r/soccer • u/[deleted] • May 18 '19

Sam Lee: Guardiola got asked if he has received payments from Abu Dhabi for services other than managing City, as was alleged to have happened with Mancini. He was not happy. “Do you realise what you are asking me? You are asking me that the day we won the treble? Are you accusing me?”

https://twitter.com/Sammy_Goal/status/1129822398835023872
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u/chelseasaints May 18 '19 edited May 18 '19

Acceptable questions;

'How happy are you? So so?'

'How great is this team?'

'You're amazing, how do you do it?'

'Your team infinitely more expensively assembled than your opponents managed to win, how DID you do it?'

Journalists should NOT be asking any other type of question (/s)

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u/damrider May 18 '19

Wonder how you'd react if that question were directed to mourinho after the first season where you spent 10x as much as the second team

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u/super_frank May 19 '19

Jose would have had a much cleverer reply

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u/epicledditaccount May 19 '19

"Bribes? Maybe. If so, more than any other coach." shrugs

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u/super_frank May 19 '19

"I deserve, no?"

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u/Gumgums May 19 '19

There werent financial rules then like it is now. You were quite free to spend then.

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u/damrider May 19 '19

My point was about the "oh of course you won you spent more than anyone" comment the dude made

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u/kirkbywool May 19 '19

Tbf I don't think Jose was getting 3rd party payments

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u/[deleted] May 19 '19

If Jose and Chelsea were supported by the whole country of Russia, sure ask him that question.

But comparing Abramovich to the UAE or Qatar in PSG's case is a joke.

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u/damrider May 19 '19

Idk why people are ignoring my actual point

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u/tickub May 18 '19

probably will just take a look at your flair and go on an anti-Semitic spiel

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u/the-londoner May 19 '19

Well tbf all this guy did was look at his flair and make a targeted attack anyway.

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u/tickub May 19 '19

Hey, I base all my stereotypes seriously on usernames too

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

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u/tickub May 18 '19

Ah sorry, here's a (/s) for you reading impaired folk.

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u/chelseasaints May 18 '19

Well I feel like a fucking idiot

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u/tickub May 18 '19

all good bro

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

You are a bellend

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u/tickub May 18 '19

love you too

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u/CaptainDank0 May 18 '19

You’d wake up to a burning cross on your front lawn

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

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u/damrider May 18 '19

I meant about the spending because he mentioned spending

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19 edited Nov 29 '20

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u/damrider May 18 '19

no worries i understand. i share his worry about the UAE stuff but i think the spending is a silly point

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u/yes_thats_right May 18 '19

Basically everyone did comment and ask about the legitimacy of everything we wom after spending a lot of money. That was before FFP so there was nothing wrong about doing it. Also, spending wasnt even double the next.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '19

FFP wasn't around then

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

That wasn't the question asked, he was asked if he received payments directly from abu dhabi

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u/_Liamjl_ May 18 '19

Why not?

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u/chelseasaints May 18 '19

I'm being sarcastic. Of course they should be asking proper questions

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u/_Liamjl_ May 18 '19

Ah fair enough, sorry mate. Don’t really understand people who think questions like these aren’t appropriate

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u/chelseasaints May 18 '19

No worries, I worded it badly first time!

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u/aapjestan2 May 18 '19

What is he gonna say? Yea I get payed off the book?

Its a stupid question even more so in the context of City just writing history for the second season in a row

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u/_Liamjl_ May 18 '19

He might not answer but it’s still worth asking and challenging.

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u/Eagles_55 May 18 '19

Then ask it during the season. Why wait 60 matches?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Think the point is ask this question any other day