'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

What are you saying, fam?

yeah whatever about cohen tho this thread seemed to veer into "it doesn't matter they're all the same" territory which clearly isn't true.

What makes a good oligarch then LG? Because I think they are all bad and I don't think anything is clearly true!

not disputing that, just saying the owners' individual activities merit reporting/distinction

I feel that the criticism of City's Middle Eastern oligarchs was a mere whimper until they started running away with the league.

isn't it nearly a decade they have been there now?

And the bad practices of American/Euro oligrachs is just called late period capitalism, nothing to report here.

Not they're all the same yes it doesn't matter

not even gonna bother asking you to elucidate tbh... don't mean that angrily

there are regional operating differences between the elite scumbag crooks that own most of the the global wealth, but to say some should have more scrutiny because they aren't from the "Land of the Free" is effectively what is being posited here imo.

that's not what i'm saying at all, ffs, i've repeated myself a few times now.

i'm saying all should have scrutiny.

And what conclusions do yo think would be made if all these amoral scumbags were given the same level of scrutiny? I don't think putting them into different categories would be very illuminating.

i dunno how what i'm saying is particularly complex - i just genuinely think people's activities should be reported so we know what they're doing. it's not physically possible for each owner or ownership group to be doing the exact same things in the exact same industries or countries or parts of the world, therefore i encourage any scrutiny or investigation into any of them, man city included.

i'm not using the cohen article as a sacred text - it was p bland - but maybe read the medium piece.

i mean this year i feel i learned a lot about someone like kroenke - it's fair to say the way he's operating is v different and wrong in far different ways to man city's owners. that's all i'm getting at - the need to be specific and to know what each owner is actually doing rather than helping them by just saying "ah well they're all the same"

To quote (or mis-quote possibly) Deng Xiaoping "If it catches mice, then it is still a fucking cat".

"i dunno how what i'm saying is particularly complex" I read this in a Chris Grayling voice!

I mean any of this in an antagonistic spirit btw, just rather drunk and my debating skills are often wanting!

lol! I don't mean obv..edit

Charlie Austin has got the Christmas present the cunt deserves, a 3 match ban for violent conduct on top of his hamstring injury.

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— Lynn Wagner (@lynnmira0809) December 25, 2017

The fuck did Fraser Forster turn into Dani alves

Good man.

Now scored as many as Messi this year, in 12 fewer appearances.

Danny Rose though.

conversely, I think Obama was pres of the free world last time Shane Long scored.

Top scorer in the world this calendar year

Still unconvinced

Southampton have been appalling.

Interesting to see Arsenal linked with Hirving Lozano this morning. Going to be a hell of a profit on whatever PSV paid for him five months ago.

That looked a penalty. Great pass.

Do I remember this ref

The skinnier one from birds of a feather or something

Spurs haven’t been good at all but this could finish 8-0.

Not even being funny but we need to speak about hugo

Paper hands lately

Harry Kane displaying that most difficult of skills, holding down L2 and somehow getting yr little finger out into R1 for the dink

Jesus Hugo wtf

As you were saying wrt paper hands.

That was an appallingly timed jump. Like he decided he was bored and needed to make it harder than it had to be

For a five two game this has been pretty boring stuff tho

Couldn't have dreamed that lamela would come back looking so sharp

Tbf to lloris his errors are usually meaningless. We're usually three up or three down.

tom ince!

finally a goal for the lad!!

omg that is the best goalmouth scramble in a minute

maybe save of the season?

Lossl is perfect us, he seem to thrive on living dangerously and as much as he can be a liability at times - he is awesome in desperate goalmouth scrambles like that.

ok that is save of the season

last time Crouch was at this ground, I was still using a mini-disc and we relegated QPR to L1.

We are still awful in the final third, as we were in the Championship.

Defour!

hahaha omg I'm watching the wrong game aren't I

what could be more important than seeing the evil Pulisball legacy defeated:p Oh yay, Man Utd getting stuffed at home!

bye bye Jose, Jose bye bye

Hoping I’m just still in that post christmas dinner hallucinogenic stage rn tbh

Quaner's recent transformation from a joke figure who trips over his own shoelaces to Ronaldinho has been an amazing development.

ffs!

Just noticed Arnautovic has his named spelled wrong on the back of his shirt today.