tom1988

http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardbeech/how-much-would-manchester-city-pay-for-you#.aqe1KewPM Got £30m - "They’d sign you, and you’d think you were their new star player, but you’d come on as a sub in a League Cup match against Brentford."

Deserves it all. Has had it coming for a long time. Could not have happened to a nicer bloke.

Don't worry everyone, I have heard it on good authority from my ITK that Pards will sign the Alien before the season kicks off, then the number 14 will be given to Thauvin.

Ryder

Quite like that Gini has 5, Zidane had that at Real so maybe thats the link? Also, Mitrovic got his 45. Have we had any other 45's since Viana?

I remember the night that I found out that he'd passed. Was genuinely upset and close to tears.

Found a link yesterday to a page showing what a load of former footballers are doing these days and one in particular made me smile. Managed to find an article on it too... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3177982/Lee-Bowyer-left-football-run-carp-fishing-lake-France.html

The f*** is that? As if having one alien wasn't enough..

Mitrovic is nailed on to get injured isn't he.

terrible

Man Utd 3-1 Spurs Bournemouth 2-0 Aston Villa Everton 2-0 Watford Leicester 0-0 Sunderland Norwich 0-2 Crystal Palace Chelsea 4-1 Swansea Arsenal 5-0 West Ham Newcastle 2-2 Southampton Stoke 2-2 Liverpool West Brom 1-1 Man City

The PCSO - looks the part and is expected to play the role of an enforcer but in reality is weak as piss and gets no respect

Was thinking the same thing - since this years FM brought in all those new role types I thought it would be funny to come up with some spurious ones and assign players that match the characteristics/position.

I was under the impression that they're not the focus and therefore drift back and try to drag defenders out of position so that any one of the other talented attacking players get chances to score. This is why it works really well for Barca/Spain etc and you don't see the likes of Allardyce/Pards playing with one

On the topic of shuttlers... If ESPN said it, it must be true! http://www.espnfc.us/blog/tactics-and-analysis/67/post/2027159/is-the-diamond-formation-back-and-here-to-stay-in-european-football PS. this is an horrendous and painful article.

The false 9 plays just in front of the shuttler. Everybody knows that!

Explain... seriously! http://thefalse9.com/2013/09/football-tactics-for-beginnersthe-false-9.html

Nah, too young

I think the problem with Colo is that he's had to cover both positions as for the last however many years we've had absolute shite lined up next to him. I think if he was in a position where he could trust his partner to pull his weight and then develop a solid relationship with the left back akin to the one he had with Enrique then we may see his game improve. Colo was and in my opinion still is a classy, quality player and to be honest I don't really blame his head going over the last few years - look at what he's had to put up with, playing next to iron mike and being managed by mr hoofball pards.

*fingers crossed* please just not another Williamson/Boumsong/Cacapa/Bramble/etc

He's a fantastic player to watch The goal he scored against Chelsea in the CL last year was class

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/22/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-your-premier-league-transfer-records-5307540/ 18/20 - the 2 I didn't get were from nothing teams that I care not a bit for. (Stoke & mackems)

Definitely. I'm mostly worried about the dead wood we've yet to shift, we all know who. I'm praying they'll clear out the cling-ons in the next couple of weeks somehow.. Who's going to take them though? As shite as they are we don't have any back up squad players or decent youth talent to bring in when half the first team are suspended and/or injured.