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The xg of the game is interesting. City 2.3 v Spurs 2.73. Essentially, City's finishing was crap whilst everything Spurs hit ended up in the net! It's reminiscent of Pep's first season when Claudio Bravo hardly touched the ball apart from picking it out of the net.

Stating the obvious, we need another high class defensive midfielder. How much did Rice, Caecedo and Enzo Fernandez cost again?
 
ProofMCFC said:
Too many players that don’t put City first, get injured on international break in pointless games and not enough leaders. Stop players picking the captain ffs, they most likely pick their mates, how the fuck is Walker a captain. Going through captains like nothing else!
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More captains than statues.

Not one true leader in that team today.
 
MMA said:
The board for me...

Stop penny pinching and spend some money for fucks sake.

How can we win so much over the years , win so much prize money, ect.. and don't make statement signings..

Charges or not.. the team and the game goes on in the meantime..
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All getting spent in court at the minute!
 
I can live without winning the league. Absolute impossible to do it every year and tbh, losing out the odd year makes the next more enjoyable.

Clearly some of the decline is self inflicted though thanks to some uncharacteristically bad squad planning.

Goal has to be to make top 4, go wild in the summer and hope Pep can build one last title winning team.

Also taking a little heart in that it won't be Arsenal winning the league in our place this season thus undermining "it's not our fault City are so good" excuses for falling short these past few years.
 
After years and years of being at full tilt and the mental and physical pressure of winning the treble and 4 in a row, finally, finally, it has caught up with us.

I Expected it last season but they kicked on and proved me wrong. I would love them to prove me wrong again this time but I feel in my heart that this is something completely different and the dam has broke.
What we need to do now, like the fans at the game tonight, is get behind the team and back them whatever they do, good or bad.

You learn to celebrate winning and you learn how to take defeat like champions and this is what we're going to do.
 
Just home. A great afternoon ruined by city. We’ve been there many times before

I don’t know where to start on that and I don’t want single out any players as none were worth more than 2 out of 10.. including pep who took at least 20 minutes too long to make changes

Beginning to look obvious now that our season was fucked the second Rodri was injured. We’re just so easy to play against on the break

And I’m sick to fucking death of starting brightly then going behind to the first attempt on goal by the opposition
 
Loads of things going on. No point digging out individuals or anything like that - seems like the whole team isn’t mentally there and/or there is a disconnect between the players and what Pep is trying to do (although Pep could do with being less stubborn just for once because some players are out on their arses knackered).

The likes of Savinho and Rico weren’t meant to be starting every game week in week out. I feel sorry for them - they’re trying their best but it’s not coming off for them at a time when everything else around them is falling apart.

Gundo wasn’t also brought back to start every match. I think Pep needs to start being a bit more innovative now, especially with the likes of McAtee - it can’t get any worse than it is now?

Injuries haven’t helped but can’t be an excuse for other disjointed performances. Kev looks like fitness is an issue and Phil looks like he’s lost his confidence and swagger.

The defence - don’t even know where to start but I don’t believe the players we have at our disposal have magically forgotten how to defend. We could do without Walker and Gvardiol being used like wingers just for starters.

Oh and those predictable voices calling out Grealish in this thread - can you please kindly fuck off for one night? We actually played better as a team when he and Kev came on and he hasn’t player for a fucking month but you’re so pathetic you just can’t help yourselves.
 
DMA's said:
Yep. Poor recruitment caught up with us and players need replacing.

Credit to the fans who stayed. No booong even singing at the end. Credit to them.

We have had it so good. They need us now
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Correct
I was saying the same
 
Been reading through everyone's replies and alot of people have spoken a lot of sense. It's kinda weird/frustrating that even though we've lost 5, we've created enough chances to win every game, even today. So at least we are creating chances I guess....let's hang on to one small positive :-)
But the struggle is real. Confidence is low. The team has aged considerably overnight seemingly. Injuries have caused havoc, we can't get a settled back 4 which is disruptive. We have no legs in midfield. We have no pace. Plenty of issues to address. With hindsight we probably let this team carry on for one season too many.....but I'd loved to be proved wrong come the end of the season! :-) it's still early and we know what these guys and Pep are capable of so I'm not ruling anything out just yet, but it does feel slightly different this year... :-(
In the short term we need kev up to speed and maybe a run of games for Jack purely coz he hardly loses the ball....and a 95th minute deflected winner off walkers bellend!
CTID
 
I adore Pep. Love the man.

But setting up tactically with the main aim to free up space on the wing for KYLE WALKER is the stuff of a madman.

We tried it 2 years ago and it didn’t work. And that’s when he had the legs to get up and down!

It’s a position absolutely perfect for somebody like Frimpong.
 
I'd like to know who we really tried to buy this summer, but also the reasons why they didn't sign
Was it the uncertainty over Pep's future or was it something else?

Otherwise, we sold Alvarez for a huge profit (after Bobb had been injured) and then did nothing to fill the void.
We needed more than an ageing Gundogan and a punt on a young lad who'd done okay for one of our umbrella clubs

The next signings need to be top drawer players who walk into the First Team.
 
Remember when Arsenal had a team of fast athletes under Wenger? that's how we are making every team look at the moment. Even average teams are running us ragged.
 
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