You can’t do much about the team you’re born into. Unless you pick them based on past successes like redinthehead 😂

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 14 hours, 55 minutes ago
Dodgy sponsors like Nissan?

You average 2,000 empty seats a game at Anfield, don't pretend you don't.
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And that’s wrong for a start! 700

Every city games there’s empty seats everywhere in the ground. No club will sell every seat due to segregation and other thing but you lot take the biscuit.

comment by Eric_the_king (SE85) (U21241)
posted 14 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Which young LB and DM are we supposed to throw into the mix then?
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I'm assuming your U23 and U18 teams have both.

We threw Rashford in when we had injuries. That's what proper football clubs do. You're just a sham state sponsored one though as everyone knows.
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That's your club's decision.
We on the other hand, are not running City to please you. We will do only what's best for City.

comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 14 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
Dodgy sponsors like Nissan?

You average 2,000 empty seats a game at Anfield, don't pretend you don't.
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Dodgy sponsors like Etihad - owned by sovereign wealth fund that also has links to Man City.

Try selling a key player to fund a squad enhancement.
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Liverpool chose to sell their players. No one forced them to sell.
And don't come preach to us on how you want us to run our club because your goal is simply to see us weaker.

comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 12 hours, 49 minutes ago
That’s called squad management rather than being a chequebook manager.

I’m sure good squad management has been far more successful for long term trophy wins than chequebook management.

For all your spending, you’re below us and we sold Coutinho.
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We are below you for now but the season ends in May.
Gosh. No wonder majority of fans are horrified at the prospect of Liverpool winning the PL.

We've needed cover for both positions for a while, Fernandinho in particular. It's always been a position that we havent got adequate back up for and that's been said for a couple of seasons now.

The squad management point, that's exactly why Pep has used two midfielders at left back. It doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking to improve it though, that's just stupid.

Usually a loss should not be a reason to panic although the way City played yesterday must have very troubling to Pep.

In the second half, despite 80% possession, they were having trouble even getting a shot on goal. Aguero looked clueless and a semi-fit DeBrune substitution just didn't seem to be working until that very late goal.


Perhaps Pep, and the whole squad, need to jointly study that game film and analyze what went wrong both on, and off, the pitch? Going on a spending spree in January might not be the answer?

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 17 hours, 25 minutes ago
Didn't the Moores Family, the people who bankrolled you for decades, make their money from gambling?

I don't think you get warnings after adverts for petrol appear on TV.
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Equating despotic regimes with human rights abuses with someone running the pools.
Grasping at straws there.

Man City is bankrolled by the UAE, end of.

Just casually mentioning possibly signing Kante

comment by mancini (U7179)
posted 6 hours, 29 minutes ago
comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 14 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
Dodgy sponsors like Nissan?

You average 2,000 empty seats a game at Anfield, don't pretend you don't.
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Dodgy sponsors like Etihad - owned by sovereign wealth fund that also has links to Man City.

Try selling a key player to fund a squad enhancement.
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Liverpool chose to sell their players. No one forced them to sell.
And don't come preach to us on how you want us to run our club because your goal is simply to see us weaker.
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see.. there right there.. you want your football team to have success no matter the cost to others. Talking peoples lives here - that would be enhanced should the Man City owners look after the people that live and work in the UAE better.

As has been said, Khaldoon is deputy prime minister, yet prefers to spend huge amounts of the peoples money on football.

Really poor public finance governance. Guess thats what despots do.. whatever they want.

We don’t have owners, we have a single owner.

We are not 'bankrolled' we run at a profit.

Even Der Spiegel said that too, everyone seems to have missed that bit though...

comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)

see.. there right there.. you want your football team to have success no matter the cost to others. Talking peoples lives here - that would be enhanced should the Man City owners look after the people that live and work in the UAE better.

As has been said, Khaldoon is deputy prime minister, yet prefers to spend huge amounts of the peoples money on football.

Really poor public finance governance. Guess thats what despots do.. whatever they want.
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You should concern yourself with how your club is run and the saintly morality of your owners.
Get this right in ya head - we don't care about your opinion.

comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)

Can you tell us how much we received from the owners last year?

Warrior sport is now reviewing your club's sponsorship package. Don't you thin the numbers being banded about is dodgy especially for a team who has not won much for almost 3 decades?

comment by mancini (U7179)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)

Can you tell us how much we received from the owners last year?

Warrior sport is now reviewing your club's sponsorship package. Don't you thin the numbers being banded about is dodgy especially for a team who has not won much for almost 3 decades?
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New Balance - get it right.

We are extremely high profile having been to 3 champions league finals, another European final and a CL semi final in recent years.

We also have a huge fan base, so not dodgy at all.

For whoever it was that said you're run at a profit, which are your three largest corporate sponsors then, and why did you have to pay Mancini through another entity?

As for your morality comment just go ahead and say you dont care how and where and why the money comes from to fund your success, you'll defend your owner to the hilt regardless.

Which is exactly the point of the UAE investing in a sports franchise. To "sportswash" their reputation.

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
We are not 'bankrolled' we run at a profit.
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You run at a profit because your owners are involved in screwwing the deals you get.

They’re not though. UAE sponsorships account for less than 20% of our revenue. The Der Spiegel allegations were that Etihad didn’t pay us the money. UEFA assessed the deal and said the figure was at market value though.

All of the allegations refer to 2013/14 btw when we did fail ffp.

I'd love to know how Warrior Sports managed to outbid Adidas a couple of years ago.

Wtf you wondering for, the info is out there in the press, not like it’s buried in infrastructure costs and split over different organisations.

Adidas tried to do it on the cheap after we weren’t in europe for a season, using that as an excuse.
They’re kicking themselves now..

This what is so wrong with football and Mancity in particular. 1 bloody defeat and you got City supporters crying they are weak and need reinforcements I bet you weren’t worried about Delph and Stones etc when you were smashing teams left, right and centre were you ? Even more reason why I would love someone else to win the league this year. Just wondering if you go 1-0 down at half time in your next game, would you want a new striker??

Yes, looking at weaknesses in your squad is a terrible thing.

Good luck with your 'European Cheese Room of The Year' award.

But you got no weakness ffs. You have just become spoilt brats and totally forgot where you came from.

3 of our best players are 30+ you idiot.

Oh diddums how very poor of you. Won the league by a country mile last season and still looking incredibly strong bar a freak result the other day and now you choose to moan about the age of players