[very OT] Football: Manchester City

[yello]

Is there anyone else that is finding Manchester City's spending spree just a little sickening? I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll be allowing myself to smile just a little if the 'purchase to victory' strategy fails.

Sure, other teams have paid big bucks for players but it pales in comparison.

 

[Keith Oates]

They are following the example of Chelsea to try and get rid of the football blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Haitch]

For all that money, there aren't that many exciting names, are there? Gareth Barry?

 

[yello]

True, it does seem more money than sense. Adebayor for £25M? Wenger will be happy with that!

 

[potsy]

Some 'sulkers' in that team now,Bellamy,Adebayor,Robinho,Santa Cruz,will be interesting when it all goes wrong.

 

[scook94]

I'm finding the spending very interesting. I still think that without the right manager it's not going to pay off, I just don't see Mark Hughes as the right manager....

 

[Wigsie]

I'm finding the spending very interesting. I still think that without the right manager it's not going to pay off, I just don't see Mark Hughes as the right manager....

I totally agree, its kind of like building a bike (ok, bear with me & use your imagination) you could spend a fortune on the frame but if you use crappy wheels and components you will never have the best complete setup!

Mark Hughes IMO could be a great manager, but he is 10 years off the experience needed to control all those players and turn it into a great team.

 

[Rob S]

Manchester City's spending is perfectly reasonable....an average club that's owned by a multi-billionaire that wants to improve. And what players have they bought....not exactly superstars of the game....though Tevez will be good.
What is sickening is Real Madrid paying a total of £136 million for two players over the course of a week.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I have a private laugh to myself at the thousands of people who can barely afford it, that week in week out buy tickets and shirts etc, to finance a bunch of prima donnas and their extravagant lifestyles (& WAGs).

What do they get in return? A few fleeting glimpses of perfunctory raised hand claps before they disappear into the tunnel.

 

[yello]

What is sickening is Real Madrid paying a total of £136 million for two players over the course of a week.

Too true. But then Real Madrid have always been a law unto themselves!

 

[PaulB]

I have a private laugh to myself at the thousands of people who can barely afford it, that week in week out buy tickets and shirts etc, to finance a bunch of prima donnas and their extravagant lifestyles (& WAGs).

What do they get in return? A few fleeting glimpses of perfunctory raised hand claps before they disappear into the tunnel.

I can afford it and I adore it. There's nothing like the thrill of that big-match atmosphere and if God was to offer me a chance to re-live anything, I'd chose that magical six minutes in Istanbul that changed the world forever. Personally, I have a chuckle to myself at all those people who don't go to live football as they are missing so much that is good about life.

 

[stedlocks]

I offered to drive Adebeyor to Manchester......to make sure the lazy toe-rag made it to the signing

 

[ComedyPilot]

I can afford it and I adore it. There's nothing like the thrill of that big-match atmosphere and if God was to offer me a chance to re-live anything, I'd chose that magical six minutes in Istanbul that changed the world forever. Personally, I have a chuckle to myself at all those people who don't go to live football as they are missing so much that is good about life.

Yes, the chance for a sharpened 50p to hit you on the head, and for some drunken idiot to piss down your back through a rolled up newspaper.

 

[PaulB]

Yes, the chance for a sharpened 50p to hit you on the head, and for some drunken idiot to piss down your back through a rolled up newspaper.

And in the 45 years I've been going to watch football have happened to me precisely never.

 

[yello]

and for some drunken idiot to piss down your back through a rolled up newspaper.

Come on, it was The Guardian.