Champions League 2022-23 (81 Viewers)

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BayernFan

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Behind Barca and Bayern, above the likes of Inter and Union.
I was not only talking about other treble winning clubs though, but in the overall hierarchy :D

I doubt they'll be able to enter top 10 as of now, but with Pep at the helm for 2-3 more years they'll get there. It's just a matter of time.

But well, let them win the final first. It looks like a foregone conclusion right now, but maybe Inter will have a few tricks up their sleeve.

Just can't see them withstanding City's relentless intensity and pressing. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern and Real all got hammered so Inter shouldn't be any different. It's a final though, so anything happen.
 

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No doubt about City being a disgusting, cheating oil club. But they're slowly but surely becoming a great club - but the way they got to that status has been shameful.
FFP is a sham with Juventus, of all clubs, taking the brunt of the punishments these days. Meanwhile we watch PSG splash out €300m on 2-3 players in a month and it’s like, “Whatevs”

I feel like I am watching the all-drug Olympics now
 

Goodfella

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Nowhere near the level oil money teams spend today. PSG and Man City have obliterated football finances in the last decade to a degree no one else has before.
So it's a matter of proportions? Calcio was breaking financial records while Real was supposedly "state backed" and has loads of money to spend like crazy, Perez is up there as well.

Not being able to spend as well as others and then crying about it is just sour grapes.
 

Post Ironic

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So it's a matter of proportions? Calcio was breaking financial records while Real was supposedly "state backed" and has loads of money to spend like crazy, Perez is up there as well.

Not being able to spend as well as others and then crying about it is just sour grapes.
Nowhere near to the same percentage. If you’re arguing it was the same you have no idea what you’re talking about. PSG spent 220 mil on Neymar and 180 mil on Mbappe without selling a single starter. The transfer record when they did that was 105 mil. They more than doubled it. No one is ever done anything like that or had the net spend that team and Man City have had relative to their competitors domestic and foreign.

Gimme a break that 90s Calcio was spending in a way remotely similar :lol2:
 

Goodfella

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Nowhere near to the same percentage. If you’re arguing it was the same you have no idea what you’re talking about. PSG spent 220 mil on Neymar and 180 mil on Mbappe without selling a single starter. The transfer record when they did that was 105 mil. They more than doubled it. No one is ever done anything like that or had the net spend that team and Man City have had relative to their competitors domestic and foreign.

Gimme a break that 90s Calcio was spending in a way remotely similar :lol2:
This is not about who spent more in direct comparisons. You would also have to factor in inflation, rising standards on the transfer market and all that.
You are gleaning something else from what I was saying. What I said is those who outpsend others get the results, Chelsea shot in huge sums and got results, Real did, City did. Calcio clubs got results for their financial superiority. Why shouldn't City or PSG be allowed to do the same?
 

Post Ironic

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This is not about who spent more in direct comparisons. You would also have to factor in inflation, rising standards on the transfer market and all that.
You are gleaning something else from what I was saying. What I said is those who outpsend others get the results, Chelsea shot in huge sums and got results, Real did, City did. Calcio clubs got results for their financial superiority. Why shouldn't City or PSG be allowed to do the same?
Nah. It’s nothing to do with any of that. You’re suggesting 90s Calcio outspent the other leagues in a similar fashion. It didn’t. It outspent the other leagues by a minor minor amount. What PSG and ManCity are doing is on an entirely different scale relative to their competition, both domestically and in Europe.
 
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