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ken6488:
Time will tell city is in their prime era just accept that

Leave the guy to be consoling himself.

Athemisia:
Dey there wyne about money wey no go reach your hand. UCL is still the biggest in club football.

Cap.

homesteady:
KDB that couldn’t even outrun Modric would have done what? He was just out of sync. It’s not a coincidence that it was after he left that Man City got their best chances and even scored one.

Man city were not just meant to qualify. I won’t blame Pep. What were the chances that Madrid would have scored those goals just after those misses by Grealish?? They were not just lucky.

I agree with this.

homesteady:
He wasn’t going to do any magic that day. He always disappears when his team needs him at crucial UCL games. Check all the times Man City have been eliminated in UCL, at least in 70% of those games, he had a stinker.

Nonsense.

osazsky:
if u like win 100000000ucl...my own is that pep extended till 2026...can we forget abt the epl and discuss other things..like ipig.herdsmen till then...then 2027 when newcastle wins it we can resume epl discussion

Don't mind them.

Davidganna10:
I thought city said it was because of laporte injury? Winning the premier league with seven games to spare is no luck my brother and no amount of VAR can give you that. Just admit it Liverpool was brilliant that season, like Man city has been all the season the won the league. Thanks

Liverpool have never won the league with 7 games to spare. That is a bloody lie.

Dedicated to 1 in 31 fans and capricious stans.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_j--ljb9w

andrewbaba44:
So the almighty epl is now this useless ?

I would have love you to say farmers league merchants

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Finesse007:
How about you, android22 and raumdeuter talk about the penalty not awarded to wolves against zinchenko....oh,it is not against city,so *crickets**

What about Raheem Sterling's own?

Unlimited22:
Good evening Uncle Dayo


Dost thou agree with this?

I am just joking oh.

He is Guardiola's man
He is better than Zidane.

Remember when the CL began and only league champions were allowed to play?

Rival with someone that you have won 4 league titles to their 1. Thunder fire that kain rivalry.

Nobody cares about City, Nobody cares about City but here you are talking about City. City will still make more money for winning the league than the Champions league. All these scousers sef.

When the season begun, the Champions league winners aimed to win the English Premier League. They flopped badly. That is how the story ended.

raumdeuter:
They will add flight tickets they used to fly Haaland to England to the fees soon and claim the flight cost 50M

Since we have started calculating the agent fees, salary, match bonus, pocket money and appearance fee

Lets keep the same energy for Chelsea players too which is financed by Russian sugardaddy and Putin friend wey almost make donjazet disown them

Everybody believes in Fabrizio Romano until the nonsense they are spewing does not match with him. Then they revert to making stuff up. All the big clubs tried to get Haaland. The money offered was basically the same. Fabrizio said Haaland simply preferred City for some of the reasons you mentioned in addition to playing for City manager, liking the City project and his father having played for the team. I don't know how CR37 that was bought for 25M pounds somehow did not involve Jorge Mendes getting agent fee. Or how his 500K a week salary for 2 years did not add 26M to his deal so we can also say United signed him for at least 52M. Only when City is involved that we ignore transfer fee to start conjecturing nonsense about agent fee and sign on bonus.

potland:
haaland is coming to Etihad. Chelsea is finished

for just 5M Euros more than what we got from selling Ferran.

raumdeuter:
Madrid do not have any need for Haaland when they have Vinicius and Benzema with Mbappe joining for free. There is no spot for Haaland in Madrid currently and he cant wait fr Benzema to fizzle out in 3-4yrs
Likewise Bayern cannot drop Lewandowski to chase 60M Haaland

That leaves PSG and City. PSG already have Messi and Neymar

That is the official amount city paid for him, If you have any other figure let us know. We only go by official reports not rumors at beer parlors

When Liverpool signed Luis Diaz, nobody was mentioning his agency fee, sign on bonus or the add-ons. All we saw was 37-40M pounds even when officially it was 60M with the add-ons. The media will do that alot for Liverpool signings or when they can't, tell you about netspend (where the salary is not factored). City signed Haaland and now we care about agency fee, salary and bonus and we add it to announce it as the official figure because we have to make City look like money bags.

Emirates gave Arsenal money for their stadium naming rights. Gave RM money for their jerseys. We can list many big clubs including PSG that collected emirates money. City does same (even lower amounts than these clubs mentioned above) and we start hearing about state owned club.

1 standard for Manchester City and another standard for the rest.

drisham:
This egbon sef

And the champions league?
I don't think city have an European trophy in their entire existence

Google is your friend.

Godx:
I think it's a Brazilian thing. From Fernandinho to Casemiro to Fabinho, they are very good at escaping cards.

Fernandinho gets booked. People just feel that his systemic fouls should be punished quicker whereas Casemiro and Fabinho are dirty players for the most part and barely ever get booked.

hensben:
So you are believing every media outlet out there.

That is why I said I don't know but I want to bookmark it just incase.

hopefulLandlord:
Real Madrid paid Atletico Madrid an amount more than Theo's release clause for a reason. check if you doubt this. your screenshot simply (if true) means City didn't buy out Grealish contract but agreed to pay the same amount in installments. btw 33x3 is 99 not 100

You are tossing every fact into the basket. Yes, generally, people pay more for an item when they pay for it in installments, I agree. But there is no rule that says release clauses must be paid as a composite. Dortmund only added that for Erling because he gave them a low release clause which they had to accept or he would not have signed for them. Grealish was signed by a release clause. I can say almost all the recent Manchester City signings have been by release clauses as well and many of them were paid in installments. Do not doubt me I can flood here with proofs.

That is even taking us away from the crux of the matter. Without that release clause, Dortmund would have asked City for nothing less than 130M pounds. That is the point we are making to you. There is a reason Barcelona and your club set release clauses like 1B. It is because they don't want clubs to be able to just meet that amount and take their player easily. That is what release clauses are for. They diminish the power of the selling club to negotiate. In other words, release clauses don't always mean paying higher and Erling Haaland is a great example. End of.

Amoto94:
Emerson’s potential exit to Juventus could pave the way for Chelsea to sign Cucurella who is admired by Tuchel.

Boehly’s group will run a data style approach to transfers, employing Daniel Finkelstein because of his ability with data statistics. (
@NizaarKinsella
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Tuchel likes Cucurella? I just want to bookmark this incase he is signed and underperforms. I don't want Hensben to tell us it was the board that signed him and not Tuchel. Emenalo suffered this in the past.

Karleb:
Kai!

On paper, city has more quality.

If OAU defeats Oxford in a math competition, would you commend Oxford for losing when they should be the natural winner?

Does that take away the fact that OAU is the best in such competition?

If OAU beats Oxford then they were better than Oxford. That is your argument not mine. Otherwise tell me why Oxford was better to begin with. You have no proof that City had more quality than Chelsea except, you want to bring in the league which will then make my argument for me.

You were today years old when you discovered Manchester City signed Erling Braut Haaland for just 51M pounds.

Kilishihunter:
Release clauses are fixed so how are you paying more then?

Abeg cc me when he responds.

Expert17:


Waiting for his reply

He said all of them were the best. The same people will turn around and tell you Mourinho performed a miracle to win it with Porto. I don't know how it can be a miracle when Porto were clearly the best. lol

hopefulLandlord:
it simply means they didn't officially pay his release clause. they rather "agreed" to transfer him for the same amount in his release clause. remember when Neymar was signed? didn't you see the cheque for €220M making the rounds?

And concerning Neymar, the only reason PSG signed him that way was because of FFP rules so stop conflating the 2 issues.

hopefulLandlord:
it simply means they didn't officially pay his release clause. they rather "agreed" to transfer him for the same amount in his release clause. remember when Neymar was signed? didn't you see the cheque for €220M making the rounds?

I knew you would try to say this which is why I sent you 2 screenshots. 1 showing that Grealish's release clause was contractually 100M and then another post showing you City are making that payment in installments.

There is absolutely no rule anywhere that states release clauses must be paid in one fell swoop. It was Dortmund that included that clause into Haaland's contract. Haaland knew he was not going to be in Dortmund for long - they were a stepping stone - and he did not want them to frustrate him like Levy did City last season so him and Mino smartly added a cheap release clause- 51M pounds.

Devvy4:
Lol see question

Na people like una go say “Madrid won the Ucl by lUCk” if Madrid wins Liverpool at Paris or see a successful young man and say “he made it by luck”

Every team that wins a competition did it because they were the best, so rest!

Okay. So nobody should ever tell us that Mourinho did anything fantastic by winning it with Porto or Inter. Thanks.

Karleb:
Had Sevilla defeated Liverpool then Madrid to win UCL, you might call it fluke but those guys would have won Juve, Bayern, Liverpool and Madrid en route to victory.

If City had done same, you'd claim its the technical genius of Guardiola. If PSG did so, you'd claim it's because of their quality.

Chelsea played Bayern in final.
Porto gave Monaco resounding 3 nil in a final.
Liverpool did 3 3 comeback in a final. All three goals came in second half.

Check their routes to final and compare with other teams.

You did not answer my question and I knew you would not but at least I have you on record.

Going by your argument, if any team that won it was the best team how can you turn around and say City not winning it last season against Chelsea was a problem?

Karleb:
In a cup competition like UCL, the best team in that cup wins.

You might be best in your league but league form differs from cup form.

If you can't compete against the best, you're nothing more than a local champion.

Point is, it's dubious to underrate Klopp 3 UCL final while hyping Gaurdiola league form with same mouth.

You can buy the league but you can't buy the cup.

Was Chelsea the best team in 2012? FC Porto in 2004? Liverpool in 2005?