1.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 09:42:44
I am not bothered by the players city are signing, laporte or Mahrez won't really much of a difference the way Sanchez would have. But the scale of it is disgusting, to spend 60mn for a player who will be a benchwarmer after 1 month.

Since St. Pep has arrived at city they have spent more on defense in a year than 52 actual countries if that isn't disgusting I don't know is, what's worse is earlier it was just billionaires like abrahomovic however much they spent one could see even they had limits and we could compete against them, but how do you compete against a country and that's what the PSG's and City's are, state funded institution and all this without getting into the other spending that those states are known to make and these football clubs are basically good publicity machines for some really despicable regimes of the world.

2.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 09:51:35
What is at issue though is how the media portrayed Utd's purchase of Sánchez and skewed it to such an extent that it looked like he was going to a club in the lower reaches for a ton of cash rather than one of the biggest clubs in the world. The media had their dirty paws all over the financial package that saw Sanchez come to Utd and factored everything into the deal and came up with some ludicrous figure to show Utd in a bad light and confirm Utd as just a money club, disgusting. Meanwhile over at City Pep goes and flashes the cash and lands Laporte then makes moves on Mahrez and then both he and City get a free pass by this country's press, you couldn't make it up.

3.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 09:06:35
Because they are City and Pep is their coach at the moment. If you want to show them love instead, switch to the blue page. :P.

4.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 09:41:14
Its not the players though is it, its the price tags. If they were spending 25-30m a player then that's would still be a huge amount, never mind the 50-60m per player, when really you have hardly earnt any of the money.

Its difficult to point fingers when we spend a lot on players, but like Liverpool or Arsenal we "deserve" to be able to pay the fees by earning it.

I'd love to know why they get no grief from the media by spending like this. Do they have some gagging order or something? any Ed's have anything?

5.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 10:31:01
FZZ, isn't the point about the media that we are bigger news than City and journalists like to sensationalise to create headlines? Maybe, maybe not.

I couldn't care less about other clubs or how much of their money they spend, but am perfectly capable of looking objectively at how any new signings will impact the chances of our rivals.

My main point is the "The media are conveniently rounding our spending up and City's down and trying to make us look bad but Pep can't do anything without spending money, etc, etc. " brigade come across as very he said she said. Who cares what the media says!?

And as for the source of their funds, that's an entirely different debate and not one I'm entering. But I will say this, no billionaire is as clean as a whistle.

Wouldn't we all rather engage about United rumours/ banter?

6.) 31 Jan 2018
31 Jan 2018 11:03:24
MDH,

Yes I am sure we would but City are making Football a bit of a joke, a player out injured for 6 weeks so they spend 60m on another player, you only have to hope it causes issues because you can’t have 25 top players all wanting to play every week, but at the moment the spending seems to have no limits whereas other clubs obviously do have limits which will mean the league becomes less and less competitive.

Just seems a little unfair really which is probably why people are talking about it. I thought they had to sell to buy or would be in trouble with FFP, or have they just got another ‘sponsorship deal’ from one of the owners companies?