Transfer window thread?

[nayenezgani]

Pep Guardiola says he has been restrained by Emirates Marketing Project's budget

Surely a tinkle take?

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Surely a tinkle take?

Apparently not.

Pep Guardiola says Emirates Marketing Project are not always able to pay high transfer fees and meet player's wage demands as the club is operating within a defined budget.
Guardiola claims City cannot afford 22 'top' players as the Premier League leaders continue to fight on four fronts.

He said: "When you want to handle four competitions sometimes you have to be lucky with injuries. Otherwise you need 22 top players for every position. People don't believe this, but today 22 top players is too expensive to buy, even [for] City.

"Their salaries we cannot pay. There are budgets for the transfers and we cannot pay. In the future, it may change but we haven't paid more than £80m-£100m for one player. We cannot pay that right now, it is the truth.

"That's why we need the academy to fight. Of course, we spend a lot money but it is the same money as a lot of other teams. I can assure you we are not the only team in the world that spend money."
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...as-been-restrained-by-manchester-citys-budget

I find it quite offensive really - totally detached from reality. How about doing what most managers (excluding the obvious of course) have to do and work with what you have, within a real budget. Why should City be able to just hoover up 22 top players? Show some true management ability. It's not as if he currently has a squad of hoof-about has-beens.

 

[billyiddo]

What a fudging prick

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

Bloody hell, that level of ignorance is blinding

 

[nayenezgani]

fudging FIFA on cheat mode, it's all Guardiola has ever known.. Explains his ridiculous comments really.

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

Clearly he’s a very good manager with an unlimited budget (despite the BS he says there), but I’d love to see him try and “do a Poch” or a Dyche, take over a club who break even and have to promote youth. That’s a real test Pep mate, but doubt your up for it!

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

Clearly he’s a very good manager with an unlimited budget (despite the BS he says there), but I’d love to see him try and “do a Poch” or a Dyche, take over a club who break even and have to promote youth. That’s a real test Pep mate, but doubt your up for it!

Theres one thing where he and Mourinho are just alike

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

Theres one thing where he and Mourinho are just alike

To be fair to Mourinho his first managerial appointment was for a club like that. Pep on the other hand never has (and never will).

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

It was still the biggest, richest club in the league.

Winning the CL was quite incredible, and IMO the biggest achievement of his career - but regardless he still had all the money in Portugal

 

[billyiddo]

Porto wasn't Mourinhos first job - he managed some tin pot portuguese club prior to that iirc

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

It was still the biggest, richest club in the league.

Winning the CL was quite incredible, and IMO the biggest achievement of his career - but regardless he still had all the money in Portugal

I was thinking about União de Leiria, obviously i know little about them but i believe it was his first managerial job and he got them to there highest league finish. As you say the CL win for Porto (and Inter actually) were a huge achievement.

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Almost sounds like a banker moaning about an increase in the congestion charge. clam clam clam.

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

I was thinking about União de Leiria, obviously i know little about them but i believe it was his first managerial job and he got them to there highest league finish. As you say the CL win for Porto (and Inter actually) were a huge achievement.

Fair shout - I assumed Porto.

Youre right though, like Pep he wont ever go there (or alike) again. I dont think he has it in him. Imagine him at West Ham?!

 

[billyiddo]

Why would any manager once at the top level and still in demand take a step down?

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

Not suggesting they would, just saying they wouldnt have it in them to work at a club like that.

 

[milo]

I think that he's said it to try and get under Mourinho'' skin and a little come back for the signing fullbacks for striker fees comment.

 

[nayimfromthehalfwayline]

Most likely, they do like to make tits of themselves with childish things like this dont they?

 

[Bullet]

Bloody hell, that level of ignorance is blinding

You know that moment when you pick up your new chrome-plated Lamborghini Murcielago from the dealership in Dubai, and you sprung for the monogrammed red kangaroo leather seats? And then you see someone picking up an Aventador with 100,000 crystals stuck all over it and gold seats with a diamond fuel cap and you just think "Damn, I wish I had a bit more money to get a nicer car"...

 

[DevonSpur]

You know that moment when you pick up your new chrome-plated Lamborghini Murcielago from the dealership in Dubai, and you sprung for the monogrammed red kangaroo leather seats? And then you see someone picking up an Aventador with 100,000 crystals stuck all over it and gold seats with a diamond fuel cap and you just think "Damn, I wish I had a bit more money to get a nicer car"...

Only too well. Life sucks.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

You know that moment when you pick up your new chrome-plated Lamborghini Murcielago from the dealership in Dubai, and you sprung for the monogrammed red kangaroo leather seats? And then you see someone picking up an Aventador with 100,000 crystals stuck all over it and gold seats with a diamond fuel cap and you just think "Damn, I wish I had a bit more money to get a nicer car"...

Surely the money would be better spent on a penis enlargement?