It seems that the general consensus is that the current Premier League champions (Manchester City, in case you’d forgotten) are going to retain the crown with ease next season. They’re currently 5-4 favourites to take the title, and even the most fervent United supporter would be hard pushed to argue with that.
However, former City player and director Dennis Tueart has been getting somewhat overexcited about the upcoming campaign, claiming that Roberto Mancini signing a new five-year contract has provided Manchester City with stability, which will apparently give them an edge over their rivals.
He said: “You look around at the other clubs that will competing against Manchester City next season, they’re all in transit: Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and even Manchester United to a degree. We’ve got that stability, and they haven’t.”
I have no idea what he’s talking about. I can see his point about Liverpool, they have a brand new manager and no realistic hopes of challenging for the title. Chelsea too; the rate they have got through managers in recent seasons, despite somehow capturing the Champions League I don’t expect Roberto Di Matteo to still be in the job come May.
However, to claim Arsenal and Manchester United do not have stability is demented. These are the two clubs with the two longest-serving and most successful managers in the entire football league. And to claim that a club that boasts both Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli in its ranks possesses stability is at best hopeful and at worst wholly delusional.
Of course, Tueart is a City man through and through, so you have to expect a certain amount of bias. But until City have won the league by more than goal difference, until Mancini has been around longer than two-and-a-bit years, until they learn to not sign players who think bonfire night celebrations take place in the bathroom: only then can they be considered stable, let alone the pre-eminent force in English football.
Tueart and the rest of City’s fans would do well to remember that no matter what the financial gulf between the two sides may be, as long as Sir Alex Ferguson is at the helm, Manchester United should be considered legitimate title contenders.
Quite what happens when Sir Alex isn’t at the helm is a question for another day, but for any City fans already planning what derogatory banners they can pass to Carlos Tevez on the open top bus parade next season, the message is clear: United are stable and up for the scrap.
Thats why I am angry and depressed. I can see exactly what he means.
These are the two clubs with the two longest-serving and most successful managers in the entire football league
Pray tell me what both of the above won last year??? (in fact what have Arsenal won in the last 7 YEARS?)
yeh what has that fegurson guy ever won anyway….oh wait. a monkey could do mancinis job. tell me bertie how many points above united did you finish again with all them billions spent? if your basing your stability on that you finished above united on goal difference with vidic missing all season then your a brave but stupid man.
Just keep repeating that mantra to yourselves rags, I’m sure it makes you feel better.
des boy, youre still hurting aren’t you? Billions spent you say, bollox say I! Half a Bill and that included buying the club and getting us to where we are today CHAMPIONS!!! Whereas the gimps have sucked half a bill out of your lot just to pay off some of their debt. Which would you prefer, that’s a rhetorical question by the way!
It doesn’t matter about 1 game the league is settled over 38, we finished as the better team, so suck it up and get used to it. The 6 goals that we rattled in against you lot certainly counted.
yeah man, but you see when people will see these two clubs after some 10 years… They will say, United was startng to sink, then came a manager named SAF who uplifted them to the surface… and when city was gettng worse than crap, some arabs bought the club and gave them their frst title in 44 years! Which sounds better?! Also, you compare SAF’s 25 years service wth what he did last season? You really predict what’s gonna happen with stats from a single season! Look at it this way, just to us to our level, you need atleast 16 years, where you win everythng and we win nothing! and you know thats not gonna happen!
ok temme how many titles did city win before winning the premier league last season……i think it was 44 yrs …. right…to say that united and arsenal are not stable clearly show how stupid and naive u are…..united hava titles to show for what theyv been upto the last 44 yrs …..plus even arsenal have more titles than u do….stability doesnt mean how many titles a team has won…..it means the club and its workings……each and every dept working int tandom to make the club as big as possible…..and in that matter you cant even count urself in the same league as a club like liverpool, united or for the fact arsenal!!!!!!
Utd may have won nothing last year, but whenever they miss out, they always come back better and win the league. How many titles have City won in the last 7 yrs. You might just find your foot in your mouth cme end of 2012/2013 season. One league title in 40 yrs is nothing to crow about. Repeat it for at least three years in a row, then you can boast just a bit, IDIOT
United have stability, there is successful, long standing management and a great team ethic. Stability won’t mean another trophy though.
What one has to say is that there is no longer the level of investment in players that the club and its fans is used to, to build on the stable foundations. United have dominated player investment for more than two decades and that is rapidly becoming history.
Last season SAF took United to the brink of another PL Trophy with perhaps the most threadbare squad in more than a decade. The stand out players were in the late 30’s, too many others were not quite good enough and some rather poor at times and the young incomers unconvincing.
Of course City are favourites, they have a much more talented squad of players and so they should with the investment made and with this they also have much more depth of choice.
Winning the PL again is no given though. It will find it at least as hard to hold on to the trophy as it has been to win it once.
5/4 is lousy odds in a 20 horse race!
Tueart a city legend lol. sums their club up, even their legends were shit mid-table footballers with poor reputations. City are as stable as a pack of cards. As soon as they have a dip in form or a couple of results dont go their way mancini’s neck will be on the line again. 19x
tueart was a quality player in mid 70s to be fair. city had a lot going for them in late 60s and 70s until comedy man swales set them back about 20 years. with a proper owner they could have challenged us into the premier league era.
And in ten years this is what we will be saying about Jones, Wellbeck and the Werewolf in goal. You better hope them New York shares come good.
So the team being bankrolled who can’t afford to have the ballboys kits washed out of their own earnings have stability? I think there are a few people involved with City who are going to get an enormous jolt of reality at some point in the not-too-distant future.
It’s a bit like someone bragging about the 5 bedroom council house he lives in.
city are buying success through ill-gotten gains, there is nothing much for them to brag about, pricks…
Bought success with ill-gotten gains, yup, you should try it turd face, we`ll keep bragging and you keep borrowing.
I am wondering whether it could be expressed any better … & next to the pricks – which City are in definition … I must add, they are blue football ulcers too … which I think is as good a definition as pricks = either or, we are both correct on them/it …
‘However, to claim Arsenal and Manchester United do not have stability is demented.’
He never mentioned ‘stability’ did he? He said ‘You look around at the other clubs that will competing against Manchester City next season, they’re all in transit’ Which both Utd and Arsenal are as Utd need to replace players and Arsenal need to stop selling them, hence his choice of the word transit meaning transition. Pretty simple really!
Here’s the whole quote again just so you don’t go making a fool of yourself once more:
“You look around at the other clubs that will competing against Manchester City next season, they’re all in transit: Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and even Manchester United to a degree. We’ve got that stability, and they haven’t.”
Notice the last line “We’ve got that stability, and they haven’t.”
Pretty simple really!
“. . .they’re all in transit: Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and even Manchester United to a degree. We’ve got that stability, and they haven’t.”
Yes. Yes he did mention stability.
Cheers Alan
pretty simple?? NO – TOO simple: there is a (small!) bunch of blue ulcers who think that if a company is led like only the Hitler-troops were that they can moan. The reality is: NO! You have no class, you even have nothing REAL to offer – you are a group of blue shopaholic ulcers who shall with fans of exactly the same quality who shall expect half-empty stadium every time there are sales in Trafford Centre (well, the stadium – you know who paid for you to have it, right!!??!!?? – is never full anyway!)
This is where I will stop – it is still you all who are BITTER & that is prob. the most comical fact: you didn´t lose your bitterness even when buying the league. Am just wondering what Bernstein will have to do next season to boss it your way again (money for refs from Blue-ulcers bank accounts most probably?!) / u r not worth more words, even these are way too much for smthg that bad
Is English not your first language, or are you just another mouth breathing troglodyte that can’t articulate a thought in written form?
If the former, please try to learn the language a bit better as your points are very hard to discern from your writings.
If the latter, put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. The world needs less morons.
I agree with the author of this article in most respects, and yes we have been bankrolled. But the speed of our owners investment in the club was dictated and accelerated by this ridiculous FFP initiative, which penalises massive investment in football clubs and their immediate locality and allows other owners to hock their club up in debt, and set up tax avoidance initiatives in the Cayman Islands to syphon off even more out the club and HM Revenue. Also, Utd fans seem to forget that they have had huge investment in their club by way way of the stock exchange. What’s the difference? Prior to this, your club was very nearly sold off to Michael Knighton for under £10m. Having that investment in the 90’s launched Utd into the big time, and the extra revenue from the Champions league and associated spin offs has kept you there…
I believe even the most optamistic mcfc fan must know in their heart of hearts that we United are going no where . We have faced this before in Chelsea , Arsenal even Blackburn .We have known bigger defeats .Its nothing new .The fact its cash n carry this time, will make it all the more important that we re take our rightful place and do it with style and class .
I was too offensive above – your post sums it up perfectly, well done!
Exactly right. Don’t rise to the City fans. Only an idiot thinks we aren’t going to win more in the future.
Add Kagawa, vidic & maybe Fletcher to last seasons squad & we would have walked away with it.
Everyone’s heard this party-line before. Last season United fans were espousing how they always get stronger in the second half of the season. How they have the experience in player and management that would see them through to the title (especially after the Reds took over 1st place).
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. How’d that turn out for you lot?
All empires fall. Does this mean Manchester United is crumbling, probably not, but don’t think that you are immune to it.
By the way, this arrogance and entitlement are the reason every other club’s supporter hates you. How’d it feel when the Sunderland fans cheered and sang Blue Moon when they heard City went up 3-2?