Crystal Palace (A) - Sat 7th Dec, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[hobbsisablue]

Anyone who thinks Nunes should start the game on Saturday clearly hasn’t watched us recently. He’s awful regardless of where he plays and some are suggesting RB or LB. FFS

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Anyone who thinks Nunes should start the game on Saturday clearly hasn’t watched us recently. He’s awful regardless of where he plays and some are suggesting RB or LB. FFS

I watched all City’s games recently on TV and Nunes has played some of his best since we signed him, and he will be needed over the next few weeks

 

[lionheart]

Fuck off with such nonsense !!

Are you off your head? The point made about our squad size was perfectly genuine.

 

[Stoned Rose]

These are getting a severe bumming.

 

[TinFoilHat]

These are getting a severe bumming.

Have a feeling it will be a KDB masterclass and after he will tell the press to stop shit stirring about him and Pep.

 

[goater1985]

Anybody else had a ticket balls up for this? Ordered 2, only received 1. They say it's gone to the owner of the ticket rather than the lead purchaser but there is nothing in either email.

Yeah I had similar. Bought two on my account, tickets were emailed separately to the two who were assigned the tickets.

 

[Blueknows]

These are getting a severe bumming.

watched their game against leicester and they were terrible

 

[Tevez City]

Rest Bernardo and Keep Rico away

 

[robbieh]

I doubt it - Pep said at the press conference on Tuesday that Sones had a "feet" problem - if that's true, he won't have been training. The physio room website has him as being available around 11th December.

I heard plantar fascitis mentioned. If so someone might want to tell John to quit eating gluten. A lot of information out there on this.

 

[blueparrot]

Are you off your head? The point made about our squad size was perfectly genuine.

Not really , the difference between our ‘tiny’ squad and being as full as it can be is 2 players.
So while not as big as it could be our squad isn’t tiny either.

 

[wolfie1988]

Yeah I had similar. Bought two on my account, tickets were emailed separately to the two who were assigned the tickets.

They're just sorting by resending the link to me now. Been chasing since Monday but the guy I got on Twitter was really apologetic. Feel like they are under a lot of strain unnecessarily at the minute due to noises from above them.

 

[Snape]

I heard plantar fascitis mentioned. If so someone might want to tell John to quit eating gluten. A lot of information out there on this.

It's not a scientifically proven relationship.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Rest Bernardo and Keep Rico away

Bernie is banned-think he picked his 5th yellow last night

 

[Tricky_Trev]

The Ake and Akanji injuries mean we’re back in the shit situation we looked like we’d just come out of. So annoying. The result really depends on how clinical we are because it’ll be difficult to avoid conceding.

 

[Tico Warrior]

Not really , the difference between our ‘tiny’ squad and being as full as it can be is 2 players.
So while not as big as it could be our squad isn’t tiny either.

The squad is tiny though. Going into a season where we are playing more champions league ganes, a club world.cup, and off a summer tournament where a lot of our players went deep into, and then deciding six defenders was enough was stupid. Especially when several are massively injury prone, we don't have a proper lb and our specialist rb is 34, and heavily dependent on pace.

 

[Nevizade]

Bernie is banned-think he picked his 5th yellow last night

Got four in the league and one in the Charity Shield, not sure if the latter counts towards the total.

 

[robbieh]

It's not a scientifically proven relationship.

Maybe it doesn't help everyone with the condition. But some people have benefitted from it.
John certainly needs to try something new as his career is teetering.

 

[blueparrot]

The squad is tiny though. Going into a season where we are playing more champions league ganes, a club world.cup, and off a summer tournament where a lot of our players went deep into, and then deciding six defenders was enough was stupid. Especially when several are massively injury prone, we don't have a proper lb and our specialist rb is 34, and heavily dependent on pace.

As I said though we are only 2 players off the maximum allowed, and we should probably have brought one more in.While it might be a little unbalanced, to say it’s tiny is just wrong. The fact some of them are injured has nothing to do with the size of the squad.

 

[Tico Warrior]

As I said though we are only 2 players off the maximum allowed, and we should probably have brought one more in.While it might be a little unbalanced, to say it’s tiny is just wrong. The fact some of them are injured has nothing to do with the size of the squad.

Ok I take your point. When I say tiny squad I am conflating several issues into one that I don't really have a name for. One is we are unbalanced with so few defenders.

Another is we have players in the squad who Pep refuses to play in normal circumstances, like McAtee, now even if he isn't as good as our other midfielders, I find it hard to believe that surrounded by our normal squad we would lose if he played more against Ipswich, Southampton, Bratislava, Prague etc. Him playing one minute every two weeks doesn't help reduce the burden on the first team of help him develop.

Thirdly we don't use to seems subs that much, when we can change half the outfield each game. We also don't seem to use the academy as much as other clubs. We also go too strong in the league cup, and is still affecting us now, despite Pep saying it was unimportant. Plus more games at club and national level means we need a bigger squad, even if just using the academy more.

 

[toffee balls]

It's not a scientifically proven relationship.

John Stones and being fit for City ?