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You can see how this can quite quickly snowball. It goes from City fighting legal battles to half the Prem doing it. Questions start being asked about the point of it all and all of a sudden the days of over-regulation to appease certain clubs are no more.

There’s clearly some level of corruption going on here. Why was he vetted by United and Liverpool? What was said at the interview? What offers/promises were made? Given what we now know, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to suggest there may have been some level of you scratch our back...

His incompetent and weak “leadership” is why we are here to begin with. If he had a backbone, he wouldn’t be so easily influenced by certain clubs/individuals and it’s likely we wouldn’t be facing an existential threat to our very existence. We don’t want/need his help. He’s not a useful...

I have no doubt that the media (especially Harris) will be all over that particular aspect of the report. We know they love a good email trail to show proof of guilt.

Yep. City fans have said for years that a red cartel exists and we have been painted as absolute cranks for suggesting it. Todays ruling shows that plays were made behind the scenes by certain individuals and clubs, to protect their status by whatever means necessary, including the...

It’s not even true. There will still be rules in place but firstly they will have to be lawful and secondly they will have to be applied evenly to all clubs. All football fans should want and expect the PL to do this. In an era of seeing people sentenced to years in prison for spreading...

They’ve been acting illegally against some clubs. Almost like they’ve been behind a cartel.

No.

If/when Pep goes, does Rico get regular game time for a new manager? I know there’s a thought that if you can play for Pep, you can play for anyone. It might be true but I also think that Peps genius protects players somewhat. I do wonder if a new manager will look at him and think he’s not a...

We have been spoiled over the years with some truly incredible midfielders. Maybe we were due a couple of duff buys. We can’t afford more. The next couple of midfield purchases need to be the next KDB, Gundo, Silva(s), Toure, Fern etc. They cannot be shite like Philips and Nunes.

I think both he and Dias are guilty of that.

He’s a good player, not a great player. In fairness to him, he is trying to manage a severely weakened midfield. It’s one thing playing in there when you’ve got some of the best midfielders in the world around you, it’s another thing entirely doing it with this current set up.

He was in a different postcode. That being said, I think he should be playing from the start. The last time we were gifting chances the way we currently are, Pep started playing 4 CBs across the back. IMO we should be looking at going back to the Akanji, Stones, Dias and Josko line up.

We are trying to win the league with a top 4 (at best) quality midfield. We may do it but clearly it won’t be pretty.

Agree. A Rolls Royce. He’s always switched on and alert. Solid as a rock defensively and fantastic on the ball. Has it all.

Unfit or finished…you decide?

Wide forward in this side and no goal in 2024. It’s October. I’m at the point now where I don’t care about the “control” he gives us. We need goals and we need assists from our wide men. Getting the ball, cutting inside, passing to Gvardiol and taking zero responsibility for making things...

Great goal. He frustrates the life out of me but at least he has a go. We can’t continue with Grealish and Bernie out wide, it’s fucking dire. We can play those two when our midfield is Rodri, KDB and Foden because the creativity comes from elsewhere. Doku and/or Savio have to start every...

We have too many players (and Rico is one of them) that look completely out of their depth in games where we don’t have full control. 70% possession and teams that can’t get out of their own half are meat and drink for Rico but once it gets stretched, like today, he looks like a kid playing...

He left 18 months ago. People won’t have it but he’s had no consistency for a long, long time. You’d want him next to you in the trenches and his best performances come in the big games, against the best opposition. However, most of our games are against teams far weaker than us and in most of...