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To be fair, Sunderland were never really in the game once City equalised. It wasn't surprising to see Sunderland go ahead, given their record...
You showed nothing that any team in your position wouldn't have done.
I don't think it's a case of tight arse owners monty. City and Chelsea spent because their owners have much more money than the rest. In terms...
As a City fan, it's easy to write what I am about to, but I do genuinely mean what I'm about to say. Really good cup final. Sunderland were...
Congratulations on getting past United in the semi-final. Interesting stat - Sunderland have not lost to City outside of Manchester in their last...
No, it's a cheap shot all right. An unnecessary comment in a thread that has been, by and large, a relatively civil discussion. Whether the...
Players are all individuals until they are "moulded" into a team. So how much of the current squad has Arsene "built", as opposed to bought? He...
Like buying is a bad thing in football all of a sudden. I have to ask though, why, Lazarus, did you mention Southampton?
To be fair, in regards to wages, the Bosnan ruling is more accountable for the vast increase in wages. In 1994 - one year before the Bosnan...
I'm simply putting the spending from different periods into their proper context in regards to the period such spending/investments were made....
No, I don't want "PURE" inflationary figures, because PURE inflationary figures can never account for the much-higher than inflation increases...
Exactly! Which is why you should never use the base rate of interest to compare the amounts spent today with the amounts spent by clubs in the...
Fair enough - but then I am in a discussion with Piskie, and I'd at least hope that all my previous comments (in regards to the discussion we're...
Just as a matter of interest, how long did it take you to pay back his loan? What was the year when that loan was paid back in full?
Again, I was referring to Blackburn as the second tier club. Not Arsenal.
You clearly misunderstood my post. When I said second tier club, I was, of course, referring to Blackburn, not Arsenal. Read my post again, and...
You're so naive. £125,000 is equivialent to £60m today? For a start, £125,000 in 1913 is equivalent to around £12m today in pure inflation...
Of course they did. Back in the 1910s they benefited from a level of investment that other teams at that time could only dream about. It was a...
Ok, so now we've established that you don't think the money was artificial. Slowly but surely we're beginning to get there. Your argument...
The money did. I never said it didn't. My point is simply that that money isn't artificial. It's real. It happened. It's just as real as any...
