Man City - the new bitters?

[Tj hooker]

Nothing screams BIG club than having to put the biggest banner you can find to fill the void that the fans can't  , and there were still loads of empty seats .

[manwiththestick]

11 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

Nothing screams BIG club than having to put the biggest banner you can find to fill the void that the fans can't  , and there were still loads of empty seats .

I've seen this posted on Facebook, plenty of their fans saying this is a couple of years old and not taken yesterday.

 

How true, who knows?

[Tj hooker]

36 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

I've seen this posted on Facebook, plenty of their fans saying this is a couple of years old and not taken yesterday.

 

How true, who knows?

There were definitely empty seats yesterday 

[manwiththestick]

9 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

There were definitely empty seats yesterday 

That goes without saying.

[Pete]

That’s because they all got shitfaced on the train down to London yesterday morning and probably all fell asleep somewhere. I know as I was on one of these trains.  They’re  proper gobby cunts.  

[Vincent Vega]

8 hours ago, Tj hooker said:

Nothing screams BIG club than having to put the biggest banner you can find to fill the void that the fans can't  , and there were still loads of empty seats .

That picture is from the cup semifinal they had against us in 2022. 

[Vincent Vega]

I think Tariq’s tongue was firmly in his cheek, but this reply by Nick Harris is still majestic. 

 

[Megadrive Man]

 

October is the rumour. 

[Leyton388]

Better get our fucking titles off them. Everything the fuckers win should be stripped and handed to the rightful winners. 

 

We are owed 3 titles!

[Bobby Hundreds]

Fuck all significant will happen. By rights they should be fucking stripped of every single thing they have won since Abu Dhabi bought the club, they are cheats and they have cheated the entire sport. The punishment should also demote them multiple divisions why should they get to carry on as though nothing happened their future built upon robbing others. Abu Dhabi have killed the premier league.

[Scott_M]

Oh dear, City can’t falsify their revenues to remain FSP compliant on transfers anymore…

 

…although when you look at who would have failed PSR over the last 15 years over based on the new rules, it’s only Boehly’s Chelsea twice.

[aws]

They’ll just falsify the wages bill even more than they do now.  

[Megadrive Man]

5 minutes ago, aws said:

They’ll just falsify the wages bill even more than they do now.  

 

Haaland will be on minimum wage next season.

[an tha]

On 21/04/2024 at 12:58, Tj hooker said:

Nothing screams BIG club than having to put the biggest banner you can find to fill the void that the fans can't  , and there were still loads of empty seats .

I was at that and sat opposite....got a photie somewhere will dig it out.

 

 

 

[an tha]

[Lee909]

Everyone of them games is a sell out though on the books

 

Almost like they likely have ghost fans who live in Abu Dhabi and buy up season tickets and any other ticket that can be sold. I would be quite interested in how many of them unsold seats are down as corporationtickets sold at a inflated price that the corporation then don't use

[johnsusername]

The club paying players' family members off the books, no tax involved. ALLEGEDLY. 

[Red74]

5 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

The club paying players' family members off the books, no tax involved. ALLEGEDLY. 

Seen this reported a few years ago. Im sure de bruynes wife’s on about £40k a week

[Ne Moe Imya]

They've borrowed that technique off the Americans.

 

There used to be a rule that you couldn't pay American football players in college, which is insane as it's a multi-billion dollar industry but whatever.

Obviously the best coaches all solved the problem by hiring the players' uncles and fathers as "assistant coaches" on huge salaries with no expectations of them showing up to work. The NCAA was always passing new rules about what was and wasn't allowed, and the clubs were always one step ahead of them with creative ways to get around the rules.

[Megadrive Man]

 

[Pidge]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge8145yy1eo

 

I wonder how much they're paying them to pay him for this...

[Pete]

20 minutes ago, Pidge said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge8145yy1eo

 

I wonder how much they're paying them to pay him for this...

What’s the difference between the game version & the real thing?

[VladimirIlyich]

It's only there 'dominance' that is actually forcing the authorities to actually find a way to catch them out. It's a shame they didn't try years ago when it was pretty obvious instear of allowing them to concoct more elaborate ways around it in the meantime. They are trying to shut the gate about a decade after the horse has bolted.

[Sut]

The race horse, that is. Doped up to its eyeballs.

[TheHowieLama]

16 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

They've borrowed that technique off the Americans.

 

There used to be a rule that you couldn't pay American football players in college, which is insane as it's a multi-billion dollar industry but whatever.

Obviously the best coaches all solved the problem by hiring the players' uncles and fathers as "assistant coaches" on huge salaries with no expectations of them showing up to work. The NCAA was always passing new rules about what was and wasn't allowed, and the clubs were always one step ahead of them with creative ways to get around the rules.

 

Reggie Bush liked this

 

 

The lad ends up working part time at one of the boosters auto dealerships. And driving a new Mercedes.