Guest Swiftie Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 LOL at Robinho, guy's a joke.Robinho: "On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted." Reporter: "You mean Manchester, right?"Robinho: "Yeah, Manchester, sorry!"Say it aint so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kompressor Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Give it 2-3 years and you'll see a transfer cap put in place across europe.You think FIFA and UEFA would let a team like Man City dominate the champions league, they hate english clubs enough without this.Transfer caps will never be put in place European law probably wouldn't allow it and if it did the big clubs wouldn't allow it Transfer caps wouldn't solve anything anyway You'd just get more players going on strike and buying out their own contracts then that would f*ck up the smaller cubs big time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 LOL at Robinho, guy's a joke.Robinho: "On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted." Reporter: "You mean Manchester, right?"Robinho: "Yeah, Manchester, sorry!"das on sky sports website still Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Football is dying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Football is dying.please dont mention anything dumb bout football again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 If this happens i will burn every piece of football merchandise i have and start reading the rules for rugby R.I.P Football Football is dying.please dont mention anything dumb bout football againSo the same applies to these two aswell? :arrow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swiftie Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 If this happens i will burn every piece of football merchandise i have and start reading the rules for rugby R.I.P Football Football is dying.please dont mention anything dumb bout football againSo the same applies to these two aswell?Ofcoz.. If the money was in their supported clubs. Then no one will be saying sh*t. :arrow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsonist Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Wrong.My club is Spurs.We spent £80m.And we still have £60m to spend.Money is not the issue here.There is a bigger picture, morals and principals of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 If this happens i will burn every piece of football merchandise i have and start reading the rules for rugby R.I.P Football Football is dying.please dont mention anything dumb bout football againSo the same applies to these two aswell?Ofcoz.. If the money was in their supported clubs. Then no one will be saying sh*t. :arrow:Touché Good Sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swiftie Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Wrong.My club is Spurs.We spent £80m.And we still have £60m to spend.Money is not the issue here.There is a bigger picture, morals and principals of the game.There's a SLIGHT difference in having £60m left in a kitty to the money that the Abu Dhabi United Group may be willing to pump into Man City.SAD as it is.. FOOTBALL in these years its all about the MONEY... example: Its not like Pompey are going to win the UEFA CUP.. But being in it means more ££££££...& with your £80m spenditure where do you think your finishing in the league this season?Hope you're not feeling a lil tender cosidering one of these Dubai groups were meant to have eyed your club up but nothing materialised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 swift is that urs iin ur sig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agony Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 HUGHES TO SMASH PAY BARRIERCity ready for world's first £500,000-a-week playerBy DAVID HARRISON, 06/09/2008MANCHESTER CITY will embark on a new era of frenzied spending by bringing the world’s first £500,000-a-week player into football.The kind of cash now being made available by the Abu Dhabi United Group to City boss Mark Hughes will smash through established pay structures and take them into a new stratosphere.While Hughes has been trying to dampen down the hype created by this week’s takeover, the Arab group led by Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim has been whipping up the fervour behind the scenes.Al Fahim has been telling club insiders that City will shake the football world in a frantic spell of spending that will leave the rest trailing behind them.Fortune“Bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United” is the boast of the man said to be in charge of a group-wide fortune estimated at £500billion.Al Fahim is the frontman for the takeover and will be the very public face of the club — but the power behind City will be Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed.Although well known in his homeland as the favoured brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mansoor will remain in the background and travel to England only for selected Premier League and FA Cup matches.He was not part of the delegation which arrived at Eastlands this week but it is his determination to build City into a dominant global brand that has been the driving force for the £200m takeover.City’s hierarchy has been made aware Sheikh Mansoor will NEVER settle for second best. The only way to insure against that is with hard cash — and there is plenty of that on offer.ADUG have already shown they do not deal in hollow promises. Within hours of announcing their City takeover they were preparing to break the British transfer record by signing Robinho from Real Madrid for £32.5m on reported wages of £160,000 a week.But that is only a taste of what is to come and the idea of a £500,000-a-week payslip for the right player has already been discussed in the Eastlands inner sanctum.A City insider revealed: “The manager and the new owners aren’t so naive to think all of the top players want to just come to Manchester City to wear the blue shirt — not yet, anyway.“But, just like Chelsea have demonstrated in the past, we’ve been told they are prepared to back up transfer market spending power with wages which can’t really be matched anywhere else in world football.“If it takes £25m a year to entice the best player in the world, they will not hesitate.“By earmarking players like Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard and Chelsea’s midfield driving force Michael Essien, boss Hughes has shown his hand so far as his plans for City are concerned.He will refuse to be wooed by talk of the glamour signings.He wants to deal in players with pedigree and a proven ability to deliver results.There is only one reason that kind of performer will be enticed to Eastlands — the temptation of a bulging wage packet which will blow their existing contracts out of the water.Chelsea did it on the back of Roman Abramovich’s wealth. And while City are starting from further back in the field, the fortune on offer from ADUG makes the Russian oil magnate’s investment look like loose change.Even players such as Gerrard and Essien, as committed as they are to their respective clubs, would have their heads turned by such mindboggling pay deals.And once City snare one or two big signings of that type, the queue of top names wanting to join the Blue revolution will stretch around the globe.Our City source said: “These people are going to set new ground rules as far as football finance is concerned. It is an obvious thing to say but money will be no object.“But it won’t be uncontrolled and they will expect a return on their investment in the form of success in the Premier League and Champions League.“Second won’t be good enough and that increases the pressure on everyone to deliver results.“The Big Four clubs might think they are in a comfort zone but they will be shifting nervously in their seats if this City grand plan materialises — and no one doubts that it will.”Another significant outlay promised by City’s new owners is a whopping £110m to buy their Eastlands home outright, which could then be re-named the Hydra Stadium after the company Al Fahim runs in the United Arab Emirates.The Arabs have also set aside a further £50m for increasing the stadium’s capacity to close the gap on their rivals United at Old Trafford.Early talks have already been started by the ADUG and we understand they will offer Manchester City Council chiefs, the principal owners of the stadium, full market value for the venue.The Abu Dhabi moneymen already feel the current 47,500 capacity is too small to accommodate their grand plans.City currently average around 42,000 fans but are believed to have sold an additional 2,500 season tickets since Brazilian star Robinho was signed on transfer deadline day last Monday.The new owners plan to commission some of the world’s leading architects to propose ideas which would incorporate the current design and take capacity to just over 60,000.Our City insider said: “It is not just the stadium the new owners are interested in — they already think it is a fantastic arena in every sense of the word.“They just think it would be better to own the stadium outright and for it to join their unrivalled real-estate portfolio.“They firmly believe the current capacity won’t be big enough in a very short space of time.”E.O.F. 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Rsonist Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 SMFH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Medic Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 cannot be serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens_Lengman Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 hopefully fifa and blatter make themselves useful and implement a salary cup across Europe Because they are totally against english clubs dominating the champions league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACK VICTIM Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 hopefully fifa and blatter make themselves useful and implement a salary cup across Europe Because they are totally against english clubs dominating the champions league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gattsu Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 not serious at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trim Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 gettin stupid already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Batman Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 A european wide currency-relevant wage cap + limit on amount of foreign players in the first team should be introduced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Farking ell' *Enter Sepp* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 f*ck off man city Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Q Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Premiership is f*cked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 SMFH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest haze-e Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 500k a week!26 Million a year!f*ck right off. Smh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Q Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Huntelaar and Cesc told them how it is boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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