Man City really do sod all for British football

[nicko31]

Leaving the EU will solve this issue. It will not stop the very very best coming to England but it will remove the rest.

If we left the EU Europeans could still get work permits. Think things will only change we the PL implodes, could be a while..

 

[Barrel of Fun]

[MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION] Let's be clear. You work for a foreign company, which generally means you work abroad (something you have owned up to). Your company relies on people from different nations. How did you become such a bigot?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Perhaps English players cost too much money and European ones are cheaper?

And English players are generally shit.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Perhaps English players cost too much money and European ones are cheaper?

100% agree with this.

Why would you pay 2x the amount for an English player when you can get someone the same quality abroad for half the cost?

 

[kevo]

City, like Chelsea, used to have character, some soul, a heartbeat if you like. Now they have been reduced to an insipid corporate machine fuelled by stupid money and stocked with self-interested foreign mercenaries who are counting the days until they can escape Manchester for sunnier climes, set up for the rest of their lives.

These two clubs in particular sum up a lot of what is wrong with modern football. What connection does this Man City have with the club that existed 20 years ago? None whatsoever apart from the name. A horrible moneybags soulless corporate machine, who have been busy recently buying various feeder clubs across the globe. Nothing would please me more than to see them fail to win the league.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Why do English players cost more? They're generally not as good as their European counterparts.

 

[Superphil]

How many fans left with 10 minutes to go?

 

[sagaman]

Cannot stand Chelsea, Man City and a number of other Prem Clubs and all they represent

 

[drew]

For 12 years from 1998, Liverpool had foreign managers and in the 2005 Champions League final they only had 2 Englishmen in the team (only 3 if you include all the subs). Also, weren't Liverpool the first field a team in the league without any Englishmen in?


(1986 FA cup final. No Englishmen in the team)

 

[Dorset Seagull]

These two clubs in particular sum up a lot of what is wrong with modern football. What connection does this Man City have with the club that existed 20 years ago? None whatsoever apart from the name. A horrible moneybags soulless corporate machine, who have been busy recently buying various feeder clubs across the globe. Nothing would please me more than to see them fail to win the league.

But their fans are from the same stock as they were 20 years ago and are all passionate about their club. Players today very rarely come form the local community or play for the club they support. We at the Albion are no different are we? Do you think the likes of CMS etc really cared about the Albion before they joined the club or do you think they had other reasons for joining.

Football has changed...live with it

 

[coagulantwolf]

Why do English players cost more? They're generally not as good as their European counterparts.

Basic economics of supply and demand; good English players are a scarce resource.

 

[Beach Hut]

Cannot stand Chelsea, Man City and a number of other Prem Clubs and all they represent

You resent the huge investment made in them ?

What is so different about us to them except we are playing catch-up due to circumstances.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Basic economics of supply and demand; good English players are a scarce resource.

That doesn't make sense. Nationality means nothing in the top flight. Why buy English? Who has been a value signing?

 

[MissGull]

What with our English manager, English players......oh right.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

For 12 years from 1998, Liverpool had foreign managers and in the 2005 Champions League final they only had 2 Englishmen in the team (only 3 if you include all the subs). Also, weren't Liverpool the first field a team in the league without any Englishmen in?


(1986 FA cup final. No Englishmen in the team)

Wasn't the first. No Englishmen in the Queen's Park side in the 1884 FA Cup Final either, and that was a century before.

 

[Kevlar]

a good example is with the other side of Manchester
with the signing of an established Argentinian we
shall see Luke shaw as the most recent young English prospect
on the bench not developing his game the most expensive left back
on the bench.

 

[Rich Suvner]

Why do English players cost more? They're generally not as good as their European counterparts.

Emperors Clothes. One day they'll realise.

 

[Diego Napier]

And English players are generally shit.

I'm assuming that's irony.

Either that or you've got your predicated verb for brains

 

[goldstone]

City, like Chelsea, used to have character, some soul, a heartbeat if you like. Now they have been reduced to an insipid corporate machine fuelled by stupid money and stocked with self-interested foreign mercenaries who are counting the days until they can escape Manchester for sunnier climes, set up for the rest of their lives.

Agree with this. A very sad reflection on English football. Not everyone will agree with me, but I would much much prefer to watch a team with a majority of British players who you would feel had some link to the country they were playing in. And yes, this also applies to the Albion.

 

[dangull]

At least its made the Premiership more than a 2 horse league. It used to be Man UTD v Arsenal. Now Chelski, Man oil and Liverpool have a chance.