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'Mastery' by Robert Greene Here are some extracts from the book.. "What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a new skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration--what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up." (Page 77) "Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. It is hard to find out such things from people, as they are often political with their praise and criticisms." (Page 83)

Why would you be a glory hunter if you hated on Mourinho?, he's glory personified.

The thing is, with the forums, a lot of people lost their USP's when Mourinho returned, if your identity as a fan is to criticise the manager(s). The fuck are people gonna do when the striker problem has been sorted out.. People need to vent, might have to bring Kalou back.. I need my fix.

-Zonal Marking

We're not a club that sells important players, when WE don't want them to leave. You need to differentiate the two types of selling.

You can't put a price on passion, that never say die attitude, we ran them to the ground.. everyone put in a shift.

Did you?, well that's your problem then. When you sign a big money player and he's taking up most of the wage bill, you/the club become committed to 'making it work' in a general sense. It's just the financial reality of football..

Melanicus beat me to it, lmao.

My worry is that by signing Costa [insert other big name striker] is that.. when they lose form, they make the team anyway! (until they do or don't regain form) due to the fee paid and the fact you can't have a 200k a week player on the bench. So even IF Lukaku was competing with 'said striker' he still wouldn't have a chance.

Let's not forget we famously beat them to Hazard by offering higher wages.

It's the opposite, Mata was hindering the team, because he only knows one role, epitome of one-dimensional. He never added anything substantial when introduced in similar level games under Jose; mostly down to form, hence why it was the perfect time to sell him. The entire deal was a masterstroke quite frankly, a panic buy from United, limiting their financial resources for the summer.

Yep, City's title it is then. Looking at their fixture list, this was supposed to be the banana skin, it's an easy run for them after the Liverpool game.

This is the problem of having a new kit every season, Adidas have to make stupid changes in order to justify the purchase.

Not really, it has extremely dark stripes DOMINATING it and from a distance the stripes look black. 'Blue shirt' should refer to it being the solid colour.

No, that would be worse tbh, thankfully that was only the FA Cup. When Spain won the world cup in their away kit, they quickly changed into the home shirt for the celebrations. The same would most likely happen for the PL if we were to win it away from home.

I can only see Bushman's posts when people quote him but wow, who doesn't know how to use a comma correctly?

That was a drop in the ocean compared to this, those stripes are a eye-sore.

Oh yea.. Because Lukaku would be very happy as a 3rd reserve, wouldn't he.

It's worse than the breast plate shirt in 09, because at least that was all blue, despite the poor design. We will win something in this shirt, unfortunately those iconic images will be ruined by black (or very fucking dark blue) stripes, ugh..

1. Big money signing ('finished article') 2. Lukaku 3. Eto'o (one year extension) 4. Bamford (a youth on low wages to eventually replace Eto'o as 3rd reserve) Out: Torres & Ba

From a distance (mainly how we will view this) the stripes look black!, like black & blue, just awful. When was the last time we had a collar?, wake up adidas.. Can't believe this is the shirt we will win our first trophy under Jose with, THIS.. is the historic shirt, ffs..

I can't even begin to tell you how disappointed I am with that kit.

The tactical outclassing of Pellegrini at the Etihad seems like a lifetime ago in this thread.

We'll be scary in Mourinho's second season, as usual with him.