I can scarcely belive this. On this forum in recent weeks I have read comments from different posters to the effect that City's management is incompetent, that said management has been lucky (no sharpness there, no business acumen) and that the club has embraced mediocrity. I think that all this has come about because of a failure to sign Gvardiol quickly - as quickly perhaps as a leading club should sign players, in the opinion of the posters in question. Treble winners, multiple trophies across the board, and an academy that wins its own trophies and develops young players of immense skill in numbers the club cannot accommodate. All this has come about through luck, which somehow has covered up incompetence and a mediocre mindset. I shall have to put in a request that the forum's moderators incorporate an emoji, or whatever it's called, to show head-shaking bewilderment: it would save time in the long run. But stay. Is it possible that the posters in question are really on a wind-up to enliven the off-season so that the forum doesn't degenerate into discussions about Vimto or the difference between price and value? If so they should take care: more senior members (of which in the strict sense of years accomplished I am one) may end up having heart failure. Incompetent, mediocre? (Shakes head sadly).