• lonesomedota@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Why 700? Their daddy shell companies could have round that up 1 billions. I mean it’s just a make-believe figures all around. Don’t be stingy.

    I could send them an A4 paper with £300 millions written on it. It’s about the same as their sponsorship revenue

  • torts92@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I’ve went to Asia and America, never seen anyone with a Man City shirt, I even saw someone with a Tottenham shirt.

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    10 months ago

    Really wished they’d had gone ahead with the super league plan. Think it’d have been the best thing for English football

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      10 months ago

      But it was fine in the 70’s and 80’s when Liverpool were the richest team in England due to their owner.

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        10 months ago

        It’s hilarious seeing it. I hate city dominating but the are literally doing what United have done for 20 years under Sir Alex… Buy the best players and dominate the league.

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          10 months ago

          And Liverpool before that, Chelsea after it, and so on and so forth.

          Shankly might have picked the players back in the 60’s but it was Eric Sawyer who arranged all the financing. In other words, they needed money to build the team and sign the best players.

          Go back far enough and once the wage cap was lifted every team used money to buy success. Some also tried and failed.

          Also in Liverpool (the city)back in the day the biggest team were 100% Everton. Once Liverpool became successful (under Shankly)those percentages began to change. In other words, there were plastic success chasing glory hunters even back in those days.

          No one will ever admit this though.

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            10 months ago

            Also in Liverpool (the city)back in the day the biggest team were 100% Everton. Once Liverpool became successful (under Shankly)those percentages began to change. In other words, there were plastic success chasing glory hunters even back in those days.

            I know what you’re saying but that is a really modern way of looking at it. This is forgetting a significant thing in the way football fans behaved in the 50s and 60s, at least in Liverpool, can’t speak for other places obviously, but it was extremely common for people to ‘support’ both clubs. You had your preferred chosen side of course but it was far from unusual for people to attend the match of whoever was at home that week, Everton or Liverpool.

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          10 months ago

          I think people are more angry about where the money comes from (which wasn’t an issue when Liverpool and United dominated respectively) and the fact that regardless of spending a lot of money, there is growing evidence that City have been ignoring the existing financial rules for years anyway

          • SKULL1138@alien.topB
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            10 months ago

            Again, you’re not wrong. Where the money comes from is a valid, but in my opinion, separate argument from the money ruins football thing. As for the breaches, I agree, the rules may have been brought in by the current elite to limit competition or you may disagree with that. It’s irrelevant if the rules were in place and broken there should be punishments.

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          10 months ago

          difference is neither club had a unethical, backwards state backing them for non sporting reasons

      • 147_@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        You know what im not even going to argue, you’re a Newcastle fan obviously you’re trying to justify it 🤣

  • LuckyFlyer0_0@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Can’t believe people are doubting them. One of their sponsors has a business address of an empty, state of the art warehouse outside London. Haters will say their sponsorships aren’t real