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Nice bunch of people  those Westham fans, only throwing plastic bottles 🙄

With all due respect, they just won a cup recently invented by UEFA for third tier teams, and a bit of TV money on a boring Thursday night.

 
On a side note, what an ‘un-west ham’ kit that is to win a trophy in, looks like a Roma away shirt or something. Hilarious that thing is now etched in their history.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
Nice bunch of people  those Westham fans, only throwing plastic bottles 🙄

With all due respect, they just won a cup recently invented by UEFA for third tier teams, and a bit of TV money on a boring Thursday night.
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I still can't take the Conference League seriously. I think it devalues the meaning of winning trophies. It's rewarding sh*t teams.

 
All the ‘neutrals’ fawning over these scumbags is quite nauseating.

Hope they get the book thrown at them for that missile incident.

This is marginally better than their inter Toto cup win. One plus side of us being extra sh*t this year….we don’t have to suffer this competition next season.

 
Scott Harris said:
I still can't take the Conference League seriously. I think it devalues the meaning of winning trophies. It's rewarding sh*t teams.
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I disagree. It gives teams who will never reach the level of the CL nevertheless an opportunity to play in Europe and win some silverware. Plus it makes the national league a bit more interesting when there's more to fight for in terms of qualification spots. We don't say we don't take the youth team seriously because their competitions devalue the CL, do we.

Of course the Pikeys are elated, they've finally won something - which we haven't managed this season BTW. Let them be happy and sing they're champions of Europe. It won't happen again for at least 20 years after all.

PS I won't be this mellow and tolerant if City win the CL, I promise.

 
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Fergie never had the resources that Pep has had at City. Pep once spent over 200 million in one transfer window just on fullbacks. 
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Just simply not true, Fergie was breaking transfer records for CB's:

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There is absolutely no way Fergie was spending close to what Pep was spending, not buying it for a second. 
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When you compare inflation and the values of the market back then he absolutely was. £30m for a CB in 2002 was astronomical.

 
An amusing fact from last night, Emerson now is the first man to have the clean sweep of medals by adding the conference medal.

Of course we know the others have come under his CFC period. 

 
WHo decides what is a "major" trophy? Conference league is nothing, literlaly only created a few years ago for teams not good enough for the already minor Europa League, But apparently West Ham are now a "major european champion". 😂

 
RIP Mourinho said:
When you compare inflation and the values of the market back then he absolutely was. £30m for a CB in 2002 was astronomical.
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I can't subscribe to this narrative that Ferguson had the spending power that Pep had, not even with relative timelines, it just wasn't. Even by the end with the Glazors United still had us to contend with and City, and they were never close to our budget. His team post-Ronaldo was very average, yet he was still getting to European finals and winning the title and cups along with it. Everywhere Pep has gone he's always had the best team and best resources. Not saying he isn't one of the greatest managers to be in the game, but it's a fact, he has. City was the best team in the PL he walked into, player-wise and resources. He definitely took them to the next level, a level they should've been at with Mancini and Pellegrini but it isn't like he didn't come into an already great side and didn't get to pick all the players he wanted is it? 

Plus Ferguson had to sell some of his best players over the years and made bang-average players into world beaters, for me, as much as I hate the bloke, Fergie was absolutely ridiculous. I think if Pep had to play with the likes of Wes Brown, Ji-Sung Park, Gary Neville, Darren Fletcher, John O'shea, late 30's and early 40's Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs every last hair follicle on his head that's hanging on for dear life would be gone. I very much doubt he would be winning the league with them. I remember he even made the likes of Danny Welbeck and Nani look world-class at one point. 

 

 
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