buddiecat Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 They have been built up from nothing. Everyone from the kit man through to David Villa has been put together from scratch. Naturally, they haven't been put together on the cheap. If the NFL set up a London franchise, they'll throw money at it too - but there currently is, like NYCFC, It was built up from sheikh mansours pots of cash, built from nothing would be where there was no cash to begin with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 It was built up from sheikh mansours pots of cash, built from nothing would be where there was no cash to begin with Sheik Mansoor threw potloads of money at Man City - from a starting point of a club with lots of history, a large fanbase, an already decent squad, and a complete infrastructure. Sheik Mansoor has also thrown potloads of money at NYCFC - but the fact is they have started from nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Sheik Mansoor threw potloads of money at Man City - from a starting point of a club with lots of history, a large fanbase, an already decent squad, and a complete infrastructure. Sheik Mansoor has also thrown potloads of money at NYCFC - but the fact is they have started from nothing. If a group of guys who had no cash at all had started a footy team called NYCFC then it would truly have started from nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 If a group of guys who had no cash at all had started a footy team called NYCFC then it would truly have started from nothing. I know what you mean, hopefully you see where I'm coming from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 I know what you mean, hopefully you see where I'm coming from. Yes i do, but it's been good to have a wee conflab without being called several inappropriate names. Cue the name calling ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 Yes i do, but it's been good to have a wee conflab without being called several inappropriate names. Cue the name calling ! Hammarby. Bib strip. 2010 League Cup Final. Tommy Craig. Bahoken.... There, I've done my absolute worst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hammarby. Bib strip. 2010 League Cup Final. Tommy Craig. Bahoken.... There, I've done my absolute worst! Absolute worst ? I think you'll find that your absolute worst would be....... oops best not start that again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 I agree with Buddiecat. 'Built from nothing' suggests a dream and a commitment to try and make the dream a reality as far as you can knowing that lack of expertise and finance will make the dream very difficult to realise with no timescale being appropriate. Throwing hundreds of millions at a project using teams of professionals and a fixed timescale is a commercial undertaking like building an office block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby_F Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 I agree with Buddiecat. 'Built from nothing' suggests a dream and a commitment to try and make the dream a reality as far as you can knowing that lack of expertise and finance will make the dream very difficult to realise with no timescale being appropriate. Throwing hundreds of millions at a project using teams of professionals and a fixed timescale is a commercial undertaking like building an office block. Most of which normally start out as nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Throwing hundreds of millions at a project using teams of professionals and a fixed timescale is a commercial undertaking like building an office block. Or a grey, soul-destroying, inhospitable, roofless, bleak, concrete box... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 I agree with Buddiecat. 'Built from nothing' suggests a dream and a commitment to try and make the dream a reality as far as you can knowing that lack of expertise and finance will make the dream very difficult to realise with no timescale being appropriate. Throwing hundreds of millions at a project using teams of professionals and a fixed timescale is a commercial undertaking like building an office block. AFC Wimbledon would be a far better example of a team being formed from nothing than NYCFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pityme Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Sheik Mansoor threw potloads of money at Man City - from a starting point of a club with lots of history, a large fanbase, an already decent squad, and a complete infrastructure. Sheik Mansoor has also thrown potloads of money at NYCFC - but the fact is they have started from nothing. Maybe the phrase 'built up from nothing' needs defining? Nothing is as it says, if you apply it to 'building' a football club it would mean adverts in the newsagents/local free paper/online message board (BAWA wednesday night sevens are 'built up from nothing'). Then training at Donaldswood in between council employee checks, taking subs from the players to enable the hire of a pitch at the racecourse come saturday morning, then clubs first game. Or.... It could mean, signing Frank Lampard at circa £200k per week and choosing to play with him in Manchester rather than the other club you built from nothing with a couple of hundred million. Then shipping the whole squad of millionaires you built from nothing to the hundred million complex you built from nothing across the world to play their first games.... I expect David Villa has paid his subs and takes his turn at the laundrette with the kit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Luther G. Presley Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I see Brondby beat them 2-0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlucifer Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I see Brondby beat them 2-0. We must have softened them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Saint Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 I see Brondby beat them 2-0.Playing Orlando this weekend (whooooooo....!?) let's see what they do to them as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 http://www.nycfc.com/schedule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 http://www.nycfc.com/schedule It's very pretty but 'schedule'? Silly word but then Yanks don't speak English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcd54 Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 The Stubhub Center`s a hard place to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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