The unpopular objective thread

Imagine you’re not a city fan for a second. What opinion do you hold that is controversial and wouldn’t go down well in the other threads?

Here’s mine..

I like Gary Neville and Carragher as pundits. I think in particular Neville has a understandable bias for the rags but does a good job as seeing other perspectives.

I rate rashford and think he’d be good at City

I don’t think the media campaign against us is as big as most people here seem to think


Mmm. You certainly are trying - but failing - to be v unbiased. Disagree with most of your post
 
I couldn't stand Paul Dickov as a player. I always thought that we'd never be any good as long as he pulled on the shirt. I breathed a sigh of relief when we sold him and then knew we were in deep shit when we re-signed him.
 
I think Mourinho will be a success at Utd, and they will be difficult to beat to the title next season.
I think Pogba will be player of the season by the end of 2019-20.
I think the league flatters City this season, and that we've not been that great often since the derby.
I would like to see Klopp win the PL at Liverpool if someone else has to.
 
I think Mourinho will be a success at Utd, and they will be difficult to beat to the title next season.
I think Pogba will be player of the season by the end of 2019-20.
I think the league flatters City this season, and that we've not been that great often since the derby.
I would like to see Klopp win the PL at Liverpool if someone else has to.

And I thought I was contrary.
 
  • The Abu Dhabi regime's human rights record is a stain on the club despite the mental gymnastics people do to distance the two.
  • Vincent Kompany has never been a good captain for us and instead added to the nervous energy that permeates the ground when we're under the kosh.
  • Our Academy is nothing more than a PR campaign because it doesn't produce players for our first team squad - whatever the reasons for that, and the "but it's new!" excuse is a very poor one.
  • Jim Cassell and many others were prematurely abandoned because they didn't visually look like the type of person we wanted at the club despite vast knowledge and experience.
  • The club doesn't give a shit about us as fans but more importantly, it never did either.
  • For all of the apparent greatness we have, this team falls apart without David Silva and there's nobody in world football who can replace him. And now he's 32.
  • Yaya will be remembered with rose tinted glasses as his terrible and lazy performances are forgotten but he doesn't give a shit about City and never has past how much we're paying him - although he'll act the part post-retirement hoping to land a cushy job somewhere and we'll call him a "Legend" in the same way that you "love" your ex-wife or ex-husband.
  • I like New York City FC and think the CFG is a nice concept that makes me interested in other leagues and have a "home team" somewhat to follow. I don't give a shit about the rest of the stuff, it just makes me watch more football with an interest.
  • Our shirts are terrible and have been since Umbro who we never should have moved on from (forcibly so, admittedly).
  • We ARE the best team in Premier League history and it's not even a close competition, no matter what happens in the leagues and CL. Nobody has ever played anything like what we're playing and it's showing a lot of Little Englanders that their precious Premier League is all marketing and no different from any other league in the world.
  • A fan who watches the matches on TV in Nigeria is just as big and important a fan as you are and this "but I'm a local fan" stuff is small time bollocks.
  • Raheem Sterling is constantly criticised because he's black.
  • Txiki Begiristain was one of the best post-takeover signings we've ever made and 95% of the people who criticise him don't even know what it is that he does and are doing it as a meme.
  • People in the Transfer Forum rate players primarily on Football Manager, FIFA and things they've heard other people say. No, you haven't watched Pissbutchio playing in the Slovakian league enough to rate him comparatively to John Stones, sit down.
  • John Stones is a better defender than everybody we've had post-takeover not named Kompany or Otamendi even without his passing ability.
  • Along the same lines, Lescott is the most overrated former player we've ever had and he was Mangalaesque at times. People have forgotten the "Liability Lescott" tag.
  • QPR threw the game at 2-2 when they knew they were safe. We all know it.
  • Jadon Sancho is a bottle merchant who didn't fancy himself to compete against Jesus and he'll never be a top player because he lacks the courage to be one.
  • People who hark back to the "good old days" when we were crap are remembering a time that doesn't exist. Being a City fan was fucking shit for most of the past 30 years before the takeover and I refuse to believe anybody actually enjoyed going every week and watching us get fucking twatted by Swindon or some other bunch of plodders. I was there too, it was wank.
  • With modern day training, diet and coaching, Kinkladze would be a £100m player and it would be cheap at that. Stop being scared to say this because rags might take the piss.
  • Our matchgoing fanbase is way too old and it is a contributing factor in the atmosphere.
Ok guys I'd better be off for a week, see you later!
You are a man with whom I often find myself at odds, but hats of to you, that was brilliant.

I'd go further on a couple of points, namely that of Kompany; contrary to popular feelings, I think the guy is a bit of a knob. In the behind-the-scenes stuff he always comes across as arrogant and dismissive of anyone who gets the better of him (even in those little fun games they do for CityTV). He also walks like a 13-year-old trying to act big and hard at school.

Disagree with the points about Lescott (crap on the ball but I think he had a great awareness and positioning) and the 'good old days' (it's great watching such quality now but on the flip-side I found watching City far less stressful when there was less pressure to win). And whilst I agree it is a bit of a stain, I'm less bothered about Abu Dhabi regime's human rights record - plenty of clubs are British and American-owned, and it's not like those countries haven't committed worse atrocities in the past (some might argue fairly recently). But then I suppose the counter-point to that is that we are owned by the state, not by companies from that state.

I'll add my own: I think that Mancini was harshly treated and that the apparent reasons for sacking him were exaggerated by the board; they simply wanted to pave the way for Guardiola and knew that a wet flannel like Pellegrini would be happy to take a three-year caretaker job and step aside when the time came. I also think that Pellegrini won the league on the back of Mancini and Cooke's hard work (and simply added Fernadinho and Negredo for half a season). Oh, and he wasted Nastasic.
 
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I think Mourinho will be a success at Utd, and they will be difficult to beat to the title next season.
I think Pogba will be player of the season by the end of 2019-20.
I think the league flatters City this season, and that we've not been that great often since the derby.
I would like to see Klopp win the PL at Liverpool if someone else has to.
Kill me now
 

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