If you marry the girl of your dreams start a family and then find out she’s been cheating on you and the kids aren’t yours you’ll be positive talking about memories 😂
City are fked mate 😂😂
Emmanuel Adebayor wasn't the only Arsenal player Manchester City swooped for in the summer of 2009.
Kolo Touré had already spent seven years at Arsenal, making 225 Premier League appearances and being part of the Invincibles.
Then Manchester City came calling.
City paid roughly £16m for him in 2009, a huge fee for a defender at the time, especially when you consider how much transfer inflation has changed the market since then.
Touré reportedly earned around £100,000 a week too. That's serious money for a defender in 2009.
And the most interesting part?
Touré later revealed that the move had been six months in the making.
Manchester City were systematically recruiting players from clubs that were traditionally above them.
That's the part people sometimes forget.
Imagine Newcastle doing this today.
Going to Arsenal and signing Bukayo Saka.
Going back for Declan Rice.
Taking Gabriel Magalhães.
Or signing William Saliba.
That's essentially what Manchester City were doing in 2009.
They weren't simply buying good players.
They were taking important players from clubs they wanted to overtake.
And that was part of how City began their transformation from ambitious outsiders into the powerhouse they eventually became.
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: A former Premier League executive has proposed a severe sanction for Manchester City.
The idea is to relegate the club to League 2 and block any promotion until they provide 5 years of fully compliant, independently audited accounts.
This would close the "take the hit and bounce straight back" loophole and force a proper reset.
Borussia Dortmund sold:
— Sancho for €85m
— Dembélé for well over €100m
— Bellingham for €103m+
And valued Haaland at around €150m.
Then Manchester City turn up a year later and get arguably the best young striker on the planet for roughly €60m
Seeing €100m+ Dortmund sales everywhere and then HAALAND leaving for €60m will never stop looking absolutely ridiculous on a transfer graphic.
So Man City cheated at such a massive scale for an entire decade until 2018 and then stopped completely?
In all seriousness, is there an investigation for the years between 2019-2026?
For many years fans have been calling out what City were doing was clearly dodgy. Many in the media glazed them, praising their trophies, points tallies and success. One particular MOTD presenter couldn't praise them enough. How stupid must you have been not to see through it...