We knew this already but Vardy and his celebrations make him a cunt and a legend.
We knew this already but Vardy and his celebrations make him a cunt and a legend.
I can't work out if he meant that or just fell over trying to change direction.Originally Posted by thommo
I think we are a couple of squad players short of a top half push. We also lack a bit of quality throughout the team.
I think if we survive this season we should be able to start kicking on again as we've cleared a lot of deadwood. Lemina, Hoedt, Gunn, Carrilo and Boufal have all left recently and they were all a real drain. Add on the money saved from Ings and Vestegaard leaving and we should be able to really kick on if we invest that cash correctly.
Gerd Muller is no more.
That Newcastle midfield and defence looks relegation fodder in the Championship never mind the PL
Really? Saint-Maximin, Murphy, Almiron and Shelvey. Championship relegation fodder. Have a word.
Murphy, Ritchie, Almiron, Krath, Clark and Fernandes are all utter shite. Hayden/Shelvey worst midfield partnership in the league.
Were Villa missing a load of players yesterday? Their starting line-up looked like absolute dross.
Watkins injured and Bailey on the bench. I think that’s about it. They won’t do much at all with Mings starting every week and now no John Terry to at least talk him through games
Mings is an absolute paycheck stealer and a despicable cunt to boot.
Cresswell
Absolute don in fantasy.
Please consider his mental health.
Newcastle look alright.
I'm a twit
Do they?
Ake/Mendy down City’s left?
Spurs win.
That Spurs line up is bottom half stuff.
We've been too open in this game but at least we're finding the net. We'll do alright on this showing.
I forgot Ake was a City player.
Gwarn Tottenham.
Man City are always a mess against Spurs away. They just let them counter on them at will every single time. Fernandinho looking his age and the defence is awful down the left side as I said before.
Bergwijn is fucking awful.
Are City missing players? If not, how have they spent a billion and ended up with this?
De Bruyne & Jesus on the bench who could say should start and maybe Zinchenko but not a huge amount more.
There's a few on the bench who would normally be first choice (De Bruyne, Rodri, Stones) but it doesn't look a million miles off to me. Their only striker is Jesus.
I watched that fan debate thing in full, and Gary Neville trying to justify Harry Kane spitting his dummy was some right sad shit.
Jack Grealish looks like a tosser in that blue kit as well. He will be back at [The] Villa before the end of his contract.
Spurs always look better playing on the break with Son/Lucas. That’s how they got to the CL final, Kane did fuck all in that run. Were better off without him
City need a striker desperately. If they can't get Kane then they need to just drop £30m on some jobber and go after Haaland next summer.
Not a single draw. No more covid ball
I was musing to myself, having seen the standard Jack Grealish has won 4 fouls, 2 fouls more than anyone else in the first half stat on the BBC livetext, whether said foul winning will be a good thing or not for City. Those fouls are usually bought to relieve pressure and slow the game down, and City don't really need or want to be doing either of those things, and they're absolutely wank at set pieces so it's not like it'll even help in that regard.
Anyway, good to see them jettisoning some points already.
The smugness exuding off Daniel Levy when they cut to him with 5 minutes to go.
I wonder which of Spurs or City actually need Kane more?
I think City do. Son is a good alternative for Spurs but City have to plug an Aguero-sized hole. Ferran Torres isn't that guy.
I think he's a baller and was great today. So direct, basically perfect for a Nuno side.
Jack Grealish loses alot of his game when he has to hold his position. If City want the player he was at Villa then he needs to be free to roam. I like Tanganga but he shouldn't have Grealish in his pocket like that all game.
The soulless stadia suited City down to their own soulless core. They're in for a bit of a shock if they think they can turn up and piss it this time.
They did start horrifically last year too, but then so did Man Utd and Chelsea had Frank Lampard in charge. It should be quite tight this year, but you’ll get a grasp of whether or not Chelsea are contenders over the next few weeks as I think they play most the ‘big 6’ other than Man Utd. The latter and Liverpool could get quite a nice cushion come October if they play as they did as the weekend.
Pedri starting again today, averaged a game every 5 days for the last year
He carries the ball well but his end product is atrocious.
Edit: apart from when he banged one in against us obviously
He's basically Aaron Lennon.
It'll be interesting to see whether Nuno can successfully get them countering and Sonblasting away, and break down deep sides consistently. Didn't it seem to be his (relative) failure at Wolves - that he didn't make them more multidimensional?
Thought City were really poor. Seemingly a lack of zip/hunger from everyone bar Fernandinho.
None of these ready to start or injured:
Watkins
Douglas Luiz
Bailey
Traore
Sanson
Trezeguet
Tuanzebe
Poor performance, but plenty more to come and essentially missing 7 players
Three of them - four if you include Watkins assuming he plays off the left - are wide players. I forgot about Luiz though, he’s a good player. The starting eleven does look good on paper, though Mings being a permanent starter gives me the fear
I should hope so considering we started with El Ghazi and a 36-year-old Ashley Young out wide. Watkins is a centre forward though.
ASM is electric.
lol at that penalty, the swan dive followed by immediate jump up should have given the ref a clue it was never a foul.
I'm pretty terrible at analysing and understanding football that I've not actually watched live at the stadium (i could make some class michael cox zonal marking shit for West Brom circa when I was a season ticket holder), but my uneducated take is that I thought Grealish looked good today, but I'm not sure it was the kind of good performance that actually improves that city side. When everyone's fit, I'm not sure how he fits into the XI, either.
Great weekend of action and no football of consequence till next weekend. This is living
Yeah, I can see why Bruce was fuming. Should've been wiser to the rebound, though. It's like they didn't expect it to be saved. Freddie Woodman. A goalkeeper who is actually good at saving penalties.
So after looking him up to see why I knew so little about him following the Arsenal game I've decided I'm a big fan of Pablo Mari. Or at least his career arc.
Dosses around in Spain for a bit doing not much before he ends up at City. City send him on a series of loans to the Spanish second tier and Eredivisie where he also doesn't do much. Makes the unusual (and not entirely reassuring) move of being a European moving to Brazil with City taking a "what's the point?" fee of about a million quid for him. After a year there Arsenal decide he's the very fellow for them and make a loan permanent after he knackers his ankle and in the process he manages, depending which website is most trustworthy for wages, to double or quadruple his wages, something in the region of that.
I've no idea if he's any good but that is some career path.
Also, apparently Braithwaite became the first Danish player to score a La Liga brace. Is this a statistics only being counted during the Premier League era type situation or did Michael Laudrup really score all of his goals one per match for Barcelona?
Laudrup scored a brace vs Valencia on 22 November 1991 (the final Barcelona goals before the death of Freddie Mercury). Wrong again, stats nerds.
He was great in Brazil and his team won a title from what I read but yeah, weird career
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