Benny The Noon » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:33 pm wrote:Yes City bought poorly last summer - and the team suffered because of that. The manager lost the dressing room and the players didnt perform
Utd won because they had the quality required in the right area - scoring goals and stopping goals.
The season before that City won the title.
City have spent a lot of money taking a team from bottom half of the table to fly right past us and confirm themselves in the top 4 of the league - in fact top 2. They will once again challenge for the title this year because they have one of the best squads in the league.
Ability and quality wins titles - that's why the teams winning things are the teams spending the money to get the quality players into the team. That's not an opinion that's a fact and you only have to look at the title winners in recent years - even go back to Blackburn.
The best teams in terms of quality win.
Still unsure what the "self imposed golf sabbatical" has to do with the thread though ?
Good to see you have dismissed your previous weak excuses relating to Balotelli and Kompany. I'm glad we sorted that out.
I'm not dismissing the FACT that quality wins titles. What you seem unable to accept through your usual stubbornness is that City lost the title for a variety of reasons. Mancini didn't help. However the key reasons were attitude and determination and nothing to do with lack of quality.City scraped the title on goal difference the previous year after Tevez's self imposed golf sabbatical when he got upset at how he was treated over a substitution issue.http://mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/1 ... wasnt-carl His attitude is absolutely shite and they nearly lost the title as a result. Last season half the time they behaved like a bunch of prima donnas and simple expected to win when they turned up.Look at how they have performed in the CL. Simply buying quality players with ability does not win you titles and that is a FACT. There are far more ingredients to it than that. How many golfers in the world are there that play off +5 but never win a tournament?