FA Cup 2019.

[GP]

4-0, Jesus.

Agreed

[Master Splinter]

De Bruyne is one of the few players in recent years who is worth the money paid for him.

I say this as he skies one.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Watching a vile organisation buy and cheat their way to a football monopoly makes you fall in love?

I think that reveals a bit too much about you.

:lol:

[Mac76]

Dacoure :lol:

[Globalgunner]

Watching a vile organisation buy and cheat their way to a football monopoly makes you fall in love?

I think that reveals a bit too much about you.

They have 11 players so do we. They had all that money when Leicester won the league. I bear no grudges, why do you?

[Master Splinter]

Watford delayed their holidays a bit this year. May instead of January-May.

Doucoure with the worst ever audition for a big club move.

[Mac76]

Capoue :haha:

[Letters]

Sometimes watching other teams can make you fall in love with footie again. Then you remember your own team

Amazing what a billion pounds can do :shrug:

[Master Splinter]

They have 11 players so do we. They had all that money when Leicester won the league. I bear no grudges, why do you?

Pointing out some pretty obvious facts doesn't equate to a grudge.

Calling a spade a spade or a cunt a cunt doesn't either.

[SMatthews]

Only UEFA can save football now :sick:

[Mac76]

Aguero won't be coming on :O

[Marc Overmars]

Unfortunately what makes this City team so good is that there doesn’t appear to be even a hint of complacency within them. They should continue to dominate for as long as Pep remains manager.

[Letters]

Actually think Watford have done ok.
City have been insane this year. Watford have held their own but the quality in front of goal has been very different. City have been ruthless

[Letters]

5 :lol:

[Master Splinter]

Aguero not getting a Cup final appearance.

Pep wants Auba to be the top scorer in England.

[Marc Overmars]

I don’t think any team in the world could leave players of the level of Aguero, De Bruyne and Sane on the bench for a cup final and expect to comfortably get away with it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Exciting stuff.

[Mac76]

The irony is that Wolves would probably have made a better fist of this rhan Watford, though they'd srill have lost i'm sure

[Master Splinter]

6-0, Sterling hat-trick.

[Mac76]

6!! :lol:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Christ. They're re...ah it's 6 now :lol:

Though I guess it helps when their bench cost 5 times that of Watford's starting team.

Wolves would have at least given them a game. Still would have ended 4-0, but still...

[Mac76]

Commentator calling Bury 'Burry'

:lol:

[Globalgunner]

Does anyone think if Wenger was managing this team they'd be any good. Money can only do so much. Pool ran them close in the league...did they cheat too?.
Toffs are breeding their kids to a new generation of economic oppression. No complaints but football is where we get all angst.

[SMatthews]

One of the most depressing games I’ve seen in ages. And that includes our last decade.

[Globalgunner]

Gomes can retire on a high now

[Marc Overmars]

Sterling is a beast. His instincts inside the box are ridiculous these days.

[Mac76]

Stones :lol:

[GP]

Does anyone think if Wenger was managing this team they'd be any good.

Nah they'd probably be in league 2. Have a day off.

[Mac76]

6-0 :haha:

Watford :haha:

Elton John :haha:

Deeney :haha:

Cojones :haha:

[Master Splinter]

I hope Cech's final apearance is better than Gomes'.

:upset:

[Globalgunner]

Sterling Hattrick

VAR doing its best to make history

[Marc Overmars]

The sad thing about this is that Watford are not a terrible team by any stretch.

[Master Splinter]

Pep can't do it on warm, clear nights across Europe.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Nah they'd probably be in league 2. Have a day off.

This

[Mac76]

Anyway whatever the money situation, i for one am happy for City fans, the team and Pep

They're a good bunch and to my mind one of the least dirty sides

Oh and they play brilliant football :bow:

[Master Splinter]

The sad thing about this is that Watford are not a terrible team by any stretch.

Since reaching the final, they only won one game narrowly against Huddersfield and went into the final on the back of two drubbings.

Against a Citeh side that won about 78 in a row domestically.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Sterling is a beast. His instincts inside the box are ridiculous these days.

He has that Auba knack for wandering into rather good positions.

Guardiola so used to success that he depressingly looks so apathetic about winning...AGAIN.

[Mac76]

Ederson's gloves :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Rotherham, Burnley, Newport, Swansea, Brighton and Watford.

Has there ever been a more straight forward run to an FA Cup win than that?

[Letters]

They have 11 players so do we. They had all that money when Leicester won the league. I bear no grudges, why do you?

It’s not about holding grudges.
The point about Leicester is shitty logic.
That was a remarkable season in which all the usual suspects were rebuilding and...we had Wenger.
City are undoubtedly a remarkable side but if you spend a billion pounds in this space of time and don’t end up with a remarkable side then you're doing it wrong.
Yes, you can only play 11 players but when you can buy players of this quality and have £40-£50m players sitting on the bench then clearly it gives you a massive advantage. This sort of success can only be achieved with a squad of this depth and quality. Add a great manager (you think Pep would be there were it not for the money?) and this is what you get.

It’s not about holding grudges. A grudge about what? But let’s tell it how it is. City were nowhere, they weren’t even in the PL in all of the 90s, they hadn’t won the title for decades. Then they got taken over by someone prepared to spend and spend and spend until they achieved success. What a coincidence that they now have 4 titles under their belt.
Before them Chelsea did the same.

Chelsea showed success can be bought:
City have shown you can do it with any club if you pump in enough money.

So as remarkable as City have been this season, spare me all the fawning over them.
They haven’t earned their success.
Leicester’s achievement deserves far more credit.

In brief, fuck ‘em.

[Master Splinter]

Rotherham, Burnley, Newport, Swansea, Brighton and Watford.

Has there ever been a more straight forward run to an FA Cup win than that?

United's Europa League win might have been easier, tbf.

[Globalgunner]

You lot need to lighten up. This same bunch are moaning that Kroenke wont spend the money. Oh the irony!. City have been great, so have Pool.
See I made my point without petty insults....

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Hard to disagree(with Lettuce's last post)...lol. I still give them significant credit for achieving something very difficult to do and never done before....but you can't ignore the obvious.

They have a few likeable players at the club.

I do however find the hoards of our own fans now calling for the same model of pumping money into us by whatever means a little grotesque though.

[Master Splinter]

Wood for the trees or completely missing the point comes to mind.

[Mac76]

Hard to disagree(with Lettuce's last post)...lol. I still give them significant credit for achieving something very difficult to do and never done before....but you can't ignore the obvious.

They have a few likeable players at the club.

I do however find the hoards of our own fans now calling for the same model of pumping money into us by whatever means a little grotesque though.

I think most fans just want some kind of investment to stop us sliding backwards. IF - and i mean if - we win the EL we need to massively strengthen to avoid a complete trashing in the CL, plus to make top four

At the moment it really looks like the Kroenkes want their asset to devalue...

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Sure, but that needn't come via dubious means. We make our own money and the better we use the money we do make, the better off we will be.

If I bought a business and the people I let run it made purchases like Mustafi, I'd be dubious about giving the people in charge handouts too. I'm not pro Kroenke, but I do think it has become easy to blame him and he more gets mentioned due to the good he could do that he isn't, rather than the bad that he is doing.

[Letters]

Rotherham, Burnley, Newport, Swansea, Brighton and Watford.

Has there ever been a more straight forward run to an FA Cup win than that?

I give you Liverpool, 1992.

3rd Round – Crewe Alexandra v Liverpool
4th Round – Bristol Rovers v Liverpool
5th Round – Ipswich Town v Liverpool
6th Round – Liverpool v Aston Villa
Semi-Final – Portsmouth v Liverpool
FA Cup Final – Liverpool v Sunderland

[SMatthews]

Villa were a very good team then I think. Citeh’s run was a complete cakewalk.

[Letters]

Villa finished 7th so they were ok, Liverpool were at home though.
Think that’s the only top division side Liverpool had to play.

[SMatthews]

Must’ve been the year before of after I’m remembering. I know they finished second at some point around then.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea in 2010 is a contender.

[Mac76]

Sure, but that needn't come via dubious means. We make our own money and the better we use the money we do make, the better off we will be.

If I bought a business and the people I let run it made purchases like Mustafi, I'd be dubious about giving the people in charge handouts too. I'm not pro Kroenke, but I do think it has become easy to blame him and he more gets mentioned due to the good he could do that he isn't, rather than the bad that he is doing.

There's definitely a big question mark over the club management, but equally what bothers me is whether the Kronkes realise the concern - there's a good chance the Kroenkes have no idea that Mustafi is utter shite and our worst buy ever

[Marc Overmars]

The problem for us is the people at the top are not football men. They're mostly business executives by trade and given what's happened over the past few years in terms of standards and recruitment, they don't appear to have a feel of what's needed to build a squad capable of challenging at the top.

[Mac76]

...which is where Emery comes in but given our only loan was Suarez in January it's not a good start, albeit his options were limited by not being allowed to make any permanent signings, it still seemed an odd choice ahead of a CB which we desperately needed

[Marc Overmars]

My worry with Emery is that he's hasn't really elevated his teams in the past. Nice guy and a steady hand but someone that's broken through a glass ceiling he is not.

At the moment we are very much a Valencia/Sevilla type club.

[Mac76]

I agree i think his Europa League record was a big factor in his getting the job, and will sort of pay off if we win it, but he's probably not the guy to take us to a big new level

[Özim]

I tend to agree, not sure Emery is the guy to take us to the next level, his record and signings like Suarez don't fill me with confidence. He needs to identify players he can build a team with and find quality players, big summer for him after what has been an OK season.