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[mr_nool]

Season so far
Anthony Martial
£58m
Appearances 25
Goals 7
Assists 3

KDB
£54.5m
Appearances 24
Goals 12
Assist 8

Playing devil's advocate ... That's quite a good record for a 19 year old.
I agree that the price tag is ludicrous for an unproven player, but he is very promising. I just hope they will put too much pressure on him and that he fades out à la Januzai.

I think the point is that if City had paid that amount for him you can guarentee the media would be saying he is doing no where near enough.

And it isn't a great return from a 58m striker

You always pay for potential, though. That's the gamble of buying young players instead of world class players in their prime. That said, I still think it is a ridiculous amount for him (like I've already said above).

[Original Dub]

Martial's 50 odd million quid fee hasn't been mentioned ONCE since the transfer deadline day.

Sterling and De Bruyne's "fee" gets mentioned several times a week. And still there is one fucking stocking of shit on this board that can't see an agenda when it has been smacking him in the face several times a week for years now.

I do despair sometimes.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Martial's 50 odd million quid fee hasn't been mentioned ONCE since the transfer deadline day.

Sterling and De Bruyne's "fee" gets mentioned several times a week. And still there is one fucking stocking of shit on this board that can't see an agenda when it has been smacking him in the face several times a week for years now.

I do despair sometimes.

Lookmum.

[Wonderwall]

Liverpool and United chosen for televised fa Cup
Games. Shocker

[Hutch's Shoulder]

Liverpool and United chosen for televised fa Cup
Games. Shocker

Friday night serves em right

[zuricity]

Liverpool and United chosen for televised fa Cup
Games. Shocker

Friday night serves em right

No thanks ! Friday night is reserved for BBC 4.

Any way i'm off to see the Boss in Newark. I might pop in to the Mad Hatters too.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

http://youtu.be/Pw4O0KTIvBg

[mr_nool]

http://youtu.be/Pw4O0KTIvBg

What the actual fuck!?!?!?! That's more biased than political commentary on American Fox.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

http://youtu.be/Pw4O0KTIvBg

What the actual fuck!?!?!?! That's more biased than political commentary on American Fox.

Indeed, are they taking the piss do you think or are they being genuine? Nicholas definitely smirks just before the camera pans away from him, can't tell if that's because he's so chuffed that we didn't get the pen and Arsenal were leading Liverpool at the time ( get in Joe Allen you little hairy fucker ) or whether he's extracting the urine.

[Scatman]

http://youtu.be/Pw4O0KTIvBg

What the actual fuck!?!?!?! That's more biased than political commentary on American Fox.

Very little contact.

[Cocacolajojo1]

Do you guys think that the ref is basing his decision on the fact that there's no chance Sterling can collect the ball even he manages to avoid the challenge? I'm not having a go, I'm just trying to see if there's anything that could explain the call except poor refereeing. It doesn't make sense if there would be such a rule, in that case you could just tackle players ffa as long as there's no ball near, but could that be it?

Tell you what, having written it down I can see here that we have a classic case of me clutching as straws. Horrendous call. Fuck off Sky Sports btw.

[Original Dub]

Do you guys think that the ref is basing his decision on the fact that there's no chance Sterling can collect the ball even he manages to avoid the challenge? I'm not having a go, I'm just trying to see if there's anything that could explain the call except poor refereeing. It doesn't make sense if there would be such a rule, in that case you could just tackle players ffa as long as there's no ball near, but could that be it?

Tell you what, having written it down I can see here that we have a classic case of me clutching as straws. Horrendous call. Fuck off Sky Sports btw.

No mate, that is never taken into account, unless it becomes a clear goal scoring opportunity, but in that case it's a red and a peno.
It's a peno either way.

[london blue 2]

Do you guys think that the ref is basing his decision on the fact that there's no chance Sterling can collect the ball even he manages to avoid the challenge? I'm not having a go, I'm just trying to see if there's anything that could explain the call except poor refereeing. It doesn't make sense if there would be such a rule, in that case you could just tackle players ffa as long as there's no ball near, but could that be it?

Tell you what, having written it down I can see here that we have a classic case of me clutching as straws. Horrendous call. Fuck off Sky Sports btw.

No mate, that is never taken into account, unless it becomes a clear goal scoring opportunity, but in that case it's a red and a peno.
It's a peno either way.

Doesn't matter if the ball was in our fucking penalty area. That is still a fucking foul.

[mr_nool]

Posted this in the match day thread, but it is a better fit for this thread:

It's the takeover. It must be. We were everyone's favourite second team until then. Now it's pure jealously and hatred all day long.

Don't expect anyone to understand or give a fuck, cos brown cost £150 million and city should be able to cope with anything thrown at them so it's ok.

We are well and truly on our own, it's time the club recognised that and stop letting everyone walk all over us.

I'm a bit surprised that the jealously has lasted as long as it has. I would have thought that it would have subsided by now, but outsiders had probably hoped that our owners were short term / didn't know what they were doing / insert optional cliche. It's now dawning on them that we WILL NOT fail; the future is ours.

I also think that racism (perhaps subconsciously) is a reason for the hatred and for the hard time we're getting in the press. If our benefactor was a Christian American, German or Russian, or even a Chinese of whatever denomination, instead of a Muslim from the Arabian Peninsula, I do not think we would get the flake we're getting. How often do we get to hear "Arab owners", "(dirty) oil money", etc.

[london blue 2]

Martin Tyler on sky sports said something along the lines of - The fact that United and Liverpool are in sixth and ninth place respectively doesn't draw away from excitement and anticipation of this game.

Sure Martin if you say so.

[Wonderwall]

Posted this in the match day thread, but it is a better fit for this thread:

It's the takeover. It must be. We were everyone's favourite second team until then. Now it's pure jealously and hatred all day long.

Don't expect anyone to understand or give a fuck, cos brown cost £150 million and city should be able to cope with anything thrown at them so it's ok.

We are well and truly on our own, it's time the club recognised that and stop letting everyone walk all over us.

I'm a bit surprised that the jealously has lasted as long as it has. I would have thought that it would have subsided by now, but outsiders had probably hoped that our owners were short term / didn't know what they were doing / insert optional cliche. It's now dawning on them that we WILL NOT fail; the future is ours.

I also think that racism (perhaps subconsciously) is a reason for the hatred and for the hard time we're getting in the press. If our benefactor was a Christian American, German or Russian, or even a Chinese of whatever denomination, instead of a Muslim from the Arabian Peninsula, I do not think we would get the flake we're getting. How often do we get to hear "Arab owners", "(dirty) oil money", etc.

Agree with that Noolie, however I think we have to be very careful on how we make a stand. You just need to look at how José tried to make a stand as decisions were blatant against them. He pointed out some facts and called out the refs but he was made a laughing stock of by media and pundits who saw it as sour grapes.

I am as frustrated as anyone at what I perceive to be an agenda towards city. However, going public with a stance is not always the right way. Having said that, it can be equally frustrating watch our club take a battering and seemingly doing nothing about it.

[john@staustell]

Posted this in the match day thread, but it is a better fit for this thread:

It's the takeover. It must be. We were everyone's favourite second team until then. Now it's pure jealously and hatred all day long.

Don't expect anyone to understand or give a fuck, cos brown cost £150 million and city should be able to cope with anything thrown at them so it's ok.

We are well and truly on our own, it's time the club recognised that and stop letting everyone walk all over us.

I'm a bit surprised that the jealously has lasted as long as it has. I would have thought that it would have subsided by now, but outsiders had probably hoped that our owners were short term / didn't know what they were doing / insert optional cliche. It's now dawning on them that we WILL NOT fail; the future is ours.

I also think that racism (perhaps subconsciously) is a reason for the hatred and for the hard time we're getting in the press. If our benefactor was a Christian American, German or Russian, or even a Chinese of whatever denomination, instead of a Muslim from the Arabian Peninsula, I do not think we would get the flake we're getting. How often do we get to hear "Arab owners", "(dirty) oil money", etc.

Agree with that Noolie, however I think we have to be very careful on how we make a stand. You just need to look at how José tried to make a stand as decisions were blatant against them. He pointed out some facts and called out the refs but he was made a laughing stock of by media and pundits who saw it as sour grapes.

I am as frustrated as anyone at what I perceive to be an agenda towards city. However, going public with a stance is not always the right way. Having said that, it can be equally frustrating watch our club take a battering and seemingly doing nothing about it.

Trouble is mate Jose rants against penalties given to the oppo which are 100% nailed on penaties, much more so that the non-given ones he complains about.

Sort of ruins his own case.

[Mike J]

When watching the game the other day i realised i cannot remember the last time on one of our televised games, that our money/ spending wasnt mentioned. Every single time without fail. You would think by now they would have accepted the fact that to get to where we wanted to be (and to survive!) we had to spend money. Is it really so fucking hard to grasp!

It really does not happen on utd/ arsenal/ pool games.

[john@staustell]

Did you hear the fat boy Neil Custis ripping into LVG on Talksport? LOL what a laugh, RAG on RAG fire. One thing he kept going on about was LVG having spent 250M and how he makes every player worse.

Great comedy.

[City64]

Martin Tyler on sky sports said something along the lines of - The fact that United and Liverpool are in sixth and ninth place respectively doesn't draw away from excitement and anticipation of this game.

Sure Martin if you say so.

Pmsl !