Popular Post It's Your Round Posted February 6 Popular Post Share Posted February 6 11 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said: We are trying to do similar with clubs Yep, West Brom 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 43 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said: We are trying to do similar with clubs Not comparable. The City Group is an extension of the sports washing arm of UAE extending from Troyes, Yokohama, Girona and others including in India and China. The aim of V Sports is primarily about infrastructure and developing networks of talents. Not directly owning clubs or being minority or majority shareholders with every team. Take for example Vissel Kobe in Japan, it's a partnership and working to develop talent. We aren't aggressively buying clubs under the banner of the petro state. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 40 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Not comparable. The City Group is an extension of the sports washing arm of UAE extending from Troyes, Yokohama, Girona and others including in India and China. The aim of V Sports is primarily about infrastructure and developing networks of talents. Not directly owning clubs or being minority or majority shareholders with every team. Take for example Vissel Kobe in Japan, it's a partnership and working to develop talent. We aren't aggressively buying clubs under the banner of the petro state. Exactly… what they are doing is corrupt, immoral sportswashing… What we are doing is for the good of the partner clubs… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 2 minutes ago, DJ_Villain said: Exactly… what they are doing is corrupt, immoral sportswashing… What we are doing is for the good of the partner clubs… No We are in same shit as them just not as successful. The City partner clubs are doing fine it seems 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, DJ_Villain said: Exactly… what they are doing is corrupt, immoral sportswashing… What we are doing is for the good of the partner clubs… Nice try. Do you realise that feeder clubs are nothing new? How do you think Brighton got Mitoma? Because of their Belgian partner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Zatman said: No We are in same shit as them just not as successful. The City partner clubs are doing fine it seems Troyes, the club who actually own this player's registration, have never played him and sit just outside the Ligue 2 relegation zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 11 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Troyes, the club who actually own this player's registration, have never played him and sit just outside the Ligue 2 relegation zone. Girona are in a La Liga title race, Palermo are currently in a playoff chase after years in doldrums, Lommel similar. Troyes seem to be an exception but they also played in Ligue Un last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Some Man U fan on TalkSport today saying Antony Gordon is a better footballer than Foden. Where they get these jokers from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 2 hours ago, Zatman said: Girona are in a La Liga title race, Palermo are currently in a playoff chase after years in doldrums, Lommel similar. Troyes seem to be an exception but they also played in Ligue Un last season I just think it's quite easy for me to imagine being a fan of Troyes, watching this team struggling in Ligue 2, and thinking it's a bit of a **** pisser that rather than playing the player we own, I'm just hearing about how well he's doing in Spain so that he can improve for the benefit of a team in England. That would rankle with me, while I was fretting about relegation. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Strasbourg are upset in a different way. Selling their players and bringing in the Todd Boehley creche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: I just think it's quite easy for me to imagine being a fan of Troyes, watching this team struggling in Ligue 2, and thinking it's a bit of a **** pisser that rather than playing the player we own, I'm just hearing about how well he's doing in Spain so that he can improve for the benefit of a team in England. That would rankle with me, while I was fretting about relegation. They’re 6 points off relegation and 6 points off 6th. I have no idea how they play, but that league is TIGHT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post villa4europe Posted February 10 Popular Post Share Posted February 10 Just seen one of them in kiddy Morrison, guy probably in his early 60s, really rare spotting round here He's wearing man city jogging bottoms, a man city coat and a man city woolly hat at 2.30pm walking round Morrisons Your teams on TV right now and you're dressed like a superfan doing the weekly shop you absolute **** clown, boils my piss that kind of shit 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted February 12 Popular Post Share Posted February 12 This just seems like a meaningless way to compare them anyway. What is true for both is that they both had greater financial resources than every other team in the league. If you're going to treat 'having money' as a negative, then they both get an asterisk. The problem though, is that it's only partly that they did well because they had money; it's also that they had money because they did well. Ferguson is probably the 'better' PL manager in most people's eyes, if nothing else because of the longevity and the number of essentially revamped squads he won with. Money doesn't really factor into the discussion. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Ferguson had it much easier than Pep, plenty of seasons with no competent rivals and always had the ability to buy the best players from other premier league teams, Cantona, Keane, Yorke, Rooney, Ferdinand, etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 1 minute ago, villa89 said: Ferguson had it much easier than Pep, plenty of seasons with no competent rivals and always had the ability to buy the best players from other premier league teams, Cantona, Keane, Yorke, Rooney, Ferdinand, etc. Yes, think that's a good counter-argument to the general view that Ferguson was superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) Pep has had some of the best players on the planet in the dressing rooms when he arrived at clubs. SAF built several world class teams, and somehow made shite to average players champions. Both top coaches but very different in many ways. Edited February 12 by Genie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 On 06/02/2024 at 20:30, foreveryoung said: Some Man U fan on TalkSport today saying Antony Gordon is a better footballer than Foden. Where they get these jokers from. London, mainly 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Verdict on charges when......? It's been 84 **** years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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