Tiresias

sexy sexy chip

Guardiola is a magician, Sterling 10 times the player he was

Clothesline a player then complain when you conceed a pen

Aguero is unbelievable

Yeah he's probably only going to succeed where he alone is the special talent of the team and gets the special treatment from manager. He should not have gone to PSG, but really as much as people blame the player, do the clubs not do any research? It's like that frog and the scorpion parable.

Yeah he did terrible last season!

I go for a shit at 0-0...

I love that Guardiola has contrived to ditch Yaya Toure at two different clubs and hugely improved the side. (Albeit Yaya Toure was the best in the league a few seasons ago, but when he was lethargic City were last season)

It didn't take Guardiola long to actually make Sterling good did it?

Love passing under the wall free kicks, De Bruyne

Pulis' teambuilding philosophy is amusing pub quiz answers in 10 years time

indeed.

if you concede 4 goals to a tony pulis team you should be banned from football forever, players and manager

There's no way of doing it that won't bother some players, let them know day before some will just get in a strop from then. In a team with a settled starting 11 it may make sense to let know changes further in advance but I don't think that Benitez thinks of his team in the sense of a strongest 11 and then players coming in and out to patch up injuries etc, I think Benitez thinks of a plan then chops and changes the players to fit that. I can understand why it may be infuriating for players but Rafa is entitled to say the onus is on the players to get used to it, and that being dropped for a game doesn't mean you won't play the next.

I got shot down for saying 7 a few days ago

Starting to think Perez should be first choice no 10, haven't been all that impressed with Diame

Yeah he started slow like the rest of them but after that seemed to gain confidence, having said that on this so far you're probably right.

Strange he's looked solid so far this season. Bleh plenty of time to go

Too many virgins

Yeah I know, one can't roll things back and there are many real advantages to these days, you are never far from football when you want to watch it, but you know it is just this now

Nah keep the blackout, this last week we've had football every day and tbh it's too much, it's obnoxiously constant and soon it will just be 24/7 and there'll be no sitting down putting radio on or something at 3pm on a saturday and we'll find that in our quest for 24/7 football it's become all bluster and completely soulless.

Re-Benitezed rather implies they've been Benitezed before

He seems to be trying to downplay expectations, saying all the right things about not taking things for granted and still gets called arrogant . He's confident, he's won more than any other manager in this division and I want other teams to know this and be scared, and I want our players to know this and not start second guessing tactics or rolling their eyes waiting for next manager to come in. We also don't need to win any friends, if another team wants a shot at promotion they need to raise their game rather than whinge. Big name managers and big teams in the division can only be good for the league actually, what do they expect, Benitez to quake at the knees at the prospect of playing Wolves at St James?

Wenger, will miss him when he's gone from the touchlines in his ridiculous jackets and mad theories. He can be nutty, though there are also times when the press jump on him for saying something completely true. Still think sadly his last season or two with Arsenal will be failures yet again.

Pardew was SackPardew he was desperate for a payoff