City are awful.
Worst title defence ever.
City are awful.
Worst title defence ever.
Clichy hauled off, Lescott on. Why, I don't really know.
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Originally Posted by Ernesto
Fairly likely to happen.
We played Schalke in the Champions League. :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesy bites
I honestly don't know why they haven't used Sinclair more this season. He clearly gives Man City width, something they were desperately lacking with the departure of Adam Johnson.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Spuds 3-1 Citeh, FT.
We stay five points behind Citeh. :popcorn:
good, we've scouted them already so we've got some chance of making the quarters of the Europa LeagueQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
This is a bitter result.
Can't see us finishing ahead of the scum after this. Just can't see it.
Pretty much what we deserve with our **** owner, Board, CEO and manager.
A highly toxic mix the lot of them, who's sold us out for profits.
Citeh :haha: :haha:.
Money well spent.
Mancini :wave:.
Well done City, you useless fucks.
Bros we just won our last game. I guess this would annoy you less if it wasn't a comeback victory. Fair play. But at least cheer yourselves up for the Agent Rafa show.
He gives them a body on the bench, something they've been lacking since the departure of Adam Johnson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
I've heard/read that our defence in 1990 was dog-awful, as was Leeds' in 1993. City will argue that they still finished 2nd.
Awful awful result for us.
whatever happens now, it's a far better scenario than seeing united win the title with rvp smiling his dutch mug about the place at the emirates.
this result now makes our home game much less of a worry.
Tottenham got six points from this win, well done to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesy bites
Yeah it's total nonsense, Leeds won the title and then came 17th the next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
Some people just don't know what they're talking about, Man City haven't been bad at all.
Rafa got a massive cheer as he got off the bus.
Torres.... didn't.
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Originally Posted by BoringBoringArsenal
Why can't you see it, because they were so good?
They beat a city side that hardly got out of their own half second half despite creating nothing in the way of chances before the first goal
If we don't finish 4th we will have to look purely to team selection, especially on tuesday night
Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Jose Enrique, Gerrard, Lucas, Downing, Henderson, Coutinho, Suarez.
Subs: Jones, Assaidi, Sturridge, Coates, Shelvey, Coady, Skrtel.
Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Luiz, Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel, Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Torres.
Subs: Turnbull, Lampard, Moses, Ferreira, Terry, Ba, Benayoun.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)
And how many hundreds of millions did we or Leeds spend those years?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
City have been absolutely pathetic.
Come on Agent Rafa. :scarf:
It's pretty irritating that Bale despite doing nothing other than diving or losing possession or hitting the ball like a retard was so influential in the three goals. Don't think you can even argue that Spurs broke them down and deserved to win in the end, it was just an utter capitulation from Man City.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis Bendtner
Not to mention another stellar Champions League campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
So Van Persie will walk into the Emirates to a guard of honour as a Premier League champion, and then score to send us out of the CL. Beautiful.
He will walk in to the Emirates but he won't walk out...Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesy bites
would you prefer his goal won it at our place and then celebrated it in front of us afterwards?Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesy bites
Yep and they'll probably win the FA Cup as well, hardly a disaster of a season. Of course they'd have hoped for better in the league but there's no point exaggerating how bad they've been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
He'll never walk alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Talk is Podolski might go with him.
I'd sooner let Dzhokhar Tsarnaev out of prison than give them a guard of honour.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesy bites
Pretty much, 2nd in the league and the FA Cup isn't a bad season....now if they came 4th....Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
City's summer transfer spending has clearly been influenced by financial fair play coming in, they are still desperate to take on their wage bill and instead of the Van Persie's (on 200k a week at United....don't tell me he didn't go for money), Edison Cavani's etc....they were stuck with the Jack Rodwell and Scott Sinclair purchases.
They have a defence which though sturdy is slow, they have lost their most influential midfielder to injury in David Silva and frankly Mancini's not a very good manager and has seemed to have deliberately stirred up tension in his own dressing room
With Giroud absent for three games, let's hope Wenger puts Podolski where God intended. It'll give him a selection headache.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
An FA Cup is rather inconsequential for what the owners have been trying to achieve and the backing they've had in being able to do that. 13 points behind wth the title decided in April is terrible. Then again, maybe it's not that much of a shock given they only won the league on goal difference when they were apparently outstanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
People have been praising Mancini for what will be 3 trophies in the last 3 seasons so I don't think it's that bad tbh especially considering what came before. It's not a great season but they're in the CL and will have a trophy for the trophy cabinet.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
If he's sacked, it'll prove it doesn't matter. The trophy glory is for the fans and temporarily for the players, for the owners it won't be like that. They didn't invest all that money to be succesful in a trophy which is largely discarded by many teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
I guess it will, I don't think he'll be sacked though, there's been no real rumours about him being replaced.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Yeah I'm sure most people at City don't think the season would qualify as a success at all, but getting a trophy at the end of it (no matter that the FA Cup probably doesn't rank as high on their list of priorities) means that it's now 3 seasons in a row where they've won a trophy, and they've maintained that winning habit which will probably stand them in good stead for next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
With City it's strange. Abramovich would've gotten rid of Mancini LAST season after their early CL exit. Sheikh Mansour stayed with him, and it paid dividends. This season, again, plenty of opportunities to sack Mancini, but nothing of it. It may prove fruitful again, with the capture of the FA Cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Will they get rid of Mancini close season? Or are they actually looking at the market and waiting for a better manager than Mancini to come along? Either way, compared to Abramovich, the way the Sheikhs are going about it is commendable.
As for van Persie, if it IS to be believed, then City were willing to pay him 300k/week, but he didn't want to sell his soul entirely....
I think that's because the papers don't really know who is available.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga