Tomo

What an absolute self entitled clown. I swear every interview he has is just a long winded way of saying it's never my fault, I wonder were he got that from

The long term thing is such an overrated thing in football. If goes well we will get 3-4 years out of Luis which is actually a very long time, think Moscow to Munich.

They probably don't bother because they won't get much out of Mou compared to say a Redknapp press conference where he would probably have revealed Tony Fernández's bank details if he was pushed hard enough.

3 years on I still can't find a logical explanation, it was truly remarkable. Also goes to show that judging manager's on success in knockout cups is very dangerous, for example if Ramos header was a couple of inches to the left Reals season would have been an epic failure instead of an outstanding success.

We tried to trim the squad to make way for Kakuta and Co, only to find out they weren't mentally ready to play first team, leading us to burning out our player's and most were to old to recover aswell as the "panic" of 2011 deadline day. Don't get me wrong, im all for giving youth a chance, but am I in favour off chucking experience like Mikel and giving a player with less than 10 senior apps the spot behind Matic? Sorry but I draw the line there.

Ramires yes, Benny was injured almost straight away, and Luiz and Torres didn't come in till January. It became clear in the Newcastle match that Kakuta, PVAand eespecially Bruma weren't any where near ready so Carlo had to burn out already ageing first teamers to the point of stagnation, which is why our squad was in such a mess for years before this season, and even now it's still got a few issue's. The AVB disaster was just a follow on, he had to play a high line else we would hardly create any chances, but then high line exposed our defence, the squad was a mess. Thankfully Munich happened else we could have gone the same way as Milan.

Quite amazing that some actually want us to repeat a massive mistake that stagnated the squad and set us back years (replacing experience with untested youth).

He had 38 games in 12-13

The ironic thing is with Mata going he would have probably got the games Salah got in the second half last season (Salah played in every single league game after Arsenal).

Yeah but you have to show something, Bruma got a chance against Newcastle and was an absolute train wreck, Nail Ranger and Shola Ameobi terrorised him, he was never going to get a shot after that. The point about Tibo is he didn't get to where he is by having things laid on a plate, he worked hard and kept it up, when he went to Athletico any spell off dodgy form and Sergio Asenjo was in. Yeah we let Danny go in the end but his loan at Bolton earned him a higher spot in our squad, he wasn't getting games despite Malouda and Anelka stinking the place out and he came back as a trusted member of the squad. Then he got a move to Liverpool who rumour had it were considering him when Bolton took him but choose against it due to his lack of expierence and instead opted for Carroll. Loans separate the men from the boys, in my opinion.

Bruma was a wreck every time I saw him play, he had a glorious chance at Hamburg to put his name in the hat and spectacularly blew it. With the loans, Tibo and to an extent Sturridge show that great loans will be rewarded.

Nathaniel Clyne is staring us in the face. Re the youth promotion, last time we tried giving youth a high role in the squad before their time our squad stagnated and we were in a mess for 4 years. Im all for giving youth a chance, but when I hear we should ditch experienced players like Mikel and throw an untested youngster in............

Or we could look at it another way, we finished 6th that season and was a complete mess domestically so the fact most of that squad has been overhauled is a good thing.

Just watched the City game back and there was a moment in the second half when the ball flashed across goal and if Lampard wacked his foot out he would have almost certainly scored. That and playing Giroud onside, conscious catching up with him?

What have an untested teenager as Willians immediate back up? Fuck that.

If we don't win this we need a serious look at ourselves.

I always have found it funny that Ivan gets (rightly) criticised for letting in too many crosses yet Bertrand who's even more guilty of it not a word Decent enough player who will have a decent enough career, but wasn't ever going to be more than a squad player here.

Not to mention he has just the man to tell him being on Reals payroll isn't all its cracked up to be, or just look at the current jeering off Gareth Bale.

Villa have beaten us once since 2009, and that was with the aid of Foy. I don't get this they always save there best display for us, they don't. They sometimes get a good result in a big game, but it's just as often been Arsenal, Liverpool, City as much as us.

On the flip side City fans probably say the exact same about Navas, Madrid fans probably say it about Carvahal or however you spell his name, Barca fans Rakitic etc etc.

My initial reaction was there were some jeers but the rest drowned them out pretty quickly.

Is this the old Roman judges managers on CL success myth again?

He is injured im sure.

The big game thing is such a massive mountain out of a molehill not just for Cesc but for football in general, fans are so obsessed with big game players. We have been spoiled by Drogbas regular cup final goals, but even he had a lot of quiet big games in the league, apart from Arsenal, , in 8 seasons with us first time round in the league netted only once vs United, twice vs Liverpool and hasn't scored at all vs City since the Shieks took over (lets hope I jinx that) yet no one will say he isn't a big game player. Very few player's regularly stand out in big games, there big games for a reason.

Ings and Austin are the type of player's where you acknowledge they are good player's and are doing well for there club but when they are linked with big clubs your like, really?