EPL- It’s NOT Football Anymore! Man City will be Champs

[Kabalega]

It is written!

City have Fulham and the Spurs, with a game in hand, plus the FA cup final.
Meanwhile, Arsenal have ManU away and Everton at home. Good luck!

The officials will do their thing and crown the usual, because “It’s NOT football anymore ….!”

[Kabalega]

Is it over yet? Is Vincent Kompany is going back down?

[Mr. Piffington]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

[ohsee]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

[Coach]

City have never scored a league goal at the THS, according to one report. Won’t fact check rather cite the above as pork shoulder joint. The curse of Ham.

[Scipio Africanus]

City have never scored a league goal at the THS, according to one report. Won’t fact check rather cite the above as pork shoulder joint. The curse of Ham.

In 4 games, no less! Oya TottenHAM, let's make it 5!

[Coach]

It gets better. Brigadier Davey Moyes steering the HMS Western HAM into Manchester Bay come the weekend. Crew? Big Mick Antonio. Big Kurtis Zouma. Big Andy Ogbonna. Goliaths.

[Kabalega]

Jumping the gunners, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Pun? Fixed?

[balo]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

lol @ Mugandan!

[txj]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

He was always right, but you would only know a day late!!

Toto brings on an 18y/o Moore to take the Mikey off City, with $100m pounds worth of Grealish sitting comfy on the bench.

Its not football anymore...

[Mr. Piffington]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

He was always right, but you would only know a day late!!

Toto brings on an 18y/o Moore to take the Mikey off City, with $100m pounds worth of Grealish sitting comfy on the bench.

Its not football anymore...

How much did Foden cost? What about Alvarez? Hell, how much did the MOTM Ortega cost? Abeg leave matter! Moaning about money is starting to get old. If City bought Rice for the same amount Arsenal bought him we'd never hear the end of it.

[txj]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

He was always right, but you would only know a day late!!

Toto brings on an 18y/o Moore to take the Mikey off City, with $100m pounds worth of Grealish sitting comfy on the bench.

Its not football anymore...

How much did Foden cost? What about Alvarez? Hell, how much did the MOTM Ortega cost? Abeg leave matter! Moaning about money is starting to get old. If City bought Rice for the same amount Arsenal bought him we'd never hear the end of it.

SMDH...
You would not understand even if it was starring at you in the face...That's why you actually ask those questions!!

[Mr. Piffington]

Jumping the gun, there are still games to play and Arsenal don't look like letting up.

Don't mind the Mu.... ...the Ugandan cricket fan. Tomorrow's game between Tottenham and City will be a morafoka. Both have something to play for. Villa has created possibilites for Tottenham. If City lose or tie tomorrow, Arsenal could win this. They have a better goal diff.

He was always right, but you would only know a day late!!

Toto brings on an 18y/o Moore to take the Mikey off City, with $100m pounds worth of Grealish sitting comfy on the bench.

Its not football anymore...

How much did Foden cost? What about Alvarez? Hell, how much did the MOTM Ortega cost? Abeg leave matter! Moaning about money is starting to get old. If City bought Rice for the same amount Arsenal bought him we'd never hear the end of it.

SMDH...
You would not understand even if it was starring at you in the face...That's why you actually ask those questions!!

Just admit you don't have an answer to it and move on. Tired of these aristocratic clubs, their fans and their nauseating sense of entitlement. Liverpool and Arsenal didn't spend big money abi? When your team isn't winning then "it's not football anymore".

[Coach]

38 game campaign. If not mistaken there’s only 37 on the board. City still have to finish the 3rd course. West HAM. Davey Moyes last stand in the dugout, the Hammers will want a grandstand finish. It’s far from over.

As for the Admiral, honourable without doubt, but it’s 5 or 6 past Pickford, no less. The day is not yet night.

[balo]

38 game campaign. If not mistaken there’s only 37 on the board. City still have to finish the 3rd course. West HAM. Davey Moyes last stand in the dugout, the Hammers will want a grandstand finish. It’s far from over.

As for the Admiral, honorable without doubt, but it’s 5 or 6 past Pickford, no less. The day is not yet night.

Chelsea put 5 past West Ham. Guess what a Pep-led man City will do to them!

[ohsee]

38 game campaign. If not mistaken there’s only 37 on the board. City still have to finish the 3rd course. West HAM. Davey Moyes last stand in the dugout, the Hammers will want a grandstand finish. It’s far from over.

As for the Admiral, honourable without doubt, but it’s 5 or 6 past Pickford, no less. The day is not yet night.

Coachito nwokem, you be my guy, but you got yokes. The Blue Machine will hammer any Ham, wedda North, South, East or West. It's a done deal my bros, 4 straight. Incredible.

[ohsee]

City have never scored a league goal at the THS, according to one report. Won’t fact check rather cite the above as pork shoulder joint. The curse of Ham.

In 4 games, no less! Oya TottenHAM, let's make it 5!

Toto and ham are fooking useless. I thought their problem was Harry of the Toto and Hammers. But no, they are just cursed. HarryKane has carried his Tottenham bad luck to Bayern, and he can score 100 goals in one season if he likes, they ain't winning nating.

[Coach]

@Tx, trying to understand the “it’s not football anymore” argument. Would that be premised on spending power, expenditure or both? Is this a charge that sits with City alone? Why is the UCL still football despite Real Madrid, perpetual winners having smashed records to procure Zidanes, Figos, Ronaldos (Real and Corbetts), Bales, Bellinghams. Soon to follow for a gargantuan signing-on fee, Killian Mbappe.

Real won countless trophies, all the while consigning Gareth to the golf course? Is it any more football than Grealish or 80 large Darwin Nunez being benched?

The truth is, the buyer never sets the price. Market forces determine the cost and the customer coughs up or collapses.

50M is the new 20 by old metric. A gluttony of multimillion pound acquisitions means nothing without the methodology to make it meaningful. Chelsea sit behind Aston Villa having spent billions on more nonsense than a Nigerian senator trying to impress upon a broad at the beam Bartmaanette.

[Mr. Piffington]

@Tx, trying to understand the “it’s not football anymore” argument. Would that be premised on spending power, expenditure or both? Is this a charge that sits with City alone? Why is the UCL still football despite Real Madrid, perpetual winners having smashed records to procure Zidanes, Figos, Ronaldos (Real and Corbetts), Bales, Bellinghams. Soon to follow for a gargantuan signing-on fee, Killian Mbappe.

Real won countless trophies, all the while consigning Gareth to the golf course? Is it any more football than Grealish or 80 large Darwin Nunez being benched?

The truth is, the buyer never sets the price. Market forces determine the cost and the customer coughs up or collapses.

50M is the new 20 by old metric. A gluttony of multimillion pound acquisitions means nothing without the methodology to make it meaningful. Chelsea sit behind Aston Villa having spent billions on more nonsense than a Nigerian senator trying to impress upon a broad at the beam Bartmaanette.

Don't mind these people, they're moaning because the teams they support aren't winning like they used to. According to them "football" is if Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, and Chelsea are winning. If they are not then it isn't "football". How much did Arsenal spend on Rice? Ortega practically won City the game yesterday, how much did he cost? Free. Man United took it upon themselves to usurp players that City wanted throughout the years like Fred, Maguire, Alexis Sanchez, etc. What did they do with them? Nothing. Chelsea took Sterling, usurped Cucurella who City wanted, brought in Cole Palmer from City, outside of Cole Palmer and besides the billions they've spent, what have they achieved? Absolutely nothing.

City's owner did his homework, had a plan and invested in strategic areas in the club. We're seeing the benefits of it. Nothing more, nothing less. These other clubs are relying on their brand name to carry them with zero plan, now they want to bring down City through any means because they feel entitled. They should go sleep make we hear word. Real Madrid won La Liga again and are looking to add to their 1 million CL wins, no screaming about football being ruined because they are a royalty club who automatically deserve to win it. Rubbish.

[txj]

@Tx, trying to understand the “it’s not football anymore” argument. Would that be premised on spending power, expenditure or both? Is this a charge that sits with City alone? Why is the UCL still football despite Real Madrid, perpetual winners having smashed records to procure Zidanes, Figos, Ronaldos (Real and Corbetts), Bales, Bellinghams. Soon to follow for a gargantuan signing-on fee, Killian Mbappe.

Real won countless trophies, all the while consigning Gareth to the golf course? Is it any more football than Grealish or 80 large Darwin Nunez being benched?

The truth is, the buyer never sets the price. Market forces determine the cost and the customer coughs up or collapses.

50M is the new 20 by old metric. A gluttony of multimillion pound acquisitions means nothing without the methodology to make it meaningful. Chelsea sit behind Aston Villa having spent billions on more nonsense than a Nigerian senator trying to impress upon a broad at the beam Bartmaanette.

Would have expected this kind of pedestrian logic from Ohenhen but not you...

Its premised on the absence of "constraint". Budget constraint.

The absence of which allows an investment of more than a quarter of billion pounds in search of the 'perfect' fullback for the game model.

The absence of which means there are no consequences. Not financially, not especially in the way you want to play.
That's what allows you the luxury to arrive in the crucial period of every one of the last four seasons with players the calibre of a Grealish, Ake, Stones, Nunes, Alvarez on the bench..

It means that unlike Arsenal who's run in last season collapsed with Saliba, there are no consequences if Reuben Diaz collapses, cus you have 200MP worth of centerback talent on the bench...

If it doesn't work you buy again and again until it works...You do not have the consequence of having to adjust your game model. Or develop an academy player into a WC right back.

If it doesn't work you buy again and again until it works...

Now contrast this with your Arsenal which had to adapt the game model and then wait and wait until Partey becomes available in the last few weeks of the season.

Its preposterous to compare a Nunez transfer to Halaand. That just tells me the person making it is either stupid, does not follow or understand the game.

Its equally stupid to speak of Madrid and ZZ and Figo. Why stop at that? Why not cite Di Stefano, stupid???
Madrid has had to wait years, including loaning Joselu, whom you call a Stoke City reject- AND MAKE IT WORK, in order to be able to get Mbappe on a free. Why? Because they too have to deal with a budget constraint, internally as well as from the League...

Yes its not enough to have the money. You still have to make it work...

As Klopp said sometime ago, when you put unlimited funds- without constraint, in the hands of people who know how to run football, it becomes Playstation Football...

[Mr. Piffington]

The disturbing logic of people.

I'm willing to bet anyone money that if City buys Cucurella tomorrow for $80 million from Chelsea and he ends up performing well under Pep, people would cry about City hoarding players. If Fred, Sanchez, Maguire, etc went to City and did well they'll also complain about City hoarding players and playing PlayStation. Other teams will buy players and they flop, nobody complains, City buys players and they do well, they'll complain. Manchester United paid 86 million pounds for Antony but he didn't start for the Arsenal game, no complaints. If that were City they would have been crucified for ruining football.

According to Klopp is Real Madrid "PlayStation football" as well? They have money and they have competent football people running things, shouldn't they qualify as "PlayStation football"? Stop moaning. Every dog has its day, these teams had their fun in the sun and now it's someone else's turn. Man United have won 13 PL titles, more than any other team. In their prime they won something like 7 titles in 9 years, no complaints there. They haven't won the title since 2013 but nobody has come close to them in PL title wins, again no complaints about ruining football.

[Coach]

So does it only apply to City? Did Real have to split the paella to sign Ronaldo, Bale, Bellingham? Why spend tens of millions on teenage Vinicius and Rodrygo, could they not have developed such in their academy?

Camavinga, Tchoumeni, late teens, early 20s, big outlays.

The Mbappe logic makes little sense too. Having won La Liga and most likely the Champions League, the next Plutonian is signed on a free transfer that would bankrupt many. Is it still football? If Real were Royal Everton, doing exactly the same only in the EPL, would its claim to being football be under scrutiny?

In all honesty, hate it or love it, by the very definition of the sport, it’s football. Pure and simple. At the upper echelons, success grows the empire. The novelty of the academy graduate exists but in truth many Liverpudlians, in hindsight, would trade Quansah’s selection vs Man Utd in favour of a “dream ticket”.

The game has changed. The standards, even more so. Gone are the days when sides can lineup Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliot, Conor Bradley, Somebody Clarke, Bobby Whoever and expect to be taken seriously in the sprint finish. It becomes even more ludicrous when the Gakpos, Nunezes, Diazes et al are thrown in. Yes it helps having City’s cash, but much more than the wallet, is method in the marketplace. How do Newcastle get an Isak for a fraction of Nunez?

Diaz has run around at 1000MPH and barely contributed as much as Mohamed Kudus.

Sobozslai at 60M is being benched by Elliot, Jones anyone with a pair of boots. Contribution? Less than Tomas Soucek.

It’s not just the money being spent, but what it’s being spent on. One will assume this wayward rant is heavily steeped in Liverpudlian sentiment. Understandable, but having the cash is only part of it. Knowing how to spend it, is another. Stick an Isak in place of Nunez, a Trossard in place of Diaz, combined fee barely that of Darwin and there’s a pair of testicles in the sac at the time of the sprint finish.

It is what it is. Klopp will go, Slot will slot in. Will look at the famed academy, the starting lineup and head straight to market place. Weren’t you enthused by the prospect of Geertruida the other week? What about Conor Bradley and whoever backs him up for the U21s.

It is what it is. It took 100M on Declan Rice, 60 odd on Havertz and the ability to bring Trossard (24Ms, contract running out at the time of acquisition) off the bench to make Beloved what Liverpool weren’t this season. Throw in Gabriel and Saliba, neither from the academy and it becomes all the more obvious. Beloved swinging deep into the 12th round.

Reiss Nelson? Bench. Smith-Rowe? Bench. Nketiah? Bench. Few will be good enough to make the desired impact immediately. That’s what it takes to compete. If it’s not in the cupboard, go to the shops to buy it. Simple.

That. Is. Football.

[Coach]

The business is booming too much to give a monkeys about the stuff being monkeyed about. Real may win their gazzilionth UCL, will add one of the best players in the world to their rafters and everyone will say, “now that’s what you call a Champion”, “na him be Igwe”.