What’s the story with him? Prior to him signing for City I had never heard of him, and now he looks like the best CB in the league.
Your "cnuts" are probably the most successful owners in PL history, or am I missing something?
Glazers ?
It's just another CL final to Real, the players know the score. The pressure on City will be immense and none of them have ever dealt with that before. They could easily crumble.
Without trying to sound like a dick to City fans, I honestly don't know how many PL's they've won. Is it two? Is it six? Not bothered to check either.
They took over in 2005 and have won 5 PL trophies since football began. And one CL with a couple of finals.
That would be a valid argument if not for the fact that all but one of the defenders Pep has bought for us is still in the squad and playing regularly to this day...
But everyone knows exactly how many Liverpool have won
And taking millions out in the process. We were successful in spite of glazers not because of them. In fact thanks to their greediness we never built on sir alex's success.
? So as long as everyone plays regularly it is fine how many players you keep buying?
That's exactly it. Other than the first one, which was an emotional roller coaster due to how close it was between us, I haven't really been all that bothered by City and latterly Pep. If anything, I was more arsed that they'd won the FA Cup the season prior as it meant we could no longer have that ticker in the Stretty stating how long it had been since they last won a trophy.
Sure they leveraged you with debt but that didn't stop Utd being the Forbes richest club in the world for nearly a decade under them and all the support Alex wanted to knock us off our perch.
Nail on head. Why haven't United thought of that?
Not really. „Alex“ couldn‘t even spend the Ronaldo money. Couldn’t even replace RvN. Couldn’t even pay the agent fee for Hazard and so on.
Well we would if our owners just let us spend more of our own money. This would at least partly make up for their failures and incompetence.
All other clubs barring Chelsea can't afford to pay those bench players 300k each through various offshore accounts (and get away with it even after being caught). I thought that much was obvious?
Oh so we're doing made up reasons. In that case why don't United just use the magic fountain to make Scholes ten years younger and ride a pegasus to 1966 to bring Bobby Moore to the present day?
Again you are making it sound like we knocked you lot off the perch because of them. We did it because we had the greatest manager sir alex. Let us not forget sold ronaldo and let tevez go in the same summer only to replace them with owen and oberton. It is like you guys after winning the cl letting salah and mane go and buying some duds. But even then we continued to dominate but because we had sir alex.
Odd for Liverpool fan to waste magic fountain on Scholes.
Who acts like that? I haven't seen the resident City fans here act like that.
I’d be interested to see the same for Utd. Might put to bed the myth be have spent comparably.
We will still have a relatively high figure due to some fringe players who are always injured or hardly playing (Jones, Mata and to a lesser extent Matic, Bailly), but the total amount will probably still be lower.
I reckon it will be considerably lower.
Again, it's not just initial fees as they can be offset with sales. Does anyone know how much that second XI defence actually earns? That's where the real money is spent, fairly and/or unfairly.
Hasn't the math already be done plenty of times? City have spent more but Utd are 2nd behind them having spent more than Chelsea and Liverpool.
Plus the whole we are making our money off the back of historic success inspired by great footballing men and City, well City aren't.
Yes and I'm sure that United have players on loan that they pay more than City pay Steffen etc. Not sure arbitrarily choosing the criteria strengthtens any point you are trying to make. And the wage bills are pretty much public, so there you go.
That’s the biggest thing out of all of this. Abu Dhabi have literally appointed guys who worked with him at Barcelona in key senior positions. Soriano and Begiristain have been there laying the foundations to basically get Guardiola in place. They couldn’t get Guardiola the first time so got Pellegrini as a 4 year stop gap(!).
Sure - here's our first team squad for this season.
Thanks that's interesting, it really is night and day compared to City. Just the £300 million extra. I can't understand this narrative that we have spent comparatively.
Sweet baby Jesus and all the angels. I have just cringed myself inside out. How can I un-see this?
But then you'd need to add the same for City...your Mangalas, Otamendis, Claudio Bravos etc. By all metrics, City's spending has blown everyone out of the water.
