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How many times have we heard this?

I am trying to understand this because is either a world-wide conspiracy against City (no tinfoil hat here) or people are just plain and simple imbeciles.

Example:
This season I've watched City on the local stations. There isn't a game when the commentator doesn't mention money and how much we spent on defense. No game.
Last night the UCL game was on another station, same, how much money Pep invested, how much money, etc.

Then you go and see sports groups, comments, etc - the money subject again pops. Fantastic figures, how we ruined football, but when you show that Rodri is our expensive ever player and we never reached 100 mil for a player, they don't believe you.
Saw it with fans from different countries, different backgrounds, etc.
This must be one of the biggest fake news out there.

So people are that dumb? Or we are actually hated by football fans? Who think we actually built everything on money, when we in fact equaled the game in the finance department and proved on the pitch how good we are?

head-scratching isn't it?

As soon as we were top of the league it was all - “What a great match, City win again. Let’s go back to Dick in the studio who will run you through spend since 2008”

Predictable and boring.

the vast majority of people are "sheeple", they will take what they read/hear in the media and accept it. Then they will simply regurgitate it when they feel it necessary.
The media have an agenda, those old G14 clubs have served the medias' profits well for many years and City are challenging that.

But...whatever the media says or prints, it doesn't change reality.
It neither wins nor loses games for us, it neither wins nor loses titles or trophies for us and as much as the media or the football institutions may not like it, when a City captain holds up a cup, it means we have been the best in that competition.

The media can big up the rags and the scousers all they want this season....the fact is they are still 10pts behind us.
Bayern and UeFA can say what they like, but we still won 2-0 last night and look like going through to the next round.
I couldn't give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks about my team, I watch them for my own enjoyment, I know the truth and that is all that matters.

I used to get really wound up by the media, it diminished my enjoyment of my team.
Now, I don't bother with them, neither read nor listen to the shite they spout...and without their shite, I enjoy my team more.

When City hold up the Premier League trophy this year, I will be singing and dancing and enjoying every moment of it.
If the media are crying into their laptops & microphones and if the Sheeple are stamping up & down and angry cos we've finished top, and if the football institutions are weeping into their accounts because it's cost them TV revenue....That's their business, fuck all to do with me and sure as fuck. I won't be letting it decrease my enjoyment nor celebrations

I hope we spend 200 million on Mbappe or Haaland this summer ,preferably 400 million on both of them.

If they are going to hate then I suggest we give them more reasons to hate us more.

Fans are hypocrites.

Rag fans were happy when they could outbid every other club financially for players
For ex, Rooney, Keane, Berbatov, Veron, Wio, Di Maria, VanNis, Carrick, Yorke, Cole........it is a very long list over many many years.........
Chelsea were the first club that the Rags could not outbid financially for players Followed by us

Two clubs who 'bought' success

Conclusion: For Rag fans it is ok if they are the club with the financial muscle but it is not ok if it is any other club
Then there is poor plucky little Liverpool with all that istory who never spend any money - on principal

Utd won things by spending money, so did Chelsea, so did we, so did Liverpool......
But it is only ok for Utd and Liverpool to do this, any other club and they are 'buying' success

BTW: nothing every said about the huge amounts of money Utd have wasted on transfers......Sanchez, DiMaria, et al.

https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-re ... -10-years/

Interesting our net spent per trophy is better than Arseholes and Rags and not far off vermins and Chavs.

It would be interesting to compare our spending to the cartel for past 25 years instead of 10, that should make an intesting reading.

From totallymoney-

We’ve taken the 100 most expensive transfers each season in Europe’s big five leagues – England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France – since the dawn of the Premier League in 1992. Armed with that data, we’ve produced the TotallyMoney Transfer Index and calculated the beautiful game’s unique “football inflation”, so we can see how much players from yesteryear would cost today.

In 2002, Sir Alex Ferguson identified Leeds United’s 23-year-old Rio Ferdinand as the man around whom to build a team which could challenge at the top for a decade. He was right: with six Premier League titles and a Champions League victory, he proved himself more than worth his British record £41.4 million fee – worth £159 million today.

Ironically no mention of 55m for Sane and 16m for Angelino. Talking about net profits etc, we actually paid 27m for Cancelo in part exchange albeit he's valued at 60m. You got love the media, there is always a 'but' for the cartel, "yeah", they spent money but they sold so and so. We generate our own money and not sponsored by state Arab money blah blah....said the club with 'Emirates' plastered all over their jersey and advertising boards

BBC at it this morning, in our pre-match write up.

“ City, who have won two Premier League titles, one FA Cup and three League Cups under Guardiola, have made several big-money signings during the Spaniard's tenure - with £65m defender Ruben Dias the most recent arrival in September.

Riyad Mahrez, Aymeric Laporte, Joao Cancelo, Rodri, Benjamin Mendy and John Stones have all also arrived for fees in excess of £50m.”

Stones didn’t cost us more than £49 million, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story?