United Post Match Thread

citizens_1976 said:
I said at the end of the season that as a club we had gone backwards. We downgraded from Tevez, to Negredo and Dzeko and then ended up with Bony, same again with De Jong, to Javi Garcia and then to Fernando. When i stated this last summer, i was massively criticised by various other members on here for my negative opinions, now we are all in the same boat. This is why i try and avoid these forums and i rarely come on here because you cannot have an opinion without being shot down for being "wrong" or being called a "doom merchant" or even a "rag". This forum is very much like the red and white kop forum sometimes, too many fans hold up this barrier in front of them and have this false optimism of the team just to portray that they are more of a better fan than other fans who have a different view which is less positive. I hope after todays performance, people really start to take their blue tinted specs off and really smell the coffee. It has now finally hit home to many blues, that as a squad we have gone backwards since we first won the league under Mancini.

As for Pellegrini, i like the bloke, he seems a really nice fella but as a manager hes very ordinary. Mancini did not really deserve to be sacked in the first place and one difference you see with a Mancini City side and a Pellegrini City side is that we seem to be beaten comfortably by average sides under Pellegrini. We have been completely thumped by Liverpool and Tottenham and we look absolutely awful at the back. Under Mancini, we held the best defensive record for 3 seasons running and we were rarely beaten by more than one goal. Even when we lost under Mancini, we still showed a lot more fight than this side under Pellegrini, there is a vulnerability about this side now. When one of your star players cries over a Birthday cake and a few months later is given vice captaincy, you know you have a manager who is allowed to be taken the complete piss out of. We want a manager who is the BOSS, who is in charge and does not take any shit. When Yaya Toure kicks and stamps his feet, Pellegrini lets him do whatever he pleases and this lack of authority has set the tone for the rest of the squad. No wonder the players aren't fighting for the shirt, because they are not being made to fight for it.

Thank fuck we have Guardiola in charge next season, a manager who can reshape the club from top to bottom. Too many times this season we have had a side not willing to get out of 2nd gear, under Pep they will be lucky to get out of 6th gear or else they will not be playing for Manchester City football club. We need to get rid of the medical team because they are dreadful and 3/4 of our squad needs to be replaced. We need a serious serious revamp next season. We lack an energy and an exuberance within our side what Tottenham have shown this season, this is why we are getting completely dicked when we come up against younger and more energetic sides. Kolarov, Demichelis, Mangala, Fernando, Navas, Bony... please just fuck off. Sterling can do one if he doesn't improve as well. As for Delph, i don't think he will ever be city class and Yaya's time has also come. Great servant to the club and will go down as one of the best to ever wear a blue shirt, but his legs have completely gone and he hasn't shown the same desire this season as he has in previous seasons, his time has come to move him on.
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Very good points, though I think many on here would actually concur with the majority of points you make.
 
citizens_1976 said:
Who would you start above Demichelis?

Who would you start up front with Aguero?

Who would you play instead of Yaya?

You might make these statements, but we DO NOT have adequate replacements.
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Personally would play Sagna as CB before Demichelis

Fernando should have been in front of back 4 regardless of Yaya playing or not and

Nacho deserves his chance

But these are only my views
 
Proy said:
And you can add a few more as well.

Such as the number of times we have failed to score in one season

Failed to win back to back league
games since October

Most home defeats since the takeover

Amount of goals conceded at this stage of the season

It's beyond my comprehension. He should no longer be the manager of Manchester city. Trophy or not
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flb said:
You happy with that fucking crap then?

Take your tongue out of Pellegrinis arse and fucking wake up.
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My tongue ain't in no backside pal. My eyes are for the rags posting shite on here. Hilarious.
 
geoff clipp said:
I'll admit I wanted iheanacho to play over bony but I don't really understand all of the criticism of bony today. He did OK when he came on and might have even got a goal if aguero had passed to him the two times he chose to take a shot when bony was in a better position.
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Apart from tripping over the ball when he just had to roll it into Aguero's path on the edge of the box, taking a fresh air shot from 6 yards at the near post and repeatedly mistiming his jumps and getting underneath the ball challenging for headers, I suppose the rest of his game was average. Kelechi was still the better bet by some distance.
 
really who makes pep starting 11 from this squad

1 Hart

17 KDB

10 Aguero

silva does not work hard for the team yes a great players but maybe time is up in England
yaya well if he stays next season it will be only for selling pies
sterling could be world class but needs a arm around him and maybe pep is just the man to bring him out of his shell

now I don't really see any player other than I have said that pep could build a team from this squad to fight for champions league and premier league titles. its weak and just not good enough for a top manager and it would take a very big clean out and a mix of youth and world class players to even think of winning in Europe we are so far behind the top 4 clubs Europe and even Juve and a couple of the german teams I just don't see pep and his magic working with the squad we have right now
 
almir said:
he played all games on the start of the season when we were crashing everyone and not conceding. Just saying :)
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I think the various personnel are often incidental to the outcome of a football match. More important are determination across the team, closing down the oppo man on the ball and not letting them stroll thirty or forty yards and then pick from a selection of passes, and having players who can tackle effectively. All missing today for some reason.
 
A lot of drunk people on here tonight, I am one too!
Laugh out loud moment was near the end on the big screens , was two big hands with the words come on City.
 
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