The College Dropout

Then Anfield soon after.

With the contract situation and relegation Maddison can't go for anymore than £40m man.

Nah he does epitomise everything wrong with the club and he's trying to go back to Barcelona. If I was a PSG supporter - i'd be fed up of him and the like too.

Hazard went for £80m with 1 year left.

Can Mount play 8?

They need 7 points from that most likely.

In any case. We beat them... they probably don't get 6 points from Liverpool & Man U and that's probably us in the "the chaaaaaampioooooons".

Liverpool are too far away and still not convincing. They win all their games they don't get to 70 points - they're out. Aye even with the injuries, the fixtures are so kind. I only recently realised the Spurs game is at Spurs. A SPurs win would be bad because you still reckon Man U get 70 odd points if they lose that.

Man Utd have such easy fixtures man

Also "at his best" he didn't do much penalty box defending. I couldn't put him above Rio, Terry or Campbell. But he's that level.

It's hard to judge any Liverpool player under Klopp. It's such a system and fairly unique. He was as commanding as i've ever seen a CB at his best.

They could win every game for the rest of the season and not finish in the CL man. It’s over.

Anyone but City for me

Barnes has 10 league goals this season tbf to him

Fair enough. That's just my observation from tihs season. Will look at some of his clips from last season. I assume those assists came from cutbacks and such after some good movement.

Aye he makes the attacking runs that ASM doesn't. ASM always wants it to feet rather than running onto things. Barnes has no creativity. Never see him beat a man, cross (well) or pass it well. Run and shoot. Movement. That's his game. Him & ASM for the left. Almiron & Gordon on the right. It's good but it doesn't scream Champions League.

Barnes is a finisher and has great movement. I don't rate his all-round game much. I like him but would prefer a left-footer

Injuries / didn't trust his body / not the right mentality

That doesn't matter. If I go into a job and keep the things that worked well previously and achieve comparable results that were seen as a success - I would have done a decent job. You're letting your personal bias cloud your judgement. Obviously Rafa did a better job. He built that foundation and he managed the fans much better.

It's not just the money. Politically it's the easiest "big" job going, probably the easiest ever. Everything is built for him - all his mates in positions of power. There's no major outside influences on the football operations. A docile fanbase. Compliant and non-demanding media. Chelsea had money. But it was always Roman's ship and his cronies needed constant management. City is Pep's ship.

Pep is the best league manager of all time and City have unlimited resources and easy internal politics. He needs to go elsewhere man. Go back and rebuild Barcelona.

This is true and will be his downfall. While Pep is at City. City will win 80% of PLs. Unless they receive significant penalties they will continue to dominate. I Don’t think the football public has realised how utterly dominant City are. They’ve had their worst season in some time and will likely win the double at least.

I've got no love for Bayern like. I didn't know until recently that Adidas, the second largest sports manufacturer in the world owns 8% of Bayern and has a seat on the board. The current Bayern President is a former Adidas CEO too. Adidas have a huge influence on football in general.

Aye Bruce did do a decent job at first. Aye a lot of it is down to using Rafa's template but he still did a decent job.

Aye the management pool at the highest level is small. Smith doesn’t sound exciting but… who else? Any manager on the ‘up’ will stay clear. It’s too risky to go totally unproven at this stage. The big problem was letting Rodgers go on so long. They could’ve sacked him a long time ago and gone for a Loupetegui(sp?) type manager. Someone at this point - only desperate managers would take the job.