Recent content by brian the blue

It’s why it’s always better to feel you’re letting a player go a year too soon than to sign them on for another bumper contract in their 30’s. We timed the initial leaving of Gundogan well.. just look what we got when he came back a year later. We’ve done well with the timings of letting...

Would hardly call a team averaging 2 points a game with 2 away league wins to its name a “winning machine”.

Don’t see how he gets a game unless we play without Haaland. He’s no good out wide and he isn’t good enough on the ball to play in the 10.

So we did! Pretty telling that the one we scored was behind closed doors in a season where the title had already gone. We seem to really struggle with pressure penalties. The Mahrez miss at Anfield is probably the most annoyed I’ve been at all our penalty misses since Pep took over. We’re...

Also us missing every penalty we’ve had against Liverpool under Guardiola is a pretty wild stat.

The problem with Haaland is he only uses 2 of the 3 options. He always picks a side and never goes down the middle. He should mix up his run ups as well. He did a stutter run away at Fulham at the end of last season and sent the keeper the wrong way. Don’t think he’s done one since? At the...

We’ll see.

Obviously not going to sign players from the likes of Arsenal, Bayern, Real, Barca now. But not signing the likes of Olise from Palace Timber from Ajax Wirtz from Leverkusen (slow start now but class player) Kvaratskhelia from Napoli Zubimendi from Sociedad Whilst not letting go of Palmer and...

Worried we’ve seen the best of him. And that he won’t get anywhere close to it again.

Over the last 10 years we signed great players and made them world class. Now we’re signing okay players and wondering why we’re at best a top 4 team. Cherki is another Bojinov. Completely wrong profile for us and will be gone within a year having barely played for us. Marmoush isn’t a...

They haven’t improved to the level required to compete with another genuine title challenging team where you require over 90 points to win the league. It’s just their time to get lucky, like Liverpool did last year, where their rivals all fall apart and they can coast to a title with a points...

The rebuild has been a disaster. We need rid of Nunes Lewis Stones Ake Ait-Nouri Kovacic Bernardo Reijnders Bobb Savinho Doku Cherki Marmoush. Replacing all that with the quality required is going to take several windows. What a mess.

I actually think we have more chance finishing bottom half than we do winning the league. We have regressed so badly, especially on the road, that I can’t see us getting even a point away at any of Liverpool, United, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Spurs, Palace and Chelsea.. and can’t even see us...

Seem to recall you rubbishing recent records in fixtures in the Villa pre match thread, as we then went on to mirror our last 3 performances there and lose again. We’re in for a shock this season.

It’s infuriating how we never pull anything out of the hat. We never play shite and steal a result. That was so bad today. But you knew we weren’t scoring from about the 10th minute. We’ve dug ourselves into a massive hole with this squad. It’s set us back years.