I have no evidence at all but just sub consciously there is always a element of a player who thinks if we finish outside the top 4 I can get a move, unfortunately for UTD the other teams around them seem to be doing all they can to get Utd top 4
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I have no evidence at all but just sub consciously there is always a element of a player who thinks if we finish outside the top 4 I can get a move, unfortunately for UTD the other teams around them seem to be doing all they can to get Utd top 4
Alright Guys,
Didn't realise we had a Football thread, or Soccer for people across the pond.
You'll probably see me posting in here a fair bit as I love football. I support Manchester City and have done since 2003. My favourite City player was Shaun Wright Phillips, now it's Vincent Kompany.
I've supported them through bad times and now good times too. I can still remember the day when we signed Darius Vassell from Aston Villa and I saw it on Sky Sports News and was jumping up and down and hit my head on a ceiling lamp shade haha, how times have changed. Look forward to talking Footy with you lot.
Didn't realise we had a Football thread, or Soccer for people across the pond.
You'll probably see me posting in here a fair bit as I love football. I support Manchester City and have done since 2003. My favourite City player was Shaun Wright Phillips, now it's Vincent Kompany.
I've supported them through bad times and now good times too. I can still remember the day when we signed Darius Vassell from Aston Villa and I saw it on Sky Sports News and was jumping up and down and hit my head on a ceiling lamp shade haha, how times have changed. Look forward to talking Footy with you lot.
Ended up moving to Chelsea before coming back to us, then ended up in America. I think he's retired now.
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Only joking! Be prepared for a fair amount of anti-Man City posts, I fear! ;)
The voting must of been done when he was in that mini run of better form but even then it's a nonsense, embarrassing from people who are supposed to be professional journalists
Oops I thought this was the writer's one, less of a surprise then
The only fair punishment would be a points penalty for Manchester City tbh
Torquay. At a distance.
18/19 Champions of National South! Take that, Pep!
I'm guessing you're a Wolves fan then? You've had a great season. Your game against Liverpool on the last day of the season will be a tough one for them. Hoping we beat Burnley, and Leicester I'm sure you'll do us a favour. You've been great against the top 6 this season.
It's dead, Jim. Not watching any more City games. Fully convinced they'll do the business now. If I look up a score and they happen to have dropped something, then great. But I really don't see it. This City team are ruthless. Just like we did really well to get through the pressure of playing Spurs and Chelsea, City have done so to get through Spurs and United.
Feels unfair to lose the league having lost (probably) 1 game, but that's the way it goes.
Gotta put the hopes in the CL run now. Feel confident we can get past Barcelona.
Feels unfair to lose the league having lost (probably) 1 game, but that's the way it goes.
Gotta put the hopes in the CL run now. Feel confident we can get past Barcelona.
He's the only one who plays Football in a team of hacks, he way outclasses the rest of the midfield, last night everything came from him, he was the best midfielder at defending by far and City mostly chose to avoid him and attack from the other flank.
It's not his fault of the rest of the team cannot put two passes together, or if the wingers are trash, the defense leaks everything and the goalkeeper is a fraud.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...ean-dyche-reveals-powerful-liverpool-15946307
Disregard everything I just said, Dyche is a secret red. There's hope!
Disregard everything I just said, Dyche is a secret red. There's hope!
He's gonna go Hard Brexit, No Deal, the works, I'm telling you.
It's weird that I'm far more content with this than I rightfully should be. I genuinely didn't believe in United last night, so you could argue my hopes haven't been dashed since this is still whereabouts we'd be by the end of the season (albeit I had hoped we'd still have our fate in our hands), but nothing we can do, except secure that CL so this team will go on with something should City wrap up their second most successful league ever.
It's weird that I'm far more content with this than I rightfully should be. I genuinely didn't believe in United last night, so you could argue my hopes haven't been dashed since this is still whereabouts we'd be by the end of the season (albeit I had hoped we'd still have our fate in our hands), but nothing we can do, except secure that CL so this team will go on with something should City wrap up their second most successful league ever.
I've made peace with us not winning the league tbh. It would be a shame to end such an exceptionnal season with 0 title though so hopefully we can do something in the CL.
EPL turning into Bundesliga or Ligue 1 would be depressing.
Banter and rivalries aside, the EPL turning into the next Serie A or Bundesliga with such a morally bankrupt and corrupt team at the helm would absolutely suck.
Liverpool winning sucks as a rival and is bad for banter, City winning again and continuing to win is bad for football.
Liverpool winning sucks as a rival and is bad for banter, City winning again and continuing to win is bad for football.
As a neutral observer, City didn't even look untouchable. De Gea made two bad saves (his position of the first goal was a rookie mistake.) Lingard should have buried that. Now I don't watch every City game, but they were lucky against Liverpool too at home. Not that Liverpool don't have their share of luck, but the people who cry that City will continue to dominate the league are defeatists. You just gotta have a better game plan. Not just parking the bus for 90 minutes. If City make tactical fouls when breaking, use your players not on the ball to create space. Leicester were brilliant at that in their championship season. Maybe they can pull it off again. Probably not, but it's nice to be hopeful.
I'll never understand the point of reviewing matches if you can't sanction players on the basis that "the referee saw it". God forbid we ever admit that referees make mistakes.
It's one of the things in football that really annoy me, along with defenders "running the ball out" not being obstruction and the away goals law
That's precisely why a VAR won't change everything except clear as day mistakes. Referees are human beings and some of them won't admit they were wrong and lose face. It has happened in other leagues as well. Look forward to VAR banter next season lol
There was a video doing the rounds of a crowd reaction to that goal.
It was pathetic. I've been to livelier 0-0's.
Yeah, agreed. The worrying thing is that City not only have infinite money but are run extremely well from the top down. They have just about the best club infrastructure in the league. I'm not sure how teams catch up to them if they keep buying 4-5 great young talents every offseason.
I suppose the great hope is that they're more reliant on Pep and/or Aguero than I think.
I've been saying this for ages, so many teams roll over against City because they think they can park the bus for 90 minutes and nick a draw, which is just a silly idea, since City/Pep's strategies rely on very patient build up, no rushing and always having men in the midfield to close down counter attacks. The way you beat City is to attack; while Laporte deserves a lot of his plaudits, City's defensive organisation is really not that great and it relies on a packed out midfield to function. Every foreign team seems to have found this out ages ago as well. Swansea figured this out too (and it took an obscene amount of luck and some incredibly dodgy refereeing for City to overcome them) Every smaller team in the PL seems to only attack in the last few minutes and it is quite striking just how vulnerable their defenders look at this point; with more constant pressure they'd actually get something but every team is scared of getting destroyed on the counter (which is fair, but you've got to take chances against big teams)
IFK is a bit like United in that it has a successful history but is currently run like shit. Not that I mind.
Allsvenskan is of to a typical unpredictable start of the season, where after five games played all teams have won and lost at least one match!
The last few years haven't been very good, but I'm expecting us to be back up there by next year. Either with new management or the same.
BUT MUH 400K A WEEK.
The best thing United will ever do right now is to tell every single player asking for Sanchez wages to pack their shit and fuck off.
Ed Woodward should then be left to pay off Sanchez via mutual termination himself.
I agree in some ways but in others, they're clearly not generating that money. They can't fill their stadium and are constantly propped up by dodgy loans and payments from
The sheik masked as injections from phantom investors.
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