West Ham (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[Scottish Cityzen]

Happy with the line up apart from the full back pairing. Great to have Aguero back.

Thought that would be the pairing, Pep said he was very happy with Kyle midweek and Cancelo needs a rest as a key member of the team.

Don’t think it will hinder us too much.

 

[Toffeedude]

Good luck City

 

[Mancity1980]

Really enjoying Pep's press conference's now. He's shoving their stupid questions right back at them and they don’t know what to do with it.
One muppet asked him if really thought it was all about the money and Pep basically said of course it is. The guy just seemed to gulp.

I was thinking the same. Managers like Fergie and Mourinho used them to control the agenda, the latter was even more devious and used for entertainment value to distract from the lack of entertainment his teams provide.

With Pep (and all our post-takeover managers) the entertainment is on the pitch and the conferences were an unwelcome distraction. The raggy and the dippy managers were all about sound bites and Pep just wanted to talk about the football. There was a famous incident during the Mourinho Pep El Classico era where Barca were winning the trophies and Mourinho was mouthing off in the pressers. Apparently Pep then spurted out something along the lines of He (Mourinho) fu@king wins in here (the press room) whether we (Barca) fu@king win out there (on the pitch). The Barcelona fans loved him for it. I think we are starting to witness a similar bite back on our behalf, if God is a city fan then Pep is his son on earth.

 

[bert38]

Ahh shit. BT have just said that Lingard is like Foden.

similar age

 

[Grealish’s Shinpads]

Would have preferred Cancelo over Walker but very happy with that team otherwise. Hope that Sergio scores

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

The sun's out and Aguero is in the starting 11, happy days. And some of you lot are still moaning.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

I think like a lot of overseas players, we won’t see the best of Torres until next year. Remember Spanish Dave took one season before we saw the best of him.

So did Rodri, Cancelo etc. I can only remember Dias as a recent player who settled immediately.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Ahh shit. BT have just said that Lingard is like Foden.

one looks like a dick and other one is lingard.

 

[Chi-town blues]

The sun's out and Aguero is in the starting 11, happy days. And some of you lot are still moaning.

fucking sun is still not out here and almost over slept . lazy ****

 

[kaz7]

Neither of us will know as Pep wouldn't say either way. But for me he's been dropped due to his constant dilly dallying. I was screaming at the telly as loud as Pep was on the sidelines on Wednesday. He even said we can't keep being that wasteful at that level. How best to get that message across? 'Rest' him next game. It's long due. And will hopefully serve its purpose.

Gabby is dropped for his miss then ?