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Five Reasons For It All Going Wrong At City

With Manchester City's title defence basically over in February, Nick Miller looks at why this season has been a relative failure. Hart? Yaya? Spending? Or all Mancini?

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prt (Manchester United) says...

Oh No... I remember myself joyfully reading a similar article last year with United 8 points clear, and You-know-what-happend then..

Posted 10:39am 2nd March 2013

big dave (Manchester United) says...

Blowing vast amounts of cash on players, that you subsequently seem to have no interest in using, makes a lot more sense in the light of FFP and multi-billionaire benefactor owners. Spend, say, £200m on players pre-FFP (that you don't want or need); loan a couple out, leave the rest on the bench or in the reserves; FFP comes in; players now worth £100m due to lack of playing time but that lost £100m is pocket change - the plan here is to cheat FFP; sell £30m of players each year for 5 years allowing an extra £30m of spending for the club, effectively circumventing FFP without breaking any rules. Note - only works if sums like £200m are irrelevant in the grand scheme of your total wealth.

Posted 12:12pm 22nd February 2013

big dave (Manchester United) says...

@petergriffin - sorry but the argument that 'United spent twice as much as their rivals' is an inaccurate revision of history based on people trying to make their own club's spending look like normal business. From Fergie's arrival in 1986, until the end of the 93/94 season, United spent £23m, Liverpool £30m. Thanks to higher outgoing transfers by Liverpool, the net spend of both clubs was almost exactly the same at around £18m. In those days United and Liverpool would occasionally splash out on a (hopefully) world class player, mostly around the 1m-2m mark, occasionally more. The blowing of vast sums of money while everyone else spent a few grand here and there - it didn't happen. I'm sure most observers have got used to the monopoly money spending at City, and Mancini's staggering opinion that after half a billion spent on players and just two trophies that City need to rebuild, but don't try to draw comparisons with teams of the past - you won't find any genuine ones. There has never been a spending situation like the one at City, except perhaps when the Emperor and Vader decided to rebuild the death star.

Posted 8:54am 22nd February 2013

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