'Limping, then hobbling now staggering over the line' But Definitely Over!!!

jimmygrimblesboots said:
Souness yet again spot on , there is no bitterness in his comments , our players have underperformed and none of them have been pushed or motivated to do any better , Carraghers bitterness about 2014 when we were "lucky" to win the league ahead of the Dippers is so predicatable , and Henry is the over hyped so called intelligent/cool pundit , never had a good word to say about city , so he will fit in well with Sky , a job for life , but he knows we will always be better than his beloved Arsenal , hence his dismissive attitude towards our club , f*ck him
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And don't forget that he's just a dirty little fuckin' handballin' cheat!
 
Crawled over the line. Disgraceful performance. No subs til the 71st minute. Get the fuck out of here pronto pellegrini
 
Yeah, and as someone who seems to be a student of the game in general Souness was a bit angry with our team.
If only for the fact we were so much less than the the sum of our parts and i get that. When it was so attainable to really get cracking we stuttered and we had the tools to do the job to.

Thanks manuel, now where the hell is Guardiola, is he here yet, has he got the fuckers training?
 
Gray said:
Carragher said that we didn't win the league but Liverpool lost it, then went on to heap loads of criticism on City.

Why didn't he analyse why Liverpool have never won the PL and why they failed to win it at our expense, absolute twat who can't even speak coherently.
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He's spot on though.

There are question marks over the mentality of this side and both our PL title winning seasons have done nothing to dispel that.

Hart, Kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero is arguably the best core of players to ever grace the PL. Whilst Arsenal, United and Chelsea have also had some world class core of players, I think that ours would give them a run for their money. But one thing that separates us from those brilliant sides is the ruthless mentality they had.

Chelsea, United, Arsenal and even fucking Leicester have all walked the league title. I mean Leicester sealed the title weeks ago and have won by 10 points. We have never managed that feat and our PL wins have been on the final day.

Whilst I think it's a little bit lazy to simply say that United and Liverpool threw the league away in our title winning seasons. Though there is an undeniable truth in the fact that they both had the league in their hands and lost it. We were deserved winners and capitalised on their mistakes.

Yet this comes to the crux of what I think Carragher was trying to say. We seem to perform better as the underdogs and winning against the odds. Typical City we call it but the fact is that this squad of players should have walked PL titles in a manner that Leicester have this season.

At the start of this season we looked like a dominating, all conquering side who looked capable of anything. We then added one of the best playmakers in the world in KDB and one of the best CBs in La Liga. Yet we lacked the ability to win the league.

This cycle over the last 5 seasons has been brilliant. 2 PL titles, 1 FA cup and 2 league cups is a very good return. But as the cycle comes to an end, I still believe and always will that this group of players did not reach their potential. To say they have underachieved would be extremely harsh and wrong but they had the ability to achieve so much more.

This IMO is why Pep Guardiola is the game changer. We need to learn to adapt to being under pressure and trying to dominate on all fronts. With all due respect to Mancini and Pellegrini, neither of their CVs suggest that they could do that. Now Pep on the other hand is a whole different animal and the fact that he has managed to thrive under the pressure of managing two European giants and win an insane amount of trophies in the process is exciting.
 
fitting end to a season of overwhelming disappointment. Leicester win with pragmatic football, if enough teams adopt their m.o. the prem will be like Italy in the sixties, lots of 0-0s. Not looking forward to it tbh.
Going for everything is admirable but injuries and age wrecked our chances, not helped by the turmoil caused by the Pep appointment.
Considering what was at stake today, the performance against a make-shift Swans was really a puzzle, seemed like the season had gone on too long, and the team were just going through the motions, not a great shock, we have form for such displays.
Roll on next season, the transfer window will tell us a lot about what we can look forward to.
 
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