Doug,dougb wrote:Thanks Dave!davet010 wrote:http://www.mcfcfans.co.uk/blog/$blog/20 ... rspectives
There you go Doug.
First home game of the new era is a week on Sunday....vs Chelsea.
I wonder how many other Premiership outfits are going to be looking for a wealthy benefactor.
Had to laught listening to CBC radio in Toronto on the way to work this morning. The sportscaster was talking about how odd it was that Manchester City fans were worried the team would go and spend too much money to put together an all-star squad.
Best wishes,
Doug
The thing is that City fans have had to make do with not being successful, in fact yo-yoing up and down the league (10 years ago, City were starting their one and only season in the third tier) - and thus developed a strong shell of self-deprecation....the standard response to the MU fan's statement of 'you lot are crap' was 'yeah - so what ?' They just don't have that level of ironic detachment, as you can see by their panicked bleatings about City 'ruining the game' by joining the rich clubs. Personally I think it's because that sort of knowing irony is a part of Mancunian culture as well, which therefore bypasses Man U supporters.
I think that the concerns are genuine, to some extent, and here's why...
1. City already have one of the most successful youth setups in the country - even last week saw 5 home grown players and 2 in the subs, as well as winning the FA Youth Cup last year. It would be a shame if those lads couldn't see a way into the first team if good enough.
2. The Chumps League already has numerical restrictions on the 25 man squad (2 home-grown and 8 home-country players, IIRC). I'm sure that Bent Blatter and his greasy French poodle will be pushing for this to be introduced at domestic level as well - so no point going out buying all foreign players, but you end up paying over the odds for domestic ones (a big hi to Spurs at this point).
3. I really don't want to see City become another Chelsea. The culture of the club was more strongly rooted in the locality than them or MU, and I wouldn't want to lose that, or lose the staunch support to be replaced by the camel sandwich brigade. I also don't want to buy any players off the Big 4 either....why should City contribute £140m towards MU's spiralling debt ?
4. Lastly, it appears that the owners of City are not willing to go to the extreme with regard to local rivalries. Buy United from the Glasers (let's say £1bn...or about another $2 on a barrel of oil), sell all of the players, inform the Premier League that the club is disbanding and dynamite the ground. Well, I'D buy the DVD, for a start.
PS - If I was an MU player, I'd be very afraid....they might think that they need another air crash to cynically exploit for the next 50 years.
PPS - Just read through that stuff about Keegan that PK posted. To be honest, while I can understand that getting Xisco and some unknown dude when you wanted Schweinsteiger might seem a bit of a disappointment, the fact that Mad Kev thought the latter might want to play for Newcastle, or that they can afford him, shows just how divorced from reality he is. KK is no longer able to function effectively at Prem level, and it's really an indication of the Geordie capacity for self deception that they are demonstrating to keep him.
