Manchester City V Aston Villa pre match thread

[Dogtanian]

I have brown wee running down my leg!

 

[PaleBlue]

Actually quite like the Villa, they are another big, old club whose fans deserve better. A young team who need a couple of more experienced players - shame we didn't loan Barry to them instead of Everton IMO. They remind me of where we were under Pearce/Thaksin.

All that said, hope we muller them tomorrow, then they win their last game to get some points/revenue for league placings.

 

[erast fandorin]

How many league games have we lost at the Etihad in the last 3 seasons,is it 5?

Reliably informed it's 3,thats 3 home losses in the last 55 league home games,we will do this and win the league by 2 points

 

[Kevindxb]

Aston Villa will attack Manchester City, vows Lambert

A win for the table-toppers on Wednesday will effectively hand the Premier League title to Manuel Pellegrini's side, but the Villans boss insists he will not set up to defend

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2014/05/06/4799896/aston-villa-will-attack-manchester-city-vows-lambert" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/pre ... ws-lambert</a>

Good
They won't park the bus
We can get in behind them

Best news ever. It'll be open for us to score plenty.

 

[Damocles]

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/6165-lets-all-stare-at-manchester-city/page-30" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topi ... ty/page-30</a>

City will be no better this season than they were the last.

Silva - Will be a flop, Small, Flair driven Foreigners rarely make it in the Premier League.
Toure - May add some steel, but thats nothing they didnt have before with De Jong.
Milner - A good player, a fine player for a team competing at their current level, but isnt going to take you from the periphery of the champions league to title contenders.

Theyve done little to resolve their main weakness, being their defense.

Their players will need time to gel, again.

The foreign players will need time to adapt.

Theyve already taken steps to replace their best performers of last year; Bellamy is being ushered to the door and Adebayor, who had a pretty good season, seems destined to be replaced with another target man (Balotelli, Djeko etc).

And on top of that theyre slowly replacing the players who have a passion for the club (SWP, Bellamy, Dunne, Ireland, Richards) with Mercenarys demanding £200k per week.

I really cant see how signing Robinho Mark 2, Toure and Milner is going to take them from 6th place to competing with United and Chelsea, no way.

LOLVILLA

 

[Vienna_70]

Who's the ref tomorrow?

Oliver

Thanks, MAV.

 

[Sigh]

Hi,

It is GENTLEMAN from VT. I am looking forward to the game tomorrow against you guys, it should be a fire cracker. However, I do not understand all this Milner and Barry stuff.

VT...I'm thinking Virginia Tech? Vermont? Then it dawns...

You were really mean to us and them. Doing the Larry Enfield routine. You hurt our feelings - well, my feelings; and as feelings, turntables and microphones is where it's at, I can never forgive you.

 

[Damocles]

To be fair Citeh are buying good players but not wonderful ones. I mean, if Yaya Toure was really an important player to Barca they would have kept him. Good player yes but not world class. Same with the other players they have bought. I'm not worried about them just yet.

LOLVILLA

 

[Vienna_70]

How many league games have we lost at the Etihad in the last 3 seasons,is it 5?

Reliably informed it's 3,thats 3 home losses in the last 55 league home games,we will do this and win the league by 2 points

Both sets of GaYs last season. 2-3 each time.

And the chavs this term. 0-1.

Not sure about the title-winning season, but I can't recall us losing any league games in 11-12.

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Listening to some people on here you'd think Villa were Real Madrid.

You mean there not?


Too add to the fear, Lambert's won a Champions League medal where as Pele hasn't.