Man City - the new bitters?

[manwiththestick]

59 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Haha Go Ed Robbie. 

 

It's not the actual Robbie Fowler.

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'I left you out because you turned up FAT!': Sergio Aguero reveals Pep Guardiola's brutal assessment of his fitness at Man City... and says strict boss would never let him play if he weighed more than 80 kgs.

 

Pep Guardiola's strict rules around fitness once saw Sergio Aguero deemed too 'fat' to play for Manchester City.  

The former City striker discussed his time in the Premier League on popular TV show El Chiringuito's live stream.

Guardiola has enjoyed rich success at Manchester City and part of that is down to his uncompromising demands - one of which is the weight limit he will allow his players to reach. 
 

'If your ideal weight is 79-80kg and you were 80 kilos and 100 grams you would be fined and you don't play,' Aguero said.

 

But it can happen! You come across a little bit of chicken for example then you are going to be 50 grams over!'

But did Guardiola really banish Aguero, who left Man City having scored 184 Premier League goals, to the bench over 100 grams?

'Well the first season we were between fourth and third and he said 2I left you out because you turned up fat this week". And what was I going to say? He was right… these things happen. 

'He said it in a good way. And at this time I didn't really have his confidence. But I was always very respectful to the coaches…'

Aguero and Guardiola didn't appear to see eye-to-eye in the style of play both were looking to adopt on the pitch.

 

When the Catalan manager first arrived, changing the way Aguero pressed defenders was central to his plans. 

'When I arrived, Guardiola asked me to press the centre backs a lot, and then I didn't have oxygen to attack,' he added.

'I wasn't used to press but Guardiola taught me the way to do it.' 
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11351819/Sergio-Aguero-reveals-Pep-Guardiola-dropped-turned-FAT.html

 

[Bjornebye]

Just watching an interview with Noel Gallagher and he's just gone "Now we've got Haaland we need to win it then win it again and sit everyone down because then they can't say anything anymore" 

 

Football is fucked. Nothing they win matters. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I think he means buy it. Just buy the league, break all the rules to achieve it, hide wages, have make believe sponsors, threaten anyone who dares question it with your highly paid expensive team of lawyers and then get annoyed when every single person who sees you for what you are don't give a shit about what you achieve. There's zero glory in city, its a nation state attempting to wash its hands. 

[Pete]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Just watching an interview with Noel Gallagher and he's just gone "Now we've got Haaland we need to win it then win it again and sit everyone down because then they can't say anything anymore" 

 

Football is fucked. Nothing they win matters. 

Win it? 

I presume he's referring to the Champions League?

[dockers_strike]

Ironic they started the 'massive asterisk' shout about our title win when every fucking trophy they've won under mansour has a massive fucking asterisk against it.

 

Derelict Maine Road in Moss Side central valued at £60m offsett against the £120m cost of the Commonwealth Games Stadium? Fuck right off. Dodgey accounting even then.

 

Fortunately they havent bought the CL yet but it will happen soon enough.

[Pete]

8 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Ironic they started the 'massive asterisk' shout about our title win when every fucking trophy they've won under mansour has a massive fucking asterisk against it.

 

Derelict Maine Road in Moss Side central valued at £60m offsett against the £120m cost of the Commonwealth Games Stadium? Fuck right off. Dodgey accounting even then.

 

Fortunately they havent bought the CL yet but it will happen soon enough.

Manchester council paid for the Commonwealth games stadium didn’t they?

[dockers_strike]

5 minutes ago, Pete said:

Manchester council paid for the Commonwealth games stadium didn’t they?

Yes with some money from the Commonwealth Games fund. As well as the derelict Maine Road site being valued at £60m not including demolition costs, the virtually bankrupt MCFC 'found' another £25m from somewhere to part pay the conversion costs from an athletics stadium to a football one. Er, allegedly.

[Guest]

"I saw the players in the locker room after Brighton, they were exhausted," said Guardiola. 
 

"They couldn't even take the phone. Imagine how tired they were - they didn't even have the energy to open Instagram."

[redinblack]

Just watching the start of their game with Leicester, Pep with his hoodie with a big "P" on it. What is he, fucking 5?

[dave u]

14 minutes ago, redinblack said:

Just watching the start of their game with Leicester, Pep with his hoodie with a big "P" on it. What is he, fucking 5?

 

It's for 'Puma' but I love the hostility and scorn so carry on.

[redinblack]

Just now, dave u said:

 

It's for 'Puma' but I love the hostility and scorn so carry on.

Any excuse

[redinblack]

I bet he has onesies to wear at home with a big "P" on them

[Pete]

2 hours ago, redinblack said:

Just watching the start of their game with Leicester, Pep with his hoodie with a big "P" on it. What is he, fucking 5?

P is for Penis head. 

[DaveT]

1 hour ago, redinblack said:

I bet he has onesies to wear at home with a big "P" on them

Prick? Pillock? Prat?

[No2]

1 hour ago, DaveT said:

Prick? Pillock? Prat?

Petrol 

[sh#t waffle]

Potentially linked to a wide range of human rights abuses

[Pete]

Just now, sh#t waffle said:

Potentially linked to a wide range of human rights abuses

Probably linked to a wide range of financially questionable practices.  

[dockers_strike]

Laughable except it isnt funny.  Becoming a 'benchmark' in football? Benchmark in cheating more like.

 

 

Manchester City are targeting an era of “unprecedented” success under manager Pep Guardiola after the Premier League champions announced record revenues and profits.

 

City’s turnover for last season soared to £613 million – the second highest income ever recorded by an English club – and they also posted record profits for the club of £41.7 million.

 

The £43.2 million rise in revenues – fuelled by steep increases in commercial and matchday income – pushed City to eclipse rivals Manchester United’s £583 million turnover for 2021/22.

That figure fell just short of the £627 million turnover United returned in 2018/19, still a record for an English club.

 

City’s commercial revenue of £309.4 million increased by almost 14 per cent for the year ended June 30 2022 thanks largely to 12 new global and regional partner deals and is the highest in English football history.

 

t dwarfs United’s record commercial income of £279 million in 2019/20 and helps to explain why the club were listed as the second most valuable football brand in the world behind only Real Madrid in Brand Finance’s latest report.

 

After winning six Premier League titles in the past 10 years, including four in the past five seasons under Guardiola’s management, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the City chairman, said the club were aiming even higher in the future.

 

“If we are to be true to the efforts of all those people that have contributed over the last 14 years to deliver our current successes, we must challenge ourselves to question everything we accept as optimal, and to define new and unprecedented goals and the right strategies to achieve them,” he said.

 

“This is the task that Sheikh Mansour [the City owner], our shareholders and the board have set our management team. In doing so we recognise the fundamental truth that continuously delivering football success for our fans will also continue to create value for our shareholders.”

 

Ferran Soriano, the City chief executive, echoed Al Mubarak’s remarks and said he was convinced the club would be even more successful over the next decade than the last 10 years. City are currently second in the Premier League, two points behind leaders Arsenal, and chasing a first Champions League crown. Guardiola is out of contract at the end of the season but City hope to persuade him to sign a new deal.

'Strong revenue performance ultimately driven by "beautiful football"'

“Our strong revenue performance was due to multiple factors, but ultimately driven by the “beautiful football” we play and the continuous fan growth that it generates; more fans, more audiences, more people in the stadium and more partners that want to be commercially associated with Manchester City,” he said.

 

“The last 10 years have been the most successful in Manchester City’s history and I am certain the next decade will be even better.

 

“We have more to achieve and you can be sure we will do everything we can to ensure that the club cements its place among the very best in the world. We know how difficult it is but our aim will always be to win again … and again.”

 

While Guardiola’s side won back-to-back Premier League titles, the success was mirrored elsewhere at the club with the youth teams winning the Premier League 2 and Under-18 titles for the second successive year.

 

City are at the forefront of the international stable of clubs owned by their parent company, City Football Group, and over the last five seasons the group has won the top league in six countries – England, the United States, Japan, India, Australia and Bolivia – three teams of its teams have clinched promotion to the top leagues in Spain, France and Uruguay and a total of 23 trophies have been landed.

 

Al Mubarak believes City are becoming the benchmark for the rest of Europe and that their Abu Dhabi owners are realising the ambitions they had when they bought the club in 2008.

 

“In 2008, we gave ourselves the target of exceeding the benchmarks that had been set by others within football, and in doing so, to also exceed the new standards that we believed leading clubs would achieve in the time it would take us to catch up,” he said.

 

“Our aim was clear – to one day be the club that set the benchmark for others. The statistics and results show that in many ways we are beginning to achieve our long-term ambition.

 

“But football does not stand still and other leading clubs continue to evolve and develop. We therefore need to constantly challenge ourselves to improve upon what we have achieved. This means innovating further in Manchester and beyond. Reimagining ourselves and how we move forward in Manchester and through City Football Group (CFG), the industry leading, multi-club organisation that Manchester City sits at the heart of.”

 

Despite staff numbers increasing by 40 to 549, City’s wage bill dropped marginally to £353.9m, below United’s league high wage bill of £384m for last season.

 

The club also revealed that profit from the transfer of player registrations hit £67.7m – taking the total over past five seasons to more than £250m – and helped to drive record net profits for last season of £41.7m.

 

The success of City’s academy is also starting to bear real fruit. Since 2011/12 up to last season, 191 academy graduates have gone on to have professional careers in the Premier League, lower English leagues or main European leagues.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/11/07/manchester-citys-revenue-soars-613m-second-highest-english/

[DaveT]

‘fuelled by steep increases in commercial and matchday income ‘ Surely nobody can write this stuff and keep a straight face?

[manwiththestick]

Chinny fucking reckon.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Blatent cheating. Their name should be synonymous with every known cheat in the books from Ben Johnson to Dirty Den.

[dockers_strike]

26 minutes ago, DaveT said:

‘fuelled by steep increases in commercial and matchday income ‘ Surely nobody can write this stuff and keep a straight face?

 

Some did (write it with a straight face!).

 

Taking out over 1500 seats and installing double decker pitch side advertising made a phenomenal difference to 'matchday income' what?

[El Rojo]

All seems completely legit. 

[House of Dirk]

1 hour ago, DaveT said:

‘fuelled by steep increases in commercial and matchday income ‘ Surely nobody can write this stuff and keep a straight face?

Thats a lot of Vape shops