Man City - the new bitters?

[redinblack]

26 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Wolves are probably the worst for that. Singing sings about not working and poverty when Wolverhampton record on both is far worse the last few years. Terrible tory cap doffers them lot

I worked in Wolves. I'd never seen so many empty boarded up units in a city centre

[an tha]

27 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Wolves are probably the worst for that. Singing sings about not working and poverty when Wolverhampton record on both is far worse the last few years. Terrible tory cap doffers them lot

Seems to be something of a disease in the midlands...similar behaviour from likes of leicester, stoke, nottm forest, aston villa.....

[Section_31]

43 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Wolves are probably the worst for that. Singing sings about not working and poverty when Wolverhampton record on both is far worse the last few years. Terrible tory cap doffers them lot

 

It's a particularly English trait, lying in shit but looking down on others. Only the English would deport people from Bolton to Australia and call it a punishment.

[Barrington Womble]

53 minutes ago, an tha said:

Seems to be something of a disease in the midlands...similar behaviour from likes of leicester, stoke, nottm forest, aston villa.....

I was in Walsall in the summer, fuck me. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

44 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I was in Walsall in the summer, fuck me. 

You need to find another Travel Agent Baz.

[Barrington Womble]

11 hours ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

You need to find another Travel Agent Baz.

I was actually going to villa park for a concert and there was fuck all in Birmingham or close by to stay, so we ended up in the Travelodge in Walsall. When the Travelodge is the best thing about a town, you know you're in trouble! 

[Scott_M]

I wonder what excuse they’ll use to reduce our allocation again this season…

[manwiththestick]

8 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

I wonder what excuse they’ll use to reduce our allocation again this season…

Our lot would still make more noise.

[Scott_M]

2 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

Our lot will still make more noise.

Fixed.

 

They’ve a tough run coming up.

 

The mancs - away.

Bournemouth - home. 
Chelsea - away.

 

Us - home. 
Spurs - away. 
Villa - away. 
 

Win our games and potentially dropping points at the Emptyhad might not be disastrous. 
 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

4 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

I was actually going to villa park for a concert and there was fuck all in Birmingham or close by to stay, so we ended up in the Travelodge in Walsall. When the Travelodge is the best thing about a town, you know you're in trouble! 

Worked that way a lot in the early 90’s had a great time. Not.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 22/10/2023 at 17:31, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Classy fanbase.

 

Two minors banned.

 

Smashing. That's that sorted.  Everyone else can just carry on as they were.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12993153/sir-bobby-charlton-manchester-city-ban-two-minors-over-vile-chant-about-manchester-united-legend

[Pete]

How do they do it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67420414

[Jairzinho]

I, for one, believe them.

[Reckoner]

Their story really is a fairytale. But especially their books.

[Pete]

1 minute ago, Reckoner said:

Their story really is a fairytale. But especially their books.

Certainly a Grimm tale for FFP and teams that abide by it. 

[DaveT]

2 hours ago, Pete said:

How do they do it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67420414

The Guardian reports….. ‘The sales of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to Arsenal and Raheem Sterling’s departure for Chelsea brought in about £125m, helping take the club’s profit on transfers to £330m over the past five seasons.’

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/15/manchester-city-post-premier-league-record-revenue

Curiously, Transfermarkt reckons they only generated €7m more than they spent that season, and have spent around €370m more than they’ve recouped over those 5 years. 

[Section_31]

[col06]

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

All joking aside, every fucker knows what is going on there but it seems that nobody - ourselves aside - gives a shite. Corrupt league in a corrupt country, so much to be proud of.

[Pete]

4 minutes ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

All joking aside, every fucker knows what is going on there but it seems that nobody - ourselves aside - gives a shite. Corrupt league in a corrupt country, so much to be proud of.

I think Arsenal may be cottoning on after last season.  I know they fell away at the end but they were top for about 6 months to ultimately end second due to City's relentlessness.  

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

Just now, Pete said:

I think Arsenal may be cottoning on after last season.  I know they fell away at the end but they were top for about 6 months to ultimately end second due to City's relentlessness.  

I hope so, the more it happens to others it becomes a slightly bigger elephant

[The Midnight Rambler]

 

[Barrington Womble]

4 hours ago, DaveT said:

The Guardian reports….. ‘The sales of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to Arsenal and Raheem Sterling’s departure for Chelsea brought in about £125m, helping take the club’s profit on transfers to £330m over the past five seasons.’

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/15/manchester-city-post-premier-league-record-revenue

Curiously, Transfermarkt reckons they only generated €7m more than they spent that season, and have spent around €370m more than they’ve recouped over those 5 years. 

by profit they probably don't mean player sales v player purchases. they probably mean selling players for above their book value. those 3 players will have all had relatively small book values. so for instance sterling cost them 50m, but his book value was probably less than 5m as he's been there so long and i assume had multiple contracts to amortise his value. the same will have been true for us this summer with the sales of henderson and fabinho. henderson probably had a value of zero and fabinho probably around 5m. 

[an tha]

Highest money generating club in the land....

 

Yeah and I am the fastest 100m runner in it....

[DaveT]

26 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

by profit they probably don't mean player sales v player purchases. they probably mean selling players for above their book value. those 3 players will have all had relatively small book values. so for instance sterling cost them 50m, but his book value was probably less than 5m as he's been there so long and i assume had multiple contracts to amortise his value. the same will have been true for us this summer with the sales of henderson and fabinho. henderson probably had a value of zero and fabinho probably around 5m. 

Yeah, good point. City have acquired a knack, or something, of managing to screw big fees for their discards. Sterling and Jesus, approaching last years of their contracts, went for £47.5m and £45m respectively, they got serious money for Laporte and Mahrez, and how they got £55m from near destitute Barca for Ferran Torres is a complete mystery. And £20m for the young goalie they sold to Burnley?!! Must have some really good negotiators.