Here's the thing with Chelsea and Manchester City: their owners gave them £1.5bn of unearned cash for the managers to buy whoever they wanted.
But that wasn't enough. Both of them had to cheat as well.
It makes you wonder what else they've been up to that hasn't been uncovered.

Burnley keeping City to 1 is already a miracle

genuinely very funny that Chelsea have put themselves in the naughty corner to think about what they’ve done

Yup. Shame the timing of Welbeck injury at Arsenal. A fit Welbeck would be great for us right now

Factually true. Also see why he had to go

Where would City be without Haaland and Silva? At a certain point it’s not possible to tactic your way out of not having your talents.

City also lose games and they ALWAYS have more talent on the pitch than the opposition. That’s football.

We all agree we need better attackers and attacking plan

Also, Dowman has played more minutes than Norgaard 🤷🏻‍♂️

Odegaard and Havertz have played a combined 1573 minutes in the PL this season.

That’s 17 90s

Imagine where City would be if Haaland and Silva only played 1573 mins (they’ve played 2500 each)

Full slate of Premier League wage bills from 2024-25 here, and pertinent following yesterday

Arsenal wages up this year but total bill £121m (25%) lower than Man City last season once latter's costs outside #MCFC entity included (note: #MCFC includes lots more admin staff)

I think it’s worth saying once more, you can be as positive or as down as you want. Other people can tell you to think differently but ultimately they can’t dictate how you feel about it all. The only important thing is don’t be a dickhead about it.

We have had absolute hits in defense but not in attack. We need to recruit better there

I did not like the Madueke buy at all especially for that price and he hasn’t done anything to disprove my doubts.

Zubimendi was great for most of the season. I’d expect him to be better next season.

Look at the wages they are paying sememyo and guehi and Marmoush. They can do all that despite 100 million bust on the likes of Grealish

All the incomplete passes under pressure are not the sole responsibility of the manager. It’s the players’ quality under pressure. They need to do better

Where was this performance against Bournemouth?

Eze hasn’t earned the right to be as casual as he is.

He needs to work way harder if he is to play in this team

Complete simple 10 yard passes isn’t a new idea from a manager. We don’t have the requisite quality.

I’m done with Trossard, Martinelli and Madueke

We need a brand new set of wingers

We aren’t winning anything with the forwards we have.

Our forwards are ass

Oh fuck off

Noooooo

Wtf is Odegaard doing

HOWS THAT NOT A FOUL???!

We absolutely won’t

Why do the monumental cheaters get all the luck too??

What a poor fucking pass there Odegaard come on

Havertz can’t beat Silva?

Why Eze off???

The only guy who can fucking kick the ball at goal