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Man City - the new bitters?


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City not replacing Kompany, passing on Maguire “because United could reach a price we couldn’t afford” and now demurring on the subject of replacing Laporte in January, has to be a reaction to the scrutiny they’re under. Comes across transparently as the actions of a crooked organisation who know they’re bang to rights and don’t want to aggravate any sanctions they may receive.

 

I know they still spent heavily this summer in other areas. But without that spotlight on them, as if they wouldn’t have bought the centre-half they blatantly need as well, with Guardiola the attention-to-detail genius in situ and more money than Wallmart.

 

If this is the case, and they’re having to put the brakes on even a bit, it shows the benefit of them belatedly receiving some heat for their industrial-level shady practices. Anything which stops them stacking the deck entirely in their favour in every position and checks their level of financial doping is endorsement for the issue to keep being publicised.

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3 hours ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

City not replacing Kompany, passing on Maguire “because United could reach a price we couldn’t afford” and now demurring on the subject of replacing Laporte in January, has to be a reaction to the scrutiny they’re under. Comes across transparently as the actions of a crooked organisation who know they’re bang to rights and don’t want to aggravate any sanctions they may receive.

 

I know they still spent heavily this summer in other areas. But without that spotlight on them, as if they wouldn’t have bought the centre-half they blatantly need as well, with Guardiola the attention-to-detail genius in situ and more money than Wallmart.

 

If this is the case, and they’re having to put the brakes on even a bit, it shows the benefit of them belatedly receiving some heat for their industrial-level shady practices. Anything which stops them stacking the deck entirely in their favour in every position and checks their level of financial doping is endorsement for the issue to keep being publicised.

There's a scene in the Amazon show that followed them in 17-18 where Khaldoon, the royal family's henchman or whatever is discussing us paying 75m for van Dijk and he's flabbergasted at the price, meanwhile they were about to pay 60m for Laporte. He probably had the 15m difference in a suitcase in the back of his Bugatti. 

 

It's all an act so that it seems like they're financially reasonable. 

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Just now, Doctor Troy said:

Nigel defo sounds like a man city fan with that accent. 

 

Like talkshite who pay weirdos to pretend to be Liverpool fans who ring up and demand Klopp to be sacked so mancs and Evertonians can masturbate to it.

Phone ins are all the hell you can be. Stopped listening to them in the late 90s when St John used to refer to Houllier as 'the Frenchman'. 

 

"Didn't get to the game today saint, but..." 

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1 hour ago, Doctor Troy said:

Nigel defo sounds like a man city fan with that accent. 

 

Like talkshite who pay weirdos to pretend to be Liverpool fans who ring up and demand Klopp to be sacked so mancs and Evertonians can masturbate to it.

Definite whiff of bullshit about recent 5Live calls...

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We were 7 points ahead but had played a game more I think. They beat us at their place early January

 

They then had their game against Everton brought forward because they were due to play them the weekend of the league cup final. 

 

We drew against Leicester the day after they were beaten by Newcastle.

 

We drew against West Ham the night before the Everton game I think. 

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1 hour ago, dockers_strike said:

Dear god, jamie redknapp spouting city trailled us by 10 points last december but still reeled us in. When exactly was that because I dont recollect us ever being 10 points ahead? We were 7 points ahead for the same number of games when we played them and threw away a draw chasing a win.

We went 10 ahead of City, 54-44 after we beat Arsenal 5-1 on 28th December.....but we had then played 20 games to their 19.

 

Scroll down this match report to see table at that point:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46656883

 

Two days later they won their 20th game 3-1 v Southampton to cut gap back to 7 pts after 20 games each.

 

Game 21 was them v us at The Etihad and they of course won to reduce gap to 4 with us both on 21 games.

 

So technically, yeah we went 10 pts ahead, but we were never 10 ahead with games played equal.

 

 

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Leaving aside for a second the other stuff about them as a club and how it got assembled, City did incredibly as a squad of players to chase us down then carry on that run of endless wins under immense pressure to take the title. Fair play for that. Just about everyone associated with the sports side of the club congratulated them and gave credit where it was due.

 

It’s just too bad that what we took from the experience, and will be channeling into this season’s league campaign, is not dissimilar to our reaction to losing in Kiev by immediately focusing on winning it the next season. Maturation. They didn’t reel this season’s Liverpool side in from 10 points because this one is already a better side than that, in much the same way last season’s was than the previous year.

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