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Copa America is being telecasted here in NZ :). If only I would be able to wake up at 12 noon to watch the match. Been waking up around 2 every day for the past week :(

 

The match today is between Argentina and Bolivia.

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LOLalexis Sanchez! :lol:

 

Apparently Chelsea & ManCity are ready to pay more than or around 40mil... But, Sanchez is only interested to sign for Barca who we all know is bankrupt and poachers. Udinese want more money and are not agreeing with lower bids from Barca.

 

I reallllllllllyyyyy want him at Stamford Bridge... :(

Would be worth every f**ckin' penny!!!

 

dont want no bitch that doesnt want to play for us

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retards as in they are always after a man u target

lol look at the salary FFS :P

 

n as mel said its an impulse buy rather than a planned one

 

If your going to spend OTT to buy a player like both Man Utd and Man City, in Nasri's case, you have to pay high wages. Even if Man UTd had signed him, they would have had to have paid him over 110k a week. So, Im not the least bit surprised that City offers 170k. If Man Utd bit was normal, no way in hell is City's retarded. In reality both clubs and mental.

 

And which other target of Man Utd's is City after or did sign in the past?

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retards as in they are always after a man u target

lol look at the salary FFS :P

 

n as mel said its an impulse buy rather than a planned one

 

stop saying that.

it's Man united or united or Manchester United

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O.o

each and every manchester united target is liked to city if you believe the tabloids

 

city has disturbed whole fundamentals of the transfer market by making audacious bids and paying undeserved salaries

n no Nasri doesnt deserve 170k but with city in scene everything is possible

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Man U is a derogatory term, apparently. Remember reading that somewhere.

didnt know that :panic:

 

A contraction of Manchester United that is seen as a derogatory term by many fans, particularly those based in Manchester.

 

Previously used predominantly by rival fans in songs mocking the Munich Air Disaster ("Man U Never Intended Coming Home", "Man U are manure rotting in their graves" and "Man U, Man U went on a plane"), it is sadly becoming the most common term fans from outside the city refer to the club by.

 

The club does not issue any merchandise with the words "Man U" on them, nor do any terrace songs refer to the club as such.

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each and every manchester united target is liked to city if you believe the tabloids

 

city has disturbed whole fundamentals of the transfer market by making audacious bids and paying undeserved salaries

n no Nasri doesnt deserve 170k but with city in scene everything is possible

 

If you believe the tabloids then you might as well believe every small rumour. The solid ones are obvious to see. And this is the first time Ive seen them after a Man Utd target this term.

 

City are a team that has disturbed market fundamentals, but it isnt something new. Man Utd have always been a team that has spent lavishly in the past. 30m for players like Rooney, Ferdinand, 18m for Carrick, 40m for Anderson and Nani, 16m for Hargreaves were all over the top bids.

 

And no, Nasri doesnt deserve 170k, but he doesnt deserve 90k either, so this debate is pretty futile.

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United have always paid over the odds for a player they want and distorted the market. I just quoted examples above for you, its not like City are the only team who has done that in the history of football. Your little witch hunt of City will not prove fruitful when you cant back it up.

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Im quoting an exact message a friend (Manutd supporter) sent me about this 'Man u' topic a couple of months ago...

 

Apparently, it's completely made up, completely untrue. Ron Atkinson used to call the club Man U when he was manager, so did Teddy Sheringham when he played there and as little as ten years ago there was an unofficial magazine called 'Man U', and nobody had any sort of problem with it.

 

The chairman of the Manchester United Supporters Trust wrote the book Forever a Babe: Growing Up With Manchester United, in which he talks about this nonsense. Here's his (actual factual) take on it:

This is an old chestnut that comes up time and time again. To give you a little bit of history about where it came from and how the term "Man U" first came to be used, I have to go back to the 50's.

 

If you were to look at a newspaper from that era, and particularly the football results section, you would see just what a simple explanation there is for it. Newspapers back then were done in an old fashioned way where the compositors (typesetters) used to lay out the pages of the newspapers before they went on the presses for printing. With the results sequences, they obviously could not typeset the full names of each individual club as the columns that needed to be uniformly set out, just would not match up. So what they used to do was abbreviate the name of each football club, and once they had done this the columns would line up as they were needed to be. Hence you would see a a team like Birmingham City abbreviated to B'ham Cty, Sunderland to S'land, Sheffield Wed to Sheff W and so on. So consequently, Manchester United would be set up as Man Utd or Man U, depending upon which newspaper it was.

 

Certainly, those latter two terms had nothing whatsoever to do with Munich. It's a story that's done the rounds for years and has no mileage in it whatsoever. Just people trying to put a different slant on things and like a rolling stone, it's gathered stories as it's gone along.

 

The BBC back then was the main audio/tv outlet, but they would never abbreviate a team's name and always used to give clubs their full title.

 

However, in the mid 60's we started to see ITV come more into the football commentary side of things, and also, there was another breed of football journalist that started to appear, and it's from here that you started to hear "Man U" used more and more frequently. It was nothing more than sloppy phraseology and sloppy journalism. Times were changing back then and as the game started to become more and more high profile, so did those two terms. Fans picked up on it and it became a normal thing for opposition fans to use those terms. There was never any real disrespect in it - it was just what they saw and what they read.

 

It's interesting when you look back... even Big Fat Ron when he was at Albion, United, and clubs after that, always referred to United as "Man U". Just sloppiness.

 

On another note; there was no club merchandise store around in the 50's early 60's. The first shop was actually a little wooden hut (that was owned by Sir Matt!) that appeared underneath the Munich Clock in the mid-60's. It sold things like lapel badges rosettes etc and the team's name was abbreviated on those items.... that little hut developed into what became known as the Megastore, and then when Edwards got his grubby little hands on it (he bought out Sandy Busby) he jumped on Michael Knighton's idea regarding merchandising and the thing we see today, is what has developed from that initial little red hut!

 

Sometimes, internet is wrong.

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:doh: those are not over the top bids and most of them have performed well unlike city player

they must have payed a little more but everyone does that but haven't seen any club buying some player just so that other team can have him

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Also, City's highest paid transfer fees is Robinho which is only 2.5m more than Berbatov for an established world class player who was plying his trade at the greatest football club in the history of football.

dude united bought a 30 mil player just once n u know how many 30 mil buys city have made

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