Norman_Conquest
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What a load of bollox - I'm back off to bed. Talk to you later mate.Because it ignores context and to me therefore seems lazy and not fully thought out.
What a load of bollox - I'm back off to bed. Talk to you later mate.Because it ignores context and to me therefore seems lazy and not fully thought out.
How is it bollox?What a load of bollox - I'm back off to bed. Talk to you later mate.
For genuine Man City fans it must be strange at times looking at their club. Money from another country has totally transformed their club. It must at times feel a bit hollow.
To justify buying and paying the best players lots of creative accounting must have gone on. The football authorities don’t have the balls to do anything about it though.
Noel Gallagher loves it. Ricky Hatton hates it.For genuine Man City fans it must be strange at times looking at their club. Money from another country has totally transformed their club. It must at times feel a bit hollow.
To justify buying and paying the best players lots of creative accounting must have gone on. The football authorities don’t have the balls to do anything about it though.
Welll that is an argument, if you think it just involves spending money. A pithy argument if you see the bigger picture.Ravenelli quoted us a silly amount in wages to play for us hoping it would put us off but 'Sheik Gibson' agreed to pay it. Walker did something similar to the Boro and paid attractive wages and high transfer fees for players to play for Blackburn.
Big_Nothing - It certainly wasn't sports washing or dirty money but it still gave us an advantage over our rivals. Not everyone had the money to throw about that Gibson did. I think I am also right in saying the FFP rules weren't introduced until 2011.
Gibson wasn't the first Boro chairman to throw silly money around. We once paid Sunderland £1,000 which shocked the footballing world and it was also discussed in the Houses of Commons.
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That doesn’t surprise me. Going by his Twitter input Liam Gallagher loves it too.Noel Gallagher loves it. Ricky Hatton hates it.
Small club? We’re at the very least a medium sized club. Small clubs are clubs like Brentford, not us.We were never “Man City”. Newcastle, Liverpool, Arsenal, Blackburn and Man Utd were spending more than us, we were just spending more on wages than any other “small club”. Newcastle spent twice as much on Shearer as we did on Ravanelli the same summer. There were also no rules against it. We were Wolves not City, we were breaking no spending records whatsoever.
Gibson’s human rights record was always ok if I recall correctly. No stoning gay people.
Amazing how effective sports washing is, reading some of the comments on here from folk who still think it’s plucky little Man City winning stuff against all the odds. They’re about to win their 5th title in 6 seasons (by cheating), they’re Celtic, they’re Bayern Munich, they’re Juventus, they’re PSG, why would anyone want this kind of dominance in the PL? Even United/Liverpool never bettered 5 out of 6, but City probably will (by cheating).
I really hope one of the Milan clubs wins the CL.
I wouldn’t mind basking in a bit of trophy bought glory.There’s no glory in buying trophies.
That doesn’t surprise me. Going by his Twitter input Liam Gallagher loves it too.
I do understand both sides. If you’re a certain age and supported Man City while they were rubbish it must be fantastic seeing the best players play the football they do.