Tiresias

I see a lot of the reasons why people dislike Man City etc, but honestly, they are fucking amazing to watch at the moment and it may be a while till we see another team in the league play like this. De Bruyne is a fucking magnificent player. Yeah yeah garish wealth, yeah yeah morally dubious owners, yeah yeah plastic fans etc etc, but come on, they're scoring for fun in a way that doesn't happen often.

I think alli has heard the pundits defending him saying that the extra bite to his game is part of what makes him good and has decided not to mature and learn not to be a total dick. I think tbh his frequent nasty tackles are worse than his diving mind, which is also cunty.

Yeah makes it look effortless. Class player.

After defending Ali a lot i fear he is losing his ability and replacing it with being even more of a cunt.

Love that mata finish

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I prefer De Bruyne to Neymar

Nice response to having alli try and break your ankle

Oh my god that de bruyne ball.

I'd chat to rafa about football for half an hour every day if he wants

Yeah I can't agree either, it's chelsea who always strike me as a jumped up smaller club, think City have done more. Attendance issues are kinda embarrassing still I suppose.

Yeah I sort of agree, but we have to ditch Ritchie imo and find a way of playing Merino and Shelvey to get even a bit of passing going

We need to shore up at the back and be better prepared for front 3s that seem to tear us apart. I think if we can't get 2 centre backs and 2 holding mids to work we have to shift to a back 3. The big problem is we don't have wing backs but I think we have to make do. I doubt this will happen but it is the big shakeup we need imo. Hayden should drop back into the centre back to solidify it and allow Merino and Shelvey to make up a much more passing capable holding pair. And quite frankly none of our pure CBs apart from Lascelles are good enough anyway. Elliott Lascelles Hayden Clark Hayden Shelvey Merino Mbemba (Cos fucking hell) Atsu Gayle Joselu (should probably be Mitrovic but not going to happen)

Yeah lascelles, then atsu then bleh

just stick the list of registered players on a wall and throw darts at it at this point

Can see rafa walking if no investment in january, and can see not wanting to buy a club about to go into yet another death spiral.

This.

Yeah he's in a tough spot, there's no B-team in reserve that can fill the gaps. But they need to step up seriously. Rafa needs to change tack because his usual has stopped working.

This, he clearly didn't get who he wanted. Still he has been having a poor run of tactics. Really baffled by his tactics of late, needs to change, but should have changed weeks and weeks ago.

Up to 8 now definitely. I don't believe there's a icecubes chance in hell the takeover will happen in time to save us either. It may scupper the takeover too.

Been poor but not like we haven't been dogshit

I'm sorry but the 4-4-2 idea of rafas should have been binned a long time ago.

There are questions on recruitment, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is significantly less infrastructure in place to properly scout, and then some mad rules about what agents to use etc and then on top of that a dimwit negotiating that puts off all the other players who may sign anyway. Lot of cooks in our awful transfer policy.

I kinda don't want to single out any players too much because being surrounded by also under performing players just amplifies how bad players look. There's just nothing on the pitch that says good enough.

The lack of improvement is most worrying. The players just seem so limited.