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Playing a defender in place of another defender doesn't set right in his glorious philosophy.

If the title goes away, Pep and Tixiki should resign today.

Do you think he would have wasted all those chances? I don't think so.

I think i heard a voice record of him somewhere saying he is considering City and i remember some Juve director complaining about our reluctance to pay anything. I think the interest was real. Forget about him anyway, we need our signings to be of strong mentality, that's my point.

You know when we were reluctant to sign Ronaldo for 15 millions, this is the type of games he thrives on and he would have got us over the line. Keep signing characterless, nice, non aggressive and zero arrogance players and you get our yearly disasters.

No we just want to start the season with a competent goalscorer.

It is a succesful negotiating tactic only if it works, which it repeatedly didn't. Sometimes you have to pay extra money or you lose your targets and if you keep losing targets, results on the pitch will be affected sooner or later. The board has to be realistic, we are not Real Madrid, players...

The club was reluctant from the beginning, they just thought it was too big of an opportunity to miss without a try. As soon as they saw a bidding war with the crazy United board, they pulled out.

We deal in the transfer market like we are Real Madrid or something and everyone will kill themselves to play for us.

Rival fans keep saying he won the 2 champions league trophies because he had Messi and it has got to his head. Anyway, thats my theory and that's the reason he would rather complete the season without a striker rather that sign the 5 times champions league winner Ronaldo in my opinion.

Why would a sane manager give up the opportunity to sign Messi or Ronaldo?! He likes it at City because there is no tough press nor mega stars at the dressing room, no one to question him.

He won't sign and players like him won't ever sign with Pep as manager. Pep wants to win the champions league without people saying it was because of Ronaldo or Messi. This is the same reason he went with that crazy formation in the CL final, he wants a champions league that can't be doubted or...

That's not the Emir of Qatar but he is from the ruling family so it's basically done.

People blaming the players don't know the psychological effect of Pep sudden formation changes on them. They saw it many times in many CL compaigns and it made them lose every time. There is something motivating about the manager picking the usual formation and telling his players to be brave...

Does it matter? I think as long as the email doesn't mention the name explicitly, it can't legally be used as evidence of related party sponsoring.

Why would it affect domestic football? UEFA is bringing the super league anyway in 2024.

I'm not assuming City are the UAE but Mansour is a very powerful person there. He can make some calls.

Abu Dhabi should just announce a plan to sponsor an independent European super league with double the prize money of the Champions League. There was a plan for an expanded club world cup sponsored by the Saudis that UEFA opposed because it will affect the Champions League. Sheikh Mansour should...

The problem is you can't rule out Pelligrini playing Yaya in 2 man midfield yet again . Silva wouldn't suddenly regain his magic and KDB will be half fit if he plays . We need a miracle.

He should have gone months ago but the club has that obsession of proving that they are patient and not doing things the Chelsea way .