Ronaldo

We don't though. We buy their average players and always will with our self-imposed budget constraints.

Riyad Mahrez. We need to look elsewhere, though. It's a completely different pace and standard of football and our insistence on buying players from there, especially for key positions, is one of the biggest reasons we've been so hopelessly fragile since returning to the PL. I'd much rather we looked at Spain, Holland and here.

Ligue 2, who's that? Either way. Leciester have a core that have played top level football for most of their careers and Mahrez is an outstanding exception.

An added benefit of Rafa staying would be the end of us dipping into that fucking godawful league for a while.

There's only a year between them or he would have.

One of the heaviest bits of filmmaking I've ever seen, that. Really tough to watch.

To be fair, with their resources they've underachieved for a decade now. Don't blame them for wanting a change. They're going nowhere simply waiting for Wenger to call it a day.

Far better player than the likes of Gouffran who's somehow managed 100 games for us.

Of course he bottled it, he let the pressure get the better of him and took a shit penalty. Probably never taken a pen in such circumstances before (against former club, used to be adored by their fans, could send them down, just been hurled a load of abuse taking a corner 1 minute previously in the Strawberry corner), words from Anita and Cisse also probably put some doubt in his mind. If Darlow went the wrong way nobody would've said a word, though. There's a difference between it being an imperfect strike (which it was, obviously) and a bottle job. Honestly, people don't half let their emotions produce some daft and pointless posts on here.

Do City spend every summer trying to identify defenders who are good in a relative sense but utterly inadequate for a title-winning first Xl?

I don't like Yohan Cabaye one bit but he's a bottler because he had a penalty saved? Bottlers (in that sense) don't usually reach the age of 30 with a perfect penalty record, like.

f*** off prick, have a bit of respect For a 40-year-old you probably spend too much time calling people names on the internet, like.

Except nobody said he's a 'world-beater LB' and most of us have had pretty consistent opinions of him since he established himself in the side.

Having someone of his class and dignity permeates the whole club and city.

To be fair, Pata, I'd have to concede the lack of your best mate in the central defence has been equally important to us.

Since Swansea, surely.

He looks like Nesta in that motd highlight reel. Could really have a player here.

That's about right. He's a strange bloke who does strange things to get noticed but he's usually a good ref.

It's funny how wrong you've got this. 1. It wasn't Mike Dean, it was Rob Styles. 2. It wasn't Colo, it was Beye 3. If it had been 10/11 it wasn't Mike Dean, it was Martin Atkinson. 4. The player wasn't sent off in 10/11 5. It wasn't Colo, it was Williamson. Good old Stifler, man. NO's local butcher of history, logic, common sense, the English language.....

Really? Who are these people? Probably Ian W and no one else.

Yeah, that sounds really fucking ominous.

That flick from Ozil, man. £40m player my left nut.

Eh? When did Thauvin score a free kick for us?

Today? Most of the season to be fair.

It's a pretty fucking significant correlation, like. Get a proper defender at LB and you defend better and stop losing games.