Manchester City - Jesus saves, Ederson plays - MCFC - OK!
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
You're not welcome pal. You only get to choose your second, third etc teams. Your team chooses you
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Seems the FFP Fraudsters might want to spend a LOT more money on Messi 
The aged overpriced (GOAT tbf) player will help Citeh fulfil their Champions League dreams in his declining years as he did for Barcelona (as recently as 2014–15) 
Apparently the €700 million release clause will not be a FFP issue 
nor will his current £500k per week salary 
www.espn.co.uk
(probably all bollocks)
The aged overpriced (GOAT tbf) player will help Citeh fulfil their Champions League dreams in his declining years as he did for Barcelona (as recently as 2014–15) Apparently the €700 million release clause will not be a FFP issue nor will his current £500k per week salary
Sources: Man City crunch numbers for Messi deal
Manchester City are crunching the numbers to see if they would be able to sign Lionel Messi without breaching FFP rules, sources have told ESPN.
(probably all bollocks)
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
What would be a realistic covid market price for Messi assuming he wants to go and Barca want to rebuild a decent squad?Seems the FFP Fraudsters might want to spend a LOT more money on Messi
Sources: Man City crunch numbers for Messi deal
Manchester City are crunching the numbers to see if they would be able to sign Lionel Messi without breaching FFP rules, sources have told ESPN.
(probably all bollocks)
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just a bit more on Messi:
Various reporters putting this as Messi versus the President ie either on goes or its the other. If the President goes imo Koeman goes
Alternative view is that he definitely wants to go , that his faxed request isn't a stunt .All hinges on clause in contract which although hs a date of expiry is normally season to season so dispute is about when season ended. If he wants to go he'll fight in the courts.
If latter case ie he wants to go then City are in the best position not only in statue but the attraction of Guardiola However there is FFP will need either Messi to agree to a salary reduction which is possible if Messi really wants to leave or City cull the wage bill or the accountants find a way. Personally cant see UEFA interfering too much with Messi.
Other suitors: Juventus short on dosh need to sell and personally Ronaldo and Messi in the same team is impossible for both egos, PSG possibly but I have doubts, Chelsea is just paper talk and Messi would like alternating with Mount. Liverpool haven't the money. Inter have but wheres the attraction? Man Utd might have the money but cant see Messi being attracted to either their style of play or Ole tbh. Personally I'd love him to go to Bielsa's Leeds but thats just a dream.
Various reporters putting this as Messi versus the President ie either on goes or its the other. If the President goes imo Koeman goes
Alternative view is that he definitely wants to go , that his faxed request isn't a stunt .All hinges on clause in contract which although hs a date of expiry is normally season to season so dispute is about when season ended. If he wants to go he'll fight in the courts.
If latter case ie he wants to go then City are in the best position not only in statue but the attraction of Guardiola However there is FFP will need either Messi to agree to a salary reduction which is possible if Messi really wants to leave or City cull the wage bill or the accountants find a way. Personally cant see UEFA interfering too much with Messi.
Other suitors: Juventus short on dosh need to sell and personally Ronaldo and Messi in the same team is impossible for both egos, PSG possibly but I have doubts, Chelsea is just paper talk and Messi would like alternating with Mount. Liverpool haven't the money. Inter have but wheres the attraction? Man Utd might have the money but cant see Messi being attracted to either their style of play or Ole tbh. Personally I'd love him to go to Bielsa's Leeds but thats just a dream.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
The whole thing smacks of made up stuff. Faxing a transfer request, FFS
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Ah, but it wasn't just any fax. It was a BurofaxThe whole thing smacks of made up stuff. Faxing a transfer request, FFS
What is a burofax? The document sent by Messi, explained | JOE.co.uk
What is a burofax? You probably never heard that word until yesterday. Well, Lionel Messi sent one to Barcelona, and there's a very particular reason.
www.joe.co.uk
ETA: The term is used just in Spain it seems, and the document is not delivered by fax but by the postal service. It's a kind of enhanced Special Delivery it seems...
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TBF I'm Spanish myself and I'd never heard of the word before. Admittedly I've been in the UK for 25 years.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Ken Bates used it a fax machine when he was Leeds owner
SlideshowBob
Active Member
For the amount of money they have at their disposal they have some really glaring weaknesses in the side. Defence looks dire. Presuming Aguero's going to continue having injury problems because he's not exactly getting any younger, Jesus is probably the only striker they can rely on to generally play 30+ games a season, and while he's good, he's not exactly the best out there: in fact most of City's rivals have comfortably better goalscorers than him. They've got enough quality to ensure they probably still won't finish outside the top two, but I think anyone classing them as favourites was probably being a bit premature.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
2 takeaways from today's game
1) leeds are good enough to survive, and thrive, at this level
2) City have got a glasss jaw. The defending for the Leeds goal was absolutely diabolical
1) leeds are good enough to survive, and thrive, at this level
2) City have got a glasss jaw. The defending for the Leeds goal was absolutely diabolical
Somewhat Freudian that one should use the number ‘7’. Seeing as no defending Champions have ever been done by that score, before the Holte End saw it happen. Well, plastic seats. Oh, I served that one up for ya.
No mention in the media about it too much either, no ripping you to pieces and putting pressure on your manager. Almost as if Liverpool are the media darlings, darling.
Stick to rugby would ya, your bitterness is astonishing. Wool.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Really? I’m sure I saw something. Must be my mistake.
They’ve had plenty of days, days that a glory hunter wouldn’t be able to relate to. Look at the highest attended home games in Div 1 and Div 2 when City played away - and tell them, again, that this win in court was their greatest moment.
Keegan in the Championship was the first time they got 100 goals.
It’s thinly veiled racism this, okay the owners are horrible twunts, but don’t play like Liverpool and all the other big European clubs didn’t conspire against Manchester City.
Only one Frank Swift!
many in depth reports about the Champions being done 7-2 ?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Yes
Much analysis about how your defence has gone to shambles? Easier to win it once than it is to defend it.
Can I ask for links, please
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
You can ask for anything you like, old bean. I may even bother finding some later. But there were tons on the bbc, guardian, and mirror sites. Klopp didn’t get shafted for it in the way pep would have simply because it isn’t a repeating feature - yet. Whereas citehs defense has been dodgy since last season. And questions are being asked about the sense of playing with that high line.
fair enough - but his first two years weren’t anything out of the ordinary. Guardiola got slated for not winning it in his first year.
