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Isak dropping and linking play beautifully to start.

2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Don’t like the wide players today. 

Great by Joelinton and fantastic finish by Murphy, as the angle was a bit tight.

Perfect start!!!

Thrilled for Murphy man!

Lots of talk from Portugal that Sporting need to raise funds with another big sale and are very open to selling Ugarte because of it. They're saying it's because it looks likely they won't make the Champions League next season.

Looks like this is going to be a very likely signing we make quite early on. We seem to be the most strongly linked, and quite regularly too.

Joao Felix cost Atletico £113 million in 2019 and is on £250,000 a week. Pretty certain we aren't looking at him, or Laporte. That article is a mess. 

There's something wrong with that number 19 for Sheffield United.

39 minutes ago, mondonewc said:

Lavia looked a class act against Arsenal, so comfortable on the ball, he will be a top top player for sure. Sign him up Eddie. 

He looks very good.

Never even made an appearance under Pep I don't think. Instead they went and splurged on Philips, who is now buried on their bench.

Ridiculous.

39 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

They've just been relegated to the Belgian second division for what its worth

Yeah, I saw that was the case.

4 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Pep is easily the best manager in the world. 

I assume Madras was just giving a cheeky shout out to Howe? But perhaps not!

14 minutes ago, Kanji said:

I don’t mind who wins it. But I’m not by going to sit here and blame one or the other. Watching a hungry pack of wolves chase the title like city are and could do is what Football and sport is all about. This match on Wednesday is going to be amazing!

Man City can afford to hardly play the likes of Foden and Kalvin Philips who would be star players on almost every other team in the league, and could casually sell the likes of Jesus, Zinchenko and Sterling to their rivals in the league. 

At this point I'm just not particularly impressed by anything they are doing. They have the best manager, best goal scorer, best midfielder, best defender, best squad of players ... so, yeah, it doesn't really move me one bit.

9 minutes ago, Kanji said:

Odd post bro. 
 

1) city have continued the evolution of their squad with tactical masterclasses by Pep. He’s converting wingers to center mids and defenders to midfielders and rewriting the rule books on formations in and out of possession. 
 

2) while arsenal have been truly outstanding this season, they had a lead on the title and are losing the grasp. That’s on them. (Same as its on us if we don’t make CL)

 

3) man city aren’t the Haaland show. They create either sitters for him or he scores worldies. That’s what football is about. The creation or the finish or both. Don’t undermine it. 

In my opinion Arsenal have played the best football this season and have had more stand out players.

The most exciting thing about Man City has been Haaland and what he is doing. Outside of that, nothing else has really grabbed my attention tbh. Even DeBruyne has had his ups and downs.

There's a reason why the whole narrative of whether they are worse with Haaland was going round, even though I didn't necessarily agree with that point. 

I thought it was just down to this injury thing, but maybe I have it wrong. Would be interesting if he does become available.

2 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Yeah that’s what I thought initially, but a fair few of their fans seem to think that it’s something deeper, some odd ish comments from him, general lack of using him even in games like west ham. Could he fuck all, maybe hopium on my part. I’m a big fan of him 

Ah, interesting. If there's any issues there we should absolutely be all over that, I agree.

7 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

Ah man so Brighton will have first crack at Boniface in the summer?  

 

 

 

Yeah

It's why I haven't been getting too excited about him as he's most likely going there next.

Looks a very exciting prospect for Nigeria. 

4 minutes ago, Sempiternal said:

Can play a few places, but I just get this weird vibe with the way Arteta talks about him, could be nothing of course but still. If he leaves we should be all over it 

Arteta brought him through initially and was playing him loads but the injury stop and starts have been awful and so they are now bringing him back in very slowly from what I understand.

8 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I don’t really care, but I definitely don’t prefer Arsenal. I could watch Man City play all day and the way they evolve is amazing. 

Think Arsenal have played the best football in the league this season, with multiple players having great seasons. In Saka, Martinelli and Odegaard they are on the verge of having three players with double figure goals and assists. Man City have largely been the Haaland show this season.

Even if they don't win it this year, Arsenal have had the most impressive year this season, when you look at how Saka, Martinelli and Odegaard have developed as young players and achieved what they have. It's been really impressive.

Man City on the other hand signed the best goal scorer in the world for a fee that was a snip for them and despite selling three key players in Jesus, Sterling and Zinchenko are going to coast to another title. Yay! So exciting!

2 minutes ago, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

 

Fair about Vieira. Not even certain who Smith Rowe's direct competition would be, probably Odegaard I think. Though he has played on the left, so Martinelli and now Trossard maybe? Think he'll end up an Odegaard rather than a Martinelli though. He is brilliant like. 

 

 

 

Think Smith-Rowe will eventually take Xhaka's place as one of the 8s. Similar to how Man City use DeBruyne and Silva in those positions, it will eventually be Odegaard and Smith-Rowe.

Did anyone see the report that PIF were looking at buying Oostende in Belgium?

Would be awesome having a club in that league that we could loan players too, like the Brighton owner has with Union Saint Gilloise.

Just now, Chicken Dancer said:

We will beat Arsenal in a couple of weeks.

They are done. I even mentioned after the double collapse with the two nil leads that it would affect them in the match today. I just saw it coming.

Don't people feel like Arsenal winning would have meant anything is possible, just a little bit?

Like maybe we could have a great run in a few years and win it too?

This Man City thing is just so awful man. It's starting to become the frickin Bundesliga. Like what is the actual point ...

My goodness. Chelsea are a catastrophe man.

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

I think he will have more sense than to go there tbh.

Really hope he avoids both Spurs and Chelsea, as I'm convinced they will mess him up big time.

Seems to be a very sharp guy having kept a bit of an eye on him over this past season. Got a very promising managerial career ahead of him if he makes the right moves at the right time.

These idiots are going to ruin Kompany before he's even really got started man.

Gimenez filthy tackle.