City v Saints post match

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

We should play guess his username on here pmsl.

Bernabia ? ;-)

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Simone from Spain?

Seriously is that guy in the video for real or is this a wind up? Were top of the league, have Pep and he wants Simone. Plus Simone is from Argentina, not Spain.
He ought to be ashamed of himself.

 

[ballinio]

Not good enough. Simply not good enough.

Poor from the players, who to be fair to them look confused, leaderless and utterly knackered.

Poor from the manager. Very very poor. I thought we'd seen the last of extreme stubbornness from the dug out. I thought we'd seen the end of last minute subs 25 minutes too late.

With the way the fixtures have fallen we should be seven points clear by now. Not top on goal difference.

Spurs don't have half the quality we have. United neither. Nor Arsenal. Chelsea have a lesser squad and a lesser manager. Apparently. Only Liverpool should be able to live with us but given their early fixtures we should be 7 points clear of them to give us a needed cushion for when we inevitably get tactically thrashed by Klopp.

The teamwork looks like it's disappeared altogether. Players look confused and disorientated like they don't know what they are supposed to be doing.

It's all very well and good being great in press conferences but frankly that doesn't win you titles. Manuel was boring in them but won a double in his first year. Mancini was combative in them but under him we beat teams before the first whistle as they knew we likely wouldn't concede and were capable of breaking at pace at will.

I'm still waiting for the manager we waited four years for. The manager we undermined and cuckolded two managers for.

I don't agree with the "this year is one for learning and consolidation" line of thought either. The players, the club hierarchy, and the manager and the entire football world have known Pep was coming here since 2012. We have shaped the entire ethos of the club from top to bottom with Pep in mind. We will NEVER have a better chance to win the league than we have this year. I still think we will but to say I'm underwhelmed is an understatement.

And that's before we even begin to talk about the serious and worrying regression in europe.

Post of the day

 

[1961_vintage]

You serious?

Course not. But incredibly there are some on here that are!

 

[sir baconface]

Guys cheer yourself up with a butchers at redcafe.net

I'm feeling their pain.

Full marks to this rag, though, for keeping his sense of humour: "We were the better team until they scored".

 

[01cravend]

Yaya would be a huge asset in times like the second half

 

[Ed2607]

Sorry to introduce some sensible rationale but is it just coincidence that our two most sluggish performances, Spuds and today, both came after tough CL games or is that too simple?

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs all playing their very best football. We're in transition and nowhere near our best and still top the league. Once we start to play how Pep wants we'll take some stopping for the title. However, form apart, we have to stop gifting goals. Against Barca we were giving as good as we got until the sending off.

 

[SWP's back]

We should play guess his username on here pmsl.

Well he's a ****.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs all playing their very best football. We're in transition and nowhere near our best and still top the league. Once we start to play how Pep wants we'll take some stopping for the title. However, form apart, we have to stop gifting goals. Against Barca we were giving as good as we got until the sending off.

other than arsenal all those teams haven't been great this year. the league is competitive and no one is winning every game.