Media discussion - 2024/25

[Kippax Street 1880]

Old Lady 2 Old Men 0.

That's painfully accurate if unnecessarily cruel

Some sense from Balague


With three central defenders out in Akanji (who was going to be replacing Rodri in the middle but the absentees at the back has placed him there when available), Ake and Stones, with the centre midfielders out (Rodri and Kovacic), with Kevin de Bruyne back but currently a tentative shadow of what he has been and what he is capable of (but still the only one that does things that are unexpected and different), with Foden out of form and struggling with a virus, with between seven and ten players unavailable, it is impossible to create associations between players, consistency in performances, a solid foundation. Players that have in the past returned from injury, like Stones, Akanji and Ake, have broken down just a couple of games after they returned as they have to be rushed to come back.Pep can drive himself mad trying to fix it but it is a case of not having the players. The ones that are not injured are also suffering physically from playing too often, and consequently losing form. Gundogan, Bernardo Silva are not winning balls that they normally would expect to, but in any case they are not holding midfielders. All that accounts as an accumulation of circumstances that have not occurred in the club in the past eight years, which by the way, it is why throughout that time they have won what we have.It is exactly the opposite of a virtuous circle. The negative circle, this isThe hope is that they can hang on in there until January, get the players they need back and that they manage to stay fit. But it very much feels like a turning point in Pep’s time at the club, and it is obvious there is a need to recycle a squad to fill it with players that are hungry, younger, willing to learn, and with the mind open for the demanding Pep world.

Actually nailed it there Balague

 

[halfcenturyup]

That's painfully accurate if unnecessarily cruel



Actually nailed it there Balague

Tbf, it's obvious to anyone who isn't looking for clickbait. Or isn't an idiot

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

No less that four articles on City at the BeeB….dont think I’ve ever seen us reported so much….wonder why

The media have spent 10 years calling us cheats. Now they have another stick to beat us with. Us fans need to stick together. The siege mentality has worked for us in the past.

 

[gray740]

Wish they would just ban them from the ground, there is no benefit for them being there either winning or losing they stick the boot in and talk shite, bbc would be the first then the manunited evening news. Tossers.

 

[jrb]

Football London.

5 idiots to write the article

 

[Sky Blue]

Football London.

5 idiots to write the article

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A who’s who of cunts.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Football London.

5 idiots to write the article

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Missed out on a fantastic cracked badge opportunity there, the muppets

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Yet more lies. Dias saying himself and the team needs to improve becomes Dias points finger at team mates. Knowing that most people will never actually read the story, just take away the negative headline. This is from their Chief Football Writer too, shows you the agenda starts at the top

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Simon Pillock, more like!

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

This is a great post in many ways, but I'm afraid I can't get behind the central premise. I'd support us if we got relegated to the Northern Premier and had derbies with that shower at FC United, but, if we have any kind of draconian punishment imposed, I'll be outraged, dismayed, disgusted and filled with rage unless, in the aftermath of the current PL proceedings against us, it emerges that we unequivocally deserve it.

Should that happen, well it's been a great ride and we'll have another one as we climb back up the leagues. But that's not remotely how I think things actually are.

If, as I suspect, our current travails have emerged fundamentally through a witch hunt wherein the PL and our rivals have a puncher's chance of landing something serious and they manage to do so, there's no way I can be phlegmatic about our place at the top of the game being snatched from our grasp. And that's not because I've come to expect all the glory as a matter of course and now feel entitled to it. I certainly don't.

But for rival clubs predominantly headed by American disaster capitalists pursuing their own venal self interests to snatch it away through malice, bad faith and chicanery? I don't see how anyone of a City persuasion could, in that eventuality, be anything but devastated at the naked injustice of it all it able to give this as many likes

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

WTF happened there, when I was in the middle of saying Bravo Sir.