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To be fair last weekend when United played Swansea they did a transfer spend comparison on Sky between the two. That surprised me and I was starting to wonder if it was all in my head. But then I make the mistake of listening to the Guardian Football Weekly Podcast. The clowns on there were...

This is a forum and the place exists for us to discuss the good and the bad. I tend to discuss the bad in more detail but that doesn't mean i take the good for granted. It's just that there's no need for me to continually write long winded posts on why Silva is great or why the Chairman is...

That's brilliant but we are trying to win the league and the Champions League and are competing against teams who are much more clinical than we are. Nobody is saying he hasn't been a fantastic player for us, people are just expressing their concerns about his current level.

I think with Aguero, when he does put the ball in the net, he does it so emphatically that it makes you feel crazy for doubting him.

Maybe but Kun is missing fairly wide open chances. To be honest he has always been prone to missing easy chances, but he's doing it far more than he's scoring goals recently.

Every time I speak to a non city fan about him and his bad finishing I just get a retort about his goal scoring record. Problem is, if he need 3 or 4 chances on a plate before he scores, it's a problem and considering how long this has been going on now, I'm wondering whether it's form or a...

The centre backs ball watch and the holder ball chases. I sympathise with the back line as being countered 3 vs 3 is hard to deal with, especially when running backwards. It's a situation which always favours the forwards. In an effort to get back in control of the situation Fernandinho opted...

We can just pay direct passes at pace against team who sit deep. There has to be a situation that allows pace to be used. The only criticism you could level would be that we could press less and let teams come on to us, but that would be a tactic that would have a very short shelf life. Our...

But that's because Fernandinho is a terrible holding midfielder. He doesn't hold for a start. He gambles. If he gets caught ahead of the ball, the back line get got at 3 vs 3 and 4 vs 4 which is difficult to defend. It happens against every half decent side we play against and has done for the...

We did well with ten men. I think just before their goal we were starting to turn the screw but conceding when we did altered things. The piss take of a decision to send Walker off didn't help. However, missing chances is a massive problem. Its so bad, I'm surprised when Aguero actually puts a...

I hope it is. I hope Real and Barcelona have an agreement to not buy players from us.

No he didn't. He played 3-3-4 with Alaba and Lahm playing either side of Alonso. There's articles all over Google referencing the 3-3-4. He even played a 2-3-3-2 against Roma when they beat them 7-1. They played Stuttgart just before they played us a couple of years ago and had Bernat and Lahm...

He'd be a good signing. He's reliable, left footed, good on the ball, can play in a 3, speaks English, is home grown, is a good leader by all accounts, wouldn't take time to settle and knows the league inside out. What type of profile do people think we are seriously looking at as squad...

Jonny Evans is better than Ben Gibson. I'm not sure people realise how much protection Gibson gets or certainly got last season playing under Karanka. I live in the Boro and and am surrounded by smoggies and have yet to speak to one who thinks he's good enough to play for a top 6 side. I've seen...

Would be a good signing. But for around 15m. He's a good player. Not sure that you could get much better without offsetting the balance. I think we need a settled backline and bringing somebody who would expect to play week in week out might cause more issues than it solves. Evans would be a...

We should sign their right back.

How arrogant. Of course I know how it works. Pep has played this way at Bayern many times. Two banks of 3 when on the ball, with the width being created by attacking players and not defenders. If you are suggesting it doesn't work, you're wrong as he's had good success with it at Bayern.

I think when the centre backs have the ball, the wing backs should invert and position themselves either side of Dinho. Centre backs have 3 options. Good teams will just stop Dinho from pivoting. They will happily let Walker and Danilio have the ball outwide on the half way line because they...

And that's all fine. I don't think people were saying he had a bad game. Jesus also had a very good game. But he also missed a sitter. Our problem isn't getting players to play well. Our problem is making our dominance reflect on the scoreboard. So people are justified to be concerned by it...

This is a typical bluemoon post. Discussing Sergio's finishing doesn't make somebody a numpty. Up until his goal he had missed two good chances and missed them badly. Bad finishing was our Achilles heel last season and up until the 70th minute, it looked like it was a problem again. People...