Man City's Insane Spending

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So with the Kalvin Phillips deal close, that's now £80m on Halland (inc agent fees), £20m on Alvarez, £40m on Phillips and they're close to a £50m deal on Cucerella.

£190m improving a squad that's already comfortably the best in England :lol:

Can anything be done to counter such financial muscle? The sort of squad depth they have makes it almost impossible to lose the league, due to every other rival not being able to rotate as many starters in the midweek cup fixtures.

The only reason it was close over the last couple of seasons was Klopp. And even they will fall off now in the league given they don't spend anywhere near close to city on wages or transfer fees, and have lost Mane / not signed any midfielders because of it.

Is the Bayern-isation of the PL a likely outcome over the next five years?

(And some will inevitably bring up United's large post 2016 spend - but it was our spending from 2008 to 2015 compared to City that really killed us, alongside our poor recruitment. They spent huge sums buying the likes of Aguero, Sterling, De Bryune, Fernandinho etc, so by the time the Glazers finally opened the taps our squad was in a far worse state than theirs).
 

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Owners put money into the club rather than taking it out - unthinkable for us
 

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Still can't win CL. So happy that Real knocked them out and would have supported Liverpool in the final just because of this.
 

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Nope, but nobody takes their success seriously

It's tainted and bought by oil money
 

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You can only have 11 players on the pitch at once and they still haven't come close to a treble despite being "the greatest team in the history of English football". Ferguson wouldn't have feared them no matter how much they spent. We just need to worry about ourselves and when we get it right we can beat them to the league, just as Liverpool did
 

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Nope, but nobody takes their success seriously

It's tainted and bought by oil money

That's what we tell ourselves to feel better but they don't give a feck do they.

Watching City play great football racking up close to 100 points year in year out their fans couldn't give 2 shites
 

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Here come the resident Tranmere and Deportivo supporters telling us it’s only what United did in the 90s :lol:
 

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City need a striker: they bought a striker
Fernandinho leaving: bought his replacement as a DM backup
Jesus and possibly Sterling leaving: bought his replacement

The only superfluous purchase here seems to be the LB from Brighton.
 

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Can't compete financially so we need to compete smartly in the market, oh wait...
 

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They sold Ferran Torres for 52m over the winter, sold Bazunu for 15m to Southhampton, are close to selling Jesus for 45-50m to Arsenal, and may sell Sterling for 35m to Chelsea.

Net spend they are going to end up less than Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, or United this window I'm pretty sure.

They have huge financial muscle for sure but they are just a really well run club.
 

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They have owners who invest in the club and do not live off the club revenue.

They are just a well run club. Their entire club seems to being run by footballing brains.
 

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So with the Kalvin Phillips deal close, that's now £80m on Halland (inc agent fees), £20m on Alvarez, £40m on Phillips and they're close to a £50m deal on Cucerella.

£190m improving a squad that's already comfortably the best in England :lol:

Can anything be done to counter such financial muscle? The sort of squad depth they have makes it almost impossible to lose the league, due to every other rival not being able to rotate as many starters in the midweek cup fixtures.

The only reason it was close over the last couple of seasons was Klopp. And even they will fall off now in the league given they don't spend anywhere near close to city on wages or transfer fees, and have lost Mane / not signed any midfielders because of it.

Is the Bayern-isation of the PL a likely outcome over the next five years?

(And some will inevitably bring up United's large post 2016 spend - but it was our spending from 2008 to 2015 compared to City that really killed us, alongside our poor recruitment. They spent huge sums buying the likes of Aguero, Sterling, De Bryune, Fernandinho etc, so by the time the Glazers finally opened the taps our squad was in a far worse state than theirs).
Do you think Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo came without agent fees? We have outspent them in the past decade whilst winning what? Look at what they’ve won. Also they actually shift players for big fees. Even their youth players are commanding £5m. They’re about to sell Jesus who’s got 1 year on his contract for £50m, Sterling will fetch a similar amount and will get far more for Bernardo Silva. They’ll barely spend anything net. Here we are unable to sell a single player for any sort of fee.

Our billion has got us zero leagues and feck all cups, their’s have won them countless ones.
 

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City need a striker: they bought a striker
Fernandinho leaving: bought his replacement as a DM backup
Jesus and possibly Sterling leaving: bought his replacement

The only superfluous purchase here seems to be the LB from Brighton.
To be fair, the old left-back is heading to jail and there is talk of Zinchenko being on his way out for first team football. So City do need a left back.
 

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They will overtake our 13 league titles before we manage to win another
 

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It's a great time to be a city fan. You are loving life now. No negatives and constant positives. They will win the league next season, win a cup of somesort.

But from the outside nobody cares what they win.
 

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Owners bankrolling them and their success. "Well run club".
I really don't get this ''well run club'' narrative. They would actually be Billions in debt if they were run as a self sustaining business, ergo they wouldn't exist at all.
It's right to say Abu Dhabi had a plan in place when they took over the club. The plan though was to copy the Barcelona model. It's not innovative thinking on their part.

Yeah, no way a club winning trophies can earn legitimate money. Huge earners had to have won trophies in the 80s and 90s.
To spend the sums City spend legitimately they would need to have a Global footprint. We are the biggest & most succesful club in England yet we can only dream of spending £300 Mill in a transfer window & spending £100 Mill on a bench warmer.


They will overtake our 13 league titles before we manage to win another
They will need 21 to overtake us.
 

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There's no love lost for City but some of you are salty as shit.

They actually sell their players for reasonably good money and maintain a good net spend. Have you seen our outgoings since Sir Alex left? I'll clue you in. It's significantly less than Liverpool, City and Chelsea.
 

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I really don't get this ''well run club'' narrative. They would actually be Billions in debt if they were run as a self sustaining business, ergo they wouldn't exist at all.
It's right to say Abu Dhabi had a plan in place when they took over the club. The plan though was to copy the Barcelona model. It's not innovative thinking on their part.
Exactly. They showered cash on the best in the business (Txiki, Pep), gave them free rein in terms of spending (despite starting with a top squad), and let things run its course. Mighty impressive.

Still haven't won a CL though.
 

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I see the "well run club" stuff again. Same is said a about Liverpool. They have 2 of the best, if not the 2 best, managers in world football. The minute that ends everything will change.
 

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Its essentially looking like Alvarez 20m, Haaland 51m, Philips 45m, LB 50m will be the incoming so that's a total expenditure of £175m or there abouts.

Its looking like Sterling and Jesus will leave for well over £110m combined in income (Jesus going for £50m seems the set price and Sterling will go for £60m+)
Bazunu has went to Southampton for £15m - £125m recouped from those 3 alone.
Gyabi is also moving to Leeds so that will offset some of Philips £42m.

If Bernardo goes to Barca we'll likely bring in another midfielder too.
It'll be another season we're we are -£60m net from transfers.
 

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You can only have 11 players on the pitch at once and they still haven't come close to a treble despite being "the greatest team in the history of English football". Ferguson wouldn't have feared them no matter how much they spent. We just need to worry about ourselves and when we get it right we can beat them to the league, just as Liverpool did
1 season out of 5, with an outrageously good one off team.
If that's the best we can hope for if we somehow stumble across an incredible team again, then...sigh.
 

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I really don't get this ''well run club'' narrative. They would actually be Billions in debt if they were run as a self sustaining business, ergo they wouldn't exist at all.
It's right to say Abu Dhabi had a plan in place when they took over the club. The plan though was to copy the Barcelona model. It's not innovative thinking on their part.

To spend the sums City spend legitimately they would need to have a Global footprint. We are the biggest & most succesful club in England yet we can only dream of spending £300 Mill in a transfer window & spending £100 Mill on a bench warmer.

They will need 21 to overtake us.
You do realize United have a bigger net spend than City over both the last 5 and 10 years right? (before this window, how it will look after this window is anyones guess)
 

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I see the "well run club" stuff again. Same is said a about Liverpool. They have 2 of the best, if not the 2 best, managers in world football. The minute that ends everything will change.
This is it. City’s spending dwarfed everyone else pre Pep yet they never had anything like the dominance they do now. It’s all him.
 

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I see the "well run club" stuff again. Same is said a about Liverpool. They have 2 of the best, if not the 2 best, managers in world football. The minute that ends everything will change.
It will for Liverpool.
It probably won't for City.

Liverpool are good management away from being seen like Arsenal in terms of letting key players' contracts expire at the same time.
Not seen much about it being actually terrible management letting the fabled front 3 all expire at the same time.
 

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That's what we tell ourselves to feel better but they don't give a feck do they.

Watching City play great football racking up close to 100 points year in year out their fans couldn't give 2 shites
Why would they? They got plucked from obscurity because a State wanted to peddle their propaganda. They won the lottery, nothing more nothing less

City need a striker: they bought a striker
Fernandinho leaving: bought his replacement as a DM backup
Jesus and possibly Sterling leaving: bought his replacement

The only superfluous purchase here seems to be the LB from Brighton.
It is not a superfluous purchase at all, their first choice LB is locked in prison and they're selling his understudy

They are run impeccably well when it comes to footballing matters, no denying it
 

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This is a genuinely incredible post.
They have 6 right now. Many on this forum don't think we'll win the league in the next 10 years, so it's not unbelievable that city can win another 7 in 10 years.
 

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City need a striker: they bought a striker
Fernandinho leaving: bought his replacement as a DM backup
Jesus and possibly Sterling leaving: bought his replacement

The only superfluous purchase here seems to be the LB from Brighton.
Mendy is in jail, they got a LB
 

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They have 6 right now. Many on this forum don't think we'll win the league in the next 10 years, so it's not unbelievable that city can win another 7 in 10 years.
Yeah, we have won the league more than 13 times..
 

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They have 6 right now. Many on this forum don't think we'll win the league in the next 10 years, so it's not unbelievable that city can win another 7 in 10 years.
You do realize there was football before 1992? United (your club) have 20 league titles not 13. City have 8. We would need to win 13 in 10 years to surpass you and not even with our finances and manager is that possible.