Any journo with half a brain that wasn’t upside down or had a pair of balls would’ve responded to him with this very sentence. Another epitome I guess with how far out of touch these clowns are with the game that they can’t connect the dots.
And how far journalists are up Pep’s arse.
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City’s lack of activity is interesting, as is the fact that Cancelo is back and getting significant pre-season time as is Walker. I wonder if this could be a season where Lewis, McAtee and Palmer could get their shot?
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This and the thing that they’re facing the heat w.r.t FFP and now have to show that they’re good enough to win without cheating. Doesn’t matter if they are still getting the benefits of being cheats before.
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They do this on occasions to give the pretence they haven’t bought the league.
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I don’t know if he has a knock, but it was maybe a relevant counter point to see that Cole Palmer stayed on the bench for the entire game against Atletico yesterday.
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Its a cold day in hell when Guardiola actually plans to use any of his youth graduates in any kind of meaningful capacity.
They’ll be there to fill out the squad and maybe get a few minutes at the end of comfortable wins.
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Why should these cheats stop spending? I mean it can’t get any worse for them can it? The genie is already out of the bottle isn’t it? In theory that is. 
I dont know. They periodically do this. I remember Mancini being really frustrated over their lack of strengthening the summer after their first title, including failing to meet Arsenal’s price for RVP and allowing him to go to Utd instead.
By the end of that season Mancini was out of a job, RVP had fired Utd to a title, and none of the underwhelming signings city had made in that summer had done anything meaningful. The following year they went back to spending in support of the new manager and regained their title (the fuckers).
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Yeah they will sometimes hold off though it’s likely they will be signing that CB.
Wondering now if the Saudi league being a potential threat to the premier League will skew / make them adjust their thinking in the 100+ charges?
Open the door to spending at will, or try to improve the product by making it more competitive?
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I doubt they care if it’s competitive
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Someone, somewhere, is moving money around in the background here. Big price drop from RBL.
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How very dare you, what an insane notion! Corruption and skulduggery in a market awash with a literal slick of oil money? Madness.
They actually wanted 100m Euro which is £86m. So not that big a price change…but yea still cheating cunts.
Do that with every deal and it makes a hell of a difference over a few years. Or 7 seconds in Chelsea’s case.
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They’ve been nailed on to sign him since before the window opened but have only agreed a deal now.
Almost like these transfer negotiations take a long time.
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To be fair, setting up dummy corps to pay him through and offshore accounts to put the money into likely requires more work than activating a transfer clause.
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So, I assume he’s a full back…
The thing is if it happens very regularly, I just don’t see how that keeps quiet from the public. For a player, its obviously very much in Haaland or KDB’s interest for example to not share the extra wages etc that they are receiving, not just because it puts their position at the club in jeopardy, but also opens the door to Mr Taxman.
But doing the same with another club related to a large transfer, I think you’d need to be pretty selective on who you do dodgy dealings with for fear of being burnt by them in the future or for something to leak. Lucky for City, RB group are probably right up their alley.
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