Joe Hart (joined Torino on season long loan - Official)

[Blue Mooner]

For most of these Joe Hart fans it's sentimental nonsense. All this give him time, let him improve, and if he didn't, then what? We've wasted a year. Joe is, and always will be a City legend to me for what he achieved with the club but mainly in that time being behind a fantastic defence.

This idea that he has no time, his wages are too much (despite City seemingly being prepared to subsidise them) are just excuses. Not one Premier League club, now awash with money, is seemingly wanting to take him. Do we seriously think that if Neuer or De Gea were deemed surplus to requirements that a queue of clubs wouldn't be banging the door down to sign them? Course they would.

Saying there is not enough time is utter bollox it takes one day to complete a transfer if there is a selling club and a club wanting to buy. There will be tens and tens of transfers completed on the final day.

It really pains me to say it but there has been something of the 'emperors new clothes' about Hart for a while. I hope he secures a move and takes a pay cut to play football if necessary. Better that he plays to rebuild his reputation than hanging round like a cloud over the club much as it saddens me to say it now the decision has been made its better he goes.

 

[TCIB]

If you are so distraught at the way Joe has been treated, go and support his new club. As for keeping your eye on the dug out and tutting all game, why bother going. HTF I'm not the poor sod say next to you

Finally, Hart is not the better keeper.

I find some of these posters hard to believe or at least understand. I know gladbach blue is blue and such but i have no tolerance for the downbeat mentality atm. If we can't be chirpy now then we may as well just give up. The chap you quoted i find hard to believe though, if he is not a troll then lord help us all hehe.

 

[mosssideblue]

So why did you feel the need to inform me? You will understand I feel so sense of loss but perhaps not understand that I have only replied out of sense of good manners.

There was an excellent post on here a few days ago which said that people should only say on the internet things which they would say to the other's face.

And please do not call me pal.

You repeatedly infer that you don't want to be able to say I told you so, but I have this underlying feeling from your posts that you cannot wait for that moment.

 

[goalmole]

I would have told him the first of july he wasn't in our plans,pep must have known if as we are led to believe he did his homework on the players but Ric said he was told he wasn't going to be no1 which led him to believe he could fight with willy when i doubt that was the case,give him all summer to find a new club,but now we are where we are,too late for both sides

What he chose to believe when he was told he wouldn't be No1is his business. The point is he was told and the club have been true to their word. If Joe had been told he wasn't going to be No1 and he still didn't look for another club, it can mean that (a) he was happy to be No2 if it came to that (b) he tried but couldn't find a club that he wanted to go to that would take him. Neither of which are the clubs fault. As for give him the whole summer, the club may have done a calculation. Keep it quiet and risk having to pay Joe 3 years wages for playing for another club or sitting on his arse as against making it public and risking clubs taking the piss when we go looking for a replacement, thereby jeopardise the whole transfer. The fact we have signed Barca's No1 keeper for 15m says the club made the correct decision.

 

[Barcon]

I'm not talking about Caballero though. I'm saying that, like Pep, other managers don't seem to rate Joe evidenced by the lack of interest despite our willingness to pay most of his wages.

You don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they already have two goalies?
They would all be in the same boat as us, in that they would have to find somebody to take one of their goalies.

 

[blueish swede]

I know what Silva and Kompany can do. I have seen it many times over recent years. So far I have seen a lot of aspirations, blind faith and wet dreams about what Pep will do. I have seen over 30 managers come and go at City and I do not judge, praise or condemn on their past reputations. One of those was a 'tough new boss' called Ron Saunders. Those who seek to establish themselves as Billy Big Bollocks often come a cropper, even Clough did at Leeds.

I hope he will do well obviously but I came out of the ground very deflated on Wednesday having seen a lot of players milling round and generally getting nowhere against a team that had no ambition and little ability. Tomorrow will be more of a test but the last thing I went is to say 'told you so'.

You might think that Silva and Kompany fit into how Pep plays the game. We don't know until it happens. Silva might not even fit into the team once the full complement of midfielders are available. Kompany body might not be up to running round in attack as well as defending.

The problem is that no one knows what will happen anymore they know the winning lottery numbers for tonight yet they are prepared to slag off fellow Blues who do not hold the 'In Pep we trust' mantra inn a blind sort of way.

One thing is for sure - I have not seen a manager who has caused so much division between the fans before the end of August.

Very sensible. After all it's not as if we haven't seen an ex-Barcelona, Ex-Bayern manager with a huge reputation wash up in the neighbourhood with a world beating “philosophy” before, have we ;)
(Didn't he get through the qualifying stage of the CL 7-1 on aggregate?)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

And please do not call me pal.

Is Chum or chappy ok?

You may lose but you may winalot

Sorry blue, couldn't resist;)

Woof woof! ;)

 

[mosssideblue]

I find some of these posters hard to believe or at least understand. I know gladbach blue is blue and such but i have no tolerance for the downbeat mentality atm. If we can't be chirpy now then we may as well just give up. The chap you quoted i find hard to believe though, if he is not a troll then lord help us all hehe.

It is sad that some do not appear to want us to progress as a footballing power. I know change is difficult for some, but I cannot think of a better time to be a blue

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

You know nuffink Mr Faulty.

And I do not infer it at all, I say it loud and clear as a true blue who has been through everything. My own underlying feeling is that those who are making certain comments would be making exactly the same ones if a certain Senor Mourinho was our manager.

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Very sensible. After all it's not as if we haven't seen an ex-Barcelona, Ex-Bayern manager with a huge reputation wash up in the neighbourhood with a world beating “philosophy” before, have we ;)
(Didn't he get through the qualifying stage of the CL 7-1 on aggregate?)

We have seen 'football philosophies' recently not a million miles away. I would rather have City warts 'n' all than Bayern Lite or Barca-Lite.