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go back to the pre match thread whether there are so many pages questioning the selection jesus fucking Christ

It’s Howe who choose the start Longstaff over Tonali. If you are disappointed about Longstaff then you should rightly question the selection, instead of insulting Longstaff to that extent. Longstaff gives his all to the club, carried through injuries, never hide from any dangerous tackles. I am with Heron. You guys should all fuck off. Spreading negativity my arse. What about the posts above? What about those in Joelintons thread? Just because I pointed out it’s Howe who make the decision and then you can smash across my face? Go fuck urself

People aren’t allowed to blame Howe, simply as that

To be honest if we could lose 10 points just due to not meeting the PSR requirement, then surely Man City should face something like 1000 points punishment?

I just want to point out that Howe has changed the pressing formation - Bruno didn’t press that forward like last season, instead he stayed at the back and didn’t expose the space (yet) He is obviously tweaking our tactics based on last seasons experience

The first thing he has to do is question himself why the hell would Tonali be benched for Longstaff

yea of coz he can still contribute - or else he won’t have any sales value. just look at how and when Real Madrid get rid of Casemiro.

That probably explains why he is on the bench - he needs to be at LW, and Gordon preferred position is also LW.

When did we become Manchester United?

Madness game

Why would we sign Osula when we won’t play him even if Isak and Wilson are not available?

WTF are we doing here

should be stop playing so many favourites

Almost goal of the season

I would say the fucking FFP/PSR ruin the league more than Man City And also everyone have to agree that Man City in return provided a lot of talents to England national team and other lower clubs as well, by investing heavily in youth training. They have done more good and bad to football as a whole.

Imagine we get a loss tonight

Normally I would agree with you but considering 1. How he had power struggle with Bournemouth management which resulted his departure 2. How Ashworth was kinda forced out due to unable to work with Howe, if report is true the struggle with Mitchell will make it 3 out of 3 to me. I don’t think the benefit of the doubt lies on Howe side, unfortunately

Mitchell is the latest appointment by PIF, and together with the arrival of Bunce, departure or Staveley, he must have PIFs backing at this moment The only way Howe could turn this around is to have some magnificent achievement this season, so great that PIF willing to alter their preferred structure again

That’s the problem of squad planning and financial management, not the scouting system. As long as we spotted talents that proves to be more valuable than the cost we paid then it’s a success You are right re Tonali though. We must have missed the background checking part

I think that’s pretty obvious that after the summer window, Mitchell got the V for the transfer power. So the implication of “no contact” should be now Mitchell doesn’t need or want to discuss with Howe for future transfers / squad planning Which is what Howe dislike most. We all know that.

Sometimes I do wonder why Mitchell said the current system is “not fit for purpose”. Was the system changed after Ashworth left? I mean that’s a system that spotted Bruno, Botman and Gordon so I won’t say it was a failure. Yes you can argue that we shouldn’t over spend last summer on Barnes and Hall but that’s a problem of decision rather than system

Angel Gomes made his name 5 years ago before leaving Man Utd. He was U21 / U23 regular starters back at that time. I won’t say he is obscure

Brazil in danger of missing WC2026

Aye, I think that’s pretty clear, all the players knew it

I would say he is interested in drumming up interest and hence he is able to ask for much higher wages from all parties as he is now a “70m rated” star