Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Yippee Ki Yay]

If city were taken over in that "era" ie Fergy in the 90's/early 2000's, im pretty sure city wouldnt even need to have done the alleged cooking the books - spending a shytload of money back then was fair game. Rules began to change not long after Chelsea started winning with oil money.

Nah I think they would have still done it, especially if they had Txiki Begiristain at the club like they have now,
Sporting director at Barca all the way through their cheating scandal
Then moves to Man City and becomes sporting director and is there all the way through their cooking the books, cheating scandal

And they didn't even really need to do it as how serious is the FFP?
Do the big clubs really get punished for it, if they do it's just a fine which they can afford

It's not like how they treat the lower clubs like Bury for instance, they are like dinosaurs now, extinct.
Or others clubs like Luton or Derby getting massive points deduction which they were never going to overcome

I'm not even that bothered by the over spending as we have had to put up with that before like with Chelsea, it's the cheating which I am not happy with

And I hope they throw the book at them like they did with Juventus in like 2006/07.

But they won't, they will probably just get a slap on the wrist

 

[nyknick]

does inter still have any of their croatian players? city doesn't have one, so we still have that for hope

Does city have any Croatian player on their team?

What is this Croatian player thing?

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Does city have any Croatian player on their team?

No but Inter Milan does so it does give a little bit of hope that it is not going to go the way all the pundits will think

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

What is this Croatian player thing?

Since like 2013 I think, the winning team in the Champions league has had a Croatian player playing for then

 

[African_brehda]

What is this Croatian player thing?

For 10 seasons now, UCL winner has had a Croatian player.

Now let’s run the analysis

Out of those 10- Modric has 5 with Madrid
Kovacic has 2 with Madrid and 1 with Chelsea
Rest is made up of Rakitic, Lovren, Mandzukic and Ivan Perisic


I was running the analysis to clown the myth. Midway through typing it, it started getting spooky

Nah fukk that, they all played for top teams. fukk Brozovic and Inter

 

[African_brehda]

Since like 2013 I think, the winning team in the Champions league has had a Croatian player playing for then

Inter Milan too has had a player in the World Cup winning team final since the 80s

 

[Lakerman0834]

No but Inter Milan does so it does give a little bit of hope that it is not going to go the way all the pundits will think

It’s our only hope. Can’t trust bald fraud ETH

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Inter Milan too has had a player in the World Cup winning team final since the 80s

Isn't Bayern Munich included in that stat as well

 

[nyknick]

 

[Yehuda]

It looked like light work for this oldhead. Apparently he's recently had a hip replacement too LOL WTF.

 

[TobiOT]

Fanbase turned on him with the quickness.

 

[ciubaca]

Did they rly offer Messi 500 mill a year? How much money do they have... they should focus on other things. This is just vulgar

 

[concise]

Should have known when companies like Xango, Herbalife, Advocare, etc. featured prominently as shirt sponsors for years.

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Did they rly offer Messi 500 mill a year? How much money do they have... they should focus on other things. This is just vulgar

Who has offered a declining 35 year old Messi a 500 mil a year contract ?

 

[10bandz]

Who has offered a declining 35 year old Messi a 500 mil a year contract ?

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