General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Presumasbly the City and Arsenal games will be top of the bill on Sky on Sunday and we'll have to endure the hyping up of the 'uncertainty'…

Feel for Arsenal fans right after that one. Looked at one point like Spurs could get something and then Son had that glorious chance! Know what it’s like watching that machine and hoping against hope that somehow they’ll drop points!

Yeah sure they should show Chelsea-Bournemouth or Palace- Villa to be fooked.

Beautiful night

No because back then you had an Arsenal that were competitive and winning a few titles...now you are only looking at 1 off wins from Liverpool or a Leicester....Being a United fan I hope we can get back to stop them but can't see it happening

Best team in the PL by a long chalk. If they win on Sunday that’s something else. It won’t last forever, nothing ever does, so City fans should enjoy it while they can, and rightly so.

Congrats to Villa, it’ll be interesting to see how they go in the CL, new blood and all that jazz.

Boring league

And do people really believe

Casemiro is on same wage as Haaland, That Varane makes more than Grealish, That Mount makes more than Foden, That Maguire makes far more than Walker and Ake, That Osana makes more than Ederson, That Bruno makes more than Rodri, because that's what City claim in their official declared wages for 2024.

Total sham

That makes it beyond argument: this City side is the best English football has ever seen. The wall of money bought history, and then deployed an army of solicitors to avoid being held to account. I am reminded of all the sniggering and disdain they received between the takeover in 2008 and the first title in 2012. How silly that all seems now in retrospect.

This title has been inevitable for weeks, but really the inevitability stretches back years. Their grip on the league deepens every year as their world leading youth system produces more players; as they buy whoever they feel they need every summer; and as they manage to keep whatever players they want to keep (a feat Utd and Liverpool at their best couldn't manage).

The sickening part is the media choosing to be complicit in all of this. The headlines should be about the 115 charges and little else. But the media will fawn, Drury will wax lyrical and Sky will swoon for hours. It is completely soulless and hollow. A mid tier English club unable to sell out its stadium after a full decade of dominance now indisputably the best to ever do it. Whatever.

It is actually insane that there is no talk whatsoever about the 115 charges on Sky. It's the elephant in the room. You can't talk about all the success and not at least mention it in passing. It's ridiculous.

What have allegations seven years old now have to do with the current playing squad of City? Were any of them even there in 2017? KbB possibly.
Current City team has cost less than utd or Arsenals current team. Good recruitment, coaching and bottle has them where they are. Am sick of hearing the begrudgery towards them. Lucky tonight but all great teams need luck at times too

Does it need to be explained to you why serious allegations of financial rules being breached repeatedly during the formative years of the City dynasty are directly relevant to their current dominance? It really is pretty obvious, I must say.

Absolutely everything.

Obviously

Thanks to the Mods for Villa thread name update😁

Do you actually think that Man City were actively cheating on June 30th 2017 and then on July 1st 2017 just decided to stop and say 'lets not cheat anymore'.

Pull the other one.

Their manager is a cheat and the club is a cheat.