The board The management

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

I'll put my neck on the line and say that I expect us to officially bid for at least one of those two.

We dont buy finished articles mate, we make them! (for Man Utd) :grin:

I kind of hope you're right. I just think Harry would more likely spend the money on an experienced striker who "can do a job".

 

[cusop]

Martin Tyler summed it up. He said 'think of the players city can now sign they are in the champions league'

We had our chance and our board and management blew it. We signed gallas aged 33 on a free and a bargain van der vaart. Simply a lack of ambition by the club and we deserve it. We had some good nights in Europe but we have ultimately went backwards and will now struggle to compete next year.

Reality Check please!! They have MILLIONs and MILLIONs to spend, more then any other club in the league. The have second team that would come 8th in the league. PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPLease!

I truly do feel for the Citeh fans they are like us they have lived in close proximity to two successful clubs. The fans stayed loyal and they are lucky. But the fact is Citeh kicked a great youth program into touch and spent our lubs total worth on players in the last year half of which they do not play and 1/4 of which make up our total wage bill!!

 

[onemorespursfan]

I was talking to a City fan yesterday who didn't think that Champions league changes anything. They have a (potentially) very difficult qualifier to get through first and when the worlds greatest players have a choice of Barca, Real, Inter, AC Milan, Bayern, Man Utd and Man City we all know who they would go to. (He didn't think that Man Utd was a big pull but equally I don't rate Arsenal and we may both be slightly inaccurate)

Let us not forget that they were outplayed by Dinamo something or other in the Europa league, could not score in Cyprus, could easily get Bayern or Valencia in a qualification match and are likely to be in the bottom seeds for the groups as well meaning they could have a worse group than we had.

Man City will not be great next season (I am sure they would be happy with our achievements of this season in the CL) but my concern is that if they are in the same position as we were in January we will see the difference in the 2 clubs spending power and watch them disappear into the upper echelons of European football.

We, however, are a club that has remained financially stable and I for one would have bitten your arms off (or any other body part) and congratulated the board if you said 2 years ago that we would finish 5th/6th in the league and quarter finals of CL in this season.

Let's back the board and management and be excited about our chances for next seasons European adventure (still not sure if the fair play league still gets a spot) rather than worry about other teams.

 

[jimbo]

I suppose the depressing thing about it is that before this season City were a rich club that haven't won a trophy in years and were without Champions League football. This season they've fixed one of those problems and may be about to solve the other as well. You wonder, for instance, if Kaka would turn them down now in the same way he did so last summer?

 

[Rogmeister]

I suppose the depressing thing about it is that before this season City were a rich club that haven't won a trophy in years and were without Champions League football. This season they've fixed one of those problems and may be about to solve the other as well. You wonder, for instance, if Kaka would turn them down now in the same way he did so last summer?

Of course wouldnt. Not for 200k plus a week and champions league football. Take a footballer very commited to his club to turn that down!