The Swamp

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:04 pm Pruitt clearly forgot about Yankees gear.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:07 am Spurs are one of the 10 richest clubs in Europe, and they can not compete against the insanity that is Man City's finances.

Absolutely ridiculous - FFF is a farce and the fact that City is going to rebrand by buying two English players who are the face, heart and soul of their teams without any penalty is sickening.

Honestly, how can anyone outside of Manchester or 7th grade support that team? City fans probably have a closet full of old Warriors and Patriots gear.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:39 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:07 am Spurs are one of the 10 richest clubs in Europe, and they can not compete against the insanity that is Man City's finances.

Absolutely ridiculous - FFF is a farce and the fact that City is going to rebrand by buying two English players who are the face, heart and soul of their teams without any penalty is sickening.

Honestly, how can anyone outside of Manchester or 7th grade support that team? City fans probably have a closet full of old Warriors and Patriots gear.

The thing is, people forget how much money City makes from selling fringe players to balance the official books ... they've made over £40m for Harrison, Angelino, Ilic and Nmecha already, and the sell-on clause for Sancho has netted them another £11m. I'm sure there will be more sales, especially once Grealish is signed. So it's not like they just shit on FFP (as if FFP was still relevant lol), they actually sell well.

Same for Chelsea and Liverpool, by the way. Chelsea have made around £50m for Tomori, Guehi and Moses, while Liverpool have made almost £30m for Wilson, Awoniyi and Grujic. It's quite impressive actually how much money these clubs make by moving deadwood.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:43 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:39 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:07 am Spurs are one of the 10 richest clubs in Europe, and they can not compete against the insanity that is Man City's finances.

Absolutely ridiculous - FFF is a farce and the fact that City is going to rebrand by buying two English players who are the face, heart and soul of their teams without any penalty is sickening.

Honestly, how can anyone outside of Manchester or 7th grade support that team? City fans probably have a closet full of old Warriors and Patriots gear.

The thing is, people forget how much money City makes from selling fringe players to balance the official books ... they've made over £40m for Harrison, Angelino, Ilic and Nmecha already, and the sell-on clause for Sancho has netted them another £11m. I'm sure there will be more sales, especially once Grealish is signed. So it's not like they just shit on FFP (as if FFP was still relevant lol), they actually sell well.

Same for Chelsea and Liverpool, by the way. Chelsea have made around £50m for Tomori, Guehi and Moses, while Liverpool have made almost £30m for Wilson, Awoniyi and Grujic. It's quite impressive actually how much money these clubs make by moving deadwood.

Don't take this personally, but what you've said is completely wrong.

"Balance the books?" Not even close.

https://www.transfermarkt.us/manchester ... verein/281

In the last 14 years, City has spent $1.6 BILLION more on buying players than selling them.

BILLION.

Rex wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:30 pm All these problems go away if you just let the 16-18 biggest clubs form their own league and get out of everyone else’s hair.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:07 am Honestly, how can anyone outside of Manchester or 7th grade support that team?

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:01 pmThe guy sitting in front of us had a City shirt on. He looked exactly like you think he would.

In 1999, Manchester City, now the richest team in England and the reigning Premier League champion, was playing a future-defining game at Wembley Stadium. As the match approached injury time, Man City was two goals down, but there were five additional minutes to be played. City scored in the 90th and 95th minutes to take the game to extra time and eventually a penalty shootout, which it won.

The game was against little Gillingham, and it was future-defining because it was a playoff game, and it got City out of the third tier of English football. Thirteen years later, and after massive investment, it became the best team in the country. It is not impossible to imagine that if Gillingham’s keeper had pushed Paul Dickov’s 95th-minute equalizer around the post, another team might have been the beneficiary of Sheikh Mansour’s largesse. Sunderland, maybe. Or Birmingham. Or Gillingham.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:16 pm 100%, but only for their team.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:30 pm Checked Arsenal's lineup for today, and shocked to see Auba and Laca not even making the bench. I see they were both ruled out due to illness this morning. With Nketiah injured and Martinelli sitting since he just got back from the Olympics, Arsenal are down to their 5th striker and it's only Game 1!!!! Gabriel and Partey are both out for a month. So frustrated with this team already.

Sabo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 2:02 pmGO BRENTFORD