Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[kaz7]

Fucking sick of it kaz.
They stick out like sore thumbs. You just know they are one of the red mardarses, even when they try to wum they are so removed from normality.
The latest one and that dreadnought prick need to be carted off here, straight to jail, do not pass go.

Hope they fuck off, they have had their fun , hate constant posts bringing shit over from the cartels forums as well, just fuck off and live there !

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

Was once said that 1 man did not make a team think that adage has been well and truly trashed.

I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but I'm beginning to wonder if this is all planned by the club to get us primed for how shit the football will be in the North West Counties League.

Those of us old enough to have ‘enjoyed’ watching City play in the eighties through to noughties will not need much priming!

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

We could be FIFTH by the end of next weekend!

For perspective, that Spurs team lost at home to Ipswich! So Spursy!

Same EXACT game plan that beats us every time we lose beat us again today:

Don’t finish our chances
Concede on first break
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Looked a shell of the team that won it all in 2023. Just don’t have it if we don’t have the top 14 available and in form, and even then everyone knows we can be overrun on the break.

It definitely will not happen, but we need AT LEAST a new RB, CB or two, at least 3 midfielders and a striker. Between January and July-August Txiki & Hugo need to start writing some cheques and rebuilding this team with some size, strength and speed.

Look around at the strong midfields and they have all three, or at least 2 of the 3 in every player.

Much work to be done inside the club to redefine who City are going to be going forward.

Lastly, I think Pep has to look at himself.

He changed the League when he came to City. People said he couldn’t play his way in the PL and yet with the exception of Liverpool, his ideas have not only been absorbed by other PL and Bundesliga managers, but improved upon by inserting SSS into them.

However, while teaching other teams how to play for 9 years, they have not only learned the lesson, but understand the weaknesses and, more importantly, how to exploit the system.

Pep has tweaked things, and we have lauded those tweaks, but they have merely spackled over the cracks of a rapidly aging team.

Today, every crack was laid bare and the weaknesses of certain players were highlighted by Spurs players who were hungrier, more aggressive, first to every ball, and who know where the goal is.

Today, nobody covered themselves in glory, but more importantly the players whose glory days are behind them was on full display.

As I’ve said repeatedly, we need more size, strength and speed in our team, but when Pep is winning everything people come back over the top with “In Pep We Trust.”

Yep, his historical record is ridiculous, but anyone still ignoring the obvious, both with Pep and the squad, is whistling past the graveyard. History is in the rearview mirror, but that is where most Spurs players saw their marker today.

Not a good day at the office and if that spectacle didn’t light a fire under ownership and executive management, nothing will.

A few players are STEALING A LIVING at City at the moment, and they know who they are.

Bigger, stronger, faster…there endeth the lesson. Go in peace.

but you told me that graph meant nothing...


I'm kidding, btw

 

[levets]

Lewis is also a 19 year old right back getting played in every position bar right back when our current right back is absolutely awful.

Lewis is playing really bad but he’s being hung out to dry.

Lewis is a 19 year old kid and should only be being phased in and out at this point in his development.

The current injury situation and the fact Nunes is dog shit has forced Pep’s hand.

Rico is 20 now… and as you suggest should be phased in as and when. However, the injury situation dictates that’s not possible. For me, he needs a rest as he’s been miles off it lately.

 

[TinFoilHat]

You know the cunts will lose 5-0 next week.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Those of us old enough to have ‘enjoyed’ watching City play in the eighties through to noughties will not need much priming!

Even less so when your first full season was 1962-63, which included our lowest ever attendance :)

Edit: that particular attendance might be our new average. We could all fit in the new NS2 :)

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Are you a fucking dipper , you go on non stop, sure rawk would like you

Will you just feck off. I started supporting us in 1969. See my name. I am a Mancunian born and bred manc and proud of it. Unlike you, so why do you auppirt us??? You constantly seem to want someone to have a go at.

Wobble away you have the wrong person here.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Those of us old enough to have ‘enjoyed’ watching City play in the eighties through to noughties will not need much priming!

Yes 14 May 1983 was a dark day in my young life.

 

[No1 was Colin bell]

Jesus Christ, I thought I’d take a break from sulking about our run of results and watch Ted Lasso. (NB spoiler alert!) But even AFC Richmond beat City 0-2 at the Etihad. It’s a poor run lads and lasses when we can’t even beat a fictitious team led by a joke American coach!

Anyway CTID of course. The January transfer window really important and the summer one is absolutely huge as we go again and rebuild under Pep. And perhaps we can salvage something out of this season still. Can’t grumble after this last triumphant decade. But we can hope.

 

[Craig]

1. Lack of pace and aging players. We are playing a high line but lack of pressing on offensive third just doesn't work.
2. A series of poor transfer windows is now starting to cost us - Savinho, Doku, Nunes, Philips etc. All too slow and not good enough.
3. Rodri is a big miss but sadly don't have a Plan B and Kovacic/Gundogan are not that sort of player. The whole system is built with him as the engine. Even yesterday the front 5 were playing as if he was there and Spurs had acres of space. Pep needs to go back to the drawing board and abandon 'pivot' system to something that can half work while Rodri is not in the team.
4. After winning 4 in a row there was always going to be a blip and lack of motivation. I only hope that this run and hitting rock bottom galvanises the team.

The only one out of the 4 you mention who is slow is Phillips. The others are quicker than most of our current squad