My apologies sir for the heinous implication that you were a rag :smack:
My head just isn’t on straight today, what with all the hassle and everything at my beloved City.
I think I’ll take the goldfish for a walk, clear my head
Five games left in the 2015 season and, at 89 points, we lead Neil Banfield’s seemingly invincible Arsenal in the Premier League by one point (althought they do have a game in hand).
That’s not all there is to worry about though, for having scraped past Milan in the quarters of the Champions League on penalties, the mighty Real now stand as the only thing between Captain and goal-machine Edison Cavani and his bolshy team of mainly English younsters and their first Champions League Final.
With an FA Cup final against Chelsea to come as well, it’s the kind of close season that Sky and The Sun have wet dreams about.
Will it all end in disaster?
Will Garius’ name echo forever across the hallowed turf of Stevenage Borough’s Broadhall Way Stadium?
Tune in tomorrow to find out!
And no I haven’t fucking cheated. Firstly, I’m playing it on Xbox and secondly if I had I wouldn’t have been robbed of the League by Banfield and his bunch of foreign fucking mercenaries last year dammit!
I’ve always thought Stevenage Borough was a sleeping giant awaiting the right manager. 
I’m in my second season with Man City, having won the Premiership in my first season. Unlike real-life though, Jo is a goal machine and the manager a transfer market genius.
Diarra and Cruz. Samba and Diego. Lescott and Barry. Had to pay £50 million for Moric though.
Cavani is my tip - keep an eye on him for when you can get a work permit. He popped in 25 goals in his first season last year, and is currently on 50+ this season already. :eek:
I only picked him up to be my sub-striker, and he’s now my Captain extraordinaire.
The Arsenal reserves are also worth raiding at all times - Lansbury, Vela, Gibbs and the rest.
Damn right they are!
Thanks for the tips. Got Vela off of Arsenal for £10 million but as soon as he started scoring Barca tapped him up and I had to sell. Made a £5 mill profit but as my transfer budget for the season is £150 million it made no difference.
Bastards are doing the same with Santa Cruz.
One trick i found whilst trying to keep my good players on the treck up the divisions was to set a “requested transfer value” (or whatever it’s called) for my good players well above their actual value. Seemed to deter a lot of people.
With all due respect: WTF has this got to do with real life football.
Kindly open a thread where you can play with your toys to your hearts content
Sheesh!!
You talking to us or the Man City Board?
The opening sentence of my previous post wasn’t pretty, but I don’t think it said (and I didn’t mean to imply) that I thought the EPL was “more difficult” than any other league. I don’t really have an opinion on this as my observation of non-UK leagues is practically non-existent. I was merely pointing out the failure of certain players.
Ah, so you’re an American :).
Sorry, taking out my irritations at that silly canard on the wrong people. I don’t think switching leagues is as big a deal as people make out. People can fail for all sorts of reasons, even when staying in the same league (hi Robbie Keane!).
South African, actually. Why would you think American?
It’s a bit of an insult; he is asserting that Americans aren’t true fans, but simply jump on the bandwagon of whatever team is at the time being successful. 
Because Americans seem to switch their loyalties as often as they change their socks, or is it sox?
Looks like SAs are the same
Ah. Well, it has nothing to do with success, just whether the team plays attractive football. I’ll never support a team like Liverpool or Mourinho’s Chelsea, no matter how successful they are, because they bore me to tears.
As for switching allegiance, I suppose I’m one of those much derided “consumers” of football. It’s like a TV show to me, if it isn’t entertaining I’ll switch to something else. Entertaining != winning though.
Everyone seems to have correctly interpreted my comment :). It wasn’t meant as an insult, I was just pointing out that it is very rare for a UK sports fan to simply switch allegiance at any time. Not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with doing so - it’s just to us Brits, it’s somehow more proper to stick with one team through thick and thin, entertaining or not. That way, it’s more exciting when success/entertainment does arrive - it feels like it’s been earned. Ask anybody who was a Man U fan in the 70s, or an Arsenal fan in the 80s, or (possibly) a current Man City fan in 5 years time :).
Tell me about it! I went from watching the greatest team in Europe in '69, to seeing my hero send us into the 2nd division, in a 5 year span. It was only for one season, but after, we had to put up with a fair bit of mundanity before we reached our current glory era.
Ah yes good 'ol Denis:p
Did you know that my brother had originally scheduled his wedding for the day of that match, it was pointed out to him that in all likelihood the only persons present would have been him and his intended plus a priest.
He switched the dates after much begging and pleading to his wife, he’s still paying the price to this day
Robinho
What the fuck is going on here then?
Probably upset that Citeh are buying trash like Bellamy and Santa Cruz? Sounds like he’s concerned about how long they’re going to take to get to the top.
Is Keane officially the biggest waste of 20m yet? You buy a mediocre deep-lying forward then play your best deep-lying forward in midfield to accommodate him? Brilliant Rafa, brilliant.
Gonna laugh when Villa steal Liverpool’s 4th place, and Liverpool go bankrupt 
You know, while obviously not everyone is Messi (that unknown whom you appear to have single-handedly unearthed in the footballing backwaters of Barcelona, a feat not unlike panning for gold at Fort Knox), that doesn’t make them trash. As I said upthread, Bellamy wouldn’t be top of my shopping list if I had infinite cash, but Hughes does have to get players who are available; January is always a poor time to be forced to shop. Not everything can be the signing of the century, and Bellamy will improve the squad. Santa Cruz is a quality player, full stop. As Robinho himself proves, one star player doesn’t make a team, and Man City have a whole squad to rebuild.
Well, obviously they can’t go and sign 3 Messis. Surely they should be buying pretty decent players at least though. No problem with Wayne Bridge for example, solid player with Premiership experience, won’t set the world alight.
Bellamy, granted, is a decent player. I mostly called him trash because he is trash as a human being, and has a reputation for being a human wrecking ball on dressing rooms. For a dressing room with issues already, it seems a daft signing.
What evidence is there that Cruz is a quality player? His record is absolutely dire other than one season at Blackburn. Not to mention the injury issues. That record screams crap player with one good season.
Even Defoe, who I consider a pretty poor one dimensional player, would surely be better than these two. At least he’d bang in the chances Robinho gives him.
With all due respect; which is somewhat less than yesterday; cut the ‘Get Off My Lawn’ Senior modding.