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So its official, Manchester United’s board have accepted a world record shattering bid of £80 million this morning from Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo. I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t face another summer of every news outlet boring us to tears speculating on Ronaldo’s future as we had last season. Day after day, [...]

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Time For City To Get Real, Not Real Madrid.

by Christopher Walker on May 16, 2009 · 6 comments

On 27 May the last meaningful game (apart from the FA Cup Final) involving an English club will take place this season. That is of course the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Barcelona – a nice little birthday present for me. It will be an even better week for me should my team prevail at Wembley on [...]

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If at first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh you don’t succeed, try and try again.
This seems to be Manchester City’s mantra ahead of next month’s UEFA Cup quarterfinal tie with Hamburg, made apparent by the fact that the club has slashed ticket prices through this Sunday for Apr. 16’s home leg to just [...]

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Can Manchester City Win The UEFA CUP?

by Paul Bestall on March 19, 2009 · 16 comments

Could Manchester City finally put their 33 year major trophy drought to bed this season by winning the UEFA Cup this season? Why not, what  with Ajax crashing out last night at the hands of Marseille and Zenit St Petersburg and CSKA Moscow losing today, the competition for the trophy is getting into the nitty [...]

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Are Manchester City Really Destroying Football?

by tyduffy on February 18, 2009 · 7 comments

FC Copenhagen chairman Stale Solbakken suggests that Manchester City’s spending will ruin football.
“The amounts of money that have been mentioned are incredible,” Solbakken told Ekstra-Bladet.
“I think that such incredible sums will take part in destroying football.
“They are creating too big a mental distance between what we call reality and then Manchester City.”
 The idea of City’s fiscal [...]

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Man City Finish Transfer Window Back Where They Started

by Matthew Semisch on February 4, 2009 · 9 comments

When the financial and managerial reins to Manchester City Football Club changed hands early on this season for the second time in fairly quick succession on both fronts, this time with the Blues having instantly catapulted to the top of the world football rich list, everyone’s attention immediately turned to the January transfer window. [...]

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Oasis Won’t Look Back in Anger at Kaká’s Snub

by Dave Warner on February 4, 2009 · 3 comments

Noel and Liam Gallagher might be the most famous Manchester City fans on the planet. So when they found themselves performing in Milan on Monday night, it only made sense that they would dedicate a song to the most famous transfer target in the history of their club — in the city where he decided [...]

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