City vs chelsea pre match thread.

[GeekinGav]

Jose is the man and he will beat Manuel once again.

whoever wins, mourinho a despicable gobshite

beat them 4-0 on monday and firmly put that gobshite in his place.

 

[Len Rum]

Jose is the man and he will beat Manuel once again.

Hi Maureen, welcome to Bluemoon.

 

[Lucky1isme]

Yep

agree with this.

1 up top for me also and drop MDM.

After all , we need changes to help turn round our results.

Common when was the last time we played 1 up top? We have 3 strikers that are fit and can play so why only go with 1? Negredo, and Dzeko should start and Jovetic comes on as a sub for either at half.

I was being sarcastic fella.

We play with 2 up top and we are breaking ALL TIME SCORING RECORDS

Demichellis is a top pro and I , for one , think he is the dogs danglers.

I should have quoted the guy before you, my mistake I was just continuing on the conversation. Its like the saying ...If it ain't broken don't brake it! Our formation has netted us some great wins and we gotta keep pushing!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Did Maureen mention the foul on milner for sunderland's winner? Or perhaps the non penalty that they got to preserve their unbeaten home record against west brom? Didn't think so

 

[rnblade]

Jose complained about West Ham parking the bus, let's see what they do when they visit us. It will be a tough game no doubt. If we brush them aside with the sort of performance we all know is achievable, it's going to lay down another big marker to the chasers.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

I don't think it's a secret that Pellegrini and Mourinho don't like each other, or more to the point Mourinho is an arrogant tosser and Pellegrini has no time for him.

Pellegrini has the players loving life at City, rotating them well and giving guys like Kolarov, Dzeko and Nasri a new lease of life.

Although Nasri isn't available I hope the other lads step up to the task on Monday and win this one - for Pellegrini more than anything else. I doubt in June when fixtures were announced that there's one single league fixture that Pellegrini would rather win than Monday night's.

Of course he wants us to win every game but there's two reasons I'd absolutely love to win on Monday night. One, for the obvious reason it puts us in a great position ahead of Chelsea. And two - win this one for the manager himself.

Come on City!!!

 

[Chris in London]

Jose is the man and he will beat Manuel once again.

Hi Maureen, welcome to Bluemoon.

Given that the gooners who were spouting this shit about referee decisions recently were shot down and pissed on, I wonder whether anyone from any of the Chelsea forums is actually willing to back up what Maureen said?

 

[TheSpecialOne]

Jose is the man and he will beat Manuel once again.

whoever wins, mourinho a despicable gobshite

Perhaps. Just to say you had a very very very poor version of him in Mancini and you loved him. And he is a far better manager than Pellegrini.<br /><br />-- Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:17 pm --<br /><br />

Jose is the man and he will beat Manuel once again.

Hi Maureen, welcome to Bluemoon.

Given that the gooners who were spouting this shit about referee decisions recently were shot down and pissed on, I wonder whether anyone from any of the Chelsea forums is actually willing to back up what Maureen said?

Naaah, every team had decision against and for them, José is just trying to put pressure on the ref.

 

[xzbit04]

"Lucky" City will get found out- Mourinho

Please hammer this twat and his team lads and don't let up for 90 mins!

"The Chelsea boss has launched an extraordinary attack on Manuel Pellegrini's men ahead of the sides meeting at the Etihad Stadium on Monday.

Jose Mourinho has questioned the assertion of Tottenham head coach Tim Sherwood that Chelsea's next opponents Manchester City are the best team on the planet.

Sherwood lauded City after Manuel Pellegrini's men won 5-1 at White Hart Lane to go top of the Premier League ahead of Monday's contest with Mourinho's side at the Etihad Stadium.

Mourinho believes City will find their true level in European competition, where they face Barcelona in the Champions League first knockout round.

"Maybe, for the Tottenham manager, the planet is England," said the Chelsea boss, who signed defender Kurt Zouma from St Etienne on Friday.

"You will see (how good City are) in the Champions League. You will see in a couple of months."

Mourinho also suggested City have been fortunate game-changing decisions have gone their way this season - something he described as a coincidence but was at pains to point out as Mike Dean prepares to referee Monday's match.

"They are lucky," Mourinho said. "The reality is they have many crucial decisions in their favour.

"Against Liverpool, the (Raheem) Sterling 'goal'. The penalty on (Luis) Suarez. Against Newcastle the goal that is a clear goal.

"Against Tottenham, (Michael) Dawson's goal, the penalty, the (Danny Rose) red card. They are having everything.

"I repeat, because I don't want to be misinterpreted (it is) just pure coincidence.


"The referees, they try to do their best and sometimes they make mistakes and normally during the season the mistakes are split between teams.

"In their (City's) case, they have everything in their favour."

City have a 100 per cent record from 11 home matches, averaging more than four goals a game, and are a fearsome prospect for most visiting opponents.

Mourinho is unfazed and, unlike in goalless draws at Manchester United and Arsenal, says Chelsea go to City seeking victory.

The Portuguese, who was frustrated by West Ham's negative tactics in Wednesday's 0-0 draw, said: "We're not going to change our philosophy. Chelsea always go to try and win."

City, who are three points ahead of third-placed Chelsea entering the match, are Mourinho's favourites for the title in a season of rebuilding for the Blues."

He will be more optimistic next term.

"Next pre-season, day one, I will say we are candidates to win the Premier League," he said.

"This season, the speech is we are candidates to win the next match. It doesn't matter where, it doesn't matter the opponent.

"We're just trying to win. I tell you now, before Man City... I will tell you before the Newcastle game next week, and then West Brom. I will repeat this."

"Independent that some clubs are feeling the Financial Fair Play as a 'fair' Financial Fair Play, and some others are feeling the Financial Fair Play as a 'dodgy' Financial Fair Play, next pre-season, day one, I will say Chelsea are a candidate (for the title)

MEN

 

[niall'sdiscoshorts]

This is relevant to Chelsea ......................
Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere but it is a very good read about City and the balance of power shift , from a journalist in OZ
Meanwhile, nice piece from Paul Hayward of the Daily Bellylaff (Telegraph) via Oz http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/manc ... 1sig.html?.

I'll try again............
Meanwhile, nice piece from Paul Hayward of the Daily Bellylaff (Telegraph) via Oz <a class="postlink" href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/manc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/manc</a> ... 1sig.html?.

I will try for the 3rd time..............if it fails then sod it.!!
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/manchester-city-rising-with-a-glow-that-draws-all-to-behold-20140131-31sbw.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/manc ... 31sbw.html</a>

the link didn't work mats, then the page could not be found and last of all, folk really don't like
clicking on newspaper articles as we are mainly tight northern fookers!!


rising: Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is driving his team to new heights. Photo: Getty Images

While West Ham were supposedly dragging football back to the 19th century this week, Manchester City staked a claim on the next few decades. This looks like one of those moments in the evolution of English football when everyone stops what they are doing to observe something special.

No European city can match the clash of empires now shaking the walls of Manchester. The dominant legacy of Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson urgently seeks a new form under David Moyes, while City show that the quickest path to hearts and minds is through entertainment. The impetus is unquestionably with City.

Roberto Mancini's hectoring and aloof approach produced the breakthrough, but the story has moved on without him, to what we saw at Spurs on Wednesday night: a 5-1 win that followed a 6-0 victory in Manchester, as well as thumping wins over Arsenal (6-3), West Ham (9-0 on aggregate in the League Capital Cup), Norwich (7-0) and United (4-1).

Here is a team taking flight, with nothing to show for it yet, but a quadruple of targets. The tightness and drama of this Premier League title race has denied City their full quota of praise and attention, as has Manuel Pellegrini's phobia for emotive language. But the rewards could hardly be more glittering as Chelsea gather themselves for the trip to Manchester on Monday night. February brings an opportunity to sweep Barcelona out of the Champions League and take their place as the most stylish team this side of Munich. Beyond this season's challenges, City must see that the strength of their squad and the generosity of their benefactor serves up a chance to supplant United as the city's biggest power.

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This would have seemed unthinkable in the old days of gallows humour, annual managerial sackings, journeyman players and terrible kits. The United-City rivalry now pits American speculators against Middle Eastern spenders whose investments in Melbourne Heart and a new Major League Soccer team in New York demonstrate a wider policy of exploiting the football obsession on three continents. All this from an absentee owner - Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan - who watches the Etihad light show on a giant screen somewhere in Abu Dhabi.

The two Manchester clubs are now in an arms race, with the Glazers needing to service debt and protect United's status as England's No.1, and Sheikh Mansour encouraged by his success so far to believe that this money war is winnable.

City's style of play is certainly out in front. These are the moments that raise football above money, quenelles, commercial obsessions, vile crowd behaviour and diving. A new glow is created and everyone who loves the game for its own sake is drawn to watch a particular team, who themselves begin to see how good they are and ride the opportunity. Am I putting enough pressure on?

One Tottenham fan, who has been attending games at White Hart Lane for 40 years, said City's display in the first half-hour on Wednesday night was the best he had seen from a visiting club. We have seen this level of entertainment before, of course. The Manchester United side of Mark Hughes, Eric Cantona and Andrei Kanchelskis was Ferguson's first great attacking team, and others followed with Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes, not to mention the 2008 Champions League-winning side that was built around Cristiano Ronaldo.

Never, though, has such an exuberant team found itself in the hands of such a lugubrious manager. In public Pellegrini is the man who will not be drawn: on injuries, on transfers, on trophy targets. But Pellegrini is not the constructor of City's squad.

There are imperfections. Martin Demichelis appears at times like one of those classy old pros whose legs have slowed. There are days when Edin Dzeko still swipes and thrashes at chances. But a front two of Sergio Aguero and Alvaro Negredo is pretty much unimproveable.

A shortage of defensive midfielders is another fault-line. If you score two, however, they will score five.

Even Barcelona will be twitching in their seats.


in future do the above.............