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I'd be okay with Xavi, Amorin or DZ in that order.

They need to understand it isn't a stop and shoot type sport like baseball. You can't just assemble talent and expect it to fit. Its a dynamic sport, where the manager needs input on types of players to fit the style. Won't get anywhere chopping and changing. No continuity.

F*cking bollocks. Ah well. Another season in the shit next year right after we were making progress.

FFS. Garbage if true. Board is clueless with the managerial side.

We have a young team, with another old head gone in Thiago. The players loved Poch. You take away that semblance of continuity and it will impact a young team like this, especially Poch who was well liked by the players it seems. I'm not a genius or know what Poch was thinking, but, I think this high risk attacking football was to get the players to enjoy the football. They certainly did. I think the defensive solidarity was coming this next season with a few buys and more focus there, because our offence is firing on all cylinders now.

You're not really reading or replying to what he is saying. His conditions have always been more favourable - and if all things being equal he said he wouldn't do as well as the other managers he considers better. Not a far fetch statement when there is proof of that. 1 CL in 7 tries with City. Underachieving. None with Bayern. Underachieving. They had just won it too. Wherever Pep has gone, it is the most stacked team in the league with the most financial backing. On top of that controversy with ref payments and 115 charges for added benefit of getting ahead. Zidane didn't have as much going for him - CL after CL win. Carlo didn't even have a striker - knocks him out and serial CL winner.

De Zerbi would be interesting. I think a lot of the shit Brighton dealt with this season was due to injuries as well. At the same time you want a manager who is tactically astute enough to be able to lose players and not miss too much of a beat. I guess that is easier at Liverpool and Man City with their type of teams, as opposed to Brighton who doesn't have the talent. For the first time, I'm stumped as to what is the right answer. I would have liked another season under Poch for continuity and it seems the players liked him a lot.

I never said otherwise. I said he has gotten the most favourable conditions out of any manager ever. 1 CL with this City team is an underachievement. None with that Bayern team. Underachievement. Pep also gets the most leniency. Pep also has gone to a team with 115 pending infractions that go outside of just the rules of the sport but fraud level. I find all the 100m sprinters super impressive even though I know they’re all on PEDs. But if all were clean aside from one you wouldn’t be as impressed by the one.

De Zerbi or Hoeness is the only right answer now. Tuchel underperforms bar the cup games. People are forgetting how bad our offence was at times with him. No thanks.

No one here got to inherit what Pep did. They inherited a sub 40 goal scoring a season team. Adjust the majority of City's spend for inflation and those numbers would be fun to look at too. City as a team have been far better run that us 5+ years before Pep came in. Buying the right talent, building a style of football internally amongst the ranks, etc. Pep does what he always does - takes over the far and away best team, keeps spending, and coaches wins.

Absolute nonsense. In 13/14 they won the title with the 2nd biggest goal difference in league history at the time. In 14/15 - they come 2nd after again having by far the biggest goal difference in the league. 15/16 - they stumble just like every other team and Leicester has a historic season never before seen. Am I to believe Leicester was more talented than them when Pep took over? Or Tottenham and Arsenal? They pumped us 3-0 both times they played us that season. City the prior 5 years to Pep joining were doing a shit tonne better than us buying, and then add on top the unlimited spending post that. KDB, Toure, Silva, Aguero, Fernandinho, Sterling, Kompany... Our two CL winning teams weren't that talented. The majority of these guys were in their prime when Pep took over. Or entering.

He is good. Clearly. The best? No. Pep has only ever gone to the teams with the best talent. City was the best team in the world talent wise before he got there - then they bolstered it even more. Bayern was the best talent wise at the time too. City was better at recruitment than us for long before Pep was there. They were already finding better value and promising youngsters before us. Then we find out they have 115 accusations. That is - cheating. Once found out. Where there is smoke there is fire.

Cheaters gonna cheat.

Wow - can't kick, tackle, pass, play football. Somehow keeps being the best player on the pitch. Some of us here are great evaluators.

As a Croat, him and Gvardiol can get fooked playing for those cheating scum.

How does this work for FFP as they are technically youth players atm? Does their purchase price come into play once they hit a certain age/no longer youth team distinction or how does it work against our FFP numbers?

Good to hear. Not all that special.

If Lavia gets healthy next season, doesn't that solve our DM problem? I would like a LW so Mudryk is a super sub type player. Also a CB - maybe the bloke on a free that was talked about earlier in here. Get rid of Disasi, and maybe let the CB's we have get a proper go for a whole season. Badi can get another season to work it out. Out - Chilly, Disasi, Ugo In - LW, CB, LB

Caceido MOTM again. He can't pass, tackle, run, do anything though.

He barely touched him...

I welcome this Brazilian buying. Get ahead of the curve and buy the next amazing generation. We always seem to want to buy the international squad of the players that are on the way out of their golden generation.

I'll gladly post my sporting credentials on here against yours. Not only that, happy to talk around "recurring" injuries and coming back and recording significantly better sprint and vertical jump measurements.

I don’t know how he managed to score that header on the weekend. I was told he has no neck muscles and can’t improve at his age. Just like Kepa having weak wrist muscles. All these incurable perma wrecked diseases our players carry. Carry on though. It’s easy to see who’s never played sport before lol.

Caceido can't pass yet he keeps making some absolutely defence breaking passes against the opposition - and one that leads to the winner. Jackson is a terrible finisher too - he just scores game winners. In other news - it is time to go for Poch. We can't control games against bottom 5 sides, which is not what we want. These are games we should have 70% possession, recycle offence all game, and lose only if the absolute worst luck ever is on our side. Instead - this was a 50/50 game, where we came out on top due to a bit of luck and some decent changes.

No one cares about this nonsense City team like they did United, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc. Everyone knows they're cheating out their ass, but keep it moving because no one can be bothered kicking up a fuss.