Khusa will be the most talked about assets in the coming years
Idk why but people still have this image of him from his debut match against Chelsea, where he gave away a yellow card in the starting few mins of the match.
@WhoScored His tackling rate is in the top 1% of PL defenders per 90. City still lost, though, with 2.29 xG to Villa's 0.65. The defence wasn't the problem. Finishing was.
@GeronimoMorgans Going 3 goals down in the first half is mentally devastating for any team city still managed to dominate the second half and create chance after chance.
Brilliant performances from Bouaddi and Ndiaye. Though I think Ndiaye needs to work on his finishing. So proud of the boys🩵🩵
@maxgmurray Hi Max, React/Next.js + Supabase is my main stack. I built https://t.co/q9pRbZz5h0 (live football analytics on Next.js + Supabase with Python data pipelines) and work on a Next.js/Node SaaS at Square Yards. Based in India, keen to chat. https://t.co/OWFUbAgBPd
@GeronimoMorgans So true.
Manchester City has challenged the so called legacy clubs that built their legacies under the rules of their time.
And If any fanbase is talking about the spirit of the game i believe it means genuine competition on the pitch. 🩵🩵
Financial Fair Play was sold as a way to protect clubs from reckless owners. In reality, it tied what you're allowed to spend to what you already earn. Think about what that means. The clubs with the biggest historic revenues, the ones who'd been dining at the top table for decades, got to keep spending. Everyone else was told to know their place. Ambition from below was reclassified as a threat.
Look at the hypocrisy. An owner putting his own money into a club, clearing debt and building it up, gets treated as the villain. But an owner who buys a club with borrowed money and loads the debt onto the club itself? Perfectly acceptable. The Glazers took over Manchester United through a leveraged buyout, and that club has since poured well over a billion pounds into interest, debt repayments and dividends. Nobody drew up 115 charges for that.
Then remember who these supposed guardians of fairness actually are. In 2020, Liverpool and Manchester United pushed “Project Big Picture”, a plan to hand more voting power to the biggest clubs. In 2021, the same elite tried to walk away from English football entirely with the European Super League, a closed shop with no relegation. City were part of it too and withdrew, but the architects and the loudest voices came from the traditional cartel. These are the people lecturing everyone else about the integrity of the game.
Even the Premier League's newer rules haven't stood up. In 2024, an independent tribunal found parts of the Associated Party Transaction rules unlawful after City challenged them. That wasn't City escaping justice. That was a legal body confirming the rules themselves were flawed.
City were never the problem. City were the proof. Proof that a club outside the old establishment could be invested in, built properly, run brilliantly, and beat the aristocracy on the pitch. Academy, infrastructure, a city regenerated, a team that won everything. That's what they can't forgive.
These rules were never about protecting football. They were about protecting a hierarchy. And we will keep fighting them, in every forum, for as long as it takes. We are Manchester City.
@TheAthleticFC@Conor0Neill_ Loved the graphics
Are any of you guys know of any websites or apps where all of data can be seen …. Fotmob doesn’t show shit it only shows the surface level data
🚨🇸🇪 Zlatan Ibrahimović on Premier League clubs celebrating Manchester City’s 115 charges:
🗣️ Zlatan: “I don’t blame them for celebrating these charges. (laughs) We are talking about a club that has traumatized almost every other club in this league for years. Pep came to the Premier League hearing everyone say it’s the most difficult league in the world, then he came and farmed the league like it was a Division Two league.
“He exposed them. He dominated them for years. So if they can’t win against Manchester City on the pitch, I understand why they are celebrating what is happening off it.
“But now they talk as if these charges were the reason Manchester City dominated. Like that was the main tactic City came with onto the pitch. Forgetting the beautiful football they played, how they controlled games and how they actually won those trophies.
“You can celebrate the charges, you can talk about them, you can wait for the verdict. But don’t rewrite football history. Manchester City dominated on the pitch. That is why they won all those trophies.”