PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[mexico1970]

I know, mate, he's a genius, but my point is that we aren't going from Pep to Allardyce. Rather, the next manager will be high quality and play a similar game to Pep.

Imagine going for Sean Dyche ;-)

 

[mexico1970]

He's signed a two year extension, not one!

Isn't it one with an option mate?

 

[Bluewonder]

Isn't it one with an option mate?

No! That was an erroneous rumour.

 

[mexico1970]

No! That was an erroneous rumour.

Fuck knows how I missed that, shows how much news I read mainly because I don't trust it. The cocky bugger needs to sort this mess out in January and come up with a suitable plan B that doesn't involve having a dressing room of soon to be crocked players.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

Wrong.

The biggest sportswashing outfit is Liverpool Football Club.

An institution whose fans murdered 39 Italians, blamed everything from Chelsea supporters to the architectural quality of the ground, refused to apologise for almost two decades (and only did so because they drew their victims in the CL) and held a trophy parade on the anniversary of football's darkest ever day.

These murdering bastards invented sportswashing.

Did they actually apologise? When they drew Juve in the CL there were pious appeals for "reconciliation", but never any suggestion that Liverpool fans had actually done anything in any way wrong. It was as if Italian fans were trying to blacken the name of great scouse fans wronged for supporting their club.

 

[Saddleworth2]

He signed Stones in his first season. I assume you meant VK?

Yes, that is a solid spine, but so is:

Ederson, Dias, Gvardiol, Rodri, Foden and Haaland.

And I would argue that the lower grade players like Ake, Akanji and Grealish are better than their equivalents like Otamendi, Kolarov and Nasri.

I think it's easy to fall into a trap of thinking we need wholesale replacements, but every player I've mentioned will be in the 23-30 age bracket at the start of next season, which is typically a footballer's peak.

We need quality reinforcements, especially in midfield, but the cupboard is far from bare.

All a matter of opinion but I do not think the current spine is equal to that which was available when he started particularly in midfield.