Match reaction - Man City

[mastermind84]

The Alexis thing, the gypos have ONE player in his class. ONE. And that's Silva. The rest range from very good but nowhere near as good as the media pundits want them to be, to Delph.

Nah

[Niall_Quinn]

I outlined at some length how I see Wenger's time with us in roughly 3 phases and you said you agreed.
I don't have much else to add to that. We all hoped when the new sponsorship deals were put in place and we started signing players like Ozil and Sanchez it would yield results. The first FA Cup gave us some hope and most felt it worth giving him a chance to see if he could push us on. If I held out hope longer than most that he would then fine, guilty as charged, but don't pat yourselves on the back too much and pretend that you knew 10 years ago we'd end up in quite such a mess.

It's hard to imagine anyone could have accurately predicted just how badly this guy would fuck things up. And he just keeps on going, as his crazed team selection showed us on Sunday. What the next 10 years under this lunatic will bring, I get the feeling none of us will be able to predict how bad it will be this time either.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nah

Not based on yesterday's performance of course. And okay, I'll put Aguero on that list too. But that's all I'll concede. Most of these modern players aren't fit to lace the boots of those who went before them. Hyped beyond all reason.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

To be fair to Zimm he has been consistent on his stance regarding Wenger over the past 7-8 years and he pretty much predicted our fortunes.

You hardly have to be King Soloman for one of two outcomes to eventually become true after multiple years of whining & bitching about it.

[Cripps]

You hardly have to be King Soloman for one of two outcomes to eventually become true after multiple years of whining & bitching about it.

Just pointing out that whilst many were being positive and saw light at the end of the tunnel when certain things happened over the years, to be fair to Zimm, he was the head honcho in predicting pretty much everything that's happened, to the extent it has happened.

[Letters]

To be fair to Zimm he has been consistent on his stance regarding Wenger over the past 7-8 years and he pretty much predicted our fortunes.

Not really. He has been consistent but if you're consistent about something where fortunes often fluctuate, as they tend to in football over the long term, then at some point you will probably be "right". That doesn't mean you were right all along.
If I spent the last 10 years saying "there's no way interest rates are going to stay this low, they're definitely going to rise" then it would be a bit rich of me to pat myself on the back this month when they finally did and it would be weird of others to declare me a wise sage who tried to warn us all.

[Power n Glory]

Just pointing out that whilst many were being positive and saw light at the end of the tunnel when certain things happened over the years, to be fair to Zimm, he was the head honcho in predicting pretty much everything that's happened, to the extent it has happened.

I want my credit, goddamnit! I've always said Wenger and the Board are one and the same. He's hid behind the no money excuse, a poor tactician and we're now seeing the results now that he's been given money.

Oh...and welcome back Cripps!

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I thought money was always overplayed as a factor. In my mind we should have won the league in 2008, it was inexcusable not to have.
Equally should have won the league in 2016 when we spent next to nothing

[Letters]

People were claiming all kinds of things about how we would decline under Wenger, plenty said we'd slip into mid-table. Last season was our worst finish under Wenger and even then we only missed out on 4th place by 2 points and we won the FA Cup.
The doom-mongers haven't exactly been vindicated, they said we'd be in mid-table years ago and that hasn't happened.
The club is, in theory, pretty well positioned for success right now. But Wenger is a spent force and we have a board who don't care so long as the money keeps rolling in.
Replacing Wenger would at least be different and right now that in itself would be a good thing, but with our board I don't see that as the silver bullet.

[Power n Glory]

I thought money was always overplayed as a factor. In my mind we should have won the league in 2008, it was inexcusable not to have.
Equally should have won the league in 2016 when we spent next to nothing

Hence why I said......

He's hid behind the no money excuse