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Nice to hear from a fellow Malaysian/probably sporean. but apart from that. just wanna point out a few:
firstly, united has history. united has previous glories and trophies to look back upon. these give them psychological boost. Hence, with the combination of youth and stars, u get a balance team. City on the other hand has nothing to offer. City plays 2nd div football in 1999. crawling back to premier league isn't easy. what's more to fight and stay. Do u think without the injection of money, City will be where they are ? i can assure u no.
2ndly, United is biggest elite team in England, has one of the strongest fan base all over the world including south east asia ( ure a malaysian/sporean, im sure u'll agree to that). Tv broadcasting rights, merchandise, sponsorships even with Mr Potato !, advertisements on United. All these are revenues and are rolled into income. Without money, City will never appear on the map. City's fan base will only be within the city of manchester , and just relying on small sponsorships and small ticket collections. How is that to cover club's turn overs and to compete with the giants. answer is no.
3rdly. u talk about young players. Everton produced Rooney. Young started in Watford, shined in Villa. Ronaldo produced by Sporting, Jones from blackburn, and the lists go on. i know ure gonna say United shaped them up better. Of course, u play for one of the biggest club in the world. and u have CL football. Great Coach. but my point will be, if city have got no money, hence City do not have stars playing alongside them, city will not be able to play CL, do u think players like Richards will stay? Hart who was a nobody from Shewsbury proved that he has great GK-ing tallent, and eventually being swooped by bigger teams. SWP was City's gem and chelsea took him. How will a small club able to hold on to their players ? No. Bigger teams will always win.
4th. ure saying why not bring young starlets up and play. i would say it is not the right time, at the moment. City will try to cement a place in the top 4, which they did last season. Try to win something this season, get the first 11 right, try to build and inject a little confidence in the whole team, before introducing the youth.
SAF has winning mentality in the squad. look what they achieved in the past 20 years. Wenger was there too with arsenal for 10 years. when u step in to such Club, ur confidence, psychologically, mentally n physically is different. but when u look at city, u have to look back to 1937. There is nothing in city. that is why it is so hard to get that boost of confidence in the city team.
SAF and Wenger can afford to gamble because the board of directors put them ahead in everything.
Mancini do not have such privilege. If city gambles and couldn't play CL next season, City will have huge set back. and i hope u know, winning a CL and "able to play in CL" is a different thing. Wnger will agree to that.
the thing is u guys just look at the surface, look at what the media has to report, look at tevez's badly taken pictures on the net.
finally a knowledgeable city fan to speak up for the minority of manchester
CTWD
If u think those are just "ranting" as u claim and there wasn't any point, ur footballing sense would be just as simple as holding a tub of Mr potato and say "potato boleh".
and i don't find any wrong with my language. i feel it's pretty understandable. im here as a football fan, not an english teacher.
After all they are the Barcelona of Wales! Love the football of this team.
Well, I guess your ignorance caught up to you, at last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_QtGigAHM&feature=related
Regardless of it being an exhibition match, I don't think barcelona has had a defeat like this since Guardiola had taken command.
well played Swansea. I have not closely followed PL football before this year but I am proud to see a smaller team like this stepping up and beating one of the leaders!
http://www.sportyhub.com/league/swansea-city-vs-manchester-city-1-0-motd-highlights-premier-league-1132012-video_6b37030c9.html
city is the past united just that the currency in the past is smaller and thus when you are making comparison, city is spending much more. furthermore, players get overrated and the football industry is doing much better such that players cost more now.
By anyone else's standards losing to a newly promoted team while challenging for the title is defintely a slip up, and 500 million quid in 3 years is definitely spending!!!!
teams do slip up, united slip up against blackburn too. u might argue swansea just got promoted but they definitely doing better than blackburn.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/947315-manchester-city-post-the-biggest-loss-in-english-football-history
And here is one of a hundred articles from 2009 reporting that Monsour was already planning to spend 500 million over the next 3 years:
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Manchester-City-owner-to-bankroll-500million-spending-spree-on-best-young-talent-Exclusive-article255033.html
those injection of money are investments included, hence that much of money is into it, isn't just transfers alone.
and yes no club has EVER spent that much. that is because that is the ONLY way for a club as small as city to compete with the elite teams like United , arsenal.
since u like reading :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2064436/Blame-Platini-Manchester-Citys-195m-loss-Martin-Samuel.html#ixzz1jnSrqGrA
it is now, or NEVER for clubs like city.
in man city, can u just list the name players from your own academy who play in first team?? how many?? city dont need to spend too much money if they can give chanceto young players to play and give them experience..