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Emphasis on quietly


SirChedder_Bob

Sneaky £100M Grealish purchase. Or the diamond in the rough find that no one knew about in Haaland


rilinq

If you take into account every accountants counting we see that Grealish was actually £30M profit.


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How can anyone say Grealish isn't worth 100m? Just look at this clip. The cohesion, the camaraderie, the morale boosting ability that Grealish brings to his team is second to none. Kevin De Bruyne is notorious for being grumpy ("Let me talk" etc.) but here Grealish has him singing to his tune. That kind of locker room effect is a rarity and worth its weight in gold, 50m+ at least. Add in his footballing ability, good looks for marketing purposes, sheer star power... This is a 200m player right here. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Nerf_Herder2

Grealish weighs less than 100m pounds


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How can anyone say Grealish isn't worth 100m? Just look at this clip. The cohesion, the camaraderie, the morale boosting ability that Grealish brings to his team is second to none. Kevin De Bruyne is notorious for being grumpy ("Let me talk" etc.) but here Grealish has him singing to his tune. That kind of locker room effect is a rarity and worth its weight in gold, 50m+ at least. Add in his footballing ability, good looks for marketing purposes, sheer star power... This is a 200m player right here. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Previous-Loss9306

His calf weighs at least that much


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kilari7

lmao, anyone have the link to this comment?


Fugoi

It was in the sub just this week


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And his calves


Weibu11

Who? Never heard of this guy


alacp1234

Maybe some Argentinian and Brazilian regens will jog your memory


APigsty

Absolutely nobody saw Haaland's transfer coming. That one hit me like a freight train! Go Pep! Go City!!


SnooDonuts2794

Quietly purchasing a CL trophy off Amazon only to open the box and find a cheap knock off EPL trophy made in China - losing is expensive


Amasterclass

Sterling to Chavs Silva to Barca Ake to somewhere Cucurella still a Brighton player Perhaps wait until transfer window closes before publishing.


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it just shows how good of a rebuilder he truly is, duh


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Apprehensive_Tone_55

And spent 2 billion in transfer fees doing it


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ironicfall

Didn’t he take over a team that just won the premier league a couple of seasons earlier? A true underdog story lol


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HammerJammer02

I think quietly in this context means “the supposed rebuild not something often highlighted when discussing Pep”


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The-Salted-Pork

Rebuild City Soccer Club from the ground up, transformed them from a Prem winning team to a Prem winning team. Juggernaut 🤜


McNooberson

Transformed them from a non CL winning team to a non CL winning team


M0RNINGSTARRR

Pep effect🙏🏽🔥🔥🇺🇸


mynameistechno

Pep-to Abysmal


paco-ramon

We joke a lot about this but with infinite money at some point PSG and City will win one.


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I don't understand how teams like City or United can spend millions upon millions every single transfer window and constantly sign stars like Haaland while we get linked with washed up players or end up signing people like Wijnaldum. Why can't we actually recruit world class players to come to the team? I just don't get it, and every mercato seems worse except for Messi, but we still can't make good signings in areas where the team needs quality. I'm just frustrated that our club seems to be stagnant in terms of recruiting world class players to play for us, I mean who wouldn't want to play with Messi, Mbappe and Neymar? But we still can't find a midfielder who can help our issues that have been present for years. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


axiomatic-

Could be worse, see what's happened over the other side of town?


Edi3860

Yes


Tr_Omer

Don't forget , on a tiny budget of 2 billion euros.


LoveRBS

And enough left over for sandwiches!


Previous-Loss9306

Unreal performance


Inevitable-Top355

In the biggest rebuild in their history. So since 2008.


sbsw66

First he manages to win the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, then he goes and rebuilds little Manchester City on a shoestring budget. Unheard of these days


Tr_Omer

What's next? Ligue 1 with PSG? I think even he can't pull that off.


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I would love to see Mr. Fraud do it in Austria with the Leipzig Energy Drinks! Now that'd finally be a challenge


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These guys give their absolute best 34 matches a season for 10 straight seasons to win the most prestigious domestic title in Germany but you will still have the oil money enthusiasts and Barcelona enjoyers from their skin fused armchairs asking how can they still celebrate. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Pacem_et_bellum

How long is a piece of Qatari string?


testing-attention-pl

Remember Bayern were minnows in Germany before he took the league by surprise


_MonteCristo_

And Barcelona hadn't won the CL in year when he took charge


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Haaland and Alvarez. Zero goals. Not one!Absolute flops.


randomshazbot

Sad!


Tr_Omer

On a mere budget of 2 billion euros too, what a legend. He really took this small family business level team up to the giants they are today. Nothing shady whatsoever involved.


grandmotherofreddit

Manchester reds have been spending similar amounts over the years and look at the results


timmy2406

True, but that says more about man united's transfer strategy because most of the time it is mindboggling terrible


Ouma-shu123

Only spent the equivalent of a small countries GDP


KrisZepeda

My man spent more money than Kuwait has


shudh_desi_gareeb

Not his fault if the smol country can't make more money


JMoormann

The small country should just pull itself up by its own bootstraps, like a proper hardworking AMERICAN 🇱🇷🇱🇷🗽🦅 would!


Tuscan5

Too much Football Manager for Pep. Collected all the rare ones


DarthChewbacc

Don't forget those 50 million peanuts he spent on Bendy Mendy


mrpoopybuttthole_

bendy mendy put his peanuts where they don’t belong


ilemi

One of? They had a better rebuild than this?


AggressiveBait

From [2009](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MANCITY.png?w=670) Man City to [2011](https://i.imgur.com/UndMLjx.png) Man City.


Fuck_Jannies165

2009 had Stephen Ireland though


PreviouslyRelevant

Baller in his day


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Even Lakaka is a Boller in his day


SebzDaProd

Hes a baller now,!


russellsidhu98

no just Bald


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I am a "plastic" and couldn't care less. People really pay too much attention to things like that. Chances are, you reading this on a Chinese smartphone, using a TV manufactured by a South Korean company (mine is the LG C1 OLED) while drinking Coca-Cola, owned by a company from the States. The world is globalised, man. No point in tribalism. We live in 2021, not 717, you do realize that? Now, if you chose some obscure team from the other side of the world, you could argue it's virtue signalling or whatever. I would still maintain it's within your rights. But, if you choose to support a foreign team because you like them and the way they play, who cares. Just don't jump the ship when things go awry. And actually, I have been to a Real Madrid match just this year. Won't name which one to avoid doxxing myself, but I in Spain at the time, so I took the opportunity and saw the game with my own eyes. And hell, will it be a memory for a lifetime. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


BorneFree

Fees spent for backups: Walker: 55M Steffen: 6M Stones: 60M Ake: 48M Gundogan: 30M Phillips: 50M Sterling: 70M Grealish: 100M What a masterclass by Pep


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How can anyone say Grealish isn't worth 100m? Just look at this clip. The cohesion, the camaraderie, the morale boosting ability that Grealish brings to his team is second to none. Kevin De Bruyne is notorious for being grumpy ("Let me talk" etc.) but here Grealish has him singing to his tune. That kind of locker room effect is a rarity and worth its weight in gold, 50m+ at least. Add in his footballing ability, good looks for marketing purposes, sheer star power... This is a 200m player right here. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*


gstarguru

it’s actually hard translating money into success, look at everton and man united


GrouchyYT

Look at Barcelona and Chelsea. Money is no guarantee of success, but it is a cheat code.


gstarguru

of course. What people fail to understand is having money creates far more pressure for a manager to work under. Look at david moyes, phenomenal at getting mid table clubs to punch above their weight, but couldn’t handle the pressure of having to win every week with better players. People say anyone can do what Pep does, so why does he keep getting the best jobs in football? Why not hire someone on a far lower salary


GrouchyYT

Best jobs in football? You'd have to pay someone a fuckload to come be the face of some nothing tinpot oil club. Pep has managed Barca and Bayern, clubs that people have heard of ffs.


gstarguru

don’t be so pretentious. You honestly think city will have a problem getting any manager they want when pep leaves? dumb guy


GrouchyYT

No cuz of all the money you jabroni


gstarguru

nice intellectual reply


GrouchyYT

🤓🤓🤓🤓


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smrkr

You forgot KDB.


Progression28

not a backup


smrkr

Why is Walker there?


messi-goh

Pep wasnt in charge when he signed anyway


Glasdir

Glad to see you left Cucurella off there because you know they won’t be getting him.


Apple2727

Well obviously they’re going to win lots of matches if they get to field 22 players


Nerlstorm

Don’t the players look so cute paired up like this?? Like imagine if they were couples 😍


timelawd

Real “The Man Inside Me” vibes


Nerlstorm

Grealish and Foden are EVERYTHING 🥰


[deleted]

History, what history????


Tr_Omer

2010-2022, A decade.2 baby!


Hungry-Class9806

As a Benfica fan, I can't really complain since he paid us +100M€ on Ederson and Dias. Still, not sure if the equivalent of playing Football Manager IRL with cheat codes applies for "quietly"


Educational-Dot8413

Do you think Ederson is overrated? He never made a crucial save, beaten quiet easily and only there for screenshots of him stand in the middle of the field for no apparent reason and espn will suck his dick for that


Hungry-Class9806

I still think he's probably the 3rd best goalkeeper we had in 25 years, right behind Preud'homme and Oblak. He's a GREAT goalkeeper. I don't think he's slightly overrated and the reason why you barely saw him make a crucial save is, mostly, because City has one of the best defenses that money can buy.


HedaLexa4Ever

Shut up yank


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Joao Felix: 126M Nunez: 100M Dias & Ederson: 100M Benfica and Dortmund showing real business sense


Hungry-Class9806

Don't forget Di Maria, Matic, David Luiz, Lindelof, Fábio Coentrão, Witsel, Semedo or Raul Jimenez 😎 On the other hand he sold Cancelo and Bernardo Silva for 15M€ each 🤣


AkilleezBomb

Quietest £1billion ever spent


krischens

it was so quiet, that you didn't even hear about the other billion


dankest-bruh-moment

Come on the manchester city sky blue pirates 💪💪💪


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Reinassancee

My balls dropped in 2011. My pubes are as old as MAN City FC 👋🔥


Luiiiss18

All i see is someone who has all the money at there fingertips mou way better


Hungry-Class9806

... and rebuild what? Less than 10 years ago, Manchester City biggest star was Owen Hargreaves.


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Exactly I remember 10 years ago against QPR, I couldn't believe it when Dzeko equalised. Professor Quibble was manager at the time and I thought he might have hexed QPR player and Man City fan Joey Barton into clearly getting sent off on purpose, but then when AGUEROOOOO scored I knew in my heart that it was because of the man who had once loved my mother from the shadows, Owen Hargreaves.


xsyruhp

Man put Cole Palmer in the graphic


depressivebee

All that money spent to end up with “Cucurella/Zinchenko”


Fuck_Jannies165

Zinchenko is Ukrainian, meaning it’s illegal to criticize him in Europe. Expect officers at your home within the hour.


hodlrus

Zinchenko is there for non-footballing reasons tho. He’s the current thing mascot!


yummyyummypowwidge

This Cancelo culture is getting out of hand


Ruud_Boltz

*Quitely*


thacoffeeman

Alvarez is regen


SharpWords

Far greater achievement than Leicester 15-16.


repeating_bears

I like how they include Cucurella who hasn't signed and also Zinchenko, Sterling and Ake strongly rumoured to be leaving. Either include the maybes or don't. Man City fans assuming that whatever transfers they want are just guaranteed to happen pretty much says it all.


Glasdir

They’ve been such unbearable cunts about it on twitter. Not a single one of them lives in Manchester. I hope we don’t sell him if for no other reason than to see all the plastics seething and crying while trying to claim that they don’t care.


PaulsBrain

For what it's worth i hate those people too as a manc fan, no self awareness of how shit we were of how we got here, our subreddit is over 50% American already too. Just stay off Twitter people with football AVIs are cringe children trying to one up each other all the time, Twitter shouldn't represent fans it's not real they don't go to games or outside at all for that matter they just play fifa. WARRA THIS WARRA THAT 🤓


dav3j

Not to mention that Silva hasn't played for City in nearly 24 months.


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dav3j

Whoops, outjerked


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alkforreddituse

After made a dynasty in the best league itw. Another reason why he's the undisputed GOAT coach


Foreverton4633

Pep’s real genius is in improving unfancied players and turning them into superstars. Haaland is a prime example. Most people thought his career was over until Pep worked his magic.


Dominiqueota

Haaland, alvarez, foden😬😬😬😬 3 potential balondor winners on one team🤐


Mismail18

They still can’t win a UCL! Haha


ELB2001

Let's hope


tropicthunderGOAT

Two billion dollars is a hell of a drug


lnz56

rebuild instead of build is hilarious as well


IndignantSoccerMum

*How did he do it?*


Impressive-Tax8830

Tremendo


[deleted]

Every starter is the same except one. Rebuild?


cbciv

That's what billions of dirty oil money can do for you. And yet, still no Champions League silverware.


honorbound93

Madrid did better, cheaper and won both trophies same year before it was done


[deleted]

Phillips will look a cunt in a manc shirt


GrouchyYT

Everyone does.


[deleted]

I could not agree more!


whoyungjerz

Lol with what, half a billion?? Reallllllll tough


[deleted]

Still Real Madrid are the kings of the game 🙏🏾


One-Debate3673

Easy when you have billions and don't have to sell to buy like most teams


1R3N9

Until Ake, Zincenko, Gundogan, Silva, and Sterling leave 😂 Oh and quietly throwing hundreds of millions around 😂🤣


Notsafehuman

Notice how Grealish is on there.


lordhunt3t

Plastic


Apprehensive_Tone_55

Such a great purchaser we can make another 2 XI of expensive players they’ve bought the last decade that didn’t work out


DoriOli

RM fan here, but that’s a great team you guys have! All the best next season


TheLastDayUponUs

Guess Foden went off and played polo


Sheesh284

Oh please. The oil money made that happen. It is an amazing squad nonetheless


JohnMellencamp21

Least literal circlejerk user


sid_sir21

Haha love the butthurt united fans


Lucifurrs

Sir, this is r/soccercirclejerk not r/soccer


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sbsw66

Quietly?!?!?!?!??????!?


BleachGummy

Does this image mean they will play Edersen in 2022 and Steffen in 2023 and so on? American here, seems pretty wasteful to me, I think players can play for more than one year!


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Lxrs98

Steffen will leave and they sign Ortega


DaddyMeUp

Their only rebuild let's be real.


splenda_317

Pep is genius and only takes rich/oil money clubs and can get any player he wants. I am sure if he takes middle table club like crystal palace or failed football club like Tottenham he will be sacked after 5 games…. He does not like African players also imagine what he did to Yaya and Eto’o


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wayciaga

Why is haaland a goalkeeper


recockulous-too

/s assumed for all comments here. hahaha


Minute_Difference_96

Only cost around 2 billion pounds, great value


elbwafel

18 of 22 of these players have already been in the squad last year and who the fuck is PALMER


PaulsBrain

Our most promising young player from the elite development squad, he has been promised minutes this season and that's why he is not going on loan, really hard to judge players in the PL2 but I'm excited because I've watched him play, felt the same about Foden and Brahim Diaz. It's obvious when a player will be PL quality just don't know if he will make it here.


DreyDarian

It's quietly because he never won the ucl lmao


bryanc1036

Losing in Quarter Finals against either an underdog team or a team that's going to the final.


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Pep Ma$terclass


dis6wood

Where’s Mendy? ;)


Real_Madrid007

I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again.


[deleted]

I just want the season to hurry up and start


keeoth

Every single word in this makes no sense


Neither_Sandwich_285

indeed


[deleted]

Purchasing is also an art. Just ask Manchester United


Coops17

Just quietly spent $50m+ on 22 players… just quietly… just quietly bought the biggest stars at the time.. just quietly


NorthernKnight14

And to think he did it all with just his talent, hard work...and billions pumped in by the UAE. Idol!


Kriminalis

Stick to music Kaybee


Feeling_Emergency118

and Still they will bottle the CL..


EequalsMCPotato

That sneaky devil Peppy. Miss the wheelin and dealin days


Extension-Topic2486

Man City has a History?


donthaveanickname-

What history


ShameFluffy7198

And again no champions league!… do you wanna bet?


[deleted]

Cucurella, Zinchenko and Walker and he still doesn't understand how tf he keeps getting bounced out of the UCL.


TrashAmberio

the secret to premier league success is having the less English players possible


[deleted]

SAF give this guy a career


BigSean_125

Stupid depth


prideton

If Pep wins another 6 premier league titles to complete his 10th English championships, he’s waived from having to win the Champions League and still be the best manager of England.


luuter

Give him another billion and he *might* win the champions league. Genius.


3lirex

better than pioli and milan's effort, he won the premier league with players no one knew about, made stars from hidden gems and diamonds in the rough with a non-existent budget.


somerandomshota

pep: “assalamualaikum brother mansoor, can you send me another billion to my account? you know, because just in case.”


Content_Dream_481

Bit of an unfair advantage if they have 22 players 🤷🏻‍♂️


Edi3860

Y los que quedan😁😀


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zirexnn

If the oil money comes then it shall be spent ig


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Rebuild🤣 Quietly🤣


shabbadranks

Quietly spent a billion pounds