Plenty more of this to come :cringe:

[Brentwood]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj_PY8gCUAA45zF.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

That said, I'd much rather they won it than see the smug, smiling mongface of abramovic or that bloke who looks like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite who is in charge of man city.

[Berni]

I simply can't believe some people would actually prefer these subhumans to win the league rather than Chelsea or City.

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

hooliganism endorsing dead **** CY?

[Curly]

[Classic Jorge]

whereas scousers are just on the game

[Monty91]

If not us, then my preference would usually be Man Utd.

[Dorset Gooner]

[Classic Jorge]

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj_3KXzIMAA-vpc.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

Ah, I see what you mean now.

[Monty91]

Unless I have missed some obvious link between him and Liverpool, that is surely the most fúcking weird thing ever?

[Brentwood]

[Berni]

takes to make that tide of human filth like you.

By the way - he was only 42? :yikes: Are we sure that was his age and not his collar size?

[Pokster]

and if we win the FA cup it would stop the 9 yrs etc etc.... he'll probably leabe in the summer anyway :shrug:

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Plague on the game is a little strong.

I don't have a single shred of dislike for City or how they have gone about their business.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

No f**ker could have seen this coming, not even their own fans.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

We're only a Flamini own goal away from still being in the race too :shrig:

[redgunamo]

He is our manager until such time as He decides not to be.

[Classic Jorge]

I'm finding it genuinely shocking how little people seem to care about this stuff, city have carried on where chelsea left off, just in a bigger and more vulgar way.

Setting aside the effect they have had on us as a club, the effects they have had on football in general is awful, that trickle down of wage inflation will send tens of clubs to the wall, mark my words.

[Classic Jorge]

[The Tony]

[Monty91]

turn down the offer of an oil rich country to bankroll them to football's top table?

I just wouldn't wanna win like that as it would be victory devoid of any value.

[Classic Jorge]

Or reckless, for that matter

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

If City want to spend millions upon millions in a very aggressive project to try and become a succesful football club then good luck to them, does not bother me one jot.

Not sure what you mean about the effect they have had on us as a club, we've done quite nicely out of them. The players we sold them in general were players that supporters were only too happy to see the back of and for which they over remunerated us on occasion.

Good team, some lovely footballers. Wd City.

[Monty91]

numbers than we have seen. Until now I think he's known he's retained core support amongst everyone apart from a (albeit sizeable) contingent of reactionary cancer-deserving cretinous scum.

If that changes, it might make him reassess...

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I recall them being the better side at City's place earlier in the season.

Monty is correct, they do have a lot to do but equally so do the other 2 likely winners. Given that Liverpool have the chance to dent both other sides, at home, they're suddenly looking quite possible winners.

Staggering.

[redgunamo]

thinking about His legacy for a few years now.

Perhaps, as you suggest, it's just a question now of "how", rather than "when".

[Classic Jorge]

I'd be amazed if anybody could, with a straight face, actually say city's emergence as a huge money spunking behemoth of the modern game, has not had negative repercussions for us.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Watford.

6 bottles of Cava and onto the Sex Disco.

We thought we were it.

[Classic Jorge]

That said, you have a player as good as bitey mcklukluxclan then you're in with a chance.

[redgunamo]

This is everyone's last chance to get to the top table before they won't be able to sugar Daddy themselves a seat there anymore. Without that threat, they may have taken their time a bit.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

Not to mention how quickly he got away from the defenders.

*Michael Owen in the cup final :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Players will always want to earn more, inflation is inevitable though perhaps you may argue that City accelerated it.

Who have they gazumped us to out of curiosity, it’s not a trick question on my behalf just curiosity.

[Classic Jorge]

[Curly]

[Sarah Ashley Harkinson]

Tony will have a clean plate to eat off of :nod:

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

In recent memory we've been blown out of the water by city on Jovetic, Dzeko, Kolarov and Kompany.

You cant argue that City paying £150kpw for players like Lescott, Nasri, Milner hasnt disrupted the plans we laid out post emirates move, surely.

[redgunamo]

We also want to be the biggest football club in the world.

[The Tony]

Does anyone still go to those Sex discos? Keep getting the invites but haven't been in a while.

Save The No6 wants to go to the Box...not sure about that...

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Lots of young fresh meat for you to get your teeth into.

Would also be good to update your photo, that must be what, 5 years old now? Is time being kind to you?

[Maravilloso Marvo]

But to be honest I was so off my fcuking tits that I don't remember a thing.

[redgunamo]

[The Tony]

[redgunamo]

allows us to occupy the moral high ground?

glwtpimo.

[Monty91]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

relaxed, you know.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

And as for the players you are making assumptions to some degree.

What I mean is you don’t know if we genuinely were in for the likes of Jovetic, yes there was months of media suggestions and people getting excited on social media but we both know that the majority of such stories can be totally disregarded as fabrication.

If we were truly in the market for all the players the media link to us then we have been blown out of the water by lots of clubs and not just City

[redgunamo]

So, essentially you're agreeing that there's no difference between lots of poor people paying for your football club's success, and one rich bloke doing it.

[Monty91]

model does not require any planning or imagination or anything other than simply buying at least two of the best players in the world in every position and if one or two or three of them doesn't work out buying another one.

There is no value in winning like this that, as a SUPPORTER, I could gain any satisfaction from.

[Classic Jorge]

In one way or another city's cash has effected us badly, you'd have to be a madman to deny this.

[redgunamo]

So do Real Madrid and Bayern München. They just do it bigger than us, is all.

Never be embarrassed by your wealth; it's just another trick of the rich to keep the poor without it - Michael Corleone*


*Seeing as we've brought movies into it.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You just appear to be basing a lot of your argument on pure assumption such as assumption that we were gazumped by City for certain players, or a tenuous assumption that their behaviour affected our business model by forcing wage inflation on us.

The biggest impact on Arsenal Football Club in the past decade has been the voluntary stadium move, not the emergence of City.

As I mentioned at the outset, I couldn’t care less about the expenditure of other clubs or how they finance it. That is their call. Similarly I don’t place us on a pedestal on the basis of our self-sustainability, that is simply how we choose to run our business.

I think in general City have been good for the Premiership, a new force to rival the establish trio. If they win the league this season not for one second will I think they have bought it, simply that they deserved it.

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

Arsenal, much further along is Real and Bayern, and at the very oppopite end is Man City :shrug:

[redgunamo]

us whereas Manchester City have won just three.

You can see for yourself that we are, at the very least, massively overreacting.

[Monty91]

adopt it.

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

From their point of view, it must look like the big clubs have been carving up the game for their own benefit for many decades.

We ourselves have also had owners and directors in the past who have seen fit to pump money in to help us win trophies. And importantly, they could afford to do so, unlike those at most other clubs.

Inflation within the game is not Manchester City's fault.

[Monty91]

and still guarantee winning the league.

We need to strategise, be inventive, find the correct squad balance, stick to a wage structure, treat footballers like humans (including letting them leave if they want to), and all that other stuff that creates good old fashioned job satisfaction.

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

I find it fascinating that the more financially doped clubs there are, the fewer guarantees there are too. There are going to be some very wealthy and ambitious clubs who are going to go to bed "hungry" each and every season. We are in that mix and it's fantastic, imo.

Or we could all go and support Bayern..

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

then they'll probably get rid of him, because why wouldn't you when your wealth renders every manager expendable and 'strategy' an unnecessary incumbency? Why not just go out and get someone else who can spend your money untarnished by failure?

Why do Arsenal keep Wenger? Because they know he has the required skills to operate under significant limitations and get the very maximum from his resources (whether in times of austerity or otherwise)

[redgunamo]

[R.C. Celebrating the return of Trophies]

why do you suddenly think AW gives a tuppenny f**k what fans think

[The Rob2]

[Peter]

At least in the footballing sense