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Not gonna lie about 50-60% of those clips I am not surprised he doesn’t pass it to Mudryk who is basically man marked by their wingback/fullback within touching distance and his body in a position where he cannot really isolate the player without taking extra touches. Seems vastly overanalysed but also then how many other players don’t make those passes to players? Nothing new. The ones where Mudryk has a yard or two yeah I understand the frustration but not going to make it out to be a big deal. Maybe it was also a tactical thing to try play more through the middle? We’ve seen it before with Di Matteo with Mata Hazard and Oscar coming in really really narrow and going to focus on the play going centrally. Also seen it with Sarri playing through Jorginho.

Goals aside, still not overly excited by him. Still extremely raw technically and think at higher level and tempo he will struggle initially. A loan to a mid table team in France, Spain or even Portugal maybe be a wise move to start with. Don’t think he will see many minutes here if he gets a work permit and undoubtedly will be loaned in the summer. Not writing him off but I think its fair to say his goals have vastly inflated his performances. For me, he doesn’t look to be anywhere near to the same level of technical ability the likes of Neymar, Vini, Rodrygo, Lucas Moura, Oscar, Casemiro etc (guys who came straight from Brazil to Europe) were. Obviously still an opportunity to develop that side. Not saying he has to have the technical attributes of Neymar or Vini etc who are higher end of the scale but the likes of Oscar and Casemiro were considerably much much more proficient technically when they moved to Europe.

Getting rid of Tuchel and appointing Potter has to be the stupidest appointment we’ve made since Villas-Boas after Ancelotti. One of the worst moves this club has made in the past 25 years.

How many more chances? Started brightish then faded. AGAIN. Before being shite. We are far too easy to play against, the penalty no penalty whatever (turned the game off by then because it was a poor watch) is just an excuse either way that could make people to well he was unlucky but that was not a performance worthy of a win from what I watched up to after (barring first 20 minutes or so, did we do anything?) Out of his depth. Considerably. Making the players look shite too by saying things like a “step in the right direction performance wise”, I mean do we have mid tabke players? Is this level of performance acceptable for the personnel we have? I am so absolutely fucked off by this guy and how he seems to be getting no bad press in the UK re his job and how he’s doing. Theres always an excuse. Penalty/no penalty. Injuries. Suspensions. Enough. He’s not good enough. Not one thing where you can notice any signs of notable improvement from since he came in barring the new manager bounce which is usually 3 or 4 games. He’s had that. Also If I see the “he tore AC Milan a new arsehole twice ” post again in response as to why we should get behind him I am going to cry 🤣

Lukaku heir? Wells that a disappointing way to put it.

Havertz up top…. Should of went with Fofana

The 443 stuff came from the Athletic and they are notoriously well informed usually. Not sure where the CL thing came from but seen it doing the rounds

Release clause but to be paid in instalments.

Said Enzo wasn’t coming if we didn’t pay the release clause. Which we did. Then on deadline day I think 3/4s of us said he might not come which it did look incredibly unlikely at times with the reports about the deal. And said originally after thinking they wouldn’t loan him that Felix wont be coming (on a cheap - which people thought we would get him for) unless we meet Atletico’s astronomical prices for a 6 month loan plus paid all of his salary. Which we did. For what almost £14m quid all in. Plus If Enzo cost €121m or whatever on a release clause how much do you think a genuine world class midfield player who is hugely proven and one of the Italian NTs key players, will cost? Not any other club, but us? And thats before even debating if he would leave Italy? We had a chance to get him under Sarri and didn’t. Wont happen.

Yeah same. GP is defos gonna at least include him in the pre-season to see what like he is then make a decision. Never ever going to get Barella. Ever.

Lot of rumours going around that Todd was in a meeting with agents and made a comment where it looks like he was under the impression we qualified for the CL every year… then he was corrected by one of said agent, left the room and checked with his advisors before returning and acknowledging he was wrong 🤣 Holy fuck I hope this isn't true - talk about looking like a grade A fanny

He’s a Man United fan. He has said countless times buying a PL club isn’t good value for money compared to other clubs in foreign leagues (fully agreed but I suppose if I was a multi multi billionaire I’d either want to be batman 😂 or own the football club I support in the ‘best league in the world’) but I would imagine his affiliation to United as a fan probably as well as scratching the itch of owning a PL club, something he’s wanted and tried to do already with Newcastle, us and Leeds (although whilst in the Championship IIRC), will make it happen. The “its a rich mans toy” thing is throwaway comment because how often has that been said in the past and its never been accurate? With us when Roman took over, when City were bought by Sheikh Mansour, when PSG were bought by the Qatari’s , probably when we were bought over again etc. These guys are passionate about achieving something with these clubs, which they will treat the same way as any other business undoubtedly and want it to be successful. Nobody who is rich enough buys a PL football club these days for the going prices purely to use it as a toy or a plaything.

Hernandez one of most overrated LBs in Europe. So poor defensively. Always has been.

Footballs a game of opinions. I don’t think it would be wrong to say we’ve made no real progress under Potter. A handful of games aside, performances haven’t been good enough. Not at all. But yeah lets use 2 CL games against AC Milan 4 months ago as a good barometer as opposed to a lot of performances since then where we really have struggled against poor sides - not even considering the big teams. If we want to make real progress not only quicker but with the aim of becoming a top top team over a sustained period, we will need to replace Potter. 100%.

Hes never played as a number 9 before ever though. When will we learn? He’s always played off a CF…. Feels like we’re just gonna end up repeating what we did with Havertz all again. Same way Felix has never played as an actual 9 either with any real success. People seem to think Nkunku or Felix are gonna solve our CF issues. They wont. Because they arent CFs. Simple as that.

And people thought he was gonna be our number 9…

Tbf anyone with eyes can assess his work. Not good enough

I dont necessarily think so. Rice isn’t necessarily just a sitting midfielder although neither is Casemiro. Both have more to their game and Rice has started chipping in with goals and more offensive contributions. West Ham played both Rice and Soucek who are actually quite similar and it worked well. Even if Rice played here, he wouldn’t be just sitting in front of the back 4, he’d probably be in a more box to box role with Enzo deeper pulling the strings. He predominantly plays in a midfield paring as well as opposed to as a pivot.

What punishments can the independent commission impose on a club? Suspend a club from playing league matches Points deductions Recommend to the board that league matches be replayed Recommend to the board that the league expels the respondent club Order compensation Cancel or refuse registration of players Conditional punishment Order the club to pay costs Make such other order as it thinks fit Well I reckon from there, its its going to be compensation/conditional punishment more than likely. Because well its the PL and I doubt they will want to jump through all the hoops to make the league weaker by relegating City for example. People thinking titles will be stripped (alongside relegation) are living in cuckoo land for me. So if the PL as a product is the “best league in the world” why would they expel one of the best teams in the world? With the best players? Best coach etc? It just weakens the PL. City will probably pay some daft figures and that will be it. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12804623/man-city-premier-league-charges-explained-what-are-they-what-could-punishment-be-whats-the-timescale

Walk the league…. Optimistic

Do we look better? We were a much better team last season and people still complained we were poor. We don’t look better in any facet bar the fact we’ve lowered the average age of the squad by recruiting younger players on long term contracts. Performances aren’t there. Results aren’t there. When this seasons done we are all gonna sit down and say we’ve spent £600m and look worse for it. Because 1) the manager isn’t at the level 2) we have a huge fuck off sized squad that will have some very unhappy personnel by the end of the season which wont help things and 3) its going to take time for these signings to come in and deliver consistently. The footballs shite. The managers shite and way way way way out of his depth. Even if Liverpool and City change managers its not exactly a good thing is it? Because they will undoubtedly get competent replacements and undoubtedly their players wont play as badly/inconsistently as this season either. ”City might get relegated” crack the next joke. Do you really think the PL is going to relegate a team that has a £1 billion squad and has won 11 trophies in the past 7 years? That has the best manager of the best managers out there in club football at the helm? And has some of the richest club owners in the footballing world? 🤣

Even if they get what Juventus got. They’ll still be above us. On goal difference. By about 31 goals. Would say we should focus on ourselves and not Man City because at present we are, for a lack of a better word, honking. That bad to watch that I am gonna steal a Roy Keane saying “probably wouldn't watch us if we were playing in my back garden”. I mean other clubs getting point deductions not gonna make us a good team is it? So why theirs a huge obsession as if its gonna improve our fortunes is ludicrous. In fact, I will gon on a limb and say City could get a 15 point deduction and still have 90% more of a chance of making the top 4 than we will.

It wont happen. They will wriggle out of it or it’ll be a fine. Plus even if they got a point deduction not gonna improve our chances of making the top 4. We need to do that by improving ourselves.

Precisely. Him playing here as a 10 and ending up any better is an absolute no go for me. If he was going to be much much better player as a 10 do people not think he would be playing that position regularly?

Have to disagree, their squad definitely wasn't a weak one. Their starting 11 was also pretty good most games, consisted of players such as Unai Simon, Rodri, Laporte, Busquets, Gavi, Pedri, Asensio, Ferran Torres and Dani Olmo. For their starting 11 and squad, the standard of football barring against Costa Rica who were shocking was piss poor. No penetration. Played a poor Germany team and Japan, weren't convincing at all. Even against Morocco, again poor and boring to watch sideways and backwards a lot. Played nothing like his Barca team who won the treble, now they were incredible to watch. He won’t come to the PL anyway I’d imagine.