This thread is hilarious, I cant stop looking at it.
http://www.redcafe.net/f7/city-next-season-300823/If they spend big, they spend big. Should be no skin off our noses, we have established players, grounded players with a winning mentality that know what it takes to win silver wear.
If City gel they will be fantastic no doubt, but I am only bothered about them twice a season, or if we meet them in a cup run in.
Footballs becoming a joke isn't it, with real and barca just borrowing hundreds of millions to buy players they can't afford, city having no financial constraints and Liverpool and united constrained by debts from levereged buyouts. Wages are out of hand too.
Whe United was throwing around dozens of millions it wasn't a joke, right?
The Veron deal in 2001 was much more obscene than everything Shitty has done thus far. Face it, United are partly to blame for all of this.
Nah United were using the club's own money when we were still a PLC
That said, i was amazed when we signed Ruud and Veron for about a combined 50m
Difference is that United had the money through being a brilliantly run operation.
City are just financed by a rich Arab as his new toy.
Most of it get an iPad for a toy. He bought City.
This is why the new UEFA laws on financing of football clubs are so important.
Hardly any of City's allegedly great academy products are from Manchester, I think the fat lad Johnson is the only one who's had any real success.
edit: Ah, I checked, Onuoha is mancunian as well, and he's decent, but he won't be at City for long.
Does anyone want to start a sweepstake on when a game against City will next not be repeatedly described as "the biggest manchester derby for years!"
Each of the last four has had it, and obviously the next one will as well, but maybe the one after that? It's getting just a little absurd, especially as we invariably win in injury time anyway.