Topic: General Manchester City thread

[Son of Spion]

Id hate to see us leave an English league and join a euro super league. An English league with the annexation of City and Chelsea is the way to stop the cheats

I'd like that. All leagues should bin off the financial steroid freaks. They could make their own corrupt league and endlessly play themselves and buy their own meaningless trophies.

The rest of us doing it legitimately could then get on with competing rather than trying to overcome cheating. It's an absolute travesty that these people have been allowed to hijack the game the way they have been. It's a travesty every time the likes of Abu Dhabi and Chelsea lift a trophy ahead of a club competing legally. It's also absolutely damning on the reputation of the game and those at the top letting it happen.

[Rattleduser]

Not including the load they shifted onto the parent company, or the dodgy payments they make from elsewhere.

I'm glad Liverpool are good enough to challenge for the title without cheating.

I doubt many City fans are arsed how their owners have behaved behind the scenes or if anyone respects their achievements, won't like being called cheats though. Cheats.

[Dim Glas]

I'm glad Liverpool are good enough to challenge for the title without cheating.

I doubt many City fans are arsed how their owners have behaved behind the scenes or if anyone respects their achievements, won't like being called cheats though. Cheats.

I think they are very arsed.  It's why they are so touchy and defensive about anything vaguely negative said about them. They are a very sensitive fan-base, who have a stock answer ready for all the valid criticisms that come their way. They absolutely hate it, as winning knowing that they get very little respect for it really bothers them.

They are absolutely paranoid about how they are viewed within the media too, thinking they are all against them, which is hilarious to me, given the easy ride the club and manager gets consisdering their owners, and considering how much distrust there is in how they run the club.   

[Rattleduser]

I think they are very arsed.  It's why they are so touchy and defensive about anything vaguely negative said about them. They are a very sensitive fan-base, who have a stock answer ready for all the valid criticisms that come their way. They absolutely hate it, as winning knowing that they get very little respect for it really bothers them.

They are absolutely paranoid about how they are viewed within the media too, thinking they are all against them, which is hilarious to me, given the easy ride the club and manager gets consisdering their owners, and considering how much distrust there is in how they run the club.

I've never really seen any of their fan-base questioning the owners cheating, plenty kick off being accused of it, sometimes ends in Heysal being brought up. Maybe some are a little worried something meaningful will be done about it, but confident the threat of legal action and a corrupt organization being bought off stops anything becoming official that they are Cheats.

[Red Beret]

I'm glad Liverpool are good enough to challenge for the title without cheating.

I doubt many City fans are arsed how their owners have behaved behind the scenes or if anyone respects their achievements, won't like being called cheats though. Cheats.

They're arsed all right.  You can see how desperate they are for validation.  They want their success to be legitimised; they want to be loved and respected and feared.  They are the Donald Trump of football - still banging on about how nobody predicted they could win and how they had the biggest crowd size ever.  They're begging for a rivalry with somebody, anybody.

It's no fun striding to title after title when you have no history and no deep roots to justify your success.  you need somebody who can at least challenge battle - but never quite good enough to win it, just so you feel you might have earned the win a little bit.  But when there's a competitor you just can't shake off, who keeps coming back, it's not fun anymore.   Reminds you far too much of where you came from - and where you could easily end up again.

[Mighty Zeus]

I think they are very arsed.  It's why they are so touchy and defensive about anything vaguely negative said about them. They are a very sensitive fan-base, who have a stock answer ready for all the valid criticisms that come their way. They absolutely hate it, as winning knowing that they get very little respect for it really bothers them.

They are absolutely paranoid about how they are viewed within the media too, thinking they are all against them, which is hilarious to me, given the easy ride the club and manager gets consisdering their owners, and considering how much distrust there is in how they run the club.

Is right.

They are extremely arsed about how they are perceived. Extremely arsed about how this success was paid for.

Google Sheikh Mansour's brother Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Just don't bother watching the video, it's horrible. They know this, and they know that all this is not normal, is without any historical precedent, and they know that their success is steeped in blood and means nothing to anyone else.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

I'd like that. All leagues should bin off the financial steroid freaks. They could make their own corrupt league and endlessly play themselves and buy their own meaningless trophies.

The rest of us doing it legitimately could then get on with competing rather than trying to overcome cheating. It's an absolute travesty that these people have been allowed to hijack the game the way they have been. It's a travesty every time the likes of Abu Dhabi and Chelsea lift a trophy ahead of a club competing legally. It's also absolutely damning on the reputation of the game and those at the top letting it happen.

throw PSG in there, said it before but if uefa let City off with another fine there will be a big swing towards a super league, not just from the boardrooms but the terraces as well as many matchgoing fans of the elite clubs (us/united/arsenal/barca/real/Bayern/juve/milan/inter etc) will be fucked off with uefa for putting restrictions on them whilst blatantly allowing the pisstakers to continue if they pay a small fine before passing go

Is right.

They are extremely arsed about how they are perceived. Extremely arsed about how this success was paid for.

Because they know that it's paid for with literal torture and indentured labour. They know that Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is on film all over the internet torturing someone. It's LITERALLY a family of torturers. They know this, and they know that all this is not normal, is without any historical precedent, and they know that their success is steeped in blood and means nothing to anyone else.

its also why many other English fans would prefer city to win the league/CL over us as they all know deep down city’s wins are pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things, to be fair it was the same with us when city pipped united to the league

Although to be fair there were a good few, me included, who wanted Dubai in who are hardly angels, although that’s in a significant part down to who we were owned by then

[Mighty Zeus]

Although to be fair there were a good few, me included, who wanted Dubai in who are hardly angels, although that’s in a significant part down to who we were owned by then

Well, yeah. That's a good point too. That's how this works. You can hardly blame them in a way. If you promise and achieve success, it doesn't matter how disgusting you are. Sportswashing works for a reason. BlueMoon would be finding nice things to say about an invasive alien species that lays eggs in the brains of children to make them better workers in the Xaaqqa'flaaxx mines. I'd photoshop a mockup but the joke's getting tired.

[1892tillforever]

£4m less in wages than Liverpool

https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1115170967788109824

And £50m more revenue. Of course they do. 

It makes perfect sense that a nothing club that can't sell out their ground somehow earns more than a club known throughout the world.

[Crosby Nick]

And £50m more revenue. Of course they do. 

It makes perfect sense that a nothing club that can't sell out their ground somehow earns more than a club known throughout the world.

Bloody Rick Parry/Ian Ayre

[Dave D]

Man City are a poorly run club who would struggle to make it into the top half of the table if they had to abide by the rules.

Change my mind man city fans.

[Mighty Zeus]

Man City are a poorly run club who would struggle to make it into the top half of the table if they had to abide by the rules.

Change my mind man city fans.

"Liverpool is a small club with lots of empty seats and Standard Chartered are war criminals and Liverpool have broken financial fair play rules on an industrial scale and we've won sixteen European championships in the secret years between 1966 and 1967 that everyone forgets because of some anti-calendar-agenda also our highest attendance in 1936 was fourteen million."

[paulrazor]

"Liverpool is a small club with lots of empty seats and Standard Chartered are war criminals and Liverpool have broken financial fair play rules on an industrial scale and we've won sixteen European championships in the secret years between 1966 and 1967 that everyone forgets because of some anti-calendar-agenda also our highest attendance in 1936 was fourteen million."

its the man city thread not the north korean one

[Dave D]

"Liverpool is a small club with lots of empty seats and Standard Chartered are war criminals and Liverpool have broken financial fair play rules on an industrial scale and we've won sixteen European championships in the secret years between 1966 and 1967 that everyone forgets because of some anti-calendar-agenda also our highest attendance in 1936 was fourteen million."

You've got the raging paranoia and conspiracy theories down to a T.

You're just missing the 7,500 salt of the earth, working class fans, who pay for their ticket up front and then decide not to go to the game, every game.

But seriously are there any man city fans out there that can convince us that they're not a poorly run club, owned by scumbags, who would struggle if they had to work within the rules of the game?

[Nitramdorf]

"Liverpool is a small club with lots of empty seats and Standard Chartered are war criminals and Liverpool have broken financial fair play rules on an industrial scale and we've won sixteen European championships in the secret years between 1966 and 1967 that everyone forgets because of some anti-calendar-agenda also our highest attendance in 1936 was fourteen million."

Dont forget the Americans dropped the atom bomb on Japan, war criminals or something.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

Well, yeah. That's a good point too. That's how this works. You can hardly blame them in a way. If you promise and achieve success, it doesn't matter how disgusting you are. Sportswashing works for a reason. BlueMoon would be finding nice things to say about an invasive alien species that lays eggs in the brains of children to make them better workers in the Xaaqqa'flaaxx mines. I'd photoshop a mockup but the joke's getting tired.

crazy how we can have the moral high ground being owned by American hedge fund managers though!

[JCB]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

[paulrazor]

its how they get through the next few games. if they come out of the spurs, palace and united games top they will win it

[Dave D]

its how they get through the next few games. if they come out of the spurs, palace and united games top they will win it

I can see them coming through those games fresh as a daisy with Bernardo Silva doing 500 push-ups in the centre circle at full time.

[paulrazor]

I can see them coming through those games fresh as a daisy with Bernardo Silva doing 500 push-ups in the centre circle at full time.

what about the others though

[Dave D]

what about the others though

About 300, they wouldn’t want it looking suspicious.

[rob1966]

its how they get through the next few games. if they come out of the spurs, palace and united games top they will win it

Leicester will then twat them at the Etihad

[davidlpool1982]

I'm going to preface this by saying that I think virtually all clubs would love to be able to cook the books and that I dare say most of the major clubs have at one time or another floated ideas that may not have broken any rules but gone against the spirit of the game.

Abu Dhabi, Paris St.Qatar and others (I'm thinking a lot of the Chinese investors may get more leeway from the Chinese government but accept I might be wrong) get away with what they do because they face absolutely no repercussions for their actions. If we tried what they have (allegedly..ahem) done then it's not just LFC that it seriously effects. It then goes through FSG and into other businesses owned by them. If Spurs tried it, it effects Enic and ultimately Joe Lewis's other business. Same with the Glazers, especially since United are listed on the NYSE and subject to their rules. What are Abu Dhabi going to do, punish themselves and tell themselves they've been bad?

The only true punishment they can face is sporting ones and that's ultimately stripping them of titles and trophies won. I suppose that opens them up to legal proceedings from other clubs since in theory they might not have legitimately qualified for the Champions League and all that money gained could have went to say Arsenal who missed out.

[AndyMuller]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

Absolute state of that. A few brown envelopes have been passed around this season.

[Zizou]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

I mean it's the luck of the draw, of course, but the hilarious thing is their tragic tantrums about our "luck" this season. Irony deficiency is off the chart.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

I mean it's the luck of the draw, of course, but the hilarious thing is their tragic tantrums about our "luck" this season. Irony deficiency is off the chart.

It's beyond laughable looking at that. jesus christ.

[Kekule]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

Even then they’ve needed offside goals and soft penalties awarded as well as blatant red card offences ignored. 

There’s so much talk about it refs are scared of being the one to deny them “an historic quadruple.”  Even Mike Dean would shy away from the media frenzy that would follow.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

the two ‘tough’ games they won on penalties btw

[RedSince86]

From the BBC today



Gotta say that's one though run so far.
If they manage the Quadruple, fair fucks to them.

Met stern challengers against all the odds from every round in pursuit of the Quadruple.

Did i Bluemoon that line.

[Indomitable_Carp]

"Liverpool is a small club with lots of empty seats and Standard Chartered are war criminals and Liverpool have broken financial fair play rules on an industrial scale and we've won sixteen European championships in the secret years between 1966 and 1967 that everyone forgets because of some anti-calendar-agenda also our highest attendance in 1936 was fourteen million."

You missed "Liverpool made its money off the slave-trade over two hundred years ago, so they are hypocrites for bringing up slavery in the 21st Century!"

I mean it's the luck of the draw, of course, but the hilarious thing is their tragic tantrums about our "luck" this season. Irony deficiency is off the chart.

Don't forget their grand UEFA and FA conspiracy theories.

[didi shamone]

the two ‘tough’ games they won on penalties btw

Lost and drew to Lyon too in the next toughest games.

[swoopy]

BlueMoon has been locked down in typical GOT style Non-members can't get access

[rafathegaffa83]

Do they rest key players on the weekend? Unlikely I'd think

[FiSh77]

BlueMoon has been locked down in typical GOT style Non-members can't get access

Least there's no chance of the server crashing then

[Crosby Nick]

There was a bit of a City and Spurs supporters love in before the match on Twitter. Wonder if City will turn on them as well now. Probably nice as pie to teams they’re used to beating.

[IanZG]

They simply HAVE to go knock Spurs out in the 2nd leg. With the money they spent and the quality and quantity of players they bought, there is absolutely no way anyone can excuse them for being knocked out two years in a row by a team that's 20 points behind them in the league in the quarter-final.

[thaddeus]

From the BBC today

Those ties have been a gift to Guardiola.  He's been able to give match time to fringe players and stat pad/confidence boost players like Jesus (6 goals in 25 appearances in the league, 4 in one game against Burton) and Foden.

I think we'd have benefitted from having more minutes under the belts of Mignolet, Lovren, Moreno, Clyne, Shaqiri, Lallana, Keita, Origi and Sturridge but we've not really had the luxury of many games where we could veer too far from the best XI.

[Dave D]

Will the slave owners sack Guardiola after they realise he's throwing the Champions League games against Spurs to concentrate on the premier league? Is Guardiola still looking at houses in Turin?
 
We're just asking questions guys.

[Andy-oh-six]

They simply HAVE to go knock Spurs out in the 2nd leg. With the money they spent and the quality and quantity of players they bought, there is absolutely no way anyone can excuse them for being knocked out two years in a row by a team that's 20 points behind them in the league in the quarter-final.

I expect they’ll win the second leg (and league game) comfortably. Spurs peaked tonight and can’t rotate like the cheats can.

[Simplexity]

Worst case scenario that, Spurs blew their load in the first leg, no way they are getting anything from the next two games now.