Manchester City Thread

[Loy Toy]

^ Spurs, on paper, were not so lucky.

[Chittychangchang]

Manchester City might just have set a another record for having the oldest mascots in Premier League history on Saturday.
Vera Cohen, 102, led out the teams as City faced Fulham at Etihad Stadium, along with her sister Olga Halon, who is a spritely 97.

Vera has been a regular at matches for more than 85 years and still goes to every home game with Olga, son Danny and son-in-law Roger.
Vera embraced City manager Pep Guardiola in the dugout before kick-off and the pair spoke with him after the game.


"Pep said hello to me and I said thank you for all you've done for this team," said Vera. "Things used to be very different from how they are today. They didn't have a scoreboard when I first came - a man used to come around with a blackboard with the score on it!
"Pep is amazing. What he's done to this team. There's something about him which brings the best out in the players. I hope he stays forever!"
"Basically, Grandma Vera is a legend," said grandson David Goldsmith. "She's raised over £23,000 for The Christie hospital in Manchester since 2001, through her baking."
The pensioners were joined by Vera's great grandsons Max Goldsmith, 10, and Sammy Goldsmith, 4.
Remarkably, Vera will not be the oldest mascot at a professional English match in recent seasons.
That record appears to belong to Preston fan Bernard Jones, 105, who led his team out against Sheffield Wednesday on the opening weekend of the 2017-18 Championship season.



Vera, left, and Olga were visited by Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany last year as part of the club's "We're Nothing Without You" campaign


They won 3-0

[hallelujah]

^ You're a pathetic oil club that nobody will ever take seriously.

The money isn't your own and the sooner you're turned into an ASDA, the better.

[Chittychangchang]

And you are a dirty red rag armchair fan with a nostril full of Columbian marching powder

Utd were lucky to scrape a win and did Lukawho really score that goal

You were outclassed by the new kids on the block, good ole Watford.





Dear fellow Manchester City fans,
It is now ten years since I joined with you in supporting this wonderful club and I wanted to mark that anniversary by writing to you directly, just as I did when the acquisition was completed and we began this journey.
We have come a long way since 2008 and it has been quite a ride. The transfer of Robinho, our first signing; the 2011 FA Cup, our first trophy for 35 years; our first Premier League title secured by ‘that goal’, and now two more; three League Cups; seven straight seasons in the Champions League; and last season, an array of records and a style of play that brings joy to anyone that truly loves this great game.
Whilst the last ten years has seen many things transformed and evolved in the way that I had hoped, and we planned for, one thing has remained constant - you have continued to be the best fans.
I want to take this opportunity to say that I am incredibly proud of the fact that the fundamental character of this Club and its supporters has not changed in the last decade. The qualities of loyalty, warmth, humour and humility which clearly stood it in good stead during its more challenging times, are still very much in evidence today and are essential to our success.
Equally important to me and the Board, has been the progress made beyond the senior first team. Our women’s team has won four major domestic trophies and joined the European elite, reaching the Uefa Champions League semi-finals for two consecutive seasons. Our youth system has seen more than 100 young men secure a career in professional football in the UK and overseas, nine of which have appeared in Manchester City’s first team. We have also established ten disability teams in Manchester. These teams, as with all of our other squads - male and female, at both youth and senior levels - train together at the same facilities at the City Football Academy, underpinning their aim for parity in playing the game we all love.
Our development has taken your club and its values to multiple cities around the world. Physically we have clubs in New York, Melbourne, Yokohama, Girona and Uruguay and additionally several offices around the world. We are also proud to be in the hearts of new fans in every country around the world. In a physical sense, we are the most global and at the same time local of football organisations. Importantly, all of our sister clubs are linked via City Football Group - a Manchester headquartered global network sharing values, knowledge, and best practice while at the same time having direct and positive impact on our extended family of communities, wherever they are in the world.
Off the field every metric indicates that acquiring City was a very good business decision. In 2015, the investment led by China Media Capital saw City Football Group valued at US$3bn, and this year, at Manchester City we have broken through the £500M revenue barrier and made a profit for the fourth consecutive year. The last ten years has seen us become economically scaled and sustainable as we had planned and that economic success is crucially important because it underpins everything else we do on the pitch and in our communities.
I want to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to the Chairman, the Board, the Executive leadership team and every employee for creating such value over the last ten years.
I have always said that football has a much bigger role to play than any normal “business”. I believe that through football we can help empower better lives for people. Not many organisations get to do that directly. Whether it be the simple joy of watching our beautiful game; helping combat obesity; improving fitness levels in children; supporting the battle to alleviate depression; combatting anti-social behavior; or sometimes just giving people a new sense of direction after a trauma or when they have lost their way. Football and football clubs not only have the power to do this, they have the responsibility to do so.
That is why I am so proud that we have been able to continue and expand on the work of City in the Community whose programmes address all of these challenges and more, because if we are not a positive part of Manchester and the other cities in which we live then we have failed.
So what do the next ten years hold? I know you all remain ambitious and so do I. It feels that we are only half way up our Everest. There is much more to do and there is much more to win. That is why you will continue to see us strive to recruit the very best talent into this club and its sister organisations in all functions and at all levels.
Khaldoon and I know that we will not get everything right all the time. As we continue on this journey I would ask you to please always bear with us and please be assured that, even when we stumble, we will try to remain true to our values and to make you proud of what we do and how we do it on your behalf.
Over the last ten years I have learned a lot more about what it is to be a City fan. I understood quickly why 40 points is important - and why inflatable bananas (and now sharks!) still make an appearance. And whilst I don’t have a Lamborghini, I was very tempted to get one a few years ago. It has been a most enjoyable education for me.
That said, what I have always known is that players and management will come and go from our Club, but you the fans are permanent. I will not forget that. I hope you have enjoyed these last ten years and I promise the next ten will be no less exciting.
I am truly honoured to be one of you.
Yours,
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan

[hallelujah]

As I said, a pathetic club at the whim of despots from the Middle East.

Your limit, you hopeless blue cunts.

[kmart]

Pep starting to look like Steve Jobs, before he bought the farm.

[Dillinger]

Manchester City might just have set a another record

Another last night....

Manchester City have become the first English side in Champions League history to lose four consecutive matches in the competition.

[Dillinger]

And another record- most empty seats

The Emptihad only two thirds full on Champions League night against Lyon. And loads of them fans fucked off after 80 minutes at 1-2.

How many are gonna turn up to watch when Shaktar Donetsk and Hoffenheim come to town?

Shit Team No Fans, Shit Team No Fans

[Dillinger]

A screenshot of the highlights from my TV





Fucking comical

[Dillinger]

[Dillinger]

From a Bertie on their Bluemoon forum, talking initially about Pep..
Proof that they only turn up to watch United

[david44]

Counselling available

[Loy Toy]

I see Citee have fallen in the Shitee............... Chitty!

British Press are suggesting that Citee lost because Pepee was spending time in the Teakdoor Dog House and not on the sidelines.

Twice as bad as Scum United won their game.

[Dillinger]

Great site this....

Wonder if Chitty is on there



Terrorise Europe

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[david44]

Kleenex sent

[Dillinger]

^ No need lar

[PAG]

I've heard the the Sports Direct shop at the Etihad has an evening wear section.

[Dillinger]

[Neo]

City did achieve something last night... they are the first English team to lose 4 consecutive Champions
League matches

[harrybarracuda]

City did achieve something last night... they are the first English team to lose 4 consecutive Champions
League matches

And if I'm not mistaken, three of them at home.

[Chittychangchang]

[david44]

Eyeful of evil Photo Montages , we feel your pain

[Chittychangchang]

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has signed a contract extension that will keep him at the club until 2021.
Aguero, 30, joined City from Atletico Madrid in 2011 for a reported £38m.
The Argentina international has played a major role in City's major successes since then, winning three Premier Leagues and three EFL Cups.
He is City's record scorer with his 204 goals including the injury-time winner against QPR in 2012 that won the title.
"I'm very happy because they have treated my very well since the first day I got here," said Aguero, who will have spent a decade at the club by the time his new deal expires.
"My idea was being here for 10 years. This was the main reason I signed."
Manchester City director of football said Aguero remains at the "forefront of what we want to achieve in the coming years".
"We are fortunate to have had one of the best strikers in the world at our club for so many years," he said.
Aguero added: "It's true that we've got a lot of young talent, that in the future can make the difference. At the same time the youngsters are quite developed already, like Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Gabriel Jesus.
"There are a lot of players that have got things to improve and learn, but being in this club you learn and improve faster than anywhere else.
"We have a good team, we need to be focused and if we are at 100%, we have lots of chances to do great things."

[Chittychangchang]

Fvnny fvcker