HOW have City turned into some moral-high ground, holy football club that journalists are lapping up? They seem to have short memories if they can't remember they were practically founded 10 years ago. During the barren years (2008-2012) throwing money at players is all they did.
They will never earn my respect no matter how much they win. They are everything wrong with football in this day and age. A hollow shell of a football club, Barcelona wannabes with zero identity. Noel fecking Gallagher is their best representative FFS
Rant aside, it's music to my ears that Sanchez is turning down those twats who think they're some kind of irresistible force that no footballer can turn down. It'll be even sweeter when he scores the winner against them in the derby.
This Alexis transfer has illustrated some really weird stuff in terms of the media that I genuinely didn't think existed before. The idea of the press being 'ABU' was a bit cringeworthy to me previously but starting with the Rio (a former player and supposed United fan ffs) interview when he said he'd definitely go to City if he were Sanchez, things have been genuinely bizarre to watch and read.
Why has nobody mentioned the history of United and the number 7 shirt, the fact that Sanchez could come in and be an immediate icon at one of the biggest if not the biggest club in the world, as if that wouldn't appeal to him?
Instead the majority of press and pundits seem to think Sanchez should to go to City to pick up a Premier League winners medal that he would have had literally no input into. And if he doesn't do that then he's greedy and solely driven by cash??! Not by playing at Old Trafford in front of 75,000 people. Not by playing for the club that's won more league titles than any other. Not by playing for a manager that's won the league in every country he's managed in. So we pay a bit more and offer him better terms, how is that different to ANY other transfer where more than one club is interested in a player?
The narrative is absolutely insane, how can any journo justify this cash or Pep nonsense? I don't know why it's even a thing! For crying out loud their whole club has revolved around money since the takeover, namely offering more money to get the team they have now. £150 million on full backs alone! Much as Andy Gray has his faults, that bit of video where he's arguing with George Boateng is the only instance where I've seen someone actually incredulous at this whole things, basically saying "what the hell are you on about?! It's Manchester United, why would he NOT want to go there?"
Ugh it's annoying me too much, I'm going back to hitting F5 on this thread and nursing this Sanchez-inspired semi while listening to "it's not easy being green" until I see a photo of him in our training shirt on a hospital bed doing a thumbs up