Pizy

The way City are trending now, if they get Semenyo and keep Haaland fit I think they could win everything again this season. Sure must be nice to be a serious club. Buying plug and play quality rather than players you can tell will be shit before ever pulling on your shirt like Gittens.

My question is why the fuck we’d brief everyone that we have registered our interest only to pull out (or be rejected) within a couple of hours? Why not brief everyone instead that “Chelsea are looking at attackers now with an eye on 2026?” Feels like complete idiocy to tell every credible journalist a specific name and then instantly pull the rug after all our supporters got excited.

Semenyo link dead after only a couple of hours. He probably told us thanks but no thanks. Tbf, an attacking wide player didn’t make much sense in January.

Tbf, nobody with a brain would choose United. But the money they’ll be offering may be impossible to turn down. Bruno injured, Mbuemo and Amad now at AFCON, their results are sputtering. They’re desperate for an injection of real quality and will pay out their asses if he agrees to go to them.

Matt Law has kind of played down this move already. Sounds like yes we checked with Semenyo’s camp but that it’ll be a real long shot if we go all out for him. With the 2 Manchester clubs and Liverpool after him hard I don’t see this happening. They can all blow our wage offer out of the water. United especially will be desperate for him and probably offer £250k per week.

Don’t think so either but now even Ornstein is reporting it. Surely someone has to go for this to make even a little sense. And there’s no way Garnacho, Neto, or Estevão go of course. Is it even remotely plausible that they’ve given up on Gittens after only a few months? I would’ve thought no chance…

Hmm, literally less than 30 minutes after I dismissed the idea it looks like a brief went out that we ARE indeed interested in Semenyo. How that would work numbers wise I have no clue. We’ve already got 4 wingers (5 if you count George) and 2 #10’s.

I don’t think we’ll be buying another expensive winger for a long, long time. The people above Maresca aren’t going to give up on Gittens after spending so much on him. Especially after the Mudryk thing blew up in their faces already. Garnacho has at least shown something and with Quenda coming in next summer we’ll be set in the wide positions numbers wise.

Had we not pissed away £50m or whatever it was on Gittens which we all knew would be extremely poor business we could probably be in the race for Semenyo right now. His game and playing style is super similar to Pedro Neto’s who Maresca loves. So imagine having 2 of them on the pitch at once.

Vitor Roque would absolutely have been the model Clearlake signing before he went to Barca and flopped massively. Thankfully I don’t think even this board isn’t silly enough to buy him now. The last thing this squad needs is another young and inconsistent forward when we’ve already got a bunch of those on our books as is. It is kinda mad how the last 2 Brazilian “wonderkids” to move to the Spanish giants in Roque & Endrick have been complete disasters. We got super lucky that Estevão looks like he has settled much better than those 2 did.

To repeatedly show up to match after match all season long looking completely unprepared and surprised by the intensity and energy of our opponents is criminal. These teams don’t even have to do ANYTHING special or complicated or technical to dominate us. All the opposing manager needs to do is tell his players “hey guys, just run around a lot and press them.” That’s literally all it takes and we can’t deal with it AT ALL. That’s on the manager.

Played off the pitch by a patched together Newcastle side who have been super mediocre all season.

He can go. I don’t even care anymore. Inexcusable to have us looking like this over and over again.

Can’t get possession to save our lives. This is woeful once again.

Yet another match where our opponent comes out with MILES more intensity. Theme of our entire season.

It’s ALWAYS these schoolboy self inflicted errors. ALWAYS.

WTF FOFANA, PASS THE GODDAMN BALL

They’ve still got several really good players here but if we can’t beat them with the injuries they have then we aren’t a serious team.

Probably a good thing that Enzo is not starting this one as this game will likely be super physical in midfield and he has looked burnt out lately.

Tbf, his own quotes from that are now coming out from the embargoed section of the press conference don’t exactly turn the temperature down. It’s like he’s trying to talk himself into trouble with the board.

I have no real love for Maresca at all, believe me. I won’t shed a tear if he ends up going. I’m just worried that we’d replace him with someone who’s even more unproven and even more of a puppet. Any Maresca replacement has to be an established, top quality manager who instantly commands respect from the players. None of this super young and “learning on the job” stuff.

Can absolutely see him jumping ship to City depending on how the rest of this season goes. If we finish strongly and in the top 4 again then he’ll probably stay and continue to build us into a proper top team. If we fuck it all up and don’t achieve UCL football I think he walks. I’m just terrified of what this board will do to replace him if he does go. Probably appoint Rosenoir which would be incredibly stupid.

wtf is this obsession with Mainoo? He looked really promising when he suddenly burst into the scene but has been completely irrelevant for ages now and can’t get a game in a horrible United midfield. If we seriously chose him over Wharton I’m going to lose my mind. Mainoo isn’t better than any of Santos, Essugo, or Lavia. I’d rather take our chances with constantly injured Lavia than throw Man United another bag of cash for a midfielder that doesn’t even play for them.

Tosin and Gusto ball watching like fucking idiots with multiple Cardiff players on the penalty spot unmarked.

Not really having this complaint from Maresca if it’s about not feeling fully supporter by the higher ups. Like us, they can see him continue to play weird ass lineups, play players out of position, and stubbornly picking a player like Tosin despite him directly costing us numerous games whilst a superior player sat on the bench. Nobody forced him to do all this stuff. Only legitimate complaints he can have for me are that the club refused him a new CB when Colwill went down for the season and the fact that he has been without Palmer for most of the season which has been unlucky.