The Official Manchester City Premiership Champions Thread
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tamore said:
my my, what a lot of bitterness over poor little city!
good to see the panic is setting in with stretford rangers fans. there were calls for fergerson's head on a plate on some forums last night when it looked like city would sign berbatov!
the game has changed, and we have to live with that. same goes for motor racing, rugby, and even track cycling!
the blue moon is on the up, and i love it!!
I'm not bitter. I'm genuinely sad. I'm a Spurs fan so I have no bone to pick with you guys.good to see the panic is setting in with stretford rangers fans. there were calls for fergerson's head on a plate on some forums last night when it looked like city would sign berbatov!
the game has changed, and we have to live with that. same goes for motor racing, rugby, and even track cycling!
the blue moon is on the up, and i love it!!
Man City is a proud club with a wonderful tradition. A tradition which you seem happy to dispel so long as your new owners can buy you a few trophys.
Didn't do Blackburn any good in the long run did it? And it's the long run that I worry about.
But if you're happy for some rich sugar daddy to sack the players you have at your club at the moment and bring in a bunch a mercenaries, if you are cool with the idea that it will be nigh on impossible for a local lad in your youth team to break into the first team and if you are sanguine with the thought that the owners may move on in a few years once they've got bored to leave you with no infrastructure, then good luck to you.
I think that it stinks.
I was going to say that VauxhallViva will be along in a minute to f
k up this thread with schoolboy bks and stats about how only Man Ure are supported by mancs and that more one armed black lesbians live within 14.2miles of Old Trafford than any other team with a an average attendance of 47,323 fans, but i've just realised he already has.
Robinho to City with more to come. Good on em but think it will be Arsenal and Liverpool who suffer because of this initially rather than Man Ure and Chelski.
k up this thread with schoolboy bks and stats about how only Man Ure are supported by mancs and that more one armed black lesbians live within 14.2miles of Old Trafford than any other team with a an average attendance of 47,323 fans, but i've just realised he already has.Robinho to City with more to come. Good on em but think it will be Arsenal and Liverpool who suffer because of this initially rather than Man Ure and Chelski.
I'm amazed how many City fans have appeared in my office (We're 200yds north of the M25 near Watford). Colleague (Hull) and I (Pompey) have moaned about footie together for months, suddenly today you'd think we were near Eastlands rather than East Anglia!
Congrats on making ManUre pay more than they wanted to for Berb, and for pissing Chelski off, but really fear for the future of "top" footie in England. Will it become like American Football where there are a set number of top clubs, all owned by multi-millionaires (if not multi-billionaires)?
Congrats on making ManUre pay more than they wanted to for Berb, and for pissing Chelski off, but really fear for the future of "top" footie in England. Will it become like American Football where there are a set number of top clubs, all owned by multi-millionaires (if not multi-billionaires)?
Sheepy said:
Congrats on making ManUre pay more than they wanted to for Berb
£11m more than they (initially) offered!!!I don't know that in the whole history of the game the been a bigger difference between the opening offer and the final agreed figure.
Well done city...
...unless of course Levy slipped the City board £1m to put in a bogus offer for Berbs
Blib said:
tamore said:
my my, what a lot of bitterness over poor little city!
good to see the panic is setting in with stretford rangers fans. there were calls for fergerson's head on a plate on some forums last night when it looked like city would sign berbatov!
the game has changed, and we have to live with that. same goes for motor racing, rugby, and even track cycling!
the blue moon is on the up, and i love it!!
I'm not bitter. I'm genuinely sad. I'm a Spurs fan so I have no bone to pick with you guys.good to see the panic is setting in with stretford rangers fans. there were calls for fergerson's head on a plate on some forums last night when it looked like city would sign berbatov!
the game has changed, and we have to live with that. same goes for motor racing, rugby, and even track cycling!
the blue moon is on the up, and i love it!!
Man City is a proud club with a wonderful tradition. A tradition which you seem happy to dispel so long as your new owners can buy you a few trophys.
Didn't do Blackburn any good in the long run did it? And it's the long run that I worry about.
But if you're happy for some rich sugar daddy to sack the players you have at your club at the moment and bring in a bunch a mercenaries, if you are cool with the idea that it will be nigh on impossible for a local lad in your youth team to break into the first team and if you are sanguine with the thought that the owners may move on in a few years once they've got bored to leave you with no infrastructure, then good luck to you.
I think that it stinks.
i'll take now thanks. i just hope the ordinary fan isn't priced out of their seat. gate receipts mean nothing to these people, so i can't see that happening anyway.
From what I've just been hearing on TalkSport radio I have come to the conclusion that, if everything is as it is portrayed, then we have just witnessed a quantum shift in the power base of English football extending to perhaps world football.
The inception of Man City to the head of the EPL and the EPL to the clear head of World football.
I don't think this will happen as United's fans would never recover but...
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_40869...
IMHO
The inception of Man City to the head of the EPL and the EPL to the clear head of World football.
I don't think this will happen as United's fans would never recover but...
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_40869...
IMHO
im said:
From what I've just been hearing on TalkSport radio I have come to the conclusion that, if everything is as it is portrayed, then we have just witnessed a quantum shift in the power base of English football extending to perhaps world football.
The inception of Man City to the head of the EPL and the EPL to the clear head of World football.
I don't think this will happen as United's fans would never recover but...
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_40869...
IMHO
I agree. Taking Dr whatsisname at face value they are simply going to throw money at City until they win stuff. So yeah, will change the face of footy as we know it. Good luck to City fans is what I say, but its a shame for football. As was Abramovich.The inception of Man City to the head of the EPL and the EPL to the clear head of World football.
I don't think this will happen as United's fans would never recover but...
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_40869...
IMHO
I think it's terrible for Man City and terrible for football as I did when Abramovich turned up. I have two close friends that had been going to Chelsea for 20 odd years who handed their season tickets in and never been since. At the time I thought they were mad but as one of them said to me "it's not chelsea anymore"
I dont want to witness some arab play with my club like a toy and then discard it like rubbish when he gets bored. I'm praying Arsenal keep these people out and remain British owned. I actually feel sorry for City fans as the club they love (and whom every fan other than united has a soft spot for) will soon become detested for trying to buy success.
Football is going to hell.
I dont want to witness some arab play with my club like a toy and then discard it like rubbish when he gets bored. I'm praying Arsenal keep these people out and remain British owned. I actually feel sorry for City fans as the club they love (and whom every fan other than united has a soft spot for) will soon become detested for trying to buy success.
Football is going to hell.
Glassman said:
Thats what I linked to in my post above.Gooners eh
Hi guys, have not looked at this thread before because well I am a Liverpool fan and have previously felt no need to.
But just like to say to the Manchester City fans congratulations. It was looking bleak for you guys a week ago and then... bang big bucks. Should be interesting in the PL now in a different sense. When the yanks came onboard with us most of the fans thought hey hey we are up there with the Chelsea budget but we knew it was not going to be the case when they publicly said that Rafa would not be "spending like a drunk sailor". The budget being mentioned seems to will Hughes to spend spend spend.
Sad thing is I doubt he will last the full season.
The Premier league truly is a soap opera!
Congrates once again.
But just like to say to the Manchester City fans congratulations. It was looking bleak for you guys a week ago and then... bang big bucks. Should be interesting in the PL now in a different sense. When the yanks came onboard with us most of the fans thought hey hey we are up there with the Chelsea budget but we knew it was not going to be the case when they publicly said that Rafa would not be "spending like a drunk sailor". The budget being mentioned seems to will Hughes to spend spend spend.
Sad thing is I doubt he will last the full season.
The Premier league truly is a soap opera!
Congrates once again.
im said:
Glassman said:
Thats what I linked to in my post above.Gooners eh
Taken from another BB but thought it deserves a posting on here:-
" Has anyone ever witnessed a more rapid abandonment of principles than that shown by City fans this week?
For years they have banged on about being the people’s club; a football club that is still a football club as opposed to an organisation obsessed with money; supporters who were in it for the love of the club, the love of the game; 30 years and we’re still here; the true Manchester club; ‘This is our city’ and all that nonsense. An entire generation of fans who have built their identity purely on being whatever United are not.
And what were United? A greedy, rich club that bought success with its vast wealth. Wealth which came before all else, acquired through disgraceful commercialism and a soulless disregard for the beautiful game. Fans who cared only about trophies and expensive signings, and who understood nothing of what it meant to be a true football fan - a City fan for example.
But this is the United whose fans at least cared about retaining its identity as a Mancunian football club. When foreign owners with the wrong motives came sniffing round Manchester United, we fought and fought and fought to keep them away. We used every means legal, and some illegal ones too. We mobilised, we collected, we protested, we campaigned, we lobbied, we vandalised, we wrote, we phoned, we emailed, we rallied, we marched, we flash-mobbed, we rioted. We made it impossible for them to visit Manchester peacefully. And the loss of our club to people who didn’t give a toss about its identity and traditions meant so much that some of us walked away altogether. Home and awayers with decades of fanaticism to their names had decided that forming a new club, with the incredible effort that entailed, was the only alternative to seeing their club used as some egotistical bd’s plaything.
Contrast this with 1st September 2008. The only sound you could hear that day was that of 100,000 zips being simultaneously lowered as the blue quarter of Manchester collectively dropped its trousers and bent over, willing to be shamelessly violated by some slimy rich man’s cock. Not a shred of pride, not a moment’s defence of their supposedly salt of the earth club; just a panting mass, all ready to be anybody’s bh in exchange for money with which they can buy success.
There really is only one true football club in Manchester, and it’s not Manchester City"
" Has anyone ever witnessed a more rapid abandonment of principles than that shown by City fans this week?
For years they have banged on about being the people’s club; a football club that is still a football club as opposed to an organisation obsessed with money; supporters who were in it for the love of the club, the love of the game; 30 years and we’re still here; the true Manchester club; ‘This is our city’ and all that nonsense. An entire generation of fans who have built their identity purely on being whatever United are not.
And what were United? A greedy, rich club that bought success with its vast wealth. Wealth which came before all else, acquired through disgraceful commercialism and a soulless disregard for the beautiful game. Fans who cared only about trophies and expensive signings, and who understood nothing of what it meant to be a true football fan - a City fan for example.
But this is the United whose fans at least cared about retaining its identity as a Mancunian football club. When foreign owners with the wrong motives came sniffing round Manchester United, we fought and fought and fought to keep them away. We used every means legal, and some illegal ones too. We mobilised, we collected, we protested, we campaigned, we lobbied, we vandalised, we wrote, we phoned, we emailed, we rallied, we marched, we flash-mobbed, we rioted. We made it impossible for them to visit Manchester peacefully. And the loss of our club to people who didn’t give a toss about its identity and traditions meant so much that some of us walked away altogether. Home and awayers with decades of fanaticism to their names had decided that forming a new club, with the incredible effort that entailed, was the only alternative to seeing their club used as some egotistical b
d’s plaything.Contrast this with 1st September 2008. The only sound you could hear that day was that of 100,000 zips being simultaneously lowered as the blue quarter of Manchester collectively dropped its trousers and bent over, willing to be shamelessly violated by some slimy rich man’s cock. Not a shred of pride, not a moment’s defence of their supposedly salt of the earth club; just a panting mass, all ready to be anybody’s b
h in exchange for money with which they can buy success. There really is only one true football club in Manchester, and it’s not Manchester City"
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To a certain extent I agree with that, however money has always talked in football, Jack Walker "bought" Blackburn the Premiership years ago......The only winners in this will be the players, I can see some earning £1m a week before too long........
Basically they are just mercenaries.....but who can blame them????
It's a short career...............
To a certain extent I agree with that, however money has always talked in football, Jack Walker "bought" Blackburn the Premiership years ago......The only winners in this will be the players, I can see some earning £1m a week before too long........
Basically they are just mercenaries.....but who can blame them????
It's a short career...............
Wacky Racer said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To a certain extent I agree with that, however money has always talked in football, Jack Walker "bought" Blackburn the Premiership years ago......The only winners in this will be the players, I can see some earning £1m a week before too long........
Basically they are just mercenaries.....but who can blame them????
It's a short career...............
^^^^ To a certain extent I agree with that, however money has always talked in football, Jack Walker "bought" Blackburn the Premiership years ago......The only winners in this will be the players, I can see some earning £1m a week before too long........
Basically they are just mercenaries.....but who can blame them????
It's a short career...............
I thought that it would be a long time before Chelsea were usurped as the most hated team in England.
I have a terrible feeing that Manchester City might just do that.
It saddens me, it really does.
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