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This is so good from Liew.....



So you don’t just sign Erling Haaland, you sign Julián Álvarez to give him a rest. Kalvin Phillips arrives for £45m, doesn’t play all season, and it’s fine. You decide – and just reflect on the breathtaking audacity of this for a second – that you need an upgrade on Phil Foden, and so up pops Jack Grealish. If someone accuses you of breaking the rules, you hire the world’s greatest lawyers to shoot them down. This is perfection, but not so much the perfection of great art as the perfection of a finely-executed military campaign, the perfection of unlimited wealth, the perfection of political strength, the perfection of a pointless mile-high crystal pyramid in the middle of the desert. No academy players and no Mancunians started for City last night. Does this matter? Does anything matter?

Nobody should begrudge City fans their joy at this point. This has been their journey and their success as much as anyone else’s, and with a little perspective they may even realise that they are not as hated as they sometimes assume. Rather, the overwhelming sensation here for the neutral is indifference, a shrug at the inexorable inevitability of hard power. Everybody in this sport is tainted a little, and even on this unlevel playing field City fans have earned their moment of consummate triumph. By the same token, nobody else is obliged to feel anything about it whatsoever.
 
Guido 🇺🇦 said:
This is so good from Liew.....



So you don’t just sign Erling Haaland, you sign Julián Álvarez to give him a rest. Kalvin Phillips arrives for £45m, doesn’t play all season, and it’s fine. You decide – and just reflect on the breathtaking audacity of this for a second – that you need an upgrade on Phil Foden, and so up pops Jack Grealish. If someone accuses you of breaking the rules, you hire the world’s greatest lawyers to shoot them down. This is perfection, but not so much the perfection of great art as the perfection of a finely-executed military campaign, the perfection of unlimited wealth, the perfection of political strength, the perfection of a pointless mile-high crystal pyramid in the middle of the desert. No academy players and no Mancunians started for City last night. Does this matter? Does anything matter?

Nobody should begrudge City fans their joy at this point. This has been their journey and their success as much as anyone else’s, and with a little perspective they may even realise that they are not as hated as they sometimes assume. Rather, the overwhelming sensation here for the neutral is indifference, a shrug at the inexorable inevitability of hard power. Everybody in this sport is tainted a little, and even on this unlevel playing field City fans have earned their moment of consummate triumph. By the same token, nobody else is obliged to feel anything about it whatsoever.
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That is always what will hang over City. They spent billions and cheated the rules in a way that has never been seen before. Can’t say that of Fergie and United or Liverpool and Shankley.

They are stunning to watch but it is like a 100m runner hitting 9.7 seconds drilled upto the eye balls on steroids, the best and most expensive steroids as well.
 
bonaspur23 said:
He’s maybe not the best all around CF in the world but he’s the best pure goalscorer. And top teams don’t need their CF to act as the primary playmaker like shit teams do.

So if you are trying to build the best team in the world, he’s the best pick at CF.
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In this second half of the season I've seen him miss so many big chances in big moments. Gets pocketed by decent defenders from what I've seen when he plays. He's a very good player but I don't see a best player in the world there myself for what I expect the very best to be able to do.
 
Starks said:
Can you imagine Thierry Henry or someone texting a Spurs manager and wishing them good luck before a cup semi final?
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The type of "football celebrity culture" that exists particularly around the Champions Legaue Cirus is vile to watch.

I actually love the competition (I know it has many faults), the football played for probably a good decade now has been brilliant from the group stages all the way to the final (it's not quite as entertaining since they away goal rule has been removed).

The person who typifies this culture more than anyone is Ferdinand, his shmoosing with the likes of PSG, doing mini-documentaries on them and their "brand appeal". Feeding the Mbappe myth (don't want to get into his specific debate but as good as he is, he is miles off from being one of the world's best players, miles - it's all marketing).

All over my timeline this morning is Ferdinand slapping hands and dropping names like he's at the epicentre of football or something. On the other side of this, there's the non-ex-footballer media, the likes of that little runt Julien Laurens (PSG & Woolwich supporter - only supported them because Wenger was French). Look at him, he's like some kind of famewhore:



But everything they do is for their own betterment. A desire to be seen and behave or say things in a certain way that gains attention. I think a lot of this was stumbled upon by accident, when during our run into the CL final, BT for the first time (I think) showed the studio celebrating goals and because of our last kick of the game vs Ajax his clip went viral, they've done it ever since. Arrogance and ego, most fall into that bracket in this circus but it's exemplified through Ferdinand.
 
Guido 🇺🇦 said:
No, which is a good thing IMO. There really was nothing particularly wrong with it. The owner of the bar on the other hand needs to be paid a visit by some baseball bat-swinging loons for selling the pics/CCTV to the press.
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What's wrong with it (aside from the obv!) is that if you or i did the same we'd be in all sorts of grief and rightfully so (battered to fuck by security for starter, prob).

The poor lass waitress shouldn't have to put up with that and there's a very basic reason why the vast majority can put hand on heart and say "I've never done that".
 
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Mick Cooper said:
Yeah - he came here with a massive PR machine hyping him up
and all he's managed to do is bang in the highest goal tally in the PL history and 52 goals in all competitions (and he still has about 5 more games to go)

Complete fraud - totally see where you're coming from
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Haaland or mbappe? Easy choice to make in my eyes. Takes more than goals to make a player great. El fenomeno didn't get 52 goals in a season but is arguably the best no 9 to play the game. He would of had rudiger on toast.
 
Yiddy said:
Iheanacho had crazy stats when he was there. He's good but for a balon d'or level player mbappe pisses all over him in my eyes.
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Regarding Iheanacho : claiming that 12 goals in 48 games are "crazy stats" is stretching it a bit though :cool:
Skillwise, yes, Mbappé is right now most probably the best player but football is a team sport where attitude and team-effort count as well.
Mbappé can do very well in a Real M. team if he gets the same prima dona privileges that CR had. While Haaland is a better fit for Man City.
 
Airfixx said:
What's wrong with it (aside from the obv!) is that if you or i did the same we'd be in all sorts of grief and rightfully so (battered to fuck by security for starter, prob).

The poor lass waitress shouldn't have to put up with that and there's a very basic reason why the vast majority can put hand on heart and say "I've never done that".
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It was the girl(s) (I don't know if it was a waitress or another punter) that took his dick out of his trousers, on one occasion he has both his hands full holding drinks and when it happens. He clearly likes it though and clearly, there are intimate behaviours by both him and the girl that are clearly reciprocal.



The only person that legitimately can have an issue here is his wife.
 
Guido 🇺🇦 said:
It was the girl(s) (I don't know if it was a waitress or another punter) that took his dick out of his trousers, on one occasion he has both his hands full holding drinks and when it happens. He clearly likes it though and clearly, there are intimate behaviours by both him and the girl that are clearly reciprocal.



The only person that legitimately can have an issue here is his wife.
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Video speaks of a more prolonged episode than I was aware of, but:

"Multiple girls"

"Exposes himself a second time"


I still maintain I'd have received a kicking and at the very least a night in the cells if I was behaving like that.
 
Airfixx said:
Video speaks of a more prolonged episode than I was aware of, but:

"Multiple girls"

"Exposes himself a second time"


I still maintain I'd have received a kicking and at the very least a night in the cells if I was behaving like that.
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Do you think the girl (I've no idea if this is a different one or the same one) who pulls his pants out deserves a kicking too? We've no idea also if he is being goaded by them to do it. But it's certainly no a case of him forcing himself on anyone, if ever there was a consensual thing on display I would say that's it.

Finally, there was no complaint made by anyone in the bar. This only exists because the owner of the bar sold the CCTV images to The Sun.

I'm not trying to act as his lawyer here. I've absolutely no idea of what happened, other than just interpreting what my eyes see in the vid. Take away The Sun's sensationalism and tone of the reporting about indecent exposure and lawbreaking what actually do you see? I see a bloke and a girl (maybe more than one girl) probably drunk getting it on in a bar. Might be just the bars I have frequented but that I've seen a thousand times, probably done it myself too.
 
Guido 🇺🇦 said:
Do you think the girl (I've no idea if this is a different one or the same one) who pulls his pants out deserves a kicking too?
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Surely this isn't a serious question...... I'm not even claiming that Walker "deserves" a kicking.

Guido 🇺🇦 said:
We've no idea also if he is being goaded by them to do it. But it's certainly no a case of him forcing himself on anyone, if ever there was a consensual thing on display I would say that's it.

Finally, there was no complaint made by anyone in the bar. This only exists because the owner of the bar sold the CCTV images to The Sun.

I'm not trying to act as his lawyer here. I've absolutely no idea of what happened, other than just interpreting what my eyes see in the vid. Take away The Sun's sensationalism and tone of the reporting about indecent exposure and lawbreaking what actually do you see? I see a bloke and a girl (maybe more than one girl) probably drunk getting it on in a bar. Might be just the bars I have frequented but that I've seen a thousand times, probably done it myself too.
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You play helicopter dick when you go out drinking?


My point is simple "one rule for them" etc..........
 
Yiddy said:
Haaland or mbappe? Easy choice to make in my eyes. Takes more than goals to make a player great. El fenomeno didn't get 52 goals in a season but is arguably the best no 9 to play the game. He would of had rudiger on toast.
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yeah - nailed it again
Watching Rudiger follow him around like a pet dog didn't leave any massive gaps in the RMs defence that Citeh could profit from.

oh - wait...........
 
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