i fukin love international breaks. give me a chance to diss the crap out of Turkey.
anyhow we dnt beat Armenia by 10 goals im gonna be angry.
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i fukin love international breaks. give me a chance to diss the crap out of Turkey.
anyhow we dnt beat Armenia by 10 goals im gonna be angry.
apparently Robihno is the highest paid player ever. they estimate that his weekly salary is $300k.
these Arabs gone mad.
Speaking to arabianbusiness.com, Dr Sulaiman revealed he had set his sights on Manchester United superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, Arsenal maestro Cesc Fabregas and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres.
"Ronaldo has said he wants to play for the biggest club in the world, so we will see in January if he is serious," said Dr Sulaiman.
"Real Madrid were estimating his value at $160m (£90m) but for a player like that, to actually get him, will cost a lot more, I would think $240m (£134m).
"But why not? We are going to be the biggest club in the world, bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United."
you know which team this is, and all i have to say is, fucking losers.
chelski was one team we could just about tolerate with them buying cups, but now man city?
the only excitement i have is the fact that we may see amazing stars playing in the prem league, but only in the wrong team.
slightly jealous though that they couldn't buy arsenal although they were contemplating it!
^I hate Chelsea more than any team in history so I am so glad about this happening to City. Im just not convinced Mark Hughes is a top level coach.
Its going to be fucking WEIRD seeing Robinho with a City shirt on though LOL. I cant picture it.
i was thinking the same, robinho in a city shirt doesnt quite match.
hughes will be out soon, next years kit will be on some elegant shit, stadium will be bigger bolder, shits going to change for sure.
LOL @ citeh even dreaming of buying CR7 ... like that will ever ever ever ever fucking happen ... ibet they could offer united 1bn and they'd knock it back
i still don't see why we signed massimo oddo and on loan ... no diss cos he's good but we have lahm, lell sagnol and even altintop can go back ... and they're all naturaly right sided players so it makes it even more puzzling ...
23 players deep our squad isn't big enough to compete for the champions league so i ain't bothering with europe
Oddo is probably a precautionary signing, i kno Altintop injured again. like the end of last season injuries kinda fucked Bayern. so i jus think they playing it safe now.
man city talking about 250,000,000 (yes 25 + 7 zeros) million dollar bids for c.ronaldo or kaka next summer. thats hard to turn down. but really cant be good for the game. that automatically means a guy like messi is worth that much. and guys like ibra are worth like 3/4 of that. and there is really only so many of those really top notch guys to go around. its hard to replace a kaka. they will have all that money but who will they go buy. they will have to go to the other biggest clubs, barca, madrid, chelsea ect. to find someone worthy of filling that role. im really just not sure where i stand on this, even if my club can possibly get all that money for one player.
fuckin yes i got tickets for a Besiktas game, and the Turkey-Belgium game. first time im going to a game in Turkey.
the Besiktas game gonna be crazy, its a derby to. i got my warpaint ready..
the tickets for the Turkey game were ridiculous.. 300euros. ahahahahaha fuckin hell. who cares its worth it.
it's fuckin terrible for the game ... because it's not the top eshalon of players it affects but the average ones who will become even further out of reach for relatively smaller clubs who will then have to settle on shittier players at inflated prices ... and really this is all to the detriment of the english game ... their national team will never do any good aslong as the big cubs infest the league with overseas players ... not that i care ...Quote:
Originally Posted by whitey
the gap between footballs rich and footballs hard working is getting enormous by the day ... how many other mega rich arab billionaires or oil tycoons are going to see football clubs as advertisement to their product and do the same thing? ... probably in 20 years time the entire premier league will be bought out ... english fans can go allllll the way back and thank rupert murdoch ... believe me i know how long it takes for the sport you love to recover from what that cunt tried to kill for his own pleasure, it's taken 10 years for rugby league to get anywhere near how it was
i'm sure the english boys here would of heard of simon hill ... a good article by him from a citeh fans perspective
'City 'til I buy'
By Simon Hill, Fox Sports
September 04, 2008 IT'S official. The world has gone totally, utterly mad.
In transit from Sydney to Eindhoven for the upcoming Socceroos friendly via London, I missed all the hullabaloo regarding Manchester City’s incredible takeover by the unfortunately named “Abu Dhabi United” group - but boy, did I play catch-up when I hit the tarmac at Heathrow!
There it was in black and white - my beloved club, owned by an Arab sheikh, and Robinho - ROBINHO for goodness sake - signed from Real Madrid for £32.5million ($65m)!
Is this really my boyhood team? The club where I used to sit on hard wooden benches in the old Platt Lane end, set amidst the scruffy backstreets of Moss Side? Can it be true, that the club that once purchased - as its big summer signing - Jim Tolmie, a basement buy from the football equivalent of Aldi, now shops at Harrods?
In fact, even that’s a poor analogy. Several years ago, Mohammed Al Fayed, the Egyptian grocer who owns Harrods, breezed into Fulham, promising to turn them into the “Manchester United of the south” - nowadays, he is more Big Issue than big-time in the dizzy world of the Premier League.
So, are we City fans happy at this news? Of course we are!
Who wouldn’t want their own trillionaire to bankroll their club towards the sort of success that only exists - for us - in sepia-tinged photographs? With that sort of money behind us, how can we fail?
Yet lurking at the back of my mind is the sort of uneasy feeling that perhaps only City fans will really understand.
It all boils down to this. How on earth will we deal with success, should it arrive?
City has always been the sort of club that exists outside of the square. When teams such as Oldham and Tranmere were having their once-in-a-blue-moon trips to Wembley, we were consoling ourselves by waving inflatable bananas, and singing melancholy songs about er….well, blue moons.
While other clubs were building state-of-the-art stadiums post-Hillsborough, City were adding lego pieces to the ageing Maine Road. One temporary structure was so open to the elements, it became known as the “Gene Kelly Stand” - so-called because the fans were left “singing in the rain.” It was left to Manchester City Council to gift us our new stadium - known affectionately as the “Council House” but soon to be renamed “Middle East-lands.”
How many other clubs would hold a celebratory dinner to commemorate 30 years without a trophy? Yet that’s what City did in 2006, clinking glasses to toast the balding, 50-something Dennis Tueart, scorer of the 1976 League Cup Final winner against Newcastle.
City’s lack of success has become an article of faith - a grim reality, born stoically and with great humour, by those of us for whom being relatively crap has been a lifelong experience. We may have craved something better, but misery has become a comfortable bedfellow.
But what now?
For years, we’ve taunted United fans for their relentless pursuit of the dollar and ridiculed Chelsea’s “nouveau riche” rise to the gentry. Now, all of a sudden, we’re part of it.
Will the City of Manchester Stadium become a tourist epicentre a-la Old Trafford? Will Japanese day-trippers stand for photos next to the Joe Mercer mosaic? Will the new owners rotate the pitch to face Mecca?
It’s all rather absurd, but this is what the Premier League has become post-Abramovich - a world league in everything but name.
The purchase of City has - predictably - caused some brows to furrow, particularly here in Australia, where anything that smacks of English power (however tenuous that link may be these days) is about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.
But they would do well to remember the following things.
Firstly, it was FIFA, the world body, which sent football careering towards this unholy union with the business world, by commercializing the World Cup many years ago. Secondly, I don’t remember anyone being particularly peeved when Real Madrid splashed oodles of cash during the era of the Galactico. Thirdly, a big challenge to English domination is already starting to rise in the east, courtesy of the Russian oligarchs. Nothing is permanent in football - and nor should it be.
Fourthly - and most importantly - this is the new reality in football. I don’t have to like it - in fact, if truth be told, I don’t much care for it at all - but post-Abramovich, what is the alternative for clubs who want to compete?
If it's good enough for Madrid and Moscow, why shouldn’t it be so for Manchester?
As for us City fans, well, we’ll treat this latest chapter in our frankly surreal history like we do any other. We’ll cheer the wins, we’ll moan about the defeats and the dud signings (and there’ll be a few - this is City), but most of all, we’ll laugh, occasionally shake our heads in bewilderment, and enjoy the ride.
Only when (or if) we start acquiring trophies will it become tricky. Being successful on a regular basis would be a strange experience - in fact, to quote my dad, (a City season-ticket holder of 50 years, who still thinks George Best wasn’t fit to lace Peter Doherty’s drinks) “winning all the time would be boring.”
Still, football is supposed to be fun - and with our petrodollars at the ready, and the price of oil continuing to rise, we should have a few giggles over the next few months.
In fact, it’s already started - celebrity City fan Noel Gallagher quipping that “It’s nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our transfer kitty.”
Indulge us - we know that with our history, it might not last too long - and whatever happens, I’ll still be City 'til I die!
didnt Platini want to put a salary cap in place. and have transfers monitored so that they didnt get ridiculous. giving the smaller teams the chance to catch up.
they buying trophies, it aint right. they ruining football. well the premiership, cause this shit aint happening anywhere else. well atleast for now. im surprised billionaires havent showed interest in a German team. thats actually a profitable market.
bundesliga rules won't allow it ... the clubs finances are regulated too strictly which is why in the era of take overs and big money transfers bundesliga clubs can't match it ... the bundesliga has strict guidelines a team has to meet before the start of every season and i think the harshest of those are financial ... especially when it comes to debt ... borussia dortmund were on the brink of extinction a few years ago ... but in the premier league or la liga they would of been just another team ...
i'm sure when real signed zidane at the time they were hundreds of millions in debt and had to start selling off training facilities ... couldn't happen in germany
i don't see it happening it germany unless the DFB changes their rules which i doubt will ever happen ... the bundesliga will never crack into the big three because of it but it will always be the healthiest league which to them is more of a victory than having the biggest names ...
as for the salary cap ... in the NRL here we have a salary cap ... one year your team is on top ... two years later your players move on because their value increases then your team is on the bottom for two years ... the teams on the bottom then go to the top because they have no good players and get all the players coming off contract then it just repeats ... shit is soooooooo boring ... it's not even worth becoming a fan knowing that your team will have a good season every few years ...Quote:
Originally Posted by HAN
but you can't bring in a salary cap in football because for it to work every league in the entire world would have to obide by it ... platini talks too much shit
Salary cap would never work in football the teams are too crafty they would find ways to surpass it.