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Are United the worst team pound for pound in sports?

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by CFC: Champs £launderx17, Nov 5, 2017.

  1. NSIS

    NSIS Well-Known Member

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    Utd will get left behind by City, as will every other PL club, unless the governing bodies start to take things like FFP a lot more seriously.


    In recent times it was the clubs owned by hugely wealthy individuals and Corps that dominated. What’s happening now is that clubs like City, PSG, and others are state owned. And those states are incredibly wealthy oil states with a virtually limitless supply of money to throw at the game.
     
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  2. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    The width of the border between brave and ridiculous
    can sometimes be quite fine indeed. :)
     
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  3. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    Being the most recent empire, Man Utd have quite
    some time to go before being the last to fall.
     
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  4. CFC: Champs £launderx17

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    Why? United spend as much as City
     
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    Sharpe* Senior Member

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    Agreed.

    Poch could go to.

    Actually hope he doesn't.
     
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  6. NSIS

    NSIS Well-Known Member

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    City can up the ante as far as they need to. Utd can’t!
     
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  7. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    This <ok>

    The game is completely ****ed when you have State sponsorship backing the finances of a few ultra wealthy clubs.
    It's basically a bottomless pit for them and it screws other clubs over by vastly inflating the market.
     
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  8. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    Fans of the big clubs moaning about money <rofl>
     
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  9. Sharpe*

    Sharpe* Senior Member

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    Reckon you'll stay up this year?
     
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  10. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    Should do, we'll be in the bottom 3 at Christmas though. Enough poor teams in this league that we should be alright, will need to spend in January though.
     
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    Page_Moss_Kopite Well-Known Member

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    Yep, the VVD money should do the trick.<whistle>
     
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  12. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    You mean FSG are actually gonna have the bollocks to make an offer <yikes>
     
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  13. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    We spend money generated commercially. City spend money provided by their own owners sponsoring them. Your empire was built on similar foundations, an eggshell of a club full of fake.

    At the end of the day though, money is money, we need to spend ours better, or just show faith in our academy.

    And you need to own that tank top sister!
     
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  14. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Its pathetic.
     
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  15. I am an extremely brave person, Sharpe. You have to believe that.
     
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  16. CFC: Champs £launderx17

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    Yes, agree. Why have all that money to play like a rich West Brom
     
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  17. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Apart from when it comes to honouring bets of course HIAG.
     
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  18. I honoured our bet. Pix. You know that full well.

    I carried that Tony Adams avatar for around 4 times longer than I needed to. Just because you wanted me to carry another Tony Adams avatar doesn't mean I welched on the bet.

    It's about time you got past this, mate.
     
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  19. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    <laugh>

    You welched it. Luv's rules said specifically that we couldn't choose our own avatar. You did just that.
    You even had a meltdown about it before you welched. The whole site laughed at you whilst you did it <ok>
     
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  20. Libby

    Libby Derby County, we're coming for you

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    For ****s sake don't start this ****ing ****e again <grr>
     
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