Agreed. Outside of the actual performance, my takeaway was definitely that we need two more quality players. Olmo and Doku would be the dream but I'm not sure how unrealistic that may be this late in the window.Phew. Great win, great 3 points.
Newcastle was good at defending and kicking.
Despite being extra tired, and missing 3 key players(KDB, Silva and Stones) we still owe these top teams playing at 2nd gear.
But we NEED to sign up 2 new players at least. We need transfers. A winger by all means and one in the center. It's not that we don't have enough players, it's that injuries and fatigue will come and then we will not have anything.
And it would be a big shame. Our squad is tiny compared to other teams. Just sign 2 more players.
I'll give it a go:
The barcodes team are
Dirty, diving, time-wasters
An Eddie Howe side.
That's interesting, and shows again that City have only spent around the same as other top-six teams, and others with money or ambition to get into that top group.Just for fun, well actually, truth be told I'm bored as I'm at work and have nothing to do, thinking about Pep's comments earlier in the week about spending I thought I'd add up the purchase cost of both teams players who featured today.
Now clearly that's slightly skewed as the Barcodes used 5 subs, however to counter that it does include the fee for Grealish.
City total spend: 488M. Barcodes: 437m. A staggering 51m difference. Amazing how we a blowing away everyone else with our spending?
Are you ok in the head?Defence stopped Ed from virtually having a save to make. Wonderful from everyone but Foden and Kovacic………..
kovacic is a wise signing ..proper player at what he doesPhil needed that performance tonight he was world class imo
Big shout though for Kovacic, he ran his fucking socks off absalute quality tonight
they are a shithouse side for sure, they were last season tooI'll give it a go:
The barcodes team are
Dirty, diving, time-wasters
An Eddie Howe side.
I see what you did there.good victory for you boys, i thought the geordies might have caught you out after playing in Greece midweek, Foden was superb.
glad you put the geordies in their place , theyre as bad as Villa and Spurs for giving it large . lets see howe they cope with premier league and European football ?
they are a shithouse side for sure, they were last season too
you miss my point completelyFfs, it’s one match, next in September and October are all 3pm, don’t get the ire, it was fucking buzzing tonight, loved it.
You think? I thought the Newcastle fans were very poor tbh and we were surprisingly good and loud considering it was pretty tense. Plus nearly everyone stayed till the endAbsolutely fuck all on the right hand side, walker doing 2 jobs , and Newcastle fans win the day
One the train home and the only good thing was the result. Terrible welcome home by the fans for the treble winners
Interesting question - who does he replace? I would say Grealish but that would shift Foden to the leftWe have Bernardo Silva to return at some point.
It's insane. Last buses that also leave at 22:52, even at weekend. Last time I contacted gmpte and asked if they were imposing their own curfew on the people of Manchester. They made the last bus later but it's back to an earlier time again. Why can't games kick off at 19:30??
He defends like his life depends on it.Thought we were terrific considering we've been notoriously slow starters the last few seasons
Dias, Walker, Zinedine ZiRodri and Foden were outstanding
You're probably wondering why Dias is on the list and it is because we are such a difficult side to score against when he plays. He really makes such a difference
Are you saying Kovacic and Phil were a different level or are you saying they were the not at the level of the other players? Ambiguous post that is difficult to understand where you’re coming from.Defence stopped Ed from virtually having a save to make. Wonderful from everyone but Foden and Kovacic………..
He means a totally different level....Are you saying Kovacic and Phil were a different level or are you saying they were the not at the level of the other players? Ambiguous post that is difficult to understand where you’re coming from.
There’s no problem’s if you look for a solution, we had a few extra supporters on our bus tonight who normally would have gone to the game by a different method. I’m not advocating regular 8pm games and I know it’s not the preferred choice of a lot of fans but I just don’t get why there’s resentment towards a kick off time that benefitted us after the Super Cup? It was a TNT game moved from 12:30 to a time that suited us far better. Nothing weird about it.you miss my point completely
but you have some wierd devotion to defending this KO time for a saturday, which really isn' t the issue of my post so you miss the problem here.
Silva can play on the left. If I remember rightly, he was MOTM in the 8-0 against Watford there.Interesting question - who does he replace? I would say Grealish but that would shift Foden to the left