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Winning the CL may be a natural endpoint for some great servants of the club... Who do we think will leave and stay? Would love Bernardo and Gundo to stay - both will be really hard to replace. Mahrez obviously also in the news, and while he's been great this season, the fact that he plays in...

Next season shaping up to be a great league - we'll obviously look to build on what we achieved this year, maybe with a couple of big signings. Chelsea are already looking pretty class. Tuchel has had a great impact, and it feels as if they've some players like Havertz and Werner who could...

I've loved this season and the football City has played. Obviously we have won the league Cup (and the community shield if you value it), and are still in every competition so life feels good. But from here there are lots of possible outcomes. Worst case, we go out of the FA Cup, come second...

Lots has been said about our supposed mental fragility when the chips are down. There's a side to this that hasn't been discussed yet: our players Leah a certain kind of experience, and aren't likely to get it. In the league, we dominate most teams outside the top 6 (and sometimes them, too)...

"Manchester City have agreed a €3m (£2.6m) fee with PEC Zwolle for Netherlands U20 centre-back Philippe Sandler (20), who will remain at PEC on loan for the rest of the season. Sandler is undergoing a medical in Manchester." ...? Any idea who this is?

I'm delighted we're still in for competitions, amazing. But I'm starting to get seriously concerned about our squad getting run into the ground. KDB and Fernandinho, especially, because of the work rate and because they are pretty much unique in our squad. I'm not really concerned about the...

Looked great this morning. Great addition.

... with a big turnover of players over the years, what's the best team we could put together of players we've sold since the takeover? Am going to include "sold or put on permanent loans" I propose: Hart Richards-Nastasic-Lescott-Boateng Barry-De Jong-Nasri Tevez-Dzeko-Robinho Might let in a...

I enjoy reading this forum, but I'm struck by how much we associate talent with prominence at an early age - wrongly, in my mind. At 15-20 years so many other factors influence how kids will perform against their peers. Not least, different speeds of physical development. While there will...

What tactics are going to work best against us? Probably the hardest challenge we've had so far was the second half at the swamp against a big, strong team hoofing it forward. The options seem to be press like crazy (but leave space behind), park the bus (and counter attack), or try to play...

He was playing so well at the end of last season - did so much for us in the Champions League, especially - but it's really hard to see how he fits into Pep's system. That DM position is so vital in keeping play moving and stretching the opposition, and he really didn't look comfortable - I had...

We've already signed Zinchenko and IF we sign Gabriel Jesus and Marlos Moreno (and if they don't go out of loan immediately), where does that leave us in terms of the number of foreign players in our squad? How many players might we need to unload in order to be able to include these new signings?

So - as the value of the pound plummets, the cost of our transfers with clubs in the euro zone go up by 10%, no? (Not trying to start a political discussion here)

EDIT: Sorry, just saw "Footballers being crap" thread. Do put this in there, Mods, Cheers! Some real doozies. Apologies if it's elsewhere.

Our link up between the defenders and midfield is non-existent. Most of the midfielders play way really high and aren't really available. The exception is Fernando, who isn't a great passer either. As a result the defenders have to make long, accurate passes to reach them, and we lose...

Yaya can still play well when he wants to. Nowadays, he only seems to want to if he's the star man on a big stage. In those big games, City line up better with Yaya on the bench and coming on as a sub City do need him to perform well for games like last night. Those are exactly the games he...

Interesting Guardian article "...it is Pellegrini’s loyalty to Martín Demichelis that has perhaps been City’s undoing in the league. In matches where Demichelis has played 45 minutes or more, their record reads played 12, won three, lost seven. Without him they’ve played 20 and lost just two...

I know some people are going to hate this, but here goes. We're an amazing club. We've had ups and downs - lots of both. Our downs make us unique among top clubs in modern football, and they make the ups all the better. Gillingham to a CL quarter final (and possibly beyond). What a story. Then...

I know many of us find it increasingly weird that MP seems to prefer Bony to Iheanacho. Some people here might say there is a very straightforward reason for this - that Manuel is a miserable, old, misguided, blind moron who should have been sacked a year ago. Nevertheless, I was wondering why...

Premiership matches against Leicester and Tottenham in the Premier League, a trip to Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League last-16 and a Cup final against Liverpool. Even after this month there is a good lot of the season to go, but a cup win, a solid away leg in the CL and beating two of the top...