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As a preview of City's forthcoming season this is quite something. Paul Wilson at The Guardian take a bow. Barely a mention of City in the first 5 paragraphs with one largely devoted to Utd.
To be clear I have know issue if they think we'll finish second the season hasn't started and it's simply a prediction. I do have an issue that half the preview has nothing to do with us. I do have an issue with the systematic criticism of Pep whilst praising Mourinho in our article!

There was nothing wrong with that ambitious plan in 2012, except that it took four years to bring it to fruition due to Guardiola making Germany his first port of call following his year out after stepping down from Barcelona. There was nothing wrong with his decision to join Bayern Munich either, except Jupp Heynckes’s parting legacy was to complete the first German treble, leaving the incoming coach with little to improve. Guardiola did not exactly fail in Bavaria – most clubs and coaches would be happy with three consecutive league titles and three appearances in Champions League semi-finals – though while several reliable witnesses have testified to the beneficial effect he had on the team he did not enhance his reputation to the extent expected.



https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...pep-guardiola-premoer-league-champions-league
 
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What a load of bollocks...ffs rags n dippers got their dream managers...wasn't moyes n turtle their chosen ones.
Wonder if when it's the rag scum preview will they spend ages writing about us and pointing out maureens failure last season.
The media by far and large are biased twats so fuck them.
 
Very negative article, highest praise went to 'watchable' KDB and 'goal threat when fit' Sergio is hardly a ringing endorsement of either of these wonderful players.

Summed up it seemed to say Pep isn't as great as thought. Utd will be great again. All the big clubs have great managers. Pep will struggle in England. City have a couple of ok players but Silva is probably past it, Yaya can only influence the training ground and not the game. And Pep will find it tough.

Yet still prediction is 2nd. Twats
 
The gaurdians reviewer is Paul Wilson and their football teamof writters are pretty wank, seeing as they have us 2nd chelsea 3rd and le arse 5th, can only think they are tipping spurs for the title and rags 4th.
 
Blue Pete said:
Very negative article, highest praise went to 'watchable' KDB and 'goal threat when fit' Sergio is hardly a ringing endorsement of either of these wonderful players.

Summed up it seemed to say Pep isn't as great as thought. Utd will be great again. All the big clubs have great managers. Pep will struggle in England. City have a couple of ok players but Silva is probably past it, Yaya can only influence the training ground and not the game. And Pep will find it tough.

Yet still prediction is 2nd. Twats
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Yep they are writing what there readers want to read because putting us 2nd is what the writer really believes
 
Blue Pete said:
Very negative article, highest praise went to 'watchable' KDB and 'goal threat when fit' Sergio is hardly a ringing endorsement of either of these wonderful players.

Summed up it seemed to say Pep isn't as great as thought. Utd will be great again. All the big clubs have great managers. Pep will struggle in England. City have a couple of ok players but Silva is probably past it, Yaya can only influence the training ground and not the game. And Pep will find it tough.

Yet still prediction is 2nd. Twats
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Even when injured for significant parts of seasons Sergio still manages to average over 20 goals a year and the 'concern' over Joe Hart seems to make Wilson forget that Hart has won more 'Golden Gloves' than any other goalie. If the Stones saga is a 'slow motion event' what will clown call the Pogba affair? Something highly positive about United relentlessly tracking their man no doubt.

Wilson claims to be an Everton fan and therefore should have no personal axe to grind against City or more so to big up United. The newspaper hacks are no longer professional journalists just glorified copy writers under orders to sell a product or spin doctors paid to distort the truth whether they believe it or not.
 
Paul Wilson is a ****. He's got form for City bashing so nobody should be surprised he's not praising us.
 
Stopped reading halfway through as it appeared they got the rags review mixed with ours.

On a side note, in the fans predictions, how bitter is that Rag fan? I thought we weren't important to them!

Liverpool fan was comically predictable.
 
Wilsons actual top 4 prediction is. Rags, Dippers, City, Chelsea. It was in yesterday's edition. The bit that made me laugh was when talking about the Manchester clubs: "the boldness of their spending indicates they intend to hit the ground running and, though Manchester City have also been splashing out, for this season Guardiola is the new kid in town". Bit like he was when he went to Germany and kicked Klopps arse bad enough to run him out of the country!
 
Read that the other day. Stopped halfway through when it turned out a review of us turned into a review of the rags.
 
Wilson has a long, long history of slagging off City so I'm not surprised in the slightest.

Dont click the link blues.
 
So they sign Bailly (untested) Ibrahimovic (35 next month) & Mkhitaryan (decent to be fair) and they're gunna wrap up the league with another boring manager in charge? Even if they sign Pogba I'd say us, Chelsea, Spurs and maybe even Liverpool have a better squad of players. Going to be funny plenty more borefests for the rag fans.
 
Perhaps this demonstrate the thought that went into this article:
"...now it could be argued that Guardiola might not even be the best manager in Manchester" followed a few paragraphs later by:
"Antonio Conte, like Guardiola, will need time to find his feet in a new league, though it is unlikely with a coach of his pedigree that Chelsea will be as far off the pace as they were last season"

Clearly he doesn't think much of Pep then
 
Fans and representatives from each of the premier league clubs pick their top four in today's Observer. The majority go for City in first. The United fan chooses United first, fair enough, but then goes on to say that City fans, "Are not what they once were, shame." Being given the opportunity to talk about your own club and yet using it to express an opinion about another club's fans; bizarre.
 
Is the Guardian like the Daily Mail but for champagne socialists???
 
So, sounds like nobody from the press is allowed an opinion unless it endorses City as the greatest club in the world, with the greatest ever manager, and likely to romp home this season's league title by an unfeasibly large amount of points.....sounds fair
 
IcriedwhenTueartleft said:
So, sounds like nobody from the press is allowed an opinion unless it endorses the Rags as the greatest club in the world, with the greatest ever manager, and likely to romp home this season's league title by an unfeasibly large amount of points.....sounds fair
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