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FightingIllini said:
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.
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Boehly doesn't have the money to keep up the spending. His spending was to boost a floundering club, it won't remain consistent. City's will.

Anyway, I hope the blanket of denial keeps you warm. But City, Saudi/Qatari uber-investment notwithstanding, will remain England's Bayern for the foreseeable future. Regardless of Pep.
 
City’s money is necessary but not sufficient. They are doing good things but those good things are nothing without their money.

Their money is killing the game. Same for Newcastle and possibly Man Utd. Will having three oil clubs make the league more exciting?
 
If Pep leaves at the end of the season, as has been murmured, it would cause a reset. But Haaland's goals will keep them at or near the top.

More amusingly, Jenas' analysis on MOTD of the influence of Pep's supposedly genius-level decision to move John Stones into midfield was embarrassing.

The entire library of shitty's games couldn't produce one meaningful clip of how the "Stonesinho" move had transformed shitty's season, and it begged two questions:

Firstly, why aren't opposition coaches braver in exploiting the space in behind where one of the CBs should be?

Secondly, with all their filthy lucre, why don't shitty buy a proper D/CM to play alongside Rodri?

Oh, wait, they did. They splashed big money on the "Yorkshire Pirlo", Kalvin Phillips, and Pep has decided he's not up to it.

Right there you have shitty missing big time in the transfer market, but because they're funded by oil cartel money, it doesn't blow an Ndombele-sized hole in their transfer dealings.
 
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FightingIllini said:
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)
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I bet they have plenty of players in the top 30 earners though?
 
FightingIllini said:
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.
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I was going to say that it's the wages, not the fees that are important now (and generally speaking, it is) but City's wage bill isn't as big as Man Utd or Chelsea. While it's likely they've broke the rules and hopefully will get punished, it's not just as simple as "Football Manager infinite money cheat".

Still 62% higher wage bill than ours mind.
 
City are incredibly rich and have also made very good decisions on the football side. Compare them to PSG in terms of the level of football played. I mean FFS PSG have managed to lose numerous leagues - to ligue 1 sides!

They've backed money with smarts. its simply ignorant to say otherwise, and other clubs with similar wealth have struggled to replicate this. The hatred of their oil money shouldn't blind people to facts. They have huge advantages but they have leveraged those advantages perfectly.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
City are incredibly rich and have also made very good decisions on the football side. Compare them to PSG in terms of the level of football played. I mean FFS PSG have managed to lose numerous leagues - to ligue 1 sides!

They've backed money with smarts. its simply ignorant to say otherwise, and other clubs with similar wealth have struggled to replicate this. The hatred of their oil money shouldn't blind people to facts. They have huge advantages but they have leveraged those advantages perfectly.
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None of what you said stops them from being a soulless, parasitical plastic club who hopefully will be found guilty of circumventing a lot of rules before too long.

Fuck 'em and anyone who praises the baguette eating dickheads.
 
TonySoprano said:
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.
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City paid 100's and 100's of millions on defenders and keepers.
It looks prudent because they can afford mistake after mistake till they get it right.
Our recruitment is absolutely brutal but we cant afford any mistakes.
Same as clubs like the dippers, woolwich etc
 
Raumdeuterz said:
City are incredibly rich and have also made very good decisions on the football side. Compare them to PSG in terms of the level of football played. I mean FFS PSG have managed to lose numerous leagues - to ligue 1 sides!

They've backed money with smarts. its simply ignorant to say otherwise, and other clubs with similar wealth have struggled to replicate this. The hatred of their oil money shouldn't blind people to facts. They have huge advantages but they have leveraged those advantages perfectly.
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........You forgot the cheating. That should always be top of the list.
 
Elias said:
If Pep leaves at the end of the season, as has been murmured, it would cause a reset. But Haaland's goals will keep them at or near the top.

More amusingly, Jenas' analysis on MOTD of the influence of Pep's supposedly genius-level decision to move John Stones into midfield was embarrassing.

The entire library of shitty's games couldn't produce one meaningful clip of how the "Stonesinho" move had transformed shitty's season, and it begged two questions:

Firstly, why aren't opposition coaches braver in exploiting the space in behind where one of the CBs should be?

Secondly, with all their filthy lucre, who don't shitty buy a proper D/CM to play alongside Rodri?

Oh, wait, they did. They splashed big money on the "Yorkshire Pirlo", Kalvin Phillips, and Pep has decided he's not up to it.

Right there you have shitty missing big time in the transfer market, but because they're funded by oil cartel money, it doesn't blow an Ndombele-sized hole in their transfer dealings.
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£150M on Grealish and Kalvin Phillips and they're still gonna go over 90 points and probably win the CL.

But, yeah, it's all because Pep is a genius and their recruitment has been impeccable.

:pocheyes:
 
MemphisWill said:
Boehly doesn't have the money to keep up the spending. His spending was to boost a floundering club, it won't remain consistent. City's will.

Anyway, I hope the blanket of denial keeps you warm. But City, Saudi/Qatari uber-investment notwithstanding, will remain England's Bayern for the foreseeable future. Regardless of Pep.
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I’m not sure. Depends on who they go for next. If it is Arteta for example, he’s not going to have the same impact. No idea who they get in but it feels like it would be fairly left field. Saying that, I reckon he will still be there next season. He doesn’t sound like a man to want to leave yet unfortunately.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
They've backed money with smarts. its simply ignorant to say otherwise, and other clubs with similar wealth have struggled to replicate this.
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They've maximized every pound spent in terms of its impact on winning football matches and the fit with the way they want to play.

Which sounds simple, but it really isn't and is notably not the way other big spenders have done their business, PSG and United most notably.

Also of note, during that five-year run of recruitment I listed out, I think Nathan Ake at 25 was the oldest player they signed.
 
Elias said:
Firstly, why aren't opposition coaches braver in exploiting the space in behind where one of the CBs should be?
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zin said:
You watching a different Jack Grealish? Guy destroyed Carvajal over two legs.
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TBF, I don't watch City much at all. He's not been stellar since going to them. 1 goal/assist per 172 minutes isn't a £100M player, and that's an improvement on last year.

But that fits my point. Grealish at £40M is a great buy. City can afford to pay £100M for him. They can pay £50M for Kalvin Phillips and get a bench sub out of it. They can pay €30M years ago for Danilo and get an occasional player from it. They can buy Mendy and then not be fucked by everything that's gone wrong, because they can just buy someone else like it's a piece of piss.

The idea that they don't make mistakes in the transfer market is completely false. They don't make as many as we do, but when you spend the money they do it's easier to buy proven commodities with lower risk.

Also, we've been comically bad the past 5 years...not many clubs have been as bad as we have been. It's a credit to how strong we were before, there's only a handful of clubs that wouldn't have been relegated with a recruitment streak as poor as we had for years.

But City's magic pill is the money. Every time they've gotten complacent and turned the flow down enough for someone to slip in and win a title, they surge back with record spending and normal service resumes. Pep is no slouch, but Pep has only ever managed the richest club in his league...so I'm not gonna kiss his arse like he's some incredible manager.
 
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They were one of a host of Man City couples to arrive at the Manchester nightclub on Sunday evening.
Kevin de Bruyne's other-half stunned at the Man City bash
Kevin de Bruyne's other-half stunned at the Man City bashCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
Michele Lacroix stunned in a see-through black dress
Michele Lacroix stunned in a see-through black dressCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
She was closely followed by Manchester City man Kevin de Bruyne
She was closely followed by Manchester City man Kevin de BruyneCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke
 
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