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A reminder of the cock-up by Mourinho.

They might be reliant on certain individuals but at full flow, they are some of the better sides in the division while some are just generally poor, like Villa, West Brom etc. You've seen it yourself. And if you want to talk about teams being carried by individuals, you could say the same for us really. Without Hazard/Fabregas/Costa, we'll likely get exposed.

None of teams in England are as good as Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich but if the lesser sides are as bad as you paint them to be, you would still expect the bigger ones to take points off them consistently. But no. So many of the smaller sides have taken points off their bigger counterparts on a regular basis over the years. And seriously Tomo, using sides like Norwich, West Brom and Aston Villa to justify your views about the lesser sides is clutching at straws because those teams are really poor. Easily fall into the bottom 5 sides category and you know that. I still stand by the fact that Guardiola is taking over the easiest job in England due to the fact that City have the best squad in England. Now, Guardiola is good as his record speaks for itself but let's not make him sound like a God, who is just going to come to the Premier League and streamroll everyone for the next 3-4 years. Let's see what happens in the summer transfer market and how he does in the first month or so before jumping to any silly conclusions.

If the lesser sides are mostly clueless and lack any technical skill, then how come we don't see the bigger sides steamroll them more often? The bottom 5 teams probably fall into that category but those higher than that? They don't considering they have some talented/good players in their ranks and they will likely pose far greater challenge than those Guardiola has faced.

Thing is though, I doubt he would find the lesser sides in the Premier League as 'accommodating' as the ones he found in La Liga and Bundesliga.

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I think Choulo was reacting to the 'Pellegrini to Juventus' part, not 'Allegri to Chelsea'.

Hardly surprising considering Motta had first hand experience of Mourinho's management at Inter.

We might believe that Hazard will end up at Real at some point but believe that we'll sell him for just 25m?

Maybe Allegri is the man to unlock his potential.....

We're one of only 2 clubs still yet to win back-to-back league games this season...

If Allegri does come here, Oscar will probably stay because it is the former after all who's interested in the latter last summer.

And you think Dybala will be cheap? Juve bought him for 40m and we won't be in the Champions League.

You might as well just ask him to bring Pogba, Morata etc along.

The Champions League is a massive factor in attracting top class players and it could affect who we buy and sell. But I think the most thing this summer is showing that we've still got the ambition to be at the top level. If not, like you said, strap yourselves in and prepare to become Liverpool 2.0.

If you don't care what he said in the interview, then why even bother replying to the post in the first place?

That Gerrard-slip game!

If people were cheeky enough to put bets on Leicester to win the title before the start of the season, why not?

As much as we want to see that happen, it's very very very very very highly unlikely. When was the last time Ivanovic even played at centre back anyway?

No disrespect but that's a silly way to look at it. So, what if there are 7 teams between us and that 6th spot? It's only a 9-point gap after all and as if we have seen this season, nobody with the exception of Leicester and Spurs are consistent. The 5 teams directly above us - Palace, Stoke, Watford, Liverpool and Everton - have been very wobbly in recent weeks to say the least. IF we can put together some form of winning run, we can definitely get into those Europa League spots.

That's not the point. He basically said winning the Champions League is a big target now since we can't get into the competition via the league. But if we don't get into it for next season, he can cope without it for a year because we haven't done well to qualify.

Surprised no one has picked this bit up...