The Title is there for the taking...

[MadchesterCity]

It's usually the press boys who come out with "it's City's title to lose" putting the pressure on and making crazy simplistic statements that we have the best squad,spent the most money therefore we MUST win the title or everyone should be sacked.

Having a good quality squad is important but it's much much more important that the team we put out wins game after game after game.That isn't necessarily down to having a great squad but more about having a manager who knows what the best team is and how to get the best out of them. If we don't get many injuries and suspensions we might not need a good number of the squad anyway.

Any of the top 4 or 5 sides that really get it right on the pitch have a chance this season.It's just 3 games in but there are signs that no team will walk away with it whether it's down to having a new manager or lots of new players to bed in or both.

As far as City goes I don't think the manager knows his best team yet or even the best way to play.That probably goes for Spurs too so it will be essential that we get results while this is worked out.We seriously need to get a result against Stoke next time out and not lose to the scum or else we will have fallen behind the early leaders which is never a good thing. I still feel quite positive but wary at the same time.

I agree with this but think we MUST WIN against the SCUM

 

[Anonymous]

I get the feeling the points tally to win it this year will be lower than the last couple, with the top teams taking points of each other, and dropping more at some of the mid table teams, that have strengthened as well

Yep, I said I think anyone who collects 80+ points will be the champions. The league is much tougher this year from top to bottom and much more competitive. It's why this thread and the OP made me laugh. Last season was there for the taking but we for whatever reasons couldn't do it. This season will be anything but a breeze ...

Honestly though, for Pellegrini to win it in his first season at City and in England will be an achievement which him and the players will be able to be hugely proud of and one which will certainly dispel any skepticism about the abilities of the players or the management.

 

[PragueBlue]

Honestly though, for Pellegrini to win it in his first season at City and in England will be an achievement which him and the players will be able to be hugely proud of and one which will certainly dispel any skepticism about the abilities of the players or the management.

Now that I can agree with. He's got his work cut out for him this season though.

 

[waspish]

After the Cardiff defeat it was quite worrying how we played against Hull don't know if it was players still settling in to the new system if it was there confidence took a blow that we had a performance like that it is worrying! After the Cardiff defeat we can not afford to lose against stoke

 

[Anonymous]

Honestly though, for Pellegrini to win it in his first season at City and in England will be an achievement which him and the players will be able to be hugely proud of and one which will certainly dispel any skepticism about the abilities of the players or the management.

Now that I can agree with. He's got his work cut out for him this season though.

We should've sacked Mancini last summer and allowed Txiki to make the technical decisions even though he hadn't officially joined. Long term we'd have been better off instead of being in the position where we had a manager who no longer wanted to be at the club and a club that no longer particularly wanted him for an entire season. Was a fuck up and something Khaldoon should carry the can for because ultimately Roberto was his mate and the decisions to keep/reward him with a new contract should've been a technical footballing one rather than one based on a fear of negative PR mixed in with a dollop of "we owe it him".

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Honestly though, for Pellegrini to win it in his first season at City and in England will be an achievement which him and the players will be able to be hugely proud of and one which will certainly dispel any skepticism about the abilities of the players or the management.

Now that I can agree with. He's got his work cut out for him this season though.

We should've sacked Mancini last summer and allowed Txiki to make the technical decisions even though he hadn't officially joined. Long term we'd have been better off instead of being in the position where we had a manager who no longer wanted to be at the club and a club that no longer particularly wanted him for an entire season. Was a fuck up and something Khaldoon should carry the can for because ultimately Roberto was his mate and the decisions to keep/reward him with a new contract should've been a technical footballing one rather than one based on a fear or negative PR mixed in with a dollop of "we owe it him".

We should have sacked him after winning the league?

Reading your posts today Billy - you seem to be preparing us for disappointment.
Re competition form others etc, harking back to how we should have won the league last year and now almost blaming the possibility of a poor season this year on Khaldoon not sacking Mancini earlier.

 

[Anonymous]

Now that I can agree with. He's got his work cut out for him this season though.

We should've sacked Mancini last summer and allowed Txiki to make the technical decisions even though he hadn't officially joined. Long term we'd have been better off instead of being in the position where we had a manager who no longer wanted to be at the club and a club that no longer particularly wanted him for an entire season. Was a fuck up and something Khaldoon should carry the can for because ultimately Roberto was his mate and the decisions to keep/reward him with a new contract should've been a technical footballing one rather than one based on a fear or negative PR mixed in with a dollop of "we owe it him".

We should have sacked him after winning the league?

Reading your posts today Billy - you seem to be preparing us for disappointment.
Re competition form others etc, harking back to how we should have won the league last year and now almost blaming the possibility of a poor season this year on Khaldoon not sacking Mancini earlier.

Not at all mate ... I'm not preparing anyone for anything. I think we have the strongest squad in the league, as I thought we did last season. Therefore I think we should win the league this season despite it being a harder league than last season. My point about Mancini was simply that if he really had fuck all time for Ferran and Txiki, which it seems he never did judging by his words since his sacking, what was the point in keeping him? It's kind of tied to player acquisitions as well. If we run the narrative that Mancini wasn't given proper backing last summer and that this was somehow down to the executives in charge, then those executives should've just sacked him and brought in someone they do have faith in as they have done this summer.

Either way the point is last season was an easier league to win than this season will be. That's not an overt criticism of Mancini, simply my opinion on the competition. And it's fair to say with hindsight that everyone at the club knew Mancini wasn't going to change. Sacking him for being not holistic enough, whether done this summer or last summer, was always going to happen.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Fair enough Billy - some might say that success should be backed - and it wasn't - but that's another 100 threads.
Glad you are optimistic about this season still.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Can we just take one game at a time for now?

Seriously we should be winning at Stoke however at the mo I will be happy to get a point.
As a previous poster said though I feelit is imperative we beat the rags at our place.
It's gonna be rocking that day.

 

[waspish]

Now that I can agree with. He's got his work cut out for him this season though.

We should've sacked Mancini last summer and allowed Txiki to make the technical decisions even though he hadn't officially joined. Long term we'd have been better off instead of being in the position where we had a manager who no longer wanted to be at the club and a club that no longer particularly wanted him for an entire season. Was a fuck up and something Khaldoon should carry the can for because ultimately Roberto was his mate and the decisions to keep/reward him with a new contract should've been a technical footballing one rather than one based on a fear or negative PR mixed in with a dollop of "we owe it him".

We should have sacked him after winning the league?

Reading your posts today Billy - you seem to be preparing us for disappointment.
Re competition form others etc, harking back to how we should have won the league last year and now almost blaming the possibility of a poor season this year on Khaldoon not sacking Mancini earlier.

The only Balls up last season was not buying RVP because that one decision lost us the league and gave it to the scum on a plate..