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Alternatively, let's look at it this way... United had a core of homegrown local lads and a manager who had spent the last 13 years assembling a brilliant squad, spending money that had been earned from success that fans were craving after such a barren period for such a historic club with a rich history.
It's vastly different.
Tonight wins rubber stamps how soulless the sport of soccer has become.
Greening was signed from York at age 19 but everything else is spot on.
I want to see their fans celebrating like they're at the cricket
I agree although I wonder if being state owned almost inevitably implicates a club into murky territory. I don’t know if state ownership and ethical financial management is as mutually exclusive as most think it is. Same goes for any ownership but more so with owners who have limitless funds/assets.
Just the small asterisk of City having done it with their entire team bar one player who despite being up their with the best players in the league they still have better players to start, who were of course bought through cheating.
City won
And nobody cares
Fake club, success bought through cheating. All very hollow .
And nobody cares
Fake club, success bought through cheating. All very hollow .
Not to be that guy, but when SAF retired, I said this was a potential that we end up like 90s Liverpool.
It was a soulless game. No atmosphere at all. Very Formula 1-ish as the best funded team wins the title without even playing very well.
Amen. I reckon in ten years it comes out the other half of their salary was offshored.
Completely agree but for me it's not just the inevitability but also the complete lack of romance behind it. (Which, in fairness, you could argue stems from that inevitability factor)
I just don't know what big story you'd have to tell about this City side. With the '99 team, you had the Class of '92 and the two goals in injury time. With Guardiola's Barca team in '08, you had Xavi and Iniesta, and you had Messi. What do you have to say about this City side? Haaland, who they spent quite a bit of money on and was already a massive name before he joined? De Bruyne? Rodri?
They're a wonderful footballing side. Nobody can have any qualms with that. I think it's fair to say they are at least one of the best sides ever assembled for in terms of pure footballing brilliance. But if you were to try to write a book about them, it'd be really fecking boring.
The money flow into influence
I hate Liverpool..like despise that club but I respect they're and actual club, not a project.
The respect I have for them is from their history.
Deary me. United's squad in 99 cost less than £70m. That's less than an 8th of City's squad when adjusted for inflation. That doesn't even include their eye watering wages and Haaland's daddy and agent fees. There's no real comparison.
Entirely agree.
If it were Liverpool that had just won the treble tonight, I'd be feeling pretty crap about it. As it is, I'm really not too fussed. (It's easy to say that but I swear it's true!)
Whatever else I can say about Liverpool, they do at least evoke feelings in me as a rival fan because they're a club with character. I just don't feel the same way about City because they're a sportswashing project, and this is some part of why I'm so desperate for us not to be taken over by Qatar.
But surely then you’d just pay off the book critics to gush about how it’s the greatest achievement in literary history
Doesn't include the "consultancy fee" tax evasion schemes via offshore payments known with Mancini and Yaya Toure which more than double their salaries.
The lads I were with were convinced he'd make a difference. I love naive football fans.
He's a poster child for why football isn't a meritocracy
To be fair, it seems as though they might already have been doing that given the BT Sport commentary tonight!
None of it is very convincing, though.
I don’t think we do, rather we’ve been hamstrung by having a goalkeeper on a massive contract. I don’t think any team can get away with replacing a 350k a week goalkeeper permanently with him still at the club.
I agree, it would suck seeing them win the treble but at least our greatest rivals did it. I can live with that. But for some scumbag royal family with backwards beliefs spunking money on a project to bribe foreign investors, feck that
If someone is "triggered" it is likely because no one likes cheats.
Blah blah blah but you’re doing the age old forum tactic of not actually answering the question about the thing you raised an issue with so here goes. . .Ah, so you know the inner dealings of the process.
Awesome!
Anything else you can let us in on?
Truth is no one knows, and if we get him for £50m or less it will be a good deal for a young English international.
But to say United are being held to ransom for him? Hilarious and pathetic in all honesty
Hilarious & pathetic is getting upset over semantics, call it ‘ransom’ or whatever term suits your fragile state of mind over the club.
Also, you’re the ITK here. . .
This fanbase love to turn on their own but you really are putting the u in place of the a in your user name tonight.
Maybe the rivals winning a treble has derailed your though process.
Only took seven years and £2bn.
It certainly was one of them.
Makes sense his GF slept with Courtois.
Only triggering I see are towards the media, who are probably paid off anyways. Sorry but they don't tell me how to feel, or that this isn't hollow like a preseason tournament.
Money mate
Tonight feels like ripping a plaster off.
You knew you would have to deal with it and you’ve spent ages preparing for the unbearably torturous pain you're about to feel.
Then you sike yourself up, rip the thing off and feel absolutely nothing.
I almost want the pain. But City don’t even inspire the hate filled emotions. It’s just all a bit underwhelming really.
You knew you would have to deal with it and you’ve spent ages preparing for the unbearably torturous pain you're about to feel.
Then you sike yourself up, rip the thing off and feel absolutely nothing.
I almost want the pain. But City don’t even inspire the hate filled emotions. It’s just all a bit underwhelming really.
Football is cyclical. Liverpool’s era came to an end, so did United’s. One day City will meet the same fate. Pep is possibly the greatest of all time, and as long as he is at City then they will continue to dominate. But one day he won’t be there, just like one day Fergie wasn’t here and things can change.
To be fair to them, they did forget to buy Yaya a birthday cake so we can let them off for that one as they were only fairly compensating him.
Weird how Stam was perhaps skimming the top ten transfers fees that year across Europe. Ventola, Vieri, biefhoff, Henry, Veron, Frey, Fabio Jnr all went for similar or more transfers.
Not quite every player in our squad going for top five fees each year.
Balotelli. Get him on MOTD.
Good comparison and stopped watching that sport years ago.
I've got one mate who is a City fan, been a season ticket holder since the late 70s. Been with them through the shit years, never wavered, never sold it.
I'm happy for him, and only him. I don't know if I could keep supporting if that happened to my club, but I get it was tough for him at least.
To hell with the rest. Those who signed on after knowing what built this team? Get tae feck.
I'm happy for him, and only him. I don't know if I could keep supporting if that happened to my club, but I get it was tough for him at least.
To hell with the rest. Those who signed on after knowing what built this team? Get tae feck.
That was a fantastic final. The level was good, not great, but the tension and the stadium atmosphere really elevated this game.
I thought it was 60-40 in City's favor before the game as I saw Inter as a relatively difficult matchup for City, and they proved to be just that and maybe a little bit more.
The result is fair, so would have been an extra-time.
Dzeko's substitution was a game changer. Inter just couldn't get a hold of the ball anymore afterwards and City ended up scoring after multiple long possession sequences. Inter lacked a bit of technical abilities to hurt City in some situations but they are very impressive physically. The talent gap is such that City won despite losing a key player on an injury, several average individual performances and not playing / not being allowed to play their best football.
A few players stood out.
For Inter:
Onana: beautiful display of composure and passing, a couple of solid saves
The 3 CB's: handled Haaland well
Di Marco: amazing performance; the best player on the pitch for me
Brozovic: grew up in the game nicely
For City:
Rodri: good everywhere and scored the winning goal (and the replay shows it wasn't an easy one)
Stones: did his job defensively, tidy with the ball, moved the ball forward well
Foden: City's main offensive threat, although he messed up all the corner/free kicks he took
I thought it was 60-40 in City's favor before the game as I saw Inter as a relatively difficult matchup for City, and they proved to be just that and maybe a little bit more.
The result is fair, so would have been an extra-time.
Dzeko's substitution was a game changer. Inter just couldn't get a hold of the ball anymore afterwards and City ended up scoring after multiple long possession sequences. Inter lacked a bit of technical abilities to hurt City in some situations but they are very impressive physically. The talent gap is such that City won despite losing a key player on an injury, several average individual performances and not playing / not being allowed to play their best football.
A few players stood out.
For Inter:
Onana: beautiful display of composure and passing, a couple of solid saves
The 3 CB's: handled Haaland well
Di Marco: amazing performance; the best player on the pitch for me
Brozovic: grew up in the game nicely
For City:
Rodri: good everywhere and scored the winning goal (and the replay shows it wasn't an easy one)
Stones: did his job defensively, tidy with the ball, moved the ball forward well
Foden: City's main offensive threat, although he messed up all the corner/free kicks he took
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