Fernando

We do lack players what you talking about? If it wasnt for Lavia being injury prone he be there. We need to get rid of Lavia and get his replacement.

James in midfield is why I definitely want someone to be bought like Elliot or Wharton. We can't keep having that if we want to take the best big step in quality.

I'm thinking we need pace to counter since they play high line. I will think about garnacho and neto are good for this.

More reason why we after Elliot: By the way out of all EPL talk host shows this one of the few I like. The guys are very neutral in dicussion and are not lunatics like Jamie Carragher and company.

If we go ahead and buy Murillo in the January transfer window and we are within reach like 3 points behind I would say we have a chance. But only if that scenario happens, we need a top CB to be able to sustain winning game 1 to 0, because sometimes that is all we will get. We can't blow everyone every single weekend, and when you scored that one goal you need to defend for your life if that all it takes.

He did good in the role of Caicedo. But curious can they both do well like someone mentioned up top of Makele and Essien? Sadly Lavia should have been there but he is so injury prone that we can't build on him, needs to be send to Serie A where he might do good. We should now focus on what we can do with Caicedo and Santos in the mid, if it can work and complement each other ala Makele-Essien in their time.

we ain't got a chance this year either because of defense unless they go for it in the winter and get Murillo.

Did James got injured? And yes we ain't winning the title this season with that defense but it's a work in progress. We are improving season by season and that despite all the negativity here with the manager and the board. I'm fine with both as I been saying for a while. Maresca is the coach we need and the club is doing great in building the team for the coming seasons. Let's see what they do in the summer in terms of defensive side.

The commentary was saying that it's a method that has allowed the low block of Burnley to come out and play and thus leaving space for us to attack.

Yes same I would take out Pedro for someone else. This is where Caicedo can come in. Or another midfielder for better control of the mid... Which we don't have after Caicedo.

I will give them the next two transfer window to asses that issue. If come next season they have not done much to address that I will give you the benefit of the doubt. But in 3 years they are doing good for me. Reminds me of how arteta started, took a while to get to it. So our next level is to get that area right in the coming windows.

He has been good today. Let's asses that at the end of the season.

You just a hater bro. Can't see the big picture of how we are doing and just any little thing you always hating on the manager or the board.

It just shows that these owners are smart when it comes to finding loopholes.

A while before we even get bother about those type of talks. Probably by 2030 they can start those talk lol since his contract expires on June 30, 2033

I think it's because of the stats. Remember we are stats driving by the higher ups. This was an article discussing Caicedo vs Rice from Skysport and at the bottom they put this info there: If anything, the stats suggest that it is another Englishman who is closest to challenging Caicedo for the best Premier League midfielder tag. That being Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson. Anderson leads the way in multiple categories at either end of the pitch, including passes completed, duels won, recoveries and possession won. That form is certainly enough for him to deserve a place in Thomas Tuchel's World Cup plans. But enough to be considered the best in the league? Most would argue such a debate would be a little premature. That doesn't apply to Caicedo, though. The impact he continues to have on the world champions certainly puts him at the forefront of those in line for the crown. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/13445937/moises-caicedo-is-there-a-better-midfielder-than-the-Chelsea-star-in-the-premier-league

But not sure if you read correctly it seems like he is not just attributing to tariff. Tariff only been here for one year...well even less then one year. But this statement says over the past 5 years......

You say that now that he is 25 years old and had many tries to improve. It's like giving the same context Gittens and Garnacho come good at 25 after many tries in the PL..... But you don't want to be patient with the younger guys that can have potential like Semenyo? I'm sure if you bought Semenyo at 21 and he was not showing nothing you would have said not a good signing. The point is that with these younger players sometimes you need to give them a season or two and then we can assess further. The only youth that has come doing above others is Estevao and that is the exception not the norm.

I don't understand that headlines, is it saying that people who support him are pedophiles? Or that Trump is a pedophile? I agree with Trump being a pedophile. But the people who support him? Theres no evidence in the article, as when i open the article it just gave some statements but it brought no actual fact and it shows nowhere where it got it's info. It says: a Gallup Poll released Tuesday confirmed that Donald Trump’s support remained overwhelmingly strong among working-class American pedophiles. But it doesn't give that info in the article of where to find it?

At least we are working on defenders which is what i was asking. Granted this is for the future but this guy is getting a lot of hype from Ecuador. I'm still surprised that Ecuador out of nowhere are producing top players. Kind of remind of Belgium with their golden generation. Seems like that is right now with Ecuador.

I was saying to sell him in the summer where many did not wanted. I thought he was very limited.

Yes I'm surprised. Having low expectations helped 🙂

As I been saying for a while when its Israel everyone protest but when it's another country no one gives much attention. Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much? Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests Sheikh Mansour is thus implicated directly in a letter addressed this week to the British government by the MP for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn. In this letter Corbyn repeats a conclusion already drawn by the UN and the US Department of State, that the UAE (and thereby the owner of Manchester City) is providing resources and support for ethnically targeted mass killings in Sudan so vicious they can be seen from space. The UN has spoken of mass rape, ethnic massacres and the threat of widespread starvation. Piles of dead bodies and patches of blood are visible on satellite pictures. There are reports of the summary execution of 500 people in a maternity hospital. This is not just another distant connection, a corporate war‑laundering scheme, a bank that owns a fund. It is literally the same people. Club owner. Government. Football match. Bodies. The choice is simple. You either care or you don’t. The second game I went to his week was Aston Villa against Maccabi Tel Aviv. For all the talk of Nights of Shame this was a largely peaceful protest. The police did their job. Banning the Maccabi fans may have been a supra-football choice – come on, we’re not children; there’s a war going on – but it helped retain order. Otherwise this was surely the most protested about single event in British sporting history. This is a good thing. It is obviously right to be concerned. I wrote in these pages a few weeks ago that Israel should not be taking part in international sport at all while blood is being spilled in Gaza, a standard that should be applied to anyone carrying out extreme acts of war. And while you don’t have to agree with this, or see any relation to sport, if you care about one of these things and not the other, it is worth asking why. Why does no one care that City are owned by Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi, that an area of Manchester has been literally rebranded as “Etihad”. Imagine the rage if Israel bought a Premier League club. It wouldn’t last five minutes. As it stands, no one is banning Abu Dhabi from anything. It’s a home of fun. Frankie Boyle, for example, is consistently critical of Israel’s military actions, which is good and fine, but happy also to perform at something called the Laughter Factory in Dubai only this year because, well who knows? Looking at this you start to suspect the only way for the people of Sudan to get any kind of leverage would be for Israel to start bombing them. Perhaps Israel should start hiring its services to beleaguered populations everywhere. Is your bloodshed failing to do numbers? Hire the IDF. Everyone hates us. So why does no one care? Or rather, why does everyone care about one side of this picture? It should be noted there were some Sudanese protests before the Manchester City Women game last week, but not the organised groups seen protesting against other things. And nothing on Wednesday, no encampments, no banners, no graffiti, and zero mentions of this connection still in the mainstream media. There are some obvious reasons. First, ignorance. People just don’t make the connection, or know this thing is happening. It’s not presented on a daily basis. You can ignore it, or see it as someone else’s problem. The other explanation is that there is a heavily codified set of beliefs out there that only faces one way. A lot of people simply despise Israel. Gravity points that way. The hive mind is powerful. So this is the issue. These massacres over here. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/08/silence-over-sudan-manchester-city-owners-football

We got zappacosta, Bakayoko, drinkwater. Some of the worst buys under him. I always said that he is good short term, will win us the title but not good long term in building a team. I still rather stick with Maresca and the board for they are doing a good job in the mid all the way up. They are just lacking in defensive side. Sigh if they will only sign a director that is good for that....

In the end it did make sense we kept a clean sheet.