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Glad they beat the gooner cunts but yeah, at the top level football is now a joke. If you want to win, better get oil state backing and that's it.
True, but they have spent the money well and recruited wisely starting with Pep and their management structure.
If you gave the exact same funding to Levy and Enic I don’t think they’ll have anything like the same success. The little bald cunt is far too stubborn and full of himself to listen to others when it comes to recruitment and footballing decisions.
City have a cheat code but they have used it prudently.
An almost free stadium helps too.
You're right, of course. Everyone wondered if players such as De Bruyne and Haaland could hack it at this level.
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When you can afford to buy the 3 best players on the market year in and year out, it hardly takes a genius staff. The cunts you're slurping paid £100M for Grealish and it's nothing but a footnote now.
Until Grealish City rather conspicuously did not spend that sort of money on a single player, nor on headline-grabbing stars within the league.
Grealish is the only City signing in the top 30 all time transfer fees.
To be clear, City's total, perpetual expenditure more or less guaranteed "success".
But the scale of success they've achieved, the relentless, metronomic perfection, required that expenditure being basically perfect for five straight years as well as a singular genius in Pep.
This is very good news. As soon as Pep goes, City will be back on Planet Earth with the rest of us.
(It's so, so funny the already dead corpse of Poch's team beat Pep's 100 point peak in the CL. God bless you forever Fernando Llorente)
Balderdash. Grealish, Mendy, Mangala - they've had plenty of poor signings. But the immensity of their spend and the shear number of players they've brought in has guaranteed success. For every bad signing they've made, 2 more have made up for it. No one has consistently spent at their level since Mansour's arrival.
08/09: 7 of the 25 most expensive PL transfer purchases.
09/10: 7/25 (6/10)
10/11: 7/25 (6/11)
11/12: 3/25 (2/2)
12/13: 3/25 (2/9)
13/14: 4/12 (3/10)
14/15: 3/25 (2/9)
15/16: 3/5
16/17: 4/25 (3/12, 2/3)
17/18: 6/25 (4/9)
18/19: 1/2
19/20: 2/4
20/21: 3/25 (2/5)
21/22: 1/1 (tried to make it 2/2 with Kane)
22/23: 2/15
Mendy was the only miss for like a five year span.
Take your pick of any other superclub ever, nothing comes close.
City themselves won't repeat that. Plenty of luck involved.
They paid €65M for Laporte, who they've gotten more than 20 appearances from twice, and €30M for Danilo in the same window. When you have their means, the number of misses is far fewer and correcting your mistakes is as simple as waiting for the window to open again. There's nothing magical or special about what they're doing, and the only thing that's going to knock them off their perch is Saudi spending. Outside of that, City will win 70-80% of the PL titles until the ESL opens.
If a guy who’s been in the PL team of the season and a guy who was a regular in a 100 point side who was shortly then cashed out in substantial part exchange for Joao Cancelo (lol Jesus Christ Paratici) are the “misses” you’re identifying, the defense rests, your honor.
Winning the right to pay Haaland’s release clause may prove to be the greatest transfer in the history of the sport, they’re in wonderful shape. But without Pep it won’t be the same.
The point being, any club that lives within their means needs more than a 2 season return on €65M. I'd hardly call Danilo a regular - Skipp played more for us this season than Danilo ever did for City.
Skipp is a regular. Look, I'm not trying to play word games here.
The day will come when City starts mixing in some Timo Werner's and Harry Maguire's. It may already have. And a mere mortal coach will extract less out of even their glittering cast of characters.
That will put them in range of the rest of the Big Six, by which of course I mean plus Newcastle, minus us.
No doubt. That's why I said 70-80% of the league titles. Occasionally some poor signings and complacency will result in a season where someone like Liverpool/Leicester/Chelsea slip in.l and win a title. Which will prompt another round of record spending and another run of 3/4 or 4/5 titles.
There's no rational reason to believe City will simply fall back long term. It's wishful thinking, but it's false. They are the Bayern of England. They'll lose occasionally, but that's it.
1. They aren't even the richest club in the league anymore, might not be the richest in their own city by the end of the week, and lot of competing ownership groups are better capitalized than they were when City started.
2. FFP, etc
3. There's just a limit of how much money can buy. You can only be so good, and so much of it ends up driven by the tactics and culture a manager can impose.
4. Who says CFG is going to have the motivation to stay this far ahead of the pack forever?
I'll concede this one. Like Chelsea before them, the potential that someone with even more money buys in and outspends them, thus eliminating their advantage.
But, again, that doesn't make what they accomplished particularly impressive. No more impressive than what United accomplished when they had cornered the commercial market and outspent the league was. Nor more impressive than Chelsea's bought trophies.
You can fawn over them all you want, but the secret to their success is simply money.
See where that gets Boehly.
You need all of it. You have to spend, you have to spend wisely, and you need the absolute best deployment of those resources. Cut out any leg of the stool and you're toast, City will be no exception to that.