A Trophyless Domestic Season

I’ll always be a city fanatic but the game I grew up and fell in love with has long gone. Some unknown **** in a box 250 miles away can decide what I can see live on a pitch right in front of me the outcome has totally ruined it. I’m out and I feel lucky to have seen the lot over the last 45 years. Times right to bow out and leave it to the next generation. CTID X
 
SK14BLUE said:
I’ll always be a city fanatic but the game I grew up and fell in love with has long gone. Some unknown **** in a box 250 miles away can decide what I can see live on a pitch right in front of me the outcome has totally ruined it. I’m out and I feel lucky to have seen the lot over the last 45 years. Times right to bow out and leave it to the next generation. CTID X
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We are having more discussions about VAR than we used to about Referees decisions pre VAR
At least with an onfield error you could accept that in the heat of the moment mistakes happen
VAR get replays,slow motion and still get it wrong
 
Gingers Dad said:
The opposition park the bus but City are the problem?
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To be honest I think we have gone quite stale at the moment, it is all a bit to predictable which i think is a combination of injuries, players getting past there best & Pep not being prime pep at the moment,
What really annoys me though is the uk media are now using our performances this season to make out that Peps football has always been boring? its now become a label for peps style of football which truth be told could not be further from the truth, A few years ago we were playing some of the best football I have ever seen from any team in the world, and scoring huge amounts of goals,
To think Peps legacy in football history could be tarnished by the uk media because of this one season is really quite sad.
 
1961_vintage said:
A dynamic, fluid, energetic and entertaining style of play and a palpable sense of joy in what we do.

Plus a player or two willing to rip an opponent in half when they take liberties.

That's all I ask for.

Not trophies.
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For 35 years we had neither.

We all want to see exciting football but it should be clearly obvious to you that KDB is old, Rodri is injured and Foden is struggling for form. Fixing that isn't straightforward. You make it sound like a trivial tactical choice yet very few football clubs have been as successful as Manchester City. I would trust in the football management of this club because it has a history of getting it right.
 
Marvin. said:
For 35 years we had neither.

We all want to see exciting football but it should be clearly obvious to you that KDB is old, Rodri is injured and Foden is struggling for form. Fixing that isn't straightforward. You make it sound like a trivial tactical choice yet very few football clubs have been as successful as Manchester City. I would trust in the football management of this club because it has a history of getting it right.
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The recent transfer windows suggest some challenges with getting it right. The past is the past.
 
J.G.Blue. said:
To be honest I think we have gone quite stale at the moment, it is all a bit to predictable which i think is a combination of injuries, players getting past there best & Pep not being prime pep at the moment,
What really annoys me though is the uk media are now using our performances this season to make out that Peps football has always been boring? its now become a label for peps style of football which truth be told could not be further from the truth, A few years ago we were playing some of the best football I have ever seen from any team in the world, and scoring huge amounts of goals,
To think Peps legacy in football history could be tarnished by the uk media because of this one season is really quite sad.
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KDB used to be a spectacular player to watch. The emasculation of City's attacking game is age-related. If only it was down to tactics.

The commercial media will sell a story and some City fans might buy it.
 
doobyedoobye said:
The recent transfer windows suggest some challenges with getting it right. The past is the past.
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But learn from the past. This City management did get it right. They can do so again. I rate Marmoush and Echeverri. Doku was for me mom in the FA Cup Final. I refuse to believe that Foden and Rodri are finished. They are not the past.
 
mimicmickmickdoyle said:
Look on the bright side, no parade you feel you have to go to because we'll get slagged off for the size of the crowd.
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to be honest if 2 million people turned out it would still look tiny compared to Liverpools hundreds of millions people parade in a couple of weeks :-)
 
Sad and disappointed after all we've achieved since the takeover in 2008,but in some ways inevitable.Nothing lasts forever,just look at the Rags.
Still feeling a whole lot better though than in 1998 with the prospect of playing Wycombe Wanderers,York etc,bankruptcy and potentially the end of the club I Have Loved all my life.
CTID
 
Only thing I’m disappointed with is dropping points to United.
Priorities (maybe stuck in the 70s /80s but)
1. Finish above United - tick
2. Avoid Relegation - tick
3. Push a youngster from academy to first team - tick
4. Win something - oh well there’s always next year.
 
Marvin. said:
But learn from the past. This City management did get it right. They can do so again. I rate Marmoush and Echeverri. Doku was for me mom in the FA Cup Final. I refuse to believe that Foden and Rodri are finished. They are not the past.
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For me it's the tactics and motivational aspect as much as the personnel
 
One season after so many great ones was inevitable. Squads age, tactics evolve and it happens.
I think rebuilding willl be easier said than done though. Look at the Rags. Huge brand, bags of money, but bottom of the non relegated pack.
Other big name teams have money, facilities, and history, but they can't achieve what City have. Pep, for all that people complain about him sometimes, is the success factor (just like Fergie was for that lot).
All in all, feeling pretty philosophical about it.
 
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