City Title Favourites

Marvin said:
Hart 29, Zabaleta 31, Clichy 30, Kompany 30, Otamendi 28, Gundogan 25, Silva 30, De Bryne 24, Aguero 28, Sterling 21, Navas 30

This is the core of our squad. There is possibly one player there who is past their best and that is Zabaleta. One player is off form: Sterling.

That squad is outstanding. City had the worst injury record in the Premiership last season and had a coach who everyone knew well before it was announced was leaving. Those are the two major reasons that the squad underachieved. The odds on that happening again must be miniscule.

The new season is just 7 weeks away. I don't think there will be massive changes in the line ups of our rivals.

Arsenal have added Xhaka to a squad who had their best ever chance of winning the league last season and they didn't come close. They are probably thestrongest of our rivals and that says it all. Their manager clings on to his job by his finger-nails, and key players like Sanchez and Ozil look tired with it all.

Chelsea have a massive job. They are in transition. I like their new manager very much, but they will do well just to reach the top 4. Terry and Ivanovic are finished. Hazrd and Costa don't seem to be the same players.

Liverpool have a good manager and a team who aren't in the Champions League. Their players seem to have bought into their new managers ideas, and they too had an injury nightmare losing their best players to injury like Sturridge and Ings. I think they will be top 4 next season, but I can't see them as title contenders.

Spurs: Had a fantastic season, but Kane looks like he has hit a brick wall. They played to their mex last season. I think they will challenge for the top 4 but I can't see them pushing on. They will have Champions League football to contend with.

Leicester will struggle next season because every team will raise their game against them and will know exactly what to expect from them.

Who else is there? Utd have a manager who is now tainted and who have an immense re-building job. They don't even have a centre-forward unless you count Rashford who is the latest untalented player to be ridiculously over-hyped. Their midfield is a car-crash.
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And yet they finished level on points with us last season, despite having been a joke up until Christmas. They finished the season very much on an upward trajectory and the "ridiculously over hyped" Rashford was pretty much the sole reason for that. He's 6ft 2', he's lightning fast and he leads the line well. If I were offered a choice of Rashford or Kelechi on an open market it would be close, but I'd go for Rashford.
2 or 3 decent signings up through the spine of the team and they will absolutely challenge for the title
 
Unfortunately the rags will be a big threat next season. Woodward will give Maureen what he wants and he will spend big
 
The bookies aren't stupid but nor are they mystic Meg.
At the moment they have us as favourites but that does not mean they think we will win the title, We are not odds on, they prefer the field against us but just don't know which team from the field it will be.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
And yet they finished level on points with us last season, despite having been a joke up until Christmas. They finished the season very much on an upward trajectory and the "ridiculously over hyped" Rashford was pretty much the sole reason for that. He's 6ft 2', he's lightning fast and he leads the line well. If I were offered a choice of Rashford or Kelechi on an open market it would be close, but I'd go for Rashford.
2 or 3 decent signings up through the spine of the team and they will absolutely challenge for the title
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I think most people watched Utd last season and were amazed they finished as high as they did. The perception amongst Utd fans is that LVH held them back. Totally false. He actually did very well to get that much out of their squad.

Who are these players you rate on a par with ours? You've named one who I think is just on a hot streak. De Gea. And who else? Rooney? Slowing up. There's possibly 2: Martial and Shaw.

Mourinho will do well to match what LVG did results wise.
 
Title favourites? Last year was an example of the bookies getting it horribly wrong.

I'm not predicting anything, we should have walked it last year when I thought we'd kick in by beating Leicester at home we got completely hammered instead.

There's a big job on here implementing a style of play and discipline without the ball, we also have to move a lot of players on. If Pep wins it in his first season it will be some achievement.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
And yet they finished level on points with us last season, despite having been a joke up until Christmas. They finished the season very much on an upward trajectory and the "ridiculously over hyped" Rashford was pretty much the sole reason for that. He's 6ft 2', he's lightning fast and he leads the line well. If I were offered a choice of Rashford or Kelechi on an open market it would be close, but I'd go for Rashford.
2 or 3 decent signings up through the spine of the team and they will absolutely challenge for the title
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Exeter Blue I am here said:
And yet they finished level on points with us last season, despite having been a joke up until Christmas. They finished the season very much on an upward trajectory and the "ridiculously over hyped" Rashford was pretty much the sole reason for that. He's 6ft 2', he's lightning fast and he leads the line well. If I were offered a choice of Rashford or Kelechi on an open market it would be close, but I'd go for Rashford.
2 or 3 decent signings up through the spine of the team and they will absolutely challenge for the title
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Agree the rags are a threat but rashford > Kelechi??!! stop believing everything you read in the scum loving media
 
Lumping on at 9/4
By Christmas we will be much shorter.

If we land sane nolito stones plus a full back and maybe a forward we will have the best squad in recent premier league history and the best manager ever.
9-4 is a steal IMHO
 
richards30 said:
Unfortunately the rags will be a big threat next season. Woodward will give Maureen what he wants and he will spend big
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True they will be a threat next season, but you can guarantee that at the end of Maureen's spell in charge they will be worse off than us. I am looking forward to the circus surrounding Maureen especially when it goes wrong somewhere down the line. The media have got on to him and will be waiting for a chance to get a response that will make headlines for them in the papers

Title challenge yes, an actual long term strategy definately not. The funny thing is that Maureen wasn't even first choice for them it was Pep. And because Pep chose City, they HAD to respond somehow and this was there only ticket. I would have been more concerned if they went and got Pochettino or maybe Simeone as that would have looked like they were actually planning for the future. Instead they responded without any clarity and a get quick fix.

You can liken it to finding a massive crack down the wall in your house, should I plan for the future damage this could cause and start at the foundations and get the right materials, or should I just go grab a bag of concrete and fill the hole in, where inevitably the crack will reappear over time.

I know which one they chose
 
We will be 10 to 12 points short of winning the PL.

We've gone further backwards than most people accept.

Some very unrealistic views on here.

We've thrown away a huge opportunity since the 93-20 moment,it'll never come again !!
 
CrownPointBlue said:
We will be 10 to 12 points short of winning the PL.

We've gone further backwards than most people accept.

Some very unrealistic views on here.

We've thrown away a huge opportunity since the 93-20 moment,it'll never come again !!
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So expecting Pellegrini to win with this squad last season was unrealistic?
 
BringBackSwales said:
Agree the rags are a threat but rashford > Kelechi??!! stop believing everything you read in the scum loving media
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At the moment Rashford = Kelechi because both being young they can either better one another. Rashford seems to know the league and has the pace and physique for it. I will stick with Kelechi because he has better technique and hope some club come knocking for Rashford. If we had a player like Rashford in the EDS our heads would be turned. We might have that with Enes Unal, fast paced and tall physique, 8 goals in 12 games last season. His youth game is not too shabby either, 25 goals in 24 games for Turkey's U16.

I don't buy Martial at all.

Oh wait, this is a City title favourites discussion so yeah my contribution would be demanding a prolific striker who can be as good as Aguero, not another Bony. Remember when we had Aguero, Dzeko, Negredo and before that Tevez. I get why we need to invest on FBs and CBs but adding a dangerous striker is for me an equal priority.
 
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Big shock coming for some next season.

We scraped 4th last year,a country mile behind Leicester with some of the most spineless,inept performances of the Modern era. Shocking record agin top 10 rivals.

The squad is vastly inferior to the ones that won the PL in '12 & '14

Peps 2 years too late & our opportunity to dominate was lost in the transfer window of the summer of 2012 !!
 
CrownPointBlue said:
Big shock coming for some next season.

We scraped 4th last year,a country mile behind Leicester with some of the most spineless,inept performances of the Modern era. Shocking record agin top 10 rivals.

The squad is vastly inferior to the ones that won the PL in '12 & '14

Peps 2 years too late & our opportunity to dominate was lost in the transfer window of the summer of 2012 !!
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I bet you anything we get at least 10 points more than last year. Of that i am certain.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
I bet you anything we get at least 10 points more than last year. Of that i am certain.
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I'll be happy if 5 of them are agin the rags,but 10 more wont be enough to win the league.

We do not have the quality of players or winners attitude. The greatest period in our history is over & we have been blessed
 
CrownPointBlue said:
Big shock coming for some next season.

We scraped 4th last year,a country mile behind Leicester with some of the most spineless,inept performances of the Modern era. Shocking record agin top 10 rivals.

The squad is vastly inferior to the ones that won the PL in '12 & '14

Peps 2 years too late & our opportunity to dominate was lost in the transfer window of the summer of 2012 !!
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you seem a tad precious but this is spot on.
 
CrownPointBlue said:
If the team / squad were good enough & their attitude was right we should've won it,particularly after the first 5 games.

But look at our record & the quality of performance from game 6 on....rank.
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Quite, but the background is injury / managerial speculation. Kompany picked up an injury mid-September and he was in and out thereafter with a whole host of players joining him. And by then the speculation over pellegrini was well underway.
 
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