StevieH Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 6 minutes ago, RickG16 said: He is one of those after dinner speakers whose stories I always take with a massive pinch of salt. Ince was a great player who went abroad and made it. For that I respect him. I don't really care if he's a great human being. I don't plan to date him. i should hope not, you can't even spell his self-awarded nickname right. he'd probably take that personally and get annoyed if he wasn't such a massive fanny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickG16 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 1 minute ago, StevieH said: i should hope not, you can't even spell his self-awarded nickname right. he'd probably take that personally and get annoyed if he wasn't such a massive fanny. Sorry... THE GUV'NOR !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Bloody discussing no-neck Ince on this thread! Grr! Been keeping an eye on Edin of late as he bangs the goals in. With City he scored 72 goals in 178 matches. At Roma he has 78 goals in 148 matches - more than one goal every two games...IN ITALY! Impressive. Great to see him doing so well as the main man at Roma. Surprised no one has come in for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadilo Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said: Bloody discussing no-neck Ince on this thread! Grr! Been keeping an eye on Edin of late as he bangs the goals in. With City he scored 72 goals in 178 matches. At Roma he has 78 goals in 148 matches - more than one goal every two games...IN ITALY! Impressive. Great to see him doing so well as the main man at Roma. Surprised no one has come in for him. See a quote today that he would like to connect back sometime. He’s 32 so be good to see him back. Take note Pellegrini. Would fit like a glove ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Kadilo said: See a quote today that he would like to connect back sometime. He’s 32 so be good to see him back. Take note Pellegrini. Would fit like a glove ???? Dzeko was signed by Mancini and Pellegrini was the one who sold him for a mere 14m pounds. Once when Dzeko was asked about his time at City he said he loved but when asked about working for Pellegrini he said "ok". I don't think pellegrini would re-sign Dzeko but you never know 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Interesting stats, particularly Liverpool's: https://www.soccerstats.com/attendance.asp?league=england Edited October 17, 2018 by Bredbury Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Interesting article on the top 6 clubs selling on academy players; another decent source of revenue for City.https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/revealed-how-much-big-six-13429405 City have brought in an estimated £71million for players that have made 10 or fewer senior appearances over the last four seasons, £45million of which was for players who hadn’t made any. Angus Gunn cost Southampton a reported £13.5million. Jason Denayer cost Lyon £11.8million, while Rony Lopes cost Monaco £9million and Pablo Maffeo cost Stuttgart £8.1million. Sancho cost Dortmund£8million [pretty sure I've read City have a buy-back clause on all of those players - in the news this week about Sancho's buy-back). 10 or fewer first team appearances Arsenal - £11,640,000 Chelsea - £6,550,851 Liverpool - £3,310,000Manchester City - £70,672,876 Manchester United - £9,752,000 Tottenham Hotspur - £11,788,527Grand total - £113,714,254No senior appearances Arsenal - £6,800,000 Chelsea - £3,040,000 Liverpool - £360,000Manchester City - £44,472,876 Manchester United - £7,122,000 Tottenham Hotspur - £3,038,527Grand total - £64,833,403 If you good enough you'll make City's first team/squad. If you not quite good enough for the first team/squad you'll be sold on for profit. The rest will be sold on for minor profit or released. Edited October 17, 2018 by Bredbury Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Sun claiming that Ajax would be more interested in a deal for Frenkie de Jong if City were willing to offer Ilkay Gundogan in return. I like Gundogan and when you give him time and space he's a top player, but he struggles with the pace and the aggression of the Premier; he's just not physical enough. Maybe we can fob them off with Mangala and Danilo in part ex for FdJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmine Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 16 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said: Interesting stats, particularly Liverpool's: https://www.soccerstats.com/attendance.asp?league=england Relatively meaningless in the case of Spurs because the Met are constantly stopping us using the entire capacity of the top tier for a number of reasons. Got bored so i read your post if you were wondering and tbh theres notch to be written into those stats at all if they are the clubs figures. Its the police figures that are to go by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 (edited) Popped up on the wife's FaceTube page that 4 years ago we were at this game. Spurs actually started the better, were threatening and looked very dangerous up top. The record book shows it to have been Aguero's day but i don't remember it as one of his best performances. It was a cracking game: took the wife and my two lads, think all the 4 tickets cost about 150 quid. Check out the squads...both have changed considerably. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/29580245 Edited October 18, 2018 by Bredbury Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 (edited) Tommy Doyle has signed a professional contract with Manchester City after turning 17 – he's supposedly one of England's best midfielders of his age group, likened to Stevie 'whoops-a-daisy' Gerrard. The England under-17 midfielder is the grandson of TWO City legends – Mike Doyle (paternal grandfather) and Glyn Pardoe (grandfather on his mother’s side); Alan Oakes, City's holder for most appearances is Pardoe's cousin. Decent footballing genes. Colin 'Uwe's Grandad bombed Old Trafford' Rosler is a teammate (named after King Colin). Doyle has predominantly featured for City’s under-18 side (playing against older kids) to date but also appeared for the under-19s in the UEFA Youth League. Fingers crossed he turns out as decent as any of his three relatives were from our '68 Champions team and in to the mid70s. Edited October 18, 2018 by Bredbury Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 M.E.N. Sport surveyed supporters on Thursday asking which position, if any, needed strengthening at City midway through the season. 986 fans responded to the Twitter survey with a staggering 67 per cent of them suggesting a new midfielder was needed in the winter window. "Fernandinho really, really needs a natural substitute. He seems tiring to me." City are yet to replace Yaya Toure and are still in search of a long-term successor to Fernandinho. Can't disagree with that. We had Fernando and Fernandinho for the defensive midfield position, got rid of Fernando a while back who wasn't replaced, got rid of Yaya who sometimes played there, Delph who could play there never gets a go so it all comes down to Fernandinho to fill that position and he hasn't looked anywhere near last season's form. This and having no experienced no.2 goalie is our biggest concern. We're also still a fullback short - Mendy gets injured a lot, Danilo looks to be out again with this week's ankle ligament injury, stand-in Delph is injured a lot leaving us only with one recognised fit fullback in Walker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc2702 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Just now, Bredbury Blue said: M.E.N. Sport surveyed supporters on Thursday asking which position, if any, needed strengthening at City midway through the season. 986 fans responded to the Twitter survey with a staggering 67 per cent of them suggesting a new midfielder was needed in the winter window. "Fernandinho really, really needs a natural substitute. He seems tiring to me." City are yet to replace Yaya Toure and are still in search of a long-term successor to Fernandinho. Can't disagree with that. We had Fernando and Fernandinho for the defensive midfield position, got rid of Fernando a while back who wasn't replaced, got rid of Yaya who sometimes played there, Delph who could play there never gets a go so it all comes down to Fernandinho to fill that position and he hasn't looked anywhere near last season's form. This and having no experienced no.2 goalie is our biggest concern. We're also still a fullback short - Mendy gets injured a lot, Danilo looks to be out again with this week's ankle ligament injury, stand-in Delph is injured a lot leaving us only with one recognised fit fullback in Walker. Need a decent penalty taker as back up too. Skiiies it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champers Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 7 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said: M.E.N. Sport surveyed supporters on Thursday asking which position, if any, needed strengthening at City midway through the season. 986 fans responded to the Twitter survey with a staggering 67 per cent of them suggesting a new midfielder was needed in the winter window. "Fernandinho really, really needs a natural substitute. He seems tiring to me." City are yet to replace Yaya Toure and are still in search of a long-term successor to Fernandinho. Can't disagree with that. We had Fernando and Fernandinho for the defensive midfield position, got rid of Fernando a while back who wasn't replaced, got rid of Yaya who sometimes played there, Delph who could play there never gets a go so it all comes down to Fernandinho to fill that position and he hasn't looked anywhere near last season's form. This and having no experienced no.2 goalie is our biggest concern. We're also still a fullback short - Mendy gets injured a lot, Danilo looks to be out again with this week's ankle ligament injury, stand-in Delph is injured a lot leaving us only with one recognised fit fullback in Walker. Should have bought Axel Witsel to cover/replace Fernandinho. He went to Dortmund who are doing rather well in Germany (top?). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) Poor first half: Stones looks lost, defence look like strangers, Aguero should have finished it already but got cocky. Harty has kept them in it. Sort it out before they score...think it might be in the script. Edited October 20, 2018 by Bredbury Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Decent 2nd half. We seem to be a 2nd half team: I'd like to see our 1st vs 2nd half comparison during Peps tenure. Pluses: 5 different players scored. KdB returned and looked like he hadn't been away. Merlin was excellent. Mahrez looked comfortable in sky blue for the 1st time. Foden had his best game. Ederson had a little to do but had a very decent game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Unusually we have enough left-footers in our squad to make a decent team: Ederson Delph Laporte Mendy Zinchenko Bernardo Silva Foden Adrian Bernabe Mahrez Sane Not sure that team would be top 6 but it'd be very entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Didn't see the game as the Athens bar I found offered the Chelsea match, and then naught. Sounds like City ran roughshod ! Goal difference starting to increase ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 20 minutes ago, jellydog said: Didn't see the game as the Athens bar I found offered the Chelsea match, and then naught. Sounds like City ran roughshod ! Goal difference starting to increase ! Toilet of a place as I'm sure you are discovering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 1 minute ago, RonniePickering22 said: Toilet of a place as I'm sure you are discovering. Only been 2 days. I like the Pagrati area where I'm staying. Overall looks like a combo of Buenos Aires and Istanbul...maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 1 minute ago, jellydog said: Only been 2 days. I like the Pagrati area where I'm staying. Overall looks like a combo of Buenos Aires and Istanbul...maybe. Its full of clowns....but perhaps you will enjoy the entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Just now, RonniePickering22 said: Its full of clowns....but perhaps you will enjoy the entertainment. If you want clowns try the Cairo airport. Crikey ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 22 minutes ago, jellydog said: If you want clowns try the Cairo airport. Crikey ! Yes you win bloody hell that place is terrible....the smoking in the biz lounge did not require me to light up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Has anybody actually seen a clear and concise view if that ball was in or out for our second goal? I've watched it several times and a) cannot definitely say whether sane was fouled and b) if the ball was in or out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc2702 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Guardiola blaming the fans lack of passion about wanting to win the CL. Teams not ready as the fans don't want it bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 12 minutes ago, Rc2702 said: Guardiola blaming the fans lack of passion about wanting to win the CL. Teams not ready as the fans don't want it bad enough. Yes their fans are a disgrace I agree with Pep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc2702 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Just now, RonniePickering22 said: Yes their fans are a disgrace I agree with Pep. It's not just that though. They know they gotta get past us and that's not likely to happen. They wanna get to the semis and be done with it, like Spurs in the facup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc2702 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Peps basically saying the fans have got no balls and need to strap some on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, Rc2702 said: It's not just that though. They know they gotta get past us and that's not likely to happen. They wanna get to the semis and be done with it, like Spurs in the facup In two leg ties usually the better team will progress....the FA Cup always throws up surprises....just needs one team to put in a storming unusually excellent performance on the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bredbury Blue Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 ^...but you two footballing genii have nothing meaningful to say on City's excellent 0v3 result over Shaktar then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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