Premier League 25/26

Who will win?


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Temptation

Well-known member
Man, that's a huge L in one window

Both of your targets.
But Guehi especially is huge. Guy passed medical with you in the summer
It is what it is.

We'll get a CB and fast, dribbling winger in the summer I guess. I want a new manager in the summer. The results is far from our only problem right now.

This season is done unless we come up with a surprise CL run. We'll probably get top 4.
 

Birdy

Senior Member
City continues to cheat, by spending money they don't have...

Legal system in Britain takes more than 6 years (till now) to reach a verdict about the 115 charges, without any restrictive measures imposed, and the cheaters keep cheating
 

Maradona37

Well-known member
City continues to cheat, by spending money they don't have...

Legal system in Britain takes more than 6 years (till now) to reach a verdict about the 115 charges, without any restrictive measures imposed, and the cheaters keep cheating
Look at you Birdy, slagging off City, while being oblivious to all the shady loopholes other clubs (and especially United) are up to but get away with because they're establishment clubs so you don't read about their shenanigans in the media. Do you not think hiding your accounts in offshore tax havens and spending lots of money on transfers while in over a billion pounds of debt is a form of 'cheating' too? And let's not get into all the PEDs most teams' players are on.

Fair play has never been a thing in football pal, and certainly City are far from the only ones not complying.

No doubt City are doing shady stuff but if you think other top clubs are squeaky clean you are deluded. Also no doubt you are brainwashed by a lot of sensationalist sources.

Also ironic that that maggot Tempt liked your post when Liverpool throughout history have cheated and bent the rules. Just as one example of long before he knows anything about their history, look up Littlewoods.

You guys are really really indoctrinated by the media talking about 'big bad City' As if other clubs are pristine.
 

Maradona37

Well-known member
The AI answer lacks an important nuance

27 years are impressive and more difficult because you are earning loyalty from your own club. Mourinho and Ancelotti were never capable of earning such loyalty from their own clubs, and were kicked out several times.

This is why longevity matters, you proved yourself irreplaceable for so long. Staying is rarely the decision of the coach or the player, it is the decision of the clubs.
It doesn't lack that nuance though, does it? It gave reasons for and against. It stated that it can be spun two ways as most of us would - on one hand, it's neglecting to test in different environments. On the other, it's looking at the same four walls every day, building a legacy at one club and as you said 'earning loyalty from your own club'.

I would suggest that Mourinho and Ancelotti simply have a different personality to Ferguson - Mourinho especially doesn't care if he has to go to other clubs and is more volatile, whereas Ferguson became a cult hero at United by about 1997, so it was very easy for him to 'win loyalty' as they looked at him like a God.

Also, as an aside, khaled where was United's loyalty to Ferguson when he was on the verge of being sacked had he lost the 1990 FA Cup Final? Are you even aware of that? History would have been very different. It's easy to be loyal - both ways - when you dominate domestically, are from the country the club is based in (Britain) and have no desire to move abroad or learn a new language.

If Ferguson had went to Juventus in 1997 or Real Madrid in 2000 - clubs more trigger happy than Man United - then we'd have seen how loyal clubs were to him. He was in an extremely unique position at Man United, and the circumstances and personality are too wildly different to Ancelotti and Mourinho to make a like for like comparison as you are trying to.

'Loyalty' in football is usually just a byproduct of success and convenience, not some inherent moral virtue.
 
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