8 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

 

He is in a class of his own as a conman.

Endless pot of money? Checked. Great Manager with total control of the team? Checked. See, it's not hard to build a great team, I'm sure Boehly is taking notes City as we speak. It's funny the 115 charges never resurfaced in the media again, this is what you get with elite team of lawyers. Everyone will forget about the charges after City do 5 in a row in the league and defend the triple.

xG on the Lukaku header miss was 0.42, so although it looked easy, I bet that is a fair bit lower than most would think ... 

Also I can't see how he is at fault for the Di Marco miss either. If it doesn't hit him then Dias clears it off the line anyway. Di Marco should initially have done better with the attempt that hit the bar, and  the follow up chance that hit Lukaku is 100% on Di Marco. He has the whole left hand side of the goal to aim at and has time to place it there (see still below)

 

Inter probably wonder how that one got away last night. Shots 14-7 in their favour ; shots on target 6 to 4. Sometimes you need a bit of luck to go your way.

I thought the two Milan defenders between Rodri and the goal should have done much better with closing him down and attempting to block the shot. Great finish though.

Congrats to Man City. They have been consistently very good since Pep charge. Gotta give it to Pep, he's an excellent coach and a motivator. He has thoroughly changed Man City into such as well oiled machine. Pep, I think, is the first coach in history to win the treble with two different clubs. Amazing achievement given he's still a fairly young coach. I'd always wished deep down Pep had chosen to come to Chelsea and we somehow were able to have got him before he went to City, but oh well. Credit to inter though too, I genuinely thought they wouldn't put up as much as of a game as they did. They had some solid chances, but they shot themselves in the foot with poor finishing. Btw, as much as I can berate Lukaku, I also thought Martinez (who we have been linked with) had a bit of a poor game given some of the hype.

City has won the treble and they are imo the best team in europe but It wasn't a good performance by City in back to back finals. 

Both times, they were way too conservative offensively. They were back playing last year version of city which make having Haaland kinda useless. 

Defensively, against Inter especially after Rom came in, it was way too easy for Rom to get chances. Rom played only for 30 min and he got 3 good chances. 

But in the end of the day, when you get the lucky bounce, you get the treble and no one will remember how you win it. 

 

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14 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

xG on the Lukaku header miss was 0.42, so although it looked easy, I bet that is a fair bit lower than most would think ... 

Also I can't see how he is at fault for the Di Marco miss either. If it doesn't hit him then Dias clears it off the line anyway. Di Marco should initially have done better with the attempt that hit the bar, and  the follow up chance that hit Lukaku is 100% on Di Marco. He has the whole left hand side of the goal to aim at and has time to place it there (see still below)

 

Inter probably wonder how that one got away last night. Shots 14-7 in their favour ; shots on target 6 to 4. Sometimes you need a bit of luck to go your way.

I thought the two Milan defenders between Rodri and the goal should have done much better with closing him down and attempting to block the shot. Great finish though.

City was very bad.

I have never watched Inter this season. Why inzaghi start Dzeko? Is Lukaku injured or something? Lukaku was the most dangerous/impactful player on the field (tbf in the end he helped  both teams 🤣🤣🤣) in just 30 min. 

Edited June 11, 20233 yr by Bob stark

“Some of UEFA’s charges were time-barred, in that they were outside the organisation’s five-year statute of limitations, but most of them were simply “not established”, as far as the panel was concerned. City painted this as vindication, but they were also fined €10million (£8.7m, $10.8m) for not cooperating with the investigation.

There are no such time-barring restrictions on the Premier League’s investigation and the potential punishments, outlined in rule W.51 of the Premier League’s handbook, range from a reprimand and fines to points deductions — and even expulsion from the Premier League”.

Looking at this article in the Atheltic, any hopes of the PL finding them guilty might be naive. City have cleared hidden and masked their accounts sufficiently to create ambiguity which allows them to get away with it. 

17 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

City was very bad.

I have never watched Inter this season. Why inzaghi start Dzeko? Is Lukaku injured or something? Lukaku was the most dangerous/impactful player on the field (tbf in the end he helped  both teams 🤣🤣🤣) in just 30 min. 

I also thought it was a strange choice from Inzaghi, given that Lukaku has been scoring a lot of goals and making a lot of assists in recent games, plus his chemistry with Martinez.

Granted I don't watch Serie A either ... 🙂 

4 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I also thought it was a strange choice from Inzaghi, given that Lukaku has been scoring a lot of goals and making a lot of assists in recent games, plus his chemistry with Martinez.

Granted I don't watch Serie A either ... 🙂 

 

Hopefully, there is somebody here who is serie a watcher who can explain it to us.

40 minutes ago, JM7 said:

“Some of UEFA’s charges were time-barred, in that they were outside the organisation’s five-year statute of limitations, but most of them were simply “not established”, as far as the panel was concerned. City painted this as vindication, but they were also fined €10million (£8.7m, $10.8m) for not cooperating with the investigation.

There are no such time-barring restrictions on the Premier League’s investigation and the potential punishments, outlined in rule W.51 of the Premier League’s handbook, range from a reprimand and fines to points deductions — and even expulsion from the Premier League”.

Looking at this article in the Atheltic, any hopes of the PL finding them guilty might be naive. City have cleared hidden and masked their accounts sufficiently to create ambiguity which allows them to get away with it. 

This is the whole point. There cannot be ambiguity and ‘masking’ on financial statements. 
 

If there has been and it’s been left without being challenged, their auditors are in deep sh*t.

Why do you lot care about citys finances, all it is is a slightly more obvious way of doing it than the Italian, Spanish, English, German clubs have been doing it for decades. Italian and Spanish clubs have been proven to actually bribe referees and league officials for f**ks sake, these arent the good guys being done over by those nasty naughty Saudi`s..the sports been a vipers nest for decades only now some bigger boys have came in and took the ball of them. The G14 did all it could to keep the "top clubs" top by making sure the money went their way, and f**k the rest of the sport.  Now its biting them in the arse and I for one think its hilarious seeing City win everything and all the fans of the other sh*tty clubs crying about it.

4 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

xG on the Lukaku header miss was 0.42, so although it looked easy, I bet that is a fair bit lower than most would think ... 

Also I can't see how he is at fault for the Di Marco miss either. If it doesn't hit him then Dias clears it off the line anyway. Di Marco should initially have done better with the attempt that hit the bar, and  the follow up chance that hit Lukaku is 100% on Di Marco. He has the whole left hand side of the goal to aim at and has time to place it there (see still below)

 

Inter probably wonder how that one got away last night. Shots 14-7 in their favour ; shots on target 6 to 4. Sometimes you need a bit of luck to go your way.

I thought the two Milan defenders between Rodri and the goal should have done much better with closing him down and attempting to block the shot. Great finish though.

Stats can be misleading…inter only started to attack with any intent after falling behind. They had enough chances to equalise from then on but I don’t have that much sympathy for them. Understand why they’d set out to frustrate City to begin with but they were so negative up until Rodri scored…in last 20 mins they showed citeh aren’t all that but they should have done more a lot earlier 

1 hour ago, The Brit said:

Stats can be misleading…inter only started to attack with any intent after falling behind. They had enough chances to equalise from then on but I don’t have that much sympathy for them. Understand why they’d set out to frustrate City to begin with but they were so negative up until Rodri scored…in last 20 mins they showed citeh aren’t all that but they should have done more a lot earlier 

Both were ultra negative from the get go. 

On 10/06/2023 at 17:43, Scott Harris said:

If they are found guilty, I just don't see how a transfer ban and points deduction is sufficient. They have gained more than any club in world football during that period, the minimum punishment should be to have their titles taken from them and a demotion from the Premier League. Other clubs in the past have had similar charges, but none of them gained as much as Man City and they were still demoted.

If City are guilty, then they have seriously damaged the sport, they would have to be made an example of.

Fair. 100% agree, I just don't know if the PL has the balls to make such a decision. 

Treble winner at two clubs in two leagues. Pep is going down in history as the greatest manager ever.

On 11/06/2023 at 09:18, dkw said:

Why do you lot care about citys finances, all it is is a slightly more obvious way of doing it than the Italian, Spanish, English, German clubs have been doing it for decades. Italian and Spanish clubs have been proven to actually bribe referees and league officials for f**ks sake, these arent the good guys being done over by those nasty naughty Saudi`s..the sports been a vipers nest for decades only now some bigger boys have came in and took the ball of them. The G14 did all it could to keep the "top clubs" top by making sure the money went their way, and f**k the rest of the sport.  Now its biting them in the arse and I for one think its hilarious seeing City win everything and all the fans of the other sh*tty clubs crying about it.

In my opinion City's dominance is just as much on all the other teams for acting like this league has four winners as it is on their spending.

Wenger has blood on his hands for what he started.

Leaving in 2025 per reports. Doesn't intend on extending. 

Great for the rest of the league and great for Pep considering he will be leaving around the time the Premier League punish City. 

12 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Leaving in 2025 per reports. Doesn't intend on extending. 

Great for the rest of the league and great for Pep considering he will be leaving around the time the Premier League punish City. 

Klopp leaving around that time too. Thank f**k. 

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Leaving in 2025 per reports. Doesn't intend on extending. 

Great for the rest of the league and great for Pep considering he will be leaving around the time the Premier League punish City. 

I think it's wishful thinking hoping City will fall the same way United did post Fergie (assuming no charge).

As we saw with Barca and Bayern the muscle memory of Pep's methods will last for years, if anything that combined with a new guys different ideas may hit a sweet spot and make them even more frightening (ala Enrique's Barca and Flick's Bayern).

Villa appointing Monchi as sporting director. 

Seems like Qatar successfully purchased Manchester United

 

I think the days of having any chance to win a premier league title or any domestic trophies officially ended today until Boehly sells the club in 9 years

42 minutes ago, cfcforeverfan said:

Seems like Qatar successfully purchased Manchester United

 

I think the days of having any chance to win a premier league title or any domestic trophies officially ended today until Boehly sells the club in 9 years

With his wealth will they still want Mount?

 

He could easily buy them Mbappe, Rice, Moises and whichever keeper they want.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

With his wealth will they still want Mount?

 

He could easily buy them Mbappe, Rice, Moises and whichever keeper they want.

Who cares…we won’t be competing with them regardless given they are mega wealthy now

 

hopefully when Boehly sells in 9 years someone in the Middle East will still have the interest in our club so we can compete with them