City v Arsenal post match thread

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's a different sloth, but carrying the anvil made this one's legs bow too....

I like you.

 

[SWP's back]

Many of the same people who have spent the last 4 years slating our title-winning and cup winning managers and telling anyone on here that "Pep would have won that game" EVERY time we didn't win are being a little defensive shall we say.

We were told last season, from game 6 onwards, that the "fucking corpse" should be winning the title "easily" with the squad he had, and that the second best manager in the German league would "walk" the title over here .

Since then we have lavished more tens of millions on the "should be pissing the title" squad and appointed pep four years after first asking (begging) him to be our manager.

By that logic this season should be done and dusted by March. Champions again.

You say it for four years, using it as a stick to annihilate a good man and a great manager with, you own it.

Bring on the title.

A) it was a friendly
B) of these millions spent, how many played today?

Tit.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

I agree completely

at least a few months

 

[pete1970]

No mate but touchy subject so was just making it clear I never ;)

Just dont like to see a player (whoever they are) suffer bad injuries like that
Remember lakey?
Fell awkwardly against villa at home 1990?
At a night match and im afraid that was the end hed just come back
Just saying hope the guy is ok

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

it was a friendly


Tit.

Should have left it as that mate.

 

[Itsaar]

I told my friends before the game that for me it was a case of, Pep "our back 5 are weak, I want to see how you cope and help defend them". (we had a strong front 6) TBH our back 5 caused our problems by frequently giving them the ball either through poor pass choice or just giving it them. Arse are and will be a strong team this season, they moved the ball well when in charge but still have a weak center. Will be a interesting season.

 

[FanchesterCity]

Stopped reading there. Only so I could text Pep and give him your number.

Seriously, do you believe a manager like Pep got to the top because of football genius, or because he was a very good footballer to start with, who was then already at a world leading club with a very impressive talent base? He didn't start at Chadderton Town.

Now that's not a criticism of Pep, it's saying that we buy into the 'genius' of big name managers all too easily and treat them as though they MUST know more about football than everybody else.
It's a myth, an utter myth. They are the film stars / pop stars of the football world. Big name draws. It doesn't make them smarter or more capable.

 

[SWP's back]

Should have left it as that mate.

Yeah true. I probably over did it. Sentences greater than three or four words are probably wasted.

 

[SWP's back]

Seriously, so you believe a manager like Pep got to the top because of football genius, or because he was a very good footballer to start with, who was then already at a world leading club with a very impressive talent base? He didn't start and Accrington Stanley.

Now that's not a criticism of Pep, it's saying that we buy into the 'genius' of big name managers all too easily and treat them as though they MUST know more about football than everybody else.
It's a myth, an utter myth.

Yeah I'm gonna go with genius.

And I think he knows more about football than you'll ever imagine knowable.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I told my friends before the game that for me it was a case of, Pep "our back 5 are weak, I want to see how you cope and help defend them". (we had a strong front 6) TBH our back 5 caused our problems by frequently giving them the ball either through poor pass choice or just giving it them. Arse are and will be a strong team this season, they moved the ball well when in charge but still have a weak center. Will be a interesting season.

This is exactly what I think is happening & also some of the senior players are 'on trial' .