Tiresias

Well earned

If it just me or are managers getting angrier and angrier these days? Really think it needs to be addressed as it's ridiculous and a poor example all round. I do wonder considering how much most refs get screamed at if you are way more likely to get anything by going calmly "i dare say old chap you may have made an oversight there, would you mind taking a second look?" The shock might produce results!

We have eerred on the side of letting players go probably because in the long term getting wages of players not of new standards required as quickly as possible will help with financial fair play and bringing players in. No it is not ideal, yes the squad is too thin. I just can't bring myself to be overly upset, this is all because we have overperformed for first part of the season, we are ahead of schedule. If they'd started the season saying top 4 aim, then yes in that context looks a little foolish, but in context of, we are not going to rush into buying loads of players we are going to take time, build a squad piece by piece, only sign players we want and are good enough rather than just who is available or at an inflated premium then this approach still makes sense. Of course a little bit of me thinks we could have got top 4 had we maybe kept Shelvey but if we do finish 5th or 6th no guarantee Shelvey would have been the difference. Loaning out Dubravka looks more a mistake now sure but he was apparently very unhappy, what would the impact of an unhappy player on the bench have been, who knows? Equally the dividends of everyone in the club knowing that Howe will respect their wishes, players coming in to a club with a reputation of treating players fairly are not going to be easy to quantify but they will be there. Anyway just to say maybe club got that a bit wrong, a bit daft in retrospect, but I can't get angry about it. I am dreading us finishing 6th and there being fury all round, when we all would have been delighted at season start. TOp 4 would be great, but City and Arsenal have been better than us for large parts of the season, Man U have a big head of steam and form and we have dropped off. Spurs may well implode at any moment so there is a chance to overtake them again. I do think Brighton and Liverpool are most likely other ones to overtake us which would be disappointing, but we will get form back.

Absolute rubbish, confident we will respond, but cannot lose concentration like we did for 20 minutes... Once a down to 10 men we played well but Liverpool hardly had to do too much to contain.

I hate football

Shocking defending howe out!

Horrendous news

I mean I can almost sort of understand the flat out immediate abuse homophobes, but it's the "Why should I care or need to know about his sexuality, very strange" replies it gets that bother me most. You're the one who has gone out of your way to comment on it...

I hope he's going to be alright. I hope a bunch more feel brave enough to follow.

like everyone else is playing at half speed

We have one slump and suddenly or players are garbage? Got to say sure if the anger in here is ott. We have been over performing, bruno will be back things will get better but the squad needs a lot of work and the owners have always been very clear they aren't rushing it

Good goal, hopefully can win from here with a rocket from Eddie at half time

What is going on with our defence? Poor.

Badly missing Bruno yeah but no need to panic yet

Get in. Moments of huge quality throughout this Chelsea yeah but still lol very much a wip and think they will for a long time

They're beige kit rather suits potter's beige brand of football

Slightly feel for him, gets his shot at premier league and its with a rubbish team on their way down. Clearly hasn't paid attention to any media training he has been given though and done himself no favours with fans or even his own players with some of the crap he has spouted. That's plain bonkers. Reminds me of John Carver's claims to be the best manager in the premier league some of the crap he's come out with

Everyone knows football was invented by the premier league how can there be goals before?

Taylor report really is a must read. Also see i just got a message saying a post from 9 years ago just got liked in here, don't remember making it, and boy it's maybe my sweariest post ever

We own the stadium, not the land which is essentially owned by the council and we have use of it basically permanently if I am right?

There seems to be some confusion on this so, essentially the FFP rules as are link how much you can spend to revenue, i.e. how much you bring in be it tickets or sponsorship deals. Man City owners cannot therefore put infinite money in because the revenue will stay the same. So the owner surrepticiously pays a third party to then sponsor the club effectively inflating the revenue and allowing that money passing from the owner, to the sponsor, and then to the club to then be essentially laundered for free use by the club. It is not banned for sponsors to give the club money, or for owners to give the club money, all this is intended is for spending to be capped at genuine revenue as opposed to fake revenue

I imagine it will be a while and then City will take anything to CAS which will take a while. I would be very surprised if this doesn't drag on for a long time before any punishment hits

Hope he's ok awful

All the noise from the club is they want to do this properly, build slowly, no outrageous chelsea style spending sprees, building academy etc, hell we even signed Brighton's director of football. If this is the truth and there aren't any secret slush fund paying eddie howe this is good for us. Crazy spending at the top needs to be stopped, it is inflating the market and isn't good for the football in the long term. What is obscene is how out the blue and singular this is. What Chelsea are doing is obscene. Inflating all the transfer costs is bad news all round apart from the smart clubs they are paying these figures too

I thought gender reveals stopped after one burned down Califorina