Post Match Thread: Barca vs City

[cleavers]

Without FFP we would have started that game with Aguero, Suarez & possibly Messi upfront. Just think about that for a second..

No, never would we have had that twat playing for us, never.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Another footballing lesson ..nothing new.

 

[nowantads]

It's exactly the same shit as last year and nothing was done to change it. We should have played the u12, at least they won't look out of place just strolling around the pitch being awed by Messi. God I'm still pissed off.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Without FFP we would have started that game with Aguero, Suarez & possibly Messi upfront. Just think about that for a second.

FFP has had the desired effect of crippling our progress. We can buy Wilfried Bonys for £30m but what we need are galacticos to level the playing field. A Bale, a Ronaldo, a Neymar, a Suarez. We simply can't compete anymore & it's criminal.

PSG had the same FFP restrictions. How are they doing?

Totally agree FFP is a red herring. We have a wank manager simples!!

 

[sam-caddick]

Without FFP we would have started that game with Aguero, Suarez & possibly Messi upfront. Just think about that for a second.

FFP has had the desired effect of crippling our progress. We can buy Wilfried Bonys for £30m but what we need are galacticos to level the playing field. A Bale, a Ronaldo, a Neymar, a Suarez. We simply can't compete anymore & it's criminal.

PSG had the same FFP restrictions. How are they doing?

This.

Blaming everything on FFP is a myth.

Spending 32m on the likes Mangala is what has cost City.

The Mail had an article saying we have spent over 300m since winning the league in 2012 yet only Fernandinho replacing Barry and Demichelis replacing Lescott have changed in the side.

Shocking!

 

[geoff hammond]

This is the greatest City team (last 4 or 5 years) in history yet they get so much of a slating on Bluemoon.
It used to be that the team didn't deserve the fans.

 

[Cakers]

I liked the 4-3-1-1

I'm really not the biggest fan of this formation.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

We'll always fall short as long as we keep pretending that the likes of Milner, Nasri and Dzeko are good enough for where we want to go.



Hart, Kompany, Toure, Zabaleta, Silva and Aguero were our "core". Toure has simply aged and Kompany is simply going through a bad patch. All being well, with the FFP restrictions lifted soon, we can buy suitable replacements this time round. We can't afford to be making mediocre deals. Such as letting Tevez go and replacing him with Jovetic/Negredo. Barry out and Garcia in was also another major clanger.

Ideally, we can start pushing through some youth products through aswell.

I still find it hilarious how we put up with Clichy/Kolarov. Doesn't it get said almost every month how we need to replace them?

 

[oakiecokie]

I liked the 4-3-1-1

I'm really not the biggest fan of this formation.

Even Alan Ball could do better !!!

 

[johnbmcr]

Hart was immense tonight, well played joe

He was
said in the press con we need to learn lessons would be good if the exact things we need to do were set out otherwise its just a convienent platitude to kil the post mortem maybe acknowledging our areas for improvement publicly might be the start of the learning process