preference for technical ability over physicality..
Our team was so full of midgets back then that it became a meme.
Messi, Villa, Pedro, Xavi, Iniesta, Alves, and Mascherano were all 5’9 or shorter.
If you want to play possession football, shorter players are more far preferable because of the natural advantages that come with being short, especially for midfielders.
But Mourinho never wanted to play possession football.
It’s in August so it’s gonna be pretty warm actually.Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Watford were disappointing bland shit
Does it feck. Come back when Spurs beat Liverpool.
You guys are really good.
But this forum has just seen United beaten by Cardiff and fail to beat Huddersfield in recent weeks. United and City aren't even in the same league (quality wise) so the bitterness is understandable. It's similar to how Liverpool fans reacted to United when their own era ended.
Turning into Liverpool fans.
Just shows that it wasn't them.. Rather it was the lack of success that is the problem. Brings out the worst in all of us.
That might be a good idea.
Actually, their squad is good enough to have two City teams and 22 internationals on the pitch playing each other and still show us how to move the ball quickly and simply instead of the way we fart around with sideways passing, crosses hitting defenders shins, and getting disposessed because our lot seem incapable of making a first time pass.
They almost didn't make the final either...That FA Cup run
Great post. One of the best I’ve seen. Ever.
Give me a break. We've never counted it.
That's brilliant, I'm going to start using that because it's bloody true