As Hansen said, you don't win anything with shitcunts in place of CBs.
As Hansen said, you don't win anything with shitcunts in place of CBs.
With the benefit of hindsight they completely screwed the summer up. Rodri is crap, David Silva is done, Ederson has been exposed as an absolute pudding, and they've got one good defender (who is injured) to show for spending a billion quid. The core of the ridiculous City side was already there, 'Pep' initially supplemented it well and got his coaching spot on, as he tends to do, but then the old bollocks transfers and shitting about with the system comes into play like when he naused up the best team in Europe trying to fit 'Alexis' and Cesc Fabregas in for fuck knows why.
The Laporte injury ruined their season. Daft as fuck not having a backup in place. It's as simple as that. City at their best are still a level above Liverpool.
In the medium to long-term City are in the unfortunate position of not having many certified binmen to take over once 'Pep' pulls the ripcord. Vincent Kompany is the best bet, but beyond that they're struggling. They seem to have called time on weirdly trying to get Patrick Vieira over as a significant City figure, so maybe that Chinese investment comes with Sun Jihai attached. If not then Uwe Rosler is next in line.
Shaun Goater.Originally Posted by Lewis
RIP The Graph. Many a good year.
Vincent Kompany managed to come 8th in the Hercule Poirot Superleague this year. A sterling effort.
Funny.
Yeah, let's ban him for a week.
I'm controlling for racism, and it's one thing appointing a slick European black man with an English wife and a few languages in his locker. The Arabs would sooner put a Jewish lezzer in charge than someone who looks and sounds like Shaun Goater.
Maybe in squad terms, but not in starting XI terms. Their defence is absolute gack, they need to go and sign Koulibaly, in addition to the £100m they'll waste on useless fullbacks, which they also need as Mendy is hopelessly error-prone and Zinchenko is pretty average at best. That Liverpool have had something like 8 players feature in 27+ league games (Van Dijk has played all of them) and one of those 8 isn't Alisson is telling and also interesting from the perspective of Klopp getting grief in his early time at Liverpool due to the number of injuries his style of football was blamed for.
I do dislike all the talk of dynsasties. It's such a media infatuation when anyone or anything does something (reasonably) novel. I remember when Hamilton won his first F1 title and all the op ed pieces had him as sports first billionaire (maybe first British/Black billionaire as I guess some of the yanks might have already had that sewn up - Woods, Jordan etc) on the back of 15 consecutive world titles. Took him years to get his second. City will be back in the mix again next season with a couple of signings.
Are they going to sign Koulibali or anybody like that? Pep is firmly in the "What if everything was centre-mids?" stage of his tenure, presumably.
But the sort of wanks who hate football and thought his teams passing it 2 yards for 88% posession was entertaining will still wank themselves into a froth over what a genius he is.
Someone's going to buy him and they've been linked, and desperately need him, and are probably one of the few teams who could face down Di Laurentis' price demands.
Imagine the seethe if we had crowds for these games and rival supporters sang 'you furloughed your staff, we'll never forget' during their guard of honour.
city have got a pretty huge rebuild job with the loss of their core players that made them successful - Fernandinho (moved to cb?!), Aguero (maybe one more season), Silva, Kompany (already departed). Maybe a fit Laporte will remove the exaggeration but the guys around him are pretty average.
Liverpool could win it for a couple of seasons at least as the rest are still pretty average.
I dunno, there's already been a sense of sustained success under Klopp. Even without the four trophies he's won, they had two European finals, a league cup final and a league runners up spot. In the space of 5 years.
Once tackling Sir Daniel Rashford is officially outlawed we'll smash it.
I have to say, I was somewhat surprised City fielded Martin Luther King up front against us yesterday, played about as well as you'd expect.
If Van Dijk were to get a serious injury Liverpool could easily slip back to where City are now. Whether City can be better than that next season I don't know.
I think you overstate the scope of the rebuild, simply having a top class centreback (and one is available) to play alongside Laporte improves them immeasurably. I suppose it'll be interesting to see what happens with their appeal as I guess a 2 year CL ban would be more of a stumbling block to signing a 29 year old than it would a 22 year old (from the player's perspective).
I saw Liverpool linked with a €60m bid for Koulibaly (that being the amount their president said he wouldn't get out of bed for), can't see it happening but it'd be amazing. That'd be an all-time great back 5. Fuck the Afcon.
They had three euro finals didnt they, the lost one to sevilla. Was klopp in charge for that?
Liverpool's success is built entirely on van Dijk, Robertson and Alexander Armstrong (and, I suppose, Alison). The rest are talented accessories.
Fuck that noise.
I'm a twit
If Liverpool suffer some key injuries yes maybe. Pressure could also play a part next season as the expectation is for them to win again.
Problem with city is their manager is a bit Wenger when it comes to defenders.
Mane is their most important player after van Dijk.
The full backs can be Aurier and Mendy, it's VVD and Alison that allow for that. On the other end, Bobby is special for the big games but the other two get us past the shit that is more important.
We were lucky really.
Our whole success is built entirely on Alisson, Robertson, VVD, Trent, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Firmino, Salah and Mane.
Without them, we'd be nowhere.
Also, very underwhelming way to win it.
Who said you were lucky?
We?
I did.
City not turning up, other big teams not having a decent season. Can't see us winning the title 7 games early normally.
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Liverpool.
This country is obsessed with Liverpool and now there’ll be a new breed. Even the dreary evening TV crap (our version of the One Show) has talked about them for the last 10 minutes.
They’re wheeling out the Sean Cox pictures now.
I was listening to the radio earlier and a Liverpool fan said "this will shut Man United fans up". Bless.
Living rent free and all that.
Can we reallocate that somehow about thing now as well?
Anything on that Bulgarian who headbutted a rock?
First response to that is proof it's been faked.
A win for Brentford tonight might initiate the Bielsa bottle job.
For all the lolling at the Henderson transfer we (well the vast majority at least) did at the time, he really has been quite good for them. A deserved title, but at the same time I take great pleasure it came in the way it did. City to win the CL to make this the worts season ever.
You know how John Terry was lambasted for full kit and celebrating when he wasn't even named in the squad? James Milner and Andy Robertson did the same but they didn't even have a game on. I feel that's worse.
John Terry's just an awful, awful human though.
The merchandise people were on it pretty sharpish last night. Think it took about 5 seconds for the 'champions' range to go live on the website and for the players to be kitted out in it.
To be fair, they've had it sitting in a warehouse for 6 months.
3 years.
30*
Liverpool fans trying to set fire to the most prestigious building in their City because it has blue lights is a laugh
Villa are so shit. Its just greilish dribbling the ball for 15 seconds while the other villa players stand and watch.
https://streamja.com/ZJwJw
Not a bad first goal for Cuisance.
https://streamable.com/9nwyfb
This goal > Xabi Alonso's halfway effort(s)
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