Manchester City

[spud_gun]

Young POTY

24years old, well over 200 senior appearances, close to half-century with England.

Young POTY. The wee little scamp.

Like the Saudi Arabia under 17 team.

[dom9]

Etihad are losing money hand over fist but they find enough cash to fund a football team to record amounts.

https://onemileatatime.com/etihad-removing-seatback-tv/

[Norbs]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/48116820?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5cc932f2c2514206599a58e9%26%262019-05-01T06%3A23%3A56.178Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:84f510e5-4175-4f22-89e6-07fa4920aad9&pinned_post_asset_id=5cc932f2c2514206599a58e9&pinned_post_type=share

[Norbs]

Tried to share the part of the article that says Ajax have won as many away knock out games this season as Man City have in their entire history

Nice one

It also says Ajax have beaten Madrid, Spurs and Juve to City's Basel, Shalke and Dynamo Kiev

Madness how 'dominant' they are in supposedly the toughest league in the world. Must surely be a birra corruption in the PL

[Bender]

Manchester City will not make a summer move for Leicester City and England left-back Ben Chilwell, 22, because they are happy with current options Benjamin Mendy and Oleksandr Zinchenko. (Manchester Evening News)

[Fosterbloke]

I was impressed by Zinchenko, not a flying wing back like Robertson but pretty calm on the ball.

[Tee]

He is a fantastic young player, big potential and hasn’t really put a foot wrong from what I’ve seen

[Pablo]

Zinchenko has been great for them. Isn't his record for them something like 18 games played, 18 wins?

[Fosterbloke]

He is a fantastic young player, big potential and hasn’t really put a foot wrong from what I’ve seen

Doesn't come across as a cunt either which is refreshing.

[RedAndWhite]

Doesn't come across as a cunt either which is refreshing.

Dont worry they will train that out of him!!

[S-RED]

Doesn't come across as a cunt either which is refreshing.

Oh he definitely is a cunt in progress; a few occasions this season he has been PEP snidy

[Buzzo]

Awkward.

Robinson/Yaxley-Lennon is a ****ing relentless prick.

[ame]https://twitter.com/edersonmoraes93/status/1123284685839269893[/ame]

[Jas]

WTF..........

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48145285

Manchester City have overtaken Manchester United as the most valuable Premier League club, according to a new football finance study.

City are valued at £2.364bn, up £385m, while United are valued £2.087bn, a drop of £376m blamed on "higher wages and lower profit".

The top six account for almost three-quarters of the combined league value.




Burnley are seventh and described as the "most sensibly run club in the Premier League financially".

Overall, the study by the University of Liverpool's Centre for Sports Business Group, found the cumulative value of the league's clubs is £14.7bn, a 1.6% drop.

The two Manchester clubs are the only two valued at more than £2bn in the study for the 2017-18 season.

Spurs (£1.837bn), Liverpool (£1.615bn) and Chelsea (£1.615bn) have seen big rises but Arsenal dropped to £1.368bn without Champions League football.

The top six clubs make up 74% (£10.9bn) of the overall total with Burnley almost £1bn behind Arsenal in sixth.

To calculate their data, the university took into account revenue, profits, non-recurring costs, average profits on player sales over a three-year period, net assets, wage control and proportion of seats sold.

The research says City are top due to a combination of "higher revenue and lower wages". They made £39m in profit from player sales at the beginning of last season, "removing some high earners from the wage bill".

"The ownership model of Sheikh Mansour, which effectively means that the club is debt free, means that there are no loan interest costs and no dividends are paid to shareholders either," the study added.

United came third, behind Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Deloitte's list of the world's richest clubs published in January - but that is just based on revenue.

[dom9]

It's all a bit academic, really.

[Irishnev]

[ame="https://twitter.com/samuelluckhurst/status/1124311692350054401"]https://twitter.com/samuelluckhurst/status/1124311692350054401[/ame]

That’s ballpark €150m on those two and they need a holding midfielder and arguably another defender. If they spent circa €250m and don’t recoup any of that in sales then what is the point....such flagrant breaking of the FFP rules and nothing happens