Bournemouth (away) pre-match thread

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Personal pride , professionalism desire for Europe against the bigger better clubs than us again would or should ensure a level of performance and result against a Championship quality side ( with respect ) that would nail three points and springboard us to fight for the top three spots notwithstanding the top two positions are nailed on not to be us and third is most likely out of reach but take fourth with some degree of flair and intent.

Anything less and its certain that this club still has a long way to go before it can be considered a top football club.
 
Although we are having a poor league campaign , we will be a big scalp for Bournemouth , and their players will be up for this , where as our players and manager will have one eye on the champs league , looking at our current away form , would be surprised if we get anything here , we could be 6th in the table after the weekend . But i wouldnt be surprised if we went to PSG and got a result , i believe MP is sacrificing our league position to go as far as possible in the champs league ,he won't be here next season ,so why should he give a shit if we finish in the top 4 , he might get some perverse enjoyment if he ends managing a club like Shaktar in the champs league next season , and Pep is toiling in the Europa.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Although we are having a poor league campaign , we will be a big scalp for Bournemouth , and their players will be up for this , where as our players and manager will have one eye on the champs league , looking at our current away form , would be surprised if we get anything here , we could be 6th in the table after the weekend . But i wouldnt be surprised if we went to PSG and got a result , i believe MP is sacrificing our league position to go as far as possible in the champs league ,he won't be here next season ,so why should he give a shit if we finish in the top 4 , he might get some perverse enjoyment if he ends managing a club like Shaktar in the champs league next season , and Pep is toiling in the Europa.
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If that was the case he should have got the bullet long ago.

Winning from is good from , no reason why we can't win both , Bournemouth is by far the easier of the two games and good teams don't make sacrifices.

Compromising at least in the field of battle on a football field is a sign of weakness.
 
mancity1 said:
If that was the case he should have got the bullet long ago.

Winning from is good from , no reason why we can't win both , Bournemouth is by far the easier of the two games and good teams don't make sacrifices.

Compromising at least in the field of battle on a football field is a sign of weakness.
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He should have got the bullet long ago. . .
 
mancity1 said:
Personal pride , professionalism desire for Europe against the bigger better clubs than us again would or should ensure a level of performance and result against a Championship quality side ( with respect ) that would nail three points and springboard us to fight for the top three spots notwithstanding the top two positions are nailed on not to be us and third is most likely out of reach but take fourth with some degree of flair and intent.

Anything less and its certain that this club still has a long way to go before it can be considered a top football club.
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Pep disagrees
 
Shit - we change our clocks this weekend so it is a 2:00am kick-off - better be an entertaining game instead of the drab games of the past months.
 
mancity1 said:
If that was the case he should have got the bullet long ago.

Winning from is good from , no reason why we can't win both , Bournemouth is by far the easier of the two games and good teams don't make sacrifices.

Compromising at least in the field of battle on a football field is a sign of weakness.
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We have been compromising for the majority of the season then , because i have not seen much of the battling qualities required , lets hope a couple of fresh players like Nasri and KDB can provide the impetus.
 
No Yaya, no hart, no Komps, no Sterling and having to rely on KDB and Nasri to bail us out of the shit.
Could this get any worse?
Well remember when Benjani was our main goal threat. In fact, remember when we brought David James on as a centre forward!
 
Bluekiwi said:
Shit - we change our clocks this weekend so it is a 2:00am kick-off - better be an entertaining game instead of the drab games of the past months.
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Do yourself a favour, tape it and watch it in the morning. You won't be able to resist checking the score when you get up but I *guarantee a win and then you can watch the match and enjoy it :)

*guarantee is not worth shit.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
We have been compromising for the majority of the season then , because i have not seen much of the battling qualities required , lets hope a couple of fresh players like Nasri and KDB can provide the impetus.
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We haven't been compromising at all , we have been well below what we can and should have delivered.

You could argue about the FA Cup and all that jazz but we went into half time in that game all square before it went tits up in the second 45.

A couple of astute changes at half time in that game and a change to formation and it could have been the old backs to the wall replay but we all know why that didn't occur.

We have been weak led by a weak manager this season that is all with players and manager having their minds on the future and not the present.
 
Pell not Pep ;-) said:
Even though he has been the premierships best & most successful manager from July 2013 till June 2016. Man City..the best team in the land and all the world (with some fans playing catch up).
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Yes, because anyone with half a brain could see the rot starting to set in months ago. . .
 
Sergio Picasso Aguero said:
Caballero
Sagna Nico Mangala Clichy
Nando Dinho
Silva De Bruyne Nasri
Aguero
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Good on paper but suspect De Bruyne and Nasri ae not going to both start. It will take them both, particularly Nasri, some weeks to get them back to their best. PSG games will bring KDB on, but Nasri might really struggle.

Think I'd play 4 in midfield and 2 up top. If Yaya is out, we should take the opportunity of a fit midfield to play 2 up top and give Aguero the support he's been missing.

Nasri will very likely play at least 45 mins against WBA, and KDB might get rested for that game, or played off the bench seeing as we have a lot of games coming up.
 
Caballero
Zabaleta Otamendi Mangala Clichy
Fernando Fernandinho
====Navas--------Silva--------Nasri/KDB
Aguero


Bet MP goes with:
Navas Fernando Fernandinho Silva
Bony Aguero


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jimmygrimblesboots said:
Although we are having a poor league campaign , we will be a big scalp for Bournemouth , and their players will be up for this , where as our players and manager will have one eye on the champs league , looking at our current away form , would be surprised if we get anything here , we could be 6th in the table after the weekend . But i wouldnt be surprised if we went to PSG and got a result , i believe MP is sacrificing our league position to go as far as possible in the champs league ,he won't be here next season ,so why should he give a shit if we finish in the top 4 , he might get some perverse enjoyment if he ends managing a club like Shaktar in the champs league next season , and Pep is toiling in the Europa.
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Bournemouth are safe , it's us who will have to attack from the off, they can play relaxed attacking football,I'm sorry but I just don't see us getting anything down there- this team lacks bollocks and desire, we are fundamentally flawed with this prick as manager.
 
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