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Guardiola to be found out in the premier league

Chegsy said:
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Seen this as I was scrolling my phone yesterday. Can’t access the actual article as it’s behind a paywall so have no idea who wrote it or if it’s even a decent piece.

Agree with the headline though. If City have broke rules then punish them but all the rules do is keep the money clubs on top. All this talk about making it fair but there has never been a level playing field due to the revenues these clubs generate. United haven’t won a title since 2012 yet have still been able to throw huge fees round on the likes of Maguire, Lukaku, Pogba and most recently Antony. Now and again a club will break through the glass ceiling but it doesn’t last and the “elite” rise back up.
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If all the old guard wanted financial parity: roster caps, then scrap the loan system (max: 3), get rid of feeder clubs, reserve teams can only be U-23 and don't let BS like Barca B play in a league
 
Rook said:
If all the old guard wanted financial parity: roster caps, then scrap the loan system (max: 3), get rid of feeder clubs, reserve teams can only be U-23 and don't let BS like Barca B play in a league
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FFP is worse then what city have done. They were forced to cheat to compete, why the likes of Liverpool and Man u are fuming. The model Man u and Liverpool want will totally ruin football if FFO us based on income earned.

Football is over for the rest of us.we are just making up the rules.
 
Walken said:
He is clearly a brilliant coach but every single job he has taken winning the league is par, as a result he slips way down the list of great managers as he has never built anything. On top of that his fanboys are the rogan listeners of the football world
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I disagree on the bold part. Of the 3 sides he inherited, he vastly improved 2 of them (Barca and City). Yes they were top sides before he joined but he made them even better. His Barca side is the best club side I can remember seeing in my lifetime (too young to remember Sacchi's Milan of the late 80s).
 
Blueclouds said:
FFP is worse then what city have done. They were forced to cheat to compete, why the likes of Liverpool and Man u are fuming. The model Man u and Liverpool want will totally ruin football if FFO us based on income earned.

Football is over for the rest of us.we are just making up the rules.
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Yeah but I can put a cheeky acca on Chelsea vs Utd to finish 4-4 with 8 corners and 4 cards doh.

What more could you want as a PL fan ?

@Saint Domingo
 

Billy Dean said:
I disagree on the bold part. Of the 3 sides he inherited, he vastly improved 2 of them (Barca and City). Yes they were top sides before he joined but he made them even better. His Barca side is the best club side I can remember seeing in my lifetime (too young to remember Sacchi's Milan of the late 80s).
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His barca had a huge amount of very important pillars in place, mancini did all the structural work at city though that is peps first successful rebuild. I have to say I never particularly enjoyed watching that barca era or the teams it influenced aside from Messi
 
Marius57 said:
Probably best not to come onto an Everton forum as a City fan and complain about being shafted by VAR after our game last season. ?
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Haha. You did tbf. VAR have shafted us more than most. I'm still fuming about Tottenham game in the semi-final of the Champions League when Sterling's injury time winner was not given for being offside. It was never offside.
 
www.football365.com

Manchester City stars reassigned upon expulsion: Everton get Haaland and old target joins Arsenal

In the event that Manchester City are expelled from the Premier League for their various financial misdeeds, their stars will likely need to find new homes.
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I love ideas for articles like these but they always go on too long to be funny. Still, it was worth it for:

Kevin De Bruyne – West Ham
David Moyes will already have the Leon Osman tapes ready to show Kevin De Bruyne how to pass, cross, create and generally influence a game. Do not ask why. Just watch, learn and be grateful.
 

Walken said:
His barca had a huge amount of very important pillars in place
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Only because he recognised them. Xavi was about to be sold, Iniesta wasn't the player he'd become. And he was responsible for a lot of the lads who came through the academy that would become the foundation of that team. I'm with you on the rest of his career, which has basically been a bunny run with grotesque, unlimited spending power, but that Barca team were not the foregone conclusion people remember it to be. He defo had a huge impact on their trajectory
 
Walken said:
He is clearly a brilliant coach but every single job he has taken winning the league is par, as a result he slips way down the list of great managers as he has never built anything. On top of that his fanboys are the rogan listeners of the football world
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There’s been lots of teams in England before with humongous budgets. They all didn’t get 98, 99, 100 points though. There’s not been a Messi or Iniesta either in City that people can point to. He won with the Kompany Toure Silva Aguero team, and then dismantled it and built a team that’s statistically even better.

He’s a brilliant manager there’s no two ways about it.
 

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