I've never really understood this aspect of the forum, you get a bunch a City fans together in the pub to discuss Kalvin Phillips and you'll get a mixture of opinions, he's hardly a universally popular addition.
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Kalvin Phillips | Joins City on a 6-year deal
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It also stinks of lazy journalism from a known City hater .£30-£40 million and I could understand it, as that’s probably his value and enough to pay for a squad player.
£60 million for this guy and it just stinks of lazy recruitment.
Click on his name and go back the maximum 25 pages, which takes you back about 18 months. It’s genuinely hilarious. Pep should be sacked, Dias was a bad signing, Laporte is rubbish, we will do well to finish in the top four, we are a terribly run club, we won’t win anything.
Every single one of those appear within a minute or two of browsing. But not only is everything totally wrong, there is NOTHING correct. What is it about football that the people who know literally nothing about it don’t realise it? I don’t go posting on a physics forum or a ten pin bowling forum. And even if I did and got proven wrong about everything I’d stop pretty quick in embarrassment.
He is a click bait poster
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I'm intrigued by this thread. I believe our interest in the lad is real and I'd be amazed if Pep were interested in someone as "bang average" as some portray him. Personally, though, I have seen so little of him that I have no right to an opinion. I am in the position of all those who voted 6 Liverpool players into the PLTOTY - while they are playing too much for their own team to watch anyone else they take their opinions from a scouse obsessed media, I watch City and see very little of other teams and players. Phillips has been injured much of this season and missed the game at the Etihad in Dec. I'm not going to judge him on one game against us in April. I haven't watched the nations league, so I shall enjoy my perch on the fence and see how events unfold, all the while trusting to the judgement of the club.
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"calling it like they think it is" and how is that different from what you're doing? give me a break. so condescending and rude. so arrogant. the "no dissenting opinions crew" here is some of the most self centered group i've ever spoken to you're so sure of your own correctness yet you project the same criticism to anyone who dares to speak against you. have a day off
Get over yourself mate.
This is a football forum, it’s not the debating chamber of the UN or something. Chucking out an opinion in on anonymous forum doesn’t take guts - literally anyone can do it. It doesn’t make you some bold, brave crusader for what’s right in the world.
You clearly don’t welcome people disagreeing with you, yet you expect others to be open to you disagreeing with them. The irony is you’re actually coming across as everything you criticise others for.
I’m sure you don’t want my advice, but here it is anyway. If you’re going to post on here, you need to accept some people will welcome your take - and others will think it’s a load of bollocks. In both cases, they’ll tell you that straight - so you need to develop a thicker skin. Fuck it - you don’t know any of the people on here outside of the forum, so who cares what they think of you. If you have an opinion, state it - and have the confidence in your perspective. Don’t be so brittle, complaining about people’s responses all the time.
If you can’t find that balance, then discussion forums may not be for you. Maybe try writing a blog instead, and close it to comments. That way you can give your take without anyone calling you out on it.
I happen to agree with your position on Phillips - I’m not convinced he’s of the required quality for our midfield, and he’s unlikely to be cheap - so I think we can do a lot better for the money we’re going to end up paying.
Grealish is a different player though, and a red herring in this context. It’s like saying Bernardo is homesick so we shouldn’t have signed Dias. Every person is different.
It does seem the club is prioritising PL experienced players for the position though - which I do get. Although given the limited talent pool for that position, I’d rather we looked elsewhere.
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Well fingers crossed it’s that!It also stinks of lazy journalism from a known City hater .
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I love looking back at some of the things I have written in the past and find myself shaking my head in disbelief, but that’s ok, because despite what some on here believe (about themselves) I’ve not seen a single poster yet, who gets everything right all of the time.Hahahha people take forums to seriously. I love coming on reading some of the bullshit and me posting some also..
I love looking back at some of the things I have written in the past and find myself shaking my head in disbelief, but that’s ok, because despite what some on here believe (about themselves) I’ve not seen a single poster yet, who gets everything right all of the time.
Correct I have wrote some crap on here! Its about not taking things to seriously.
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I love looking back at some of the things I have written in the past and find myself shaking my head in disbelief, but that’s ok, because despite what some on here believe (about themselves) I’ve not seen a single poster yet, who gets everything right all of the time.
So true.....but i can think of two or three who believe they do.
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