Ducado said:Santiago Street . said:CC1 said:Sorry, not good enough. DID you go to the game, did you even watch it….what makes you think you are qualified to write such tosh
Not saying I'm qualified, it's just my opinion. It wasn't about the Sunderland game per se but yes I was at it.
I qualified my rant by saying Manuel's done a decent job and that 80 odd points is a decent haul.
It's the strategy behind everything that I'm calling into question, the director of football role and the suitability of Txiki to fill such a role
What are your qualifications and experience in order to judge if he is suitable for the role or not? Have you run a major football club before?
OB1 said:The levels of cluelessness on this forum keep rising.
OB1 said:The levels of cluelessness on this forum keep rising.
Santiago Street . said:In view of last night's loss people are looking at the squad, the manager, the atmosphere, the injuries etc trying to find just where the problem lies.
Txiki's the problem.
Nothing's wrong now that wasn't wrong in December or January when we were banging goals in for fun and, astonishingly for me, many blues on here who are old enough to know better started hailing this the "best ever City team" in "the best season I've ever had supporting City". We might still win it and that probably would make it our best ever season in terms of trophies but that won't solve the problem.
It started going wrong the day Khaldoon handed control of playing affairs from a proven winner who brought success and could've built a legacy to a Barca yesman whose time at the Nou Camp coincided rather fortunately with that of one Lionel Messi. His only plan was and is to copy Barca lock stock and barrel.
Sceptical fans like me wondered aloud if it could really be that simple. We thought that whilst Barca's academy and youth scouting and development were certainly worthy of copying, perhaps it was too much to base City's game on something that worked in Spain but might not transfer so successfully to the different football culture in England. We suggested that Barca's amazing run of trophies was perhaps due in large part to the incomparable Messi and the once in a generation fortune of having the likes of Xavi, Iniesta et al emerge en bloc rather than the strategic genius of Txiki. He certainly sounds an outstanding candidate to head up the EDS set up at City, we thought, but to effectively undermine the man who'd led us to glory in May 2012 by appointing Txiki as director of football just a few months later seemed folly.
Hopefully it hasn't escaped Khaldoon's notice that, in the one season when Messi has been less than amazing, Barca are nothing special. If he's as shrewd as he first appeared to be he'll be giving very careful consideration to Txiki's position.
Don't blame Pellers when he naively says that we won't change our footballing philosophy for any opponent in any game. He's just reading from Txiki's manifesto. Manuel's made mistakes but he's had a good season overall. I said a few weeks ago that anything in the 80-85 point range would represent a decent first season regardless of final placing and I stand by that even in view of the sickening disappointment of the last few days
Similarly Vinny is merely toeing the party line when he says it's not only important to win now but to win "playing the right way". In his heart of hearts does he not think maybe we'd keep a few more clean sheets and win more games if we went back to winning the "wrong way" without having to naively commit to all out attack regardless of a game's circumstances.
Choppy waters lie ahead, the media will circle like vultures, tempers will flare, fingers will be pointed in blame. I'm pointing mine at Txiki
You don't, however you do need to have experienced a sense of humour at some time in your life.Santiago Street . said:Pretty daft comment that Mod
Didn't know forum members had to have experience of running a premier league club before being allowed to offer their opinion on matters.
Santiago Street . said:In view of last night's loss people are looking at the squad, the manager, the atmosphere, the injuries etc trying to find just where the problem lies.
Txiki's the problem.
Nothing's wrong now that wasn't wrong in December or January when we were banging goals in for fun and, astonishingly for me, many blues on here who are old enough to know better started hailing this the "best ever City team" in "the best season I've ever had supporting City". We might still win it and that probably would make it our best ever season in terms of trophies but that won't solve the problem.
It started going wrong the day Khaldoon handed control of playing affairs from a proven winner who brought success and could've built a legacy to a Barca yesman whose time at the Nou Camp coincided rather fortunately with that of one Lionel Messi. His only plan was and is to copy Barca lock stock and barrel.
Sceptical fans like me wondered aloud if it could really be that simple. We thought that whilst Barca's academy and youth scouting and development were certainly worthy of copying, perhaps it was too much to base City's game on something that worked in Spain but might not transfer so successfully to the different football culture in England. We suggested that Barca's amazing run of trophies was perhaps due in large part to the incomparable Messi and the once in a generation fortune of having the likes of Xavi, Iniesta et al emerge en bloc rather than the strategic genius of Txiki. He certainly sounds an outstanding candidate to head up the EDS set up at City, we thought, but to effectively undermine the man who'd led us to glory in May 2012 by appointing Txiki as director of football just a few months later seemed folly.
Hopefully it hasn't escaped Khaldoon's notice that, in the one season when Messi has been less than amazing, Barca are nothing special. If he's as shrewd as he first appeared to be he'll be giving very careful consideration to Txiki's position.
Don't blame Pellers when he naively says that we won't change our footballing philosophy for any opponent in any game. He's just reading from Txiki's manifesto. Manuel's made mistakes but he's had a good season overall. I said a few weeks ago that anything in the 80-85 point range would represent a decent first season regardless of final placing and I stand by that even in view of the sickening disappointment of the last few days
Similarly Vinny is merely toeing the party line when he says it's not only important to win now but to win "playing the right way". In his heart of hearts does he not think maybe we'd keep a few more clean sheets and win more games if we went back to winning the "wrong way" without having to naively commit to all out attack regardless of a game's circumstances.
Choppy waters lie ahead, the media will circle like vultures, tempers will flare, fingers will be pointed in blame. I'm pointing mine at Txiki
Santiago Street . said:In view of last night's loss people are looking at the squad, the manager, the atmosphere, the injuries etc trying to find just where the problem lies.
Txiki's the problem.
Nothing's wrong now that wasn't wrong in December or January when we were banging goals in for fun and, astonishingly for me, many blues on here who are old enough to know better started hailing this the "best ever City team" in "the best season I've ever had supporting City". We might still win it and that probably would make it our best ever season in terms of trophies but that won't solve the problem.
It started going wrong the day Khaldoon handed control of playing affairs from a proven winner who brought success and could've built a legacy to a Barca yesman whose time at the Nou Camp coincided rather fortunately with that of one Lionel Messi. His only plan was and is to copy Barca lock stock and barrel.
Sceptical fans like me wondered aloud if it could really be that simple. We thought that whilst Barca's academy and youth scouting and development were certainly worthy of copying, perhaps it was too much to base City's game on something that worked in Spain but might not transfer so successfully to the different football culture in England. We suggested that Barca's amazing run of trophies was perhaps due in large part to the incomparable Messi and the once in a generation fortune of having the likes of Xavi, Iniesta et al emerge en bloc rather than the strategic genius of Txiki. He certainly sounds an outstanding candidate to head up the EDS set up at City, we thought, but to effectively undermine the man who'd led us to glory in May 2012 by appointing Txiki as director of football just a few months later seemed folly.
Hopefully it hasn't escaped Khaldoon's notice that, in the one season when Messi has been less than amazing, Barca are nothing special. If he's as shrewd as he first appeared to be he'll be giving very careful consideration to Txiki's position.
Don't blame Pellers when he naively says that we won't change our footballing philosophy for any opponent in any game. He's just reading from Txiki's manifesto. Manuel's made mistakes but he's had a good season overall. I said a few weeks ago that anything in the 80-85 point range would represent a decent first season regardless of final placing and I stand by that even in view of the sickening disappointment of the last few days
Similarly Vinny is merely toeing the party line when he says it's not only important to win now but to win "playing the right way". In his heart of hearts does he not think maybe we'd keep a few more clean sheets and win more games if we went back to winning the "wrong way" without having to naively commit to all out attack regardless of a game's circumstances.
Choppy waters lie ahead, the media will circle like vultures, tempers will flare, fingers will be pointed in blame. I'm pointing mine at Txiki