Sideshow Luiz

Dembele is also too old. We don't buy 29 year olds (emergency Giroud aside). The only one from that list that's a possibility is Jorginho. The 3 in La Liga have 0 chance.

Luis Campos will be the most important transfer this summer, I think. Problems at the club need to be fixed from the back room first.

Embarassing

I can't blame Willian for that. He was making a run down the right to get the ball on the counter. Moses hit the first man again. Unfortunately it was in our own half and had half the team running the other way.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the quote. Nothing about extending.

I agree. I'm more lamenting that it hasn't been done before. City are building with a philosophy. Since Txiki has been there, everything was about getting a team ready for Pep. I'm sure the next manager in will share a similar possession based attacking philosophy.

This is kind of our issue though, isn't it. The real issue. What is our philosophy? We keep going through managers and have power struggles between the manager vs. the board. On one hand, the manager needs the players he needs. On the other, managers want to win now and want to bring in players that may not be in the club's long term interests. Solution: We play a certain way, we have a certain philosophy, we get the players and manager that reflect that philosophy. Jose, AVB, Ancelotti, Scolari.... Couldn't be more of a mash-up.

Ricky, all day!

When I first joined the forum, someone called me an idiot for suggesting that Jose coming back might not be the best decision. I thought, "well, so it's that kind of place here, huh".

Probably the wrong time for Courtois to pull his International-break "I love Madrid" talk.

I'd be really excited if we could get him.

That's always been the concern, but he's managed to stay healthy this year.

Rather go for Wilshire. I think he's been really good this season.

People came on here to moan and turn something in to a shit-show?

He's being so much more direct these days. His worst quality was always putting his foot on the ball and bringing the attack to a stand still.

Fair. It was more of a "don't get your hopes up for Fred" type of a post. Fred-lite, we can do.

Fred is going to City, if the reports have any truth.

This is part of his development, he's having a poor spell at the moment. If you want to be one of the first names on the team sheet for a club like Chelsea, you have to keep your focus for 9 months, sometimes 3 matches per week.

Going to Real Madrid isn't going to solve that problem.

Now that there has been some time for reflection: Which was the worse performance, this or a few years back against PSG when they dominated us with 10 men?

That's because we're better than them at everything.

Sampaoli. If he was in the running when we hired Conte, why is his name not coming up?

That's because he just has to come up with a plan with what he's got. Wish someone was of more quality? Tough, work around it.

That low fee would also suggest that the wages are astronomical (I don't actually know). As the selling club, it's easy to take a hit on the "transfer fee" if you're just selling it to yourself.