It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[simon23]

There there. Stop the sobbing, I understand your frustration.

hahahah - like i said nothing of substance ever - thanks for proving my point.

 

[Sky Blue]

Spat going nowhere.

 

[Goodlove]

Couldn’t agree more, and beating that lot in the Semi wasn’t far behind

A rag at work referred to the league cup as ‘City’s cup’ the other day. If you’d have told me 20 years ago we’d win the league cup every year I’d have locked you up.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

I know the people say I came here to win the Champions League. I did not come here to win the Champions League, honestly," he said.

"I came here to play with my team the way we are playing in the last 20 months. To play the way we want to play.

"Of course I want to win the Champions League...

The Champions League is a knockout competition and they're always a lottery. Look at the Liverpool team that beat Milan... and the number of upsets there are every year. Anything can happen in a knock out competition.

The true mark of a great team is to do it consistently over a full season. Which Pep's City have done back to back, breaking all sorts of records along the way, playing a style of football that coaches up and down the country try to replicate.

If anyone tries to insinuate Pep's time at City is somehow a failure if we don't win the Champs League during his time with us, they're either on the wind up or they're not very bright. He's one of the greatest managers of all time and he's at our club, I wouldn't swap him for anyone.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

A rag at work referred to the league cup as ‘City’s cup’ the other day. If you’d have told me 20 years ago we’d win the league cup every year I’d have locked you up.

We really can't win can we?! We win the league Cup and get accused of being the only team to take it seriously, as if other clubs not taking it seriously is a good thing! But you can bet next time we get knocked out of the competition everyone will take the piss and call it a failure.

I remember someone saying 'enjoy each trophy win one as if it's the last' and that always struck with me. Like you say, at one time we'd never have expected to have so much success in any competition! If people want to try and undermine that fuck them. They all wish it was their teams winning it and if they say they wouldn't want their team to win a cup because its not prestigious enough, that's says more about them than it does us.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

We really can't win can we?! We win the league Cup and get accused of being the only team to take it seriously, as if other clubs not taking it seriously is a good thing! But you can bet next time we get knocked out of the competition everyone will take the piss and call it a failure.

I remember someone saying 'enjoy each trophy win one as if it's the last' and that always struck with me. Like you say, at one time we'd never have expected to have so much success in any competition! If people want to try and undermine that fuck them. They all wish it was their teams winning it and if they say they wouldn't want their team to win a cup because its not prestigious enough, that's says more about them than it does us.

Spurs will be desperate to win it I would think.

 

[Protein Junkie]

What's with everybody's obsession with Usain Bolt being our DM now? I'm just going to copy and paste what I posted in the Rodri thread since it's relevant:

Ahh so it appears we have annointed a new scapegoat ahead of this season and it’s Rodri now.

Anybody clamoring for Dinho just happened to forgot that any good pressing team will just turn our team to mush. Remember against Liverpool when the team couldn’t even get past the halfway line before turning the ball over? Fun times.

We need a more press-resistant DM and Rodri is one of the best in the business. Yes we miss Dinho’s dynamism in the PL, but in Europe we’re resting our hope on Rodri if we ever want to go far. All the teams in Europe don’t sit back and will take us on and press us.

I think Pep’s take on this is that it’s much more likely for Rodri to become more Dinho-like by improving his positioning and anticipation, rather than having a more dynamic player like Dinho and hoping him to become more press resistant like Rodri.

Rodri is not a complete player yet but this is his 2nd season, and he’s still 24 years old. At 24 years old Fernandinho was in his 2nd season in the Ukrainian league. If we’re waiting for Rodri to become a complete player before we buy him, I’m sorry to say but 100M won’t be enough to buy him.

If Pep wanted someone like Dinho he would’ve just bought Partey from Atletico that had a cheaper release clause than Rodri. But the fact is we’re veering away from that direction in terms of the type of DM that we want in our team.

Great post but would we need a press resistant DM when the opposition are camped on their own penalty box ?

 

[Protein Junkie]

Well, having hacked our systems, I wouldn’t put it past the Dippers to have interfered with the drinking water.
Hell! I bet the chefs at the club haven’t even been vetted, dig deep and I’m sure there’ll be dippers on the family tree.

Easy just check the bins in the Kitchen.

 

[wolviedinho]

The similarities with Barry is nailed on. Instead of listing his faults, we need to replace gundo with a fern like player. A young athletic combative cm is who we should be targeting. The pairing of a ball player and a destroyer has led to our success. Why not repeat what works for us?

One of them has to go and due to age it has to be gundo.

In one swift move we would stop the counter attack being so effective against us.

Now since we have decided not to purchase such a player I would play either foden or Kev beside rodders and push Bernie into a more advanced role. That way we eliminate a few problems for now.

That’s what I did on Fifa anyway lol :)

 

[kaz7]

Sam Lee saying he heard Zinchenko is still on the way out. Take that with whatever amount of salt you feel is necessary.

He has been bullshitting all window , he knows nothing