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phips wrote:in regards to the "checkbook Pep" quip in the above article:

Pep Guardiola has spent:
€383m at Barca
€195m at Bayern
€459.2m at MCFC

Total = €1.037 BILLION

i believe this is the most by any manager ever.

but one could also say, you need to spend to win. no team is winning without buying good, expensive players and just fielding academy products and cheap gems.

patrickblue wrote:Pots and kettles come to mind.
But that's rag mentality for you, they think they have a god given right to sign whoever they want, and no-one else should be allowed to stop them.
Tossers.

phips wrote:in regards to the "checkbook Pep" quip in the above article:

Pep Guardiola has spent:
€383m at Barca
€195m at Bayern
€459.2m at MCFC

Total = €1.037 BILLION

i believe this is the most by any manager ever.

but one could also say, you need to spend to win. no team is winning without buying good, expensive players and just fielding academy products and cheap gems.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

phips wrote:in regards to the "checkbook Pep" quip in the above article:

Pep Guardiola has spent:
€383m at Barca
€195m at Bayern
€459.2m at MCFC

Total = €1.037 BILLION

i believe this is the most by any manager ever.

but one could also say, you need to spend to win. no team is winning without buying good, expensive players and just fielding academy products and cheap gems.

In this article, I liked the comment "if we're going to be portrayed as serial killers regardless, we might as well get some blood on our hands".

Seems to say it all most succinctly.

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

Justified logic wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

phips wrote:in regards to the "checkbook Pep" quip in the above article:

Pep Guardiola has spent:
€383m at Barca
€195m at Bayern
€459.2m at MCFC

Total = €1.037 BILLION

i believe this is the most by any manager ever.

but one could also say, you need to spend to win. no team is winning without buying good, expensive players and just fielding academy products and cheap gems.

In this article, I liked the comment "if we're going to be portrayed as serial killers regardless, we might as well get some blood on our hands".

Seems to say it all most succinctly.

Where did it say that?

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

Thanks JL, he seems to 'foe' me when it suits.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

Thanks JL, he seems to 'foe' me when it suits.

Would he De-foe you if it was Germane to this thread ??

(apologies for that; awful though it was, I couldn't resist the pun )

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

phips wrote:in regards to the "checkbook Pep" quip in the above article:

Pep Guardiola has spent:
€383m at Barca
€195m at Bayern
€459.2m at MCFC

Total = €1.037 BILLION

i believe this is the most by any manager ever.

but one could also say, you need to spend to win. no team is winning without buying good, expensive players and just fielding academy products and cheap gems.

In this article, I liked the comment "if we're going to be portrayed as serial killers regardless, we might as well get some blood on our hands".

Seems to say it all most succinctly.

Where did it say that?

In the ninth paragraph, fourth up from the bottom of the article.

Mase wrote:The clubs ruining football are the ones that are asking us to pay well over the odds for players, not us.

Everton for example, they've just got £75 million for Lukaku so when they've gone to Swansea for Sig, Swansea have said "Sound, you've just got £75 million you can give us £50 million!" And so on and so on.

The selling club thinks they're getting one over on the buying club but it ruins them in the long run.

aaron bond wrote:

Mase wrote:The clubs ruining football are the ones that are asking us to pay well over the odds for players, not us.

Everton for example, they've just got £75 million for Lukaku so when they've gone to Swansea for Sig, Swansea have said "Sound, you've just got £75 million you can give us £50 million!" And so on and so on.

The selling club thinks they're getting one over on the buying club but it ruins them in the long run.

At least we try to break the cycle though. Instead of selling we usually offer a loan deal and subsidised wages...

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

phips wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

sorry chap, youre gonna have to have people quote you as i have you Foe'd.

no clue who tweeted and i frankly couldn't care less.

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:

phips wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

sorry chap, youre gonna have to have people quote you as i have you Foe'd.

no clue who tweeted and i frankly couldn't care less.

I only ask because I've come across lots of rags on Twitter retweeting the same thing, chap.

phips wrote:

Justified logic wrote:

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:I'll ask again, who tweeted that Phips?

sorry chap, youre gonna have to have people quote you as i have you Foe'd.

no clue who tweeted and i frankly couldn't care less.