Cavey
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29423048
WTF
Got the advantage of not playing midweek matches, so they can be fresher for the weekend matches, and they decide they might try and organise friendlies during the season to make a couple of quid? 
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Marc
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Not read the article but someone (a pundit/rival manager) said last week that without CL football United would not be regularly playing against the worlds best and that could affect them domestically. Makes sense, but I also get that less games means more rested players.
Clearly it is mainly to fill the revenue gap.
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Unless you have a huge squad playing mid-week hurts it IMO.
You only have to look at all the teams playing mid week and see how many injuries or squad rotations they need to do.
ManU will just hurt thier chances in the league. No point playing the best if you suddenly loose a couple of your top players. You will then drop those valued points in the league and be back to where you started. Not in the CL
Arsenal struggle massively due to squad size and i don't think ManU is much bigger. Chelsea/ManC obviously have it easy.
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Steve
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non story imo
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mwg
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I hope LVG says no and they listen.
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AlexSXI
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Bizarre idea- perhaps in the week they could practice defending instead of pointless friendlies 
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Steve
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Or practice defending in pointless friendlies
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Ben G
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are they not in the Europa league?
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Y869 SRA
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quote:
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are they not in the Europa league?
No. They fell one place short of making the qualifying round.
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Ben G
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 I didn't even know that. Even better.
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mwg
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Indeed. Better off not playing in the Europa to concentrate getting back in to the CL
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Man city, what you are seeing here is the result of pumping a shit loadoof cash into buying the league for a few seasons then when the assets start to lose their edge the team starts to look poor, because they have zero youth policy. Only way out of this is to spend more cash, but wait, ffp
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Cavey
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Have you seen how much they're spent on their youth and training facilities? Hasn't done much yet admittedly, but its bound to eventually, it'll have to.
And they lost last minute to a deflected goal last week, and drew with a Roma team who've won every league game this season. They're also 3rd in the league. They aren't looking great admittedly, but hardly panic stations
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Rick Draper
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
Man city, what you are seeing here is the result of pumping a shit loadoof cash into buying the league for a few seasons then when the assets start to lose their edge the team starts to look poor, because they have zero youth policy. Only way out of this is to spend more cash, but wait, ffp
You talk some fucking shit.
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Is it me or does Pellegrini moan more about referees than Jose seems fucking constant! Yet again another moan about the referee from yesterdays game.
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
because they have zero youth policy. Only way out of this is to spend more cash, but wait, ffp
You having a laugh? Chelsea bought the title all those years ago and recently struggled with a lot of older players.
City have spent an absolute fortune on youth development. A big part of half a billion quid on it The under 14's have won back to back titles, and the U18/U21's are up there in the hunt for titles. The Etihad Academy is nearing completion too.
A £200,000,000 complex is a fairly big investment
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Eck]
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Steve
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Where have I questioned city's penchant for spending money?
Until we see players from the academies coming through into the first team and not just be a machine for developing players, then selling/loaning them out, rinse and repeat, it doesn't mean jack shit.
Why arent we seeing some of these 18-21 year olds you speak of being given a chance in the first team?
Im not arguing they dont exist by the way, Im sure they do, but because their policy is a load of shit they will never see the light of day in the first team, which is a shame as I bet some of them could do a damn site better than yaya toure at the moment, who clearly couldnt give a shit.
You can have the biggest, best, all singing and dancing facilities in the world, but they are worthless without the right coaches, scouts, AND policy.
What hope do these young players have when they cant see any path through into the first teams? none, what is going to make them train harder and become the best if they don't have any motivation about breaking through.
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Steve]
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Robbo
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didn't one of them start and score in the coca cola cup?
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Rick Draper
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
Where have I questioned city's penchant for spending money?
Until we see players from the academies coming through into the first team and not just be a machine for developing players, then selling/loaning them out, rinse and repeat, it doesn't mean jack shit.
Why arent we seeing some of these 18-21 year olds you speak of being given a chance in the first team?
Im not arguing they dont exist by the way, Im sure they do, but because their policy is a load of shit they will never see the light of day in the first team, which is a shame as I bet some of them could do a damn site better than yaya toure at the moment, who clearly couldnt give a shit.
You can have the biggest, best, all singing and dancing facilities in the world, but they are worthless without the right coaches, scouts, AND policy.
What hope do these young players have when they cant see any path through into the first teams? none, what is going to make them train harder and become the best if they don't have any motivation about breaking through.
[Edited on 01-10-2014 by Steve]
Worry about your own clubs youth policy first nobhead.
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Marc
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To be fair to Stcheven, the above post does make sense.
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Rick Draper
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
To be fair to Stcheven, the above post does make sense.
It may well do but he cannot criticise our academy when uniteds is so shit!
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