I'm glad we are out of the Europa league

[pee dubya]

So, Mario was actually being really clever, sacrificing his reputation for the benefit of the team and club overall.

 

[BlueMo']

Jimharri may not agree :)

 

[Marvin]

I don't think many football fans outside City realise that City have a relatively small squad and we were in no position to compete in the Europa League on a Thursday, and then the Premiership at the weekend.

At Wembley I glanced at the programme and Utd's squad list was significantly longer than ours.

When Arsenal and Utd play 1 game at the weekend they can change half their players for the next game, and still win. At City, we drop 1 or 2 players and we lose.

Have a look at Arsenal's strength in depth in midfield. You could name 11 top midfielders, and I haven't a clue what their best team is.

First off, no matter what I tell you, I'm definitely not a Manchester City fan in any way, shape or form. I never go the matches and never watch the matches on TV. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you that we only have a squad of 25 senior players like Arsenal do.

City definitely haven't spent an absolute fortune bringing in top quality players to ensure a strong team can be played where absolutely necessary. You know, the likes of Milner and Zabaleta weren't able to play against West Brom in the Carling Cup and only sat on the bench to help make up the numbers. And the teams fielded against Dynamo Kiev were equally poor in order to ensure the next league matches were winnable.

What were you at Wembley for? To spend 90 minutes looking at the opposition's squad in order to be jealous of Little Pea and Smalling? City certainly never seem to play there.

In January we were unabe to name a senior squad of 25, and even included the injured Johnson.

Look what happened at Anfield when we rested 2 midfielders, then compare our midfield strength in depth to Arsenal: Arshavin, Fabregas, Nasri, Rosicky, Wilshere, Ramsey, Song, Eboue, Frimpong, Diabby, Denilson.

 

[oakiecokie]

At the time I was gutted as I honestly thought we had a great chance of winning the EUROPA !!
However,since the Liverpool game,where we were actually short of quality types of playes in certain positions,would we have had so much stamina in the second half at Wembley ??
I personally believe that was one of the contributing factors between ourselves and United.
They had played a mid week game and some looked knackered.However we just didn`t beat United by stamina,but we wanted that win more than they did.
That 4th PL place could turn out to our advantage,with now only 7 games to worry about !!

 

[jay_mcfc]

At the time I was gutted as I honestly thought we had a great chance of winning the EUROPA !!
However,since the Liverpool game,where we were actually short of quality types of playes in certain positions,would we have had so much stamina in the second half at Wembley ??
I personally believe that was one of the contributing factors between ourselves and United.
They had played a mid week game and some looked knackered.However we just didn`t beat United by stamina,but we wanted that win more than they did.
That 4th PL place could turn out to our advantage,with now only 7 games to worry about !!

United had only played a day after us. Besides, when Mancini was saying the squad was tired he got vilified on here and yet those very people (not necessarily you) are now saying that United were tired and Spurs are only behind us because of what they've done in Europe.

Well we've played more games than Spurs and yet have more goals, more points and conceded less goals. We're in a cup final and are clear favourites to finish fourth and yet still people are harbouring on about how good they are and how lucky we are.

Unbelievable!!

 

[oakiecokie]

At the time I was gutted as I honestly thought we had a great chance of winning the EUROPA !!
However,since the Liverpool game,where we were actually short of quality types of playes in certain positions,would we have had so much stamina in the second half at Wembley ??
I personally believe that was one of the contributing factors between ourselves and United.
They had played a mid week game and some looked knackered.However we just didn`t beat United by stamina,but we wanted that win more than they did.
That 4th PL place could turn out to our advantage,with now only 7 games to worry about !!

United had only played a day after us. Besides, when Mancini was saying the squad was tired he got vilified on here and yet those very people (not necessarily you) are now saying that United were tired and Spurs are only behind us because of what they've done in Europe.

Well we've played more games than Spurs and yet have more goals, more points and conceded less goals. We're in a cup final and are clear favourites to finish fourth and yet still people are harbouring on about how good they are and how lucky we are.

Unbelievable!!

But IMO we have two Cup Finals !!
Stoke and Spuds.
Remember that Spuds have only the CL spot to contend with.
I would rather be in our position that Spuds,but look how we failed miserably at the death last season,against the same team.
Hopefully history wont repeat itself !!

 

[peoffrey]

First off, no matter what I tell you, I'm definitely not a Manchester City fan in any way, shape or form. I never go the matches and never watch the matches on TV. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you that we only have a squad of 25 senior players like Arsenal do.

City definitely haven't spent an absolute fortune bringing in top quality players to ensure a strong team can be played where absolutely necessary. You know, the likes of Milner and Zabaleta weren't able to play against West Brom in the Carling Cup and only sat on the bench to help make up the numbers. And the teams fielded against Dynamo Kiev were equally poor in order to ensure the next league matches were winnable.

What were you at Wembley for? To spend 90 minutes looking at the opposition's squad in order to be jealous of Little Pea and Smalling? City certainly never seem to play there.

In January we were unabe to name a senior squad of 25, and even included the injured Johnson.

Look what happened at Anfield when we rested 2 midfielders, then compare our midfield strength in depth to Arsenal: Arshavin, Fabregas, Nasri, Rosicky, Wilshere, Ramsey, Song, Eboue, Frimpong, Diabby, Denilson.

What happened in January? Did Kiev put us out of the Europa League? Did West Brom knock us out of the Carling Cup? Were we displaced from the top 4? We got through it.

We always suffer when De Jong is out. There was simply no need to rest him when he had matches on Monday and Saturday to play. I'd have even welcomed one of Mancini's spectacular 0-0 draws at Liverpool. Thankfully I wasn't paying to see it.

 

[SWP COME HOME!!]

Complaining about the lack of depth or about not having 25 players to name in the squad doesn't wash with me seeing as Mancini has loaned out at least half a team during the current campaign.

We should still have had the chance of doing the double this season but we should also be grateful for what we've got left to play for!!

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Small time mentality.

We want to win every competition we are in. Will you be glad if we don't get champions league? same reasoning?

 

[jay_mcfc]

I would rather be in our position that Spuds,but look how we failed miserably at the death last season,against the same team.
Hopefully history wont repeat itself !!

We are much better this time around despite what the league and points might say. We will have to fuck up big time for us to not finish 4th this time so if we don't make it then the inquest can start.

For now, with the games we have coming up, we should all be confident that our aims for the season should be achieved if we do what we should do.

You would think people wouldn't need telling that when we're on our way to our first final appearance in a generation but it seems to be the way City fans are these days.