Sam Allardyce scoffs at Manchester City: ‘Big club on fact they’ve spent £450m on defenders’

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West Brom manager Sam Allardyce is not someone we hold in the highest regard, in all honesty.

He’s one of the few people rated equally poorly on both sides of Stanley Park, in fact!

But we quite appreciated his reminder in a press-conference that Manchester City have only become what they are through obscene spending in the transfer market. We’ve no issue with this, necessarily, if their fans would just admit it.

“Man City have become a big club on the fact they’ve spent at least £450m just on defenders,” he said, earning him a massive backlash amongst City fans.

But he’s right, essentially. Even when they won the Premier League in 2018/19, about nine fans came to the ground to celebrate – before the pandemic – remember!

Pep Guardiola is a brilliant manager, but he couldn’t have done what he’s doing now without a bottomless pit of money – and that’s a fact.

Our only real anger towards their situation is the way they cheated FFP and got away with it.

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2 Comments

  1. How f***** obsessed are you scouser mob…. guess there isn’t much to talk about on the pitch hey?

    Enjoy Europa league if your lucky next season.

  2. I think you’ll find spending money on players has always been an important part of the business of football. The Wolverhampton Wanderers manager in the 1950’s boasted that he could afford to buy any player he wanted. Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona have spent vast sums of money to maintain the quality of their players. Liverpool did their share of buying in the 70’s and 80’s.
    But one thing Sam omitted to mention was the fact that just buying good players doesn’t give you a good team. If fact it can have the opposite effect. In the 1970’s City bought Rodney Marsh when they were leading the championship. He so unsettled the team that it is widely regarded the his purchase cost them the league championship that season.
    So as well as good players the most vital thing needed is a good manager to mold the players into a team.
    I get tired of hearing jealous people saying City are only a good team because of the money they spent. Yes the spending is important but there is more to it than that. So belt up Sam and start preparing for life in the Championship.

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