Still angry

[flb]

In your opinion.

They have strolled around all season and you think that's acceptable?

 

[Keeper!]

Are you 'really' praising Sunderland who are playing out of their skin to avoid being in the 'bottom three' !! Maybe if Sunderland players had played like that all season they wouldn't be fighting relegation?

I find the slagging of our players who got us to the champions league semi final (well beyond the rags, Arsenal Chelsea by the way) disgusting quite frankly.

If I was in the City dressing room right now being slagged by the media after running my tripe out for 90 minutes I would be fired right up, if it was by my own fans, I'd be thinking what's the f*ckin point, with supporters like these who needs enemies. People seem to be confusing a lack of effort by being beaten by a better side.

Those players got us to a champions league semi final, further in that trophy than any time in our history and they are getting a slagging for it! Unbelievable.

To suggest for a second that those players didn't try is an insult to every single one of them and throws all the achievements that those same players have delivered for us over the last 5 years back in their faces.

At the moment I'm ashamed to be a City fan, because I'm associated with what looks like a bunch of ungrateful twats, and this in advance of a critical game that we need to win and when the players need our full support.

Don't forget to take your foil flag and half & half scarf today, give the boys a good send off, they have done us proud.


They have been a disgrace apart from the first 5 games of the season. Last Sunday I watched Mr Kolarov effectively down tools, the guy was an utter disgrace, not only to his employers but to his profession. Any half decent manager would have subbed him off after the 2 nd goal and humiliated him....he deserved it

 

[Blue Mooner]

Don't forget to take your foil flag and half & half scarf today, give the boys a good send off, they have done us proud.


They have been a disgrace apart from the first 5 games of the season. Last Sunday I watched Mr Kolarov effectively down tools, the guy was an utter disgrace, not only to his employers but to his profession. Any half decent manager would have subbed him off after the 2 nd goal and humiliated him....he deserved it

I think there 'may' be players in the squad that have downed tools for their own ends, and I saw Kolarov making a half arsed attempt to run back against Southampton, but to accuse the whole squad of the same is a disgrace.

 

[Sunny Coast Blue]

Are you 'really' praising Sunderland who are playing out of their skin to avoid being in the 'bottom three' !! Maybe if Sunderland players had played like that all season they wouldn't be fighting relegation?

I find the slagging of our players who got us to the champions league semi final (well beyond the rags, Arsenal Chelsea by the way) disgusting quite frankly.

If I was in the City dressing room right now being slagged by the media after running my tripe out for 90 minutes I would be fired right up, if it was by my own fans, I'd be thinking what's the f*ckin point, with supporters like these who needs enemies. People seem to be confusing a lack of effort by being beaten by a better side.

Those players got us to a champions league semi final, further in that trophy than any time in our history and they are getting a slagging for it! Unbelievable.

To suggest for a second that those players didn't try is an insult to every single one of them and throws all the achievements that those same players have delivered for us over the last 5 years back in their faces.

At the moment I'm ashamed to be a City fan, because I'm associated with what looks like a bunch of ungrateful twats, and this in advance of a critical game that we need to win and when the players need our full support.

They didn't try, not even close.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Exactly how I feel and it's for those reasons I'm not going to the Arsenal game,they cheated us all season with half arsed gutless,fightless displays and if they get a result today it it will only further enhance it that they only pull there fingers out when it really matters where there is something at stake that could affect them.

They don't give a shit about the fans, they walk off the pitch in ninety percent of games without as much of a glance over there shoulders to us and frankly it's a disgrace, I'm pretty sure it will be different under Pep at least with the fight bit and least then we could see they actually give a shit.Klopp maybe a rabble rouser but at least they show grit and determination for the shirt, I've never ever seen such a dour uninspiring manager before like this idiot we have in charge.

We will probably thrash Arsenal today and that would just show what shithouses they have been all season,but there again we could be on the other end of a beating ourselves and who would really be surprised if we are?

And to be expected to clap those arseholes off in there half arsed half clap walk round the stadium after the game just doesn't do it for me because that tells them everything is alright

Roll on June.

I'm with you. I had looked forward to todays game all season but after Sunday and Wednesday have decided to give it a body swerve. It would have entailed a 500 mile trip and a stop over which I have been doing all season and i'm afraid I have had enough for this season. I got an email a couple of days ago from the club asking me to comment on every aspect of my match going experience. No 1 is that I want to watch a Manager and a team of players who give 100% effort every game they play. I am worried that the club is losing sight of the fundamentals in their journey to being a huge global brand. Pep will bring a great improvement but it does say a great deal that we are looking at one man to save us. By now, we should have developed a winning mentality and culture of excellence in the first team squad. The fact that we are miles from that demonstrates piss poor leadership from the DoF down through the coaching staff. Thats a worry to me because Pep will not be here for ever. I dont expect us to win everything, but with the infrastructure and financial clout, I do expect us to compete for everything and I truly mean compete, not the tepid, lazy, half arsed, clueless, gutless performances that have peppered this season. Hope to hell we win but honestly don't expect to. Next season cant come soon enough.

 

[jimharri]

I was just sitting here watching a replay of the Sunderland v Chelsea game, which turned out to be a fantastic game with a team scrapping and fighting for their footballing lives overcoming a team of stars (congrats Stockport Mackem by the way).

The grit, passion, courage and teamwork displayed by the no name Sunderland team led by Jerome Defoe would have made every Sunderland supporters proud. City supporters are no different. What we want is to know that every one of our players has left everything on the pitch for that 90 minutes. We want to know that they truly care about fighting for the club and the fans.

This season has seen a slow descent and the ultimate victory of the pipe and slippers brigade. Everything about the club reeks of comfort and a gravy train. Pampered players lulled into a state of sleepwalking, a manager who shows no real fight on the sideline (I am sorry but I want a manager on the sideline who rides every tackle, who is switched on from the beginning of the game to the end), and hangers on behind the scenes who continue to be well paid by supporting this holistic approach.

While I would like City to win every game, I would be satisfied if I felt that the players and manager gave 100% every week. We all know that this hasn't happened this year, and this has led to this thread and the multiple threads criticising the approach of the team.

I am at the point where I don't care who we get rid of. I would rather get beaten with the EDS squad trying their guts out, than have these pampered pooches strolling around each week.

If it means Pep wants to get rid of even Merlin (my favourite player) and replace him with a cheap no name player who will fight and fight, then so be it. Pep needs to reshape the entire culture of this club. It's a huge task, and it won't happen overnight, but if there is anyone that can do it then it is Pep.

Well said, that man. Hopefully the happy clappers on here read that and learn.

 

[Keeper!]

I think there 'may' be players in the squad that have downed tools for their own ends, and I saw Kolarov making a half arsed attempt to run back against Southampton, but to accuse the whole squad of the same is a disgrace.

He downed tools my friend, that was a big two fingers to everyone associated with MCFC. If I was Sheik Mansour I would be livid and I am sure he was and still is.

The manager has been an inept, shambolic figure, who incredibly is walking away with his reputation intact, but anyone with knowledge of football knows the truth, he has failed utterly.

 

[Blue Mooner]

They have strolled around all season and you think that's acceptable?

They didn't try, not even close.

I'm amazed at just how good some fans think our players must be that they can stroll around, not trying and yet still win a trophy, get further in the champs league than any time in our history and still be in 4th place in the premier league ahead of Klopp's hero's dipper pool.

Wow, we can even not try and only get beaten 1-0 over two legs by the 10 times winners of the champs league.

Just how much would they have to 'not try' to get relegated, finish bottom of the champions league group and get knocked out of the first round of each trophy!!?

 

[HolisticJim]

We already had that manager in Mancini but the club backed the players and that's the reason for this club to have failed to deliver

Correct.

If we lose today the aught to be booed off. We boo the CL anthem for unfairness (basically) but allow our own team and players to cheat us and steal our hard earned cash.

Bring back SWP, Rosler, Barton, Beagrie, Morrison, Tiato et al because they were miles shorter on ability but they actually gave a fuck and that is the first thing we need.

I actively dislike a huge portion of this team now. The last 18 months has turned me against them.

 

[Keeper!]

I'm amazed at just how good some fans think our players must be that they can stroll around, not trying and yet still win a trophy, get further in the champs league than any time in our history and still be in 4th place in the premier league ahead of Klopp's hero's dipper pool.

Wow, we can even not try and only get beaten 1-0 over two legs by the 10 times winners of the champs league.

Just how much would they not have to 'not try' to get relegated, finish bottom of the champions league group and get knocked out of the first round of each trophy!!?

This is the weakest Premier League ever, City, Chelsea, UTD, Arsenal poor to pathetic, for gods sake Leicester City have won it! and they are 15 points clear of us!!! simply unacceptable