#257

Taibi? Bellion? double Djemba?

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#258

Have they announced starting line ups already?

#260

A major contributing factor to the Glazer takeover, Ā£500m of debt and the club inevitably sinking like a stone post-Fergie

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#261

Or, ā€œa pawn in a sick game involving a horseā€.

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#262

Exactly, as above innit

#263

Yeah. I remember the whole thing being really odd at the time, there were people going on as if he was the next big thing (despite him only having played about 10 times for Celtic by the age of about 23 or something). Bizarre all round.

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#265

J P McManus had 30% of Utd in shares, his business partner John Magnier was preparing to buy Celtic (iirc that side of it is less clear to me), they gifted Fergie the superstar horse Rock of Gibraltar, they fell out over the stud rights, McManus sold up to the Glazers, the club got fucked over as a result of Fergieā€™s personal beef. The Liam Miller transfer around the same time is suspicious thanks to all the players involved and because he was clearly shit without any clear wrongdoing there tbh.

#266

Those guys are associates of Dermot Desmond, Celticā€™s majority shareholder and rocker of a high quality moustache:

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#267

Fuck me thatā€™s a great look. That rogue mullet at the back there is the icing on the white man privilege cake.

#268

1998 isnā€™t seen as the golden age/generation though thereā€™s obvious overlap. 2001-2010 is the supposed golden age.

Not a lot in it but I reckon we had a better squad with more depth and fewer duffers in 1996 and 1998.

#269

Nah golden generation = 98-2006

#270

1998 is not typically referred to as the golden era and thatā€™s my point. 1996-1998 was as much of, if not more of a golden age of players in hindsight but isnā€™t thought of as such.

#271

2002-2006 imo. Three tournois we could realistically have won without injuries/with better management/if we werenā€™t utter shootout bottlers.

#273

Always thought that Ajax werenā€™t a big enough club for Kinkladze. Turned down Milan to go there, which is still mental. His talents deserved a grander stage, really.

#274

As a City supporter itā€™s virtually impossible to name our shittest player given the absolute shambes that was the mid-to-late nineties.

Easy to forget just how handily placed City were to push on at the start of the Premier League era. United had yet to emerge and Fergieā€™s signings were looking desperate, Liverpool had started their lull, Leeds had won the title but were unlikely to be a real force, Villa and Norwich emerging sums up just how open a field it was.

This doesnā€™t have a huge bearing on the question, but it does provide a bit context to how we remarkably were in the third tier by 1998, six years after having the best young side in the country, finishing 5th and being an outside tip by many for the inaugral title.

Anyway, iā€™ve put together a team of our (largely 90s) shiteā€¦

GK: John Burridge
RB: David Sommeil
CB: Jamie Pollock
CB: Michel Vonk
LB: Michael Frontzeck
MF: Ged Brannan
MF: Jason Van Blerk
MF: Christian Negouai
MF: Neil Heaney
FW: Gerry Creaney
FW: Craig Russell

#275

Ryan Fraser must be injured coz how the fuck is he not starting every game for Scotland? Lol

#276

Strachan has a tendency to play his ā€œfavouritesā€

#277

Like fletcher over rhodes despite rhodes keeping him on the bench at wedsnesday (thanks five live)

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#278

Gary Doherty was ā€˜so bad heā€™s goodā€™.

#279

David Pleat played him up front :+1:

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