Sportswash! - Let’s oil stare at Manchester City!

[Chindie]

Their second string would justifiably expect to win a cup at least every season, and probably give the CL positions a good crack.

That's not good. They've broken the league by having so much financial clout (clearly through rule breaking in itself) that they basically can't be challenged. They can afford to buy any teams best player and have them bench warm. Someone looks to have got a gem? Hurl money at them, the figure doesn't matter.

I despise them.

[PaulC]

I found today's game tedious.  But you can't take anything away from Pep,. Other teams like man u and Chelsea spend big as well. Fact is he's the best manager around. When he leaves I bet the Premier League is a more level playing field. They didn't dominate this way before he was their manager. 

[Zatman]

The most low key Premier League winner ever and they even won with a comeback

[duke313]

I didn’t watch their “celebration“ did any of the pundits on the Sky wankathon mention the 115 ffp breaches? 

[Wainy316]

They're trying t be blasé about it but it's absolutely killing them that nobody respects or cares about their victories.

[Davkaus]

10 hours ago, PaulC said:

 But you can't take anything away from Pep,

Hopefully they literally do when it's shown that his success is built upon year after year of cheating 

[Genie]

Their bench was probably worth the thick end of a billion pounds. The fringe players on the pitch still beat Chelsea with a clean sheet. 

[villa89]

10 hours ago, PaulC said:

I found today's game tedious.  But you can't take anything away from Pep,. Other teams like man u and Chelsea spend big as well. Fact is he's the best manager around. When he leaves I bet the Premier League is a more level playing field. They didn't dominate this way before he was their manager. 

This sums it up. Chelsea and man United have spent huge sums as well but they are miles off city. That's down to poor club management and appointing bad managers. 

Whatever you think about pep he's one of the great managers. People think it's easy to spend big money and win titles, it's not that simple. 

[bobzy]

5 minutes ago, villa89 said:

This sums it up. Chelsea and man United have spent huge sums as well but they are miles off city. That's down to poor club management and appointing bad managers. 

Whatever you think about pep he's one of the great managers. People think it's easy to spend big money and win titles, it's not that simple. 

I reckon the correlation is pretty strong.  Leicester probably the only exception?

[villa89]

9 minutes ago, bobzy said:

I reckon the correlation is pretty strong.  Leicester probably the only exception?

Sorry you basically can't win without big spending that's pretty much a given. But lots of clubs try spending big and make a mess of it. City have got it right and that's down to pep. They weren't anywhere near as good under their previous managers despite the financial resources they had. 

It's like us under Lerner and us now. Under Lerner we were badly managed and had a manager with obvious, fatal, flaws. The result was a glass ceiling and eventual collapse despite a decent money outlay. Now we've people with a brain running the club and a proper manager in charge. Success is almost inevitable. 

Edited May 22, 2023 by villa89

[Davkaus]

It's certainly possible to fail with loads of money, succeed with less money, and it's undeniable Pep has done a good job. Doesn't deserve too much respect for it though, he knows who he's working for, and I doubt Mancini was the only one taking wages off the books.

[DCJonah]

35 minutes ago, villa89 said:

Sorry you basically can't win without big spending that's pretty much a given. But lots of clubs try spending big and make a mess of it. City have got it right and that's down to pep. They weren't anywhere near as good under their previous managers despite the financial resources they had. 

It's like us under Lerner and us now. Under Lerner we were badly managed and had a manager with obvious, fatal, flaws. The result was a glass ceiling and eventual collapse despite a decent money outlay. Now we've people with a brain running the club and a proper manager in charge. Success is almost inevitable. 

There's spending big money and then there's outright fraud and cheating to allow a single manager to spend more money on one team than any other in the history of the sport. 

[The_Steve]

A pretty classless statement about the Manchester terror attacks - if you zoom in you can see the club crest is pixalated. They can’t even mention bombings or anything. Sorry to make this political but **** this horrid plastic club. What tragedy was that City? They can’t even mention it by name 

 

 Compare with Man United 

 

 

[villa4europe]

nah thats a stretch, everyone knows what it refers to

the only bad thing about it is they've changed the hashtag dropping the united bit "this city" implies them specifically rather than manchester as a whole

[bobzy]

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

There's spending big money and then there's outright fraud and cheating to allow a single manager to spend more money on one team than any other in the history of the sport. 

I think they'd have had that sort of money anyway to be honest.

Still not sure what level of cheating has gone on.  How much extra have they had?  No-one seems to know.  I imagine maybe £200m?

[The_Steve]

38 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

nah thats a stretch, everyone knows what it refers to

the only bad thing about it is they've changed the hashtag dropping the united bit "this city" implies them specifically rather than manchester as a whole

I was probably just reading too much into it - it just felt rushed like they’d rather just focus on their title win. Still think the messaging lacks class but I expect nothing less from them. 

[duke313]

So, is Haaland going to get a two game ban for swearing on live TV?  Rooney did in 2011

[Genie]

Just now, duke313 said:

So, is Haaland going to get a two game ban for swearing on live TV?  Rooney did in 2011

Grealish has done it several times this season.

[Zatman]

This Sam Lee is some clown, he was a muppet around the Grealish saga but this is some idiocy defending City

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by Zatman

[HanoiVillan]

My favourite argument two-step he deploys there:

1) Says there's no point having the debate until there's a final judgement;

2) Then admits that City are attempting to drag out the legal process forever. 

Well that's why we've got to talk about it now isn't it you complete and utter wazzock.