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Go to the pub. Or get laid. Or grow up. All preferable options to Pokémon Go.

Andy Carroll must be rubbing his hooves together in delight.

Given Sagna's form last season, and then his successful spell in the French team at Euro 2016, I don't think there were ever really any plans to offload him this season. Zabaleta was always the more vulnerable. I think what's probably saving Zabaleta's bacon is that there doesn't seem to be a...

If Guardiola believes Zabaleta is still capable of doing a job for City this season then so be it. I remain to be convinced given his form over the last 18 months or so. Zabaleta has been a fantastic servant to the club and is probably one of my favourite ever City players, but there's little...

He is, but I'm holding out for Barcelona.

If we were to add Bonucci then we'd have him, Kompany, Otamendi, Mangala and Denayer who could play centre half. A lot will depend on the formation we play (Guardiola has been known to utilise 3 at the back) but 5 centre halves does seem like 1 too many. Kompany is a bit of a liability fitness...

Hi Paul, come to United, we've a manager who has a track record of leaving clubs after very short periods of time and we're far from guaranteed to be in the Champion's League each season. This has all the hallmarks of the seemingly yearly "United are going to sign Ronaldo" media story. I just...

Only one at the moment I care about is, bizarrely, Bournemouth at home. Needs to remain a Saturday game as I'm at a wedding on the Sunday. Longer term, if we make the Champion's League, could do with the group game scheduled for the week of Tues 2nd/Weds 3rd November either being on the...

You seem to have mistaken tenacity and political skill with bigotry, lying and grandstanding.

Drugs are bad m'kay?

Ibrahimovic, a quality player, but he'll be 35 in October. A desperate attempt to grab some headlines and a modicum of instant success whilst ignoring the future, kind of how Ferguson did in his last few years.

Zabaleta has been a fantastic servant for Manchester City, he's helped us win multiple trophies and his commitment and affinity to the club and fans can't be denied. In an ideal world there'd still be a place for him at the club. However that would be letting your heart rule your head, whats as...

Eddie Howe. He's brought Bournemouth from League Two all the way to the Premier League, and kept them up. He's young, he plays attractive football, his players seem to love him so his man management must be pretty good. We've gone the experience route with Hodgson, and it's failed, we've gone...

I think a lot of people who are voting, whether that be to leave or remain, are doing so from a position of limited information. The complexities relating to the EU, and the impact on the country and the population, of either staying or going are vast, way too huge for your average member of the...

Why on Earth did I think he was like 23 or 24?!

A transfer with zero downside. He's a Spanish international who will add pace and movement which we lack, if he succeeds then we'll have a fantastic young player on our hands, if it doesn't work out for them then, at £13.8m, he'll hardly be losing too much value. Without a release clause you'd...

Competition in Byrne's position would have been fierce at City this coming season and the last thing you'd want would be to ruin the progress he made last season by seeing him play very sparingly this season. The assumption must be that, if he's going to be good enough to play for City in the...

Not really the most important part of the In/Out debate but you're wrong. Signing players, in some circumstances, is directly affected by politics, or more importantly labour laws. Take Kevin De Bruyne for example, he's Belgian, Belgium are part of the EU, so when we signed him he was free to...

That says more about Hodgson than it does Stones.

You're being extremely naïve if you honestly think City and Stones' agent have had no discussions whatsoever about him coming to our club. At the very least we'll have been informed that he's interested in joining (if he wasn't we'd have distanced ourselves from the whole thing a long time ago)...