The Official Manchester City (World Club Champions)Thread

The Official Manchester City (World Club Champions)Thread

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jammy-git

29,776 posts

211 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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l354uge said:
Who in their right mind, looked at the team last year and thought "you know what this team needs, another attacking midfielder with lots of flair" rather than a decent left back?

£100 would've been better spent on Tierney...
Isn't Grealish just replacing Silva?

GloverMart

11,773 posts

214 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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Genuinely think Pep ought to consider getting shot of Sterling in this window. He was awful today, shackled by Tanganga to the point where he was subbed early.

Not sure what fee you'd get but you could get equal or better for not much more. He was dire towards the end of the season but somehow managed to improve (quite impressively) in the Euros, but today he stunk the place out bar one or two moments.

Byker28i

58,831 posts

216 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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GloverMart said:
Genuinely think Pep ought to consider getting shot of Sterling in this window. He was awful today, shackled by Tanganga to the point where he was subbed early.

Not sure what fee you'd get but you could get equal or better for not much more. He was dire towards the end of the season but somehow managed to improve (quite impressively) in the Euros, but today he stunk the place out bar one or two moments.
Isn't Stirlings good performance in the Euros because Kane was seen as the danger man and had two people marking him, hence giving him space and time, and he took advantage. Ukraine then thought he was the danger man and put two on him, giving Kane space and Kane started scoring, assists, being influential...

I thought Stirling/Grealish down the wing would give spurs troubles and they did for 20 mins but then a reshuffle sorted the issue. It's a promising way for city to go though with pace down the wing.

tamore

6,784 posts

283 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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profligate infront of goal again, one or more of the fernandinho, cancelo or mahrez chances go in (none of them that difficult at that level), it's a totally different game. spurs deserved the points, but primarily because of city deficiencies on the day rather than dazzling themselves.

Slow

6,973 posts

136 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Pep is a genius. Lose to spurs to prove that you need to buy a striker…

jammy-git

29,776 posts

211 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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He's been trying to prove that point for several years now.

HRL

3,330 posts

218 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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tamore said:
profligate infront of goal again, one or more of the fernandinho, cancelo or mahrez chances go in (none of them that difficult at that level), it's a totally different game. spurs deserved the points, but primarily because of city deficiencies on the day rather than dazzling themselves.
As a Spurs fan, I’m inclined to agree. Might have been a different story if KDB had played from the start, but thankfully Pep chose not to do so.

Grealish getting booked for accusing Moura of diving was a highlight for me though. laugh Even the commentator used the term pot, kettle, black.

silverfoxcc

7,683 posts

144 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Seen on another siie


Spurs spent 1bn on a new stadium

Pep spent 1bn trying to win there

Driver101

14,376 posts

120 months

Saturday 21st August 2021
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That's some size of sponsorship boards Man City have around the ground.

stuartmmcfc

8,653 posts

191 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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Driver101 said:
That's some size of sponsorship boards Man City have around the ground.
There was one advert “sequence”: that kept distracting me. I’m surprised Norwich didn’t complain and blame that on their abject display.rolleyes

ChocolateFrog

24,852 posts

172 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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GloverMart said:
Genuinely think Pep ought to consider getting shot of Sterling in this window. He was awful today, shackled by Tanganga to the point where he was subbed early.

Not sure what fee you'd get but you could get equal or better for not much more. He was dire towards the end of the season but somehow managed to improve (quite impressively) in the Euros, but today he stunk the place out bar one or two moments.
Would be interesting to see what he's worth on the open market.

He did have a good Euros but just can't see him making much of an impact at most other clubs that don't serve up 10 good chances to him each game.

TEKNOPUG

18,844 posts

204 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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His wages will also has a negative impact on any transfer fee.

tamore

6,784 posts

283 months

Sunday 22nd August 2021
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kane on. hopefully that ends the pursuit of him.

stuartmmcfc

8,653 posts

191 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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I’m very glad that the Kane nonsense seems to have fallen by the wayside but I’m even less keen on the idea of Ronaldo coming to be honest.
I’m also not keen on United's apparent interest in Mancini but I’m very confident this is just dodgy Italian reporting, hopefully.

Cie

18,752 posts

192 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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stuartmmcfc said:
I’m very glad that the Kane nonsense seems to have fallen by the wayside but I’m even less keen on the idea of Ronaldo coming to be honest.
I’m also not keen on United's apparent interest in Mancini but I’m very confident this is just dodgy Italian reporting, hopefully.
United's interest in who? yikes

First I've heard of it and hopefully the last.

stuartmmcfc

8,653 posts

191 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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There’s a rumour that is that he is wanted to replace Ole.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/13233532/m...

Fairly sure it’s nonsense but, tbh, he had more success at Old Trafford than a lot of the recent Utd managers.

Cie

18,752 posts

192 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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16:05, 18 Nov 2020

You silly sausage

stuartmmcfc

8,653 posts

191 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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smile, tbh it was the first hit I got although I did hear it on a podcast this week. I may not be the only fool rofl

aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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stuartmmcfc said:
I’m very glad that the Kane nonsense seems to have fallen by the wayside but I’m even less keen on the idea of Ronaldo coming to be honest.
I thought you lot would be more likely to be in the running for Lewandowski, when the media rumour mill kicked in a week ago 'quoting him' as saying he wanted a new challenge, followed by Pep saying next question please when asked about it in his press conference last week, seemed to me that the pursuit of Kane had thus ended at that point laugh


epom

11,398 posts

160 months

Wednesday 25th August 2021
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I see you guys had a real champion at training today smile