Who wants Man City to win the CL Saturday?

Brilliant to see city win it.

They’ve been the best team in the world for a few seasons now.

Manc fans raging that their treble in 99 isn’t the only treble in England now.

Pep hasn’t just come to England and won, he’s ripped up the record books and absolutely smashed the league….but he’s a fraud according to some experts on here 😂
 
Marvanelli said:
Brilliant to see city win it.

They’ve been the best team in the world for a few seasons now.

Manc fans raging that their treble in 99 isn’t the only treble in England now.

Pep hasn’t just come to England and won, he’s ripped up the record books and absolutely smashed the league….but he’s a fraud according to some experts on here 😂
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A bald one!
 
jetpropelledgiraffe said:
Just think what Alvarez has won this Season...it's crazy...and scored 17 as a stand-in for Silva and De Bruyne. The last 3 years he's won The Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, Copa America, Copa Libertadores and The World Cup 🤯
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Unbelievable innit?
Forgetting the money for one minute: it takes a special manager with special qualities to find the right players and find the right blend. To fashion all those top athletes with ego`s to match is one hell of an achievement.
I remember City in the late 60s an early 70s when they were the big club in Manchester although glory frequently illuded them. They had big stars playing on that Maine Road turf and it wasnt until Sir Alex, across the City that the power shifted in Manchester. There were some great players back then - Colin Bell, Peter Barnes, Paul Power, Willie Donachie, Franny Lee, Mike Doyle, Summerbee......... Remember when Dennis Law [in a City shirt] relegated his old pals at Man United. (y)​
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On the other hand.......we`ve Michael Carrick and he knows exactly what we need. Realistically we could never compete with that. Could we?
 
Nano said:
Why look at 10 years and not 5, or 1 or 20 or 100?

Why are you only using Liverpool and not all the other mega rich clubs that they are competing with like Chelsea, Man Utd, Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern etc.

Those other big clubs have had decades of out spending the rest which put them in a position where they have a massive advantage. Man City had to spend more than the established teams to catch up to them. If we suddenly came into money and wanted to catch up to the top teams we couldn't do it by spending the same amount, we have to spend more. If you were in a race and you were last then you can't catch the front without going faster than them. Since they got to a point where they were competing they aren't spending as much.

There's no real difference between a billionaire and an oil state. They all have more money than they know how to spend so have "invested" in something fun. They have no connection to football, no connection to the club they've bought and no connection to the fans.


They are playing a team from the same cabal. Inter are owned by a Chinese billionaire. They are no different.
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Yes but inter aren't in our league and actively damaging the interests of the club I support.
 
Nano said:
Why look at 10 years and not 5, or 1 or 20 or 100?

Why are you only using Liverpool and not all the other mega rich clubs that they are competing with like Chelsea, Man Utd, Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern etc.

Those other big clubs have had decades of out spending the rest which put them in a position where they have a massive advantage. Man City had to spend more than the established teams to catch up to them. If we suddenly came into money and wanted to catch up to the top teams we couldn't do it by spending the same amount, we have to spend more. If you were in a race and you were last then you can't catch the front without going faster than them. Since they got to a point where they were competing they aren't spending as much.

There's no real difference between a billionaire and an oil state. They all have more money than they know how to spend so have "invested" in something fun. They have no connection to football, no connection to the club they've bought and no connection to the fans.


They are playing a team from the same cabal. Inter are owned by a Chinese billionaire. They are no different.
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You’re probably right but they’re not dominating football. Even if City were owned by one of the “good billionaires” who got so rich from pure philanthropy 😁 I’d probably want them to lose, although not quite as much.
 
Do you want to be virtuous, home owned and clean but always second class club (Boro) or dirty, blood owned and without morals but successful side (Citeh, Utd, Newcastle and many many more)? Sadly this is football today. We are in a different stratosphere to ‘top tier’ clubs now and could never hope to properly compete but we take comfort a local lad made good still owns us. This is the reality of football today. A European / World league- irrespective of what fans want will be delivered by the Arab owners (see LIV golf) and perhaps then we can compete with those that are left behind in the new national first tier. Success with integrity might still be possible but only in a totally different structure.
 
Diego said:
Love Pep
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He's ridiculous to be fair.

I wonder how many other managers would change their tactics to 3-2-4-1 half way through the season, for them to mop up pretty much everything.

And what he's done to John Stones is just crazy. The bloke looks like he's played as a #6/#8 all his life and looks to be one of the best players in the world in that position.

Pep just continues to amaze and shock us all with his thinking, tactics, decisions etc.

Just look at what he does to other managers.

Arteta is doing similar things with Zinchenko and Klopp with Trent. A year ago, there's not a chance TAA would be playing as an 'inverted full back' - and now it seems all the top teams are adapting to those tactics.
 
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