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Postby Chinners » Mon Aug 28, 2017 1:06 am

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MANCHESTER CITY have reportedly stepped up their efforts to sign Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez.
The Chile international, 28, has entered the final year of his contract at Arsenal and has been heavily linked with a move away from the Emirates this summer.
Alexis Sanchez has apparently demanded the Gunners pay him £400,000-a-week to sign a new deal.
Arsene Wenger has maintained his desire to keep his prized asset, but it said he could now consider selling him.
Manchester City have supposedly already tried convincing Wenger to let go of Alexis Sanchez by tabling a £50million offer, but the north London
However, The Daily Star claim Manchester City are ready to test their resolve once againwith a £70m bid plus centre-back Jason Denayer.
Pep Guardiola has refused to rule out securing a reunion with Sanchez at the Etihad.
And the former Barcelona man admitted last month that he wants to play Champions League football this term. ########
Man City are ready to offer Arsenal £70m plus Jason Denayer for Alexis Sanchez
City will likely be willing to meet Sanchez’s wage demands too, so the odds appear to be stacked in their favour.
The report adds Wenger could use the money from Sanchez’s potential sale to land top target Thomas Lemar from Monaco.
Sanchez made his much-anticipated return from injury for Arsenal yesterday, but was substituted after 62 minutes as they lost 4-0 to Liverpool at Anfield.
Referees brief Premier League captains and a member of each management team before every game about the need for players to remain on the playing surface in their goalscoring celebrations.

Mike Dean followed that protocol and told Vincent Kompany and a member of the City staff exactly that in his pre-match briefing.
Therefore, nobody should be surprised, appalled or dismayed when the referee merely upholds the law and cautions a player for doing so.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said after the game he wanted to be told what offence Sterling had committed. Well, he should take the teamsheet in and listen to the pre-match briefing then.
After scoring City's last-gasp winner, Sterling was understandably excited and wanted to celebrate
Sterling ran into the fans and was subsequently handed a second yellow card

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The Premier League is not yet the toughest competition, according to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola believes the Premier League still has steps to take to become the toughest domestic club competition.
Guardiola is into his second season in charge of City, having won three LaLiga titles – and two Champions Leagues – at the helm of Barcelona and three Bundesliga crowns with Bayern Munich.
But the Spaniard said the Premier League was not yet the most difficult, pointing to the records of English clubs in Europe.
Chelsea were the last English side to reach a decider in the Champions League, claiming the trophy in 2012, with Spain (six times), Germany (two) and Italy (two) the nations with finalists since then.
"I know you like to hear, 'it is the toughest one, congratulations'. You are the most viewed," Guardiola said, via the Mirror.
"Of course the Premier League is tough, so tough. But I would not say going to the [Santiago] Bernabeu, Camp Nou,

Paris Saint-Germain have reached an agreement for the loan of 18-year-old Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe with an option to buy for £166m. (L'Equipe - in French)

The future of Crystal Palace manager Frank de Boer is in doubt after three defeats from the opening three games of the Premier League season. (Guardian)

Liverpool have made an inquiry to sign 21-year-old Monaco midfielder Thomas Lemar for a club record fee of up £55m. (Daily Telegraph)

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has left open the possibility of Belgium striker Divock Origi, 22, going out on loan provided the club can bring in players before the transfer window closes. (Liverpool Echo)

Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi is preparing to leave the Gunners for Inter Milan just a year after the Germany international, 25, joined them for £35m from Valencia. (ESPN)

Stoke have agreed a £15m deal with Tottenham for 24-year-old defender Kevin Wimmer. (Sky Sports understands)

Chelsea forward Loic Remy, 30, is wanted by Spanish side Las Palmas and Italian outfit Cagliari. (Daily Mail Lies)

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte remains totally committed to the Premier League champions even if they fail to sign any more players before the close of the transfer window. (Evening Standard)

Chelsea will revive their interest in Swansea striker Fernando Llorente, 32, with a bid as they look to make at least three signings before the window closes. (Independent)

Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, 29, is a target for Napoli who have contacted the Reds about a potential switch. (Gianluca Di Marzio)

Newcastle are mulling over a list of left-backs with Independiente's 24-year-old Argentine Nicolas Tagliafico and Ecuador full-back Cristian Ramirez, 23, of Russian club FC Krasnodar potential targets. (Newcastle Chronicle)

Birmingham remain in talks over a club-record deal for Ghana midfielder Afriyie Acquah although Torino do not want to sell the 25-year-old. (Sky Sports understands

Former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry has questioned why Chile forward Alexis Sanchez would stay with the Gunners after their 4-0 thrashing at Liverpool. The 28-year-old has one year left on his contract and has been linked with Manchester City. (Sky Sports Understands)

Arsenal are prepared to meet a £75m buyout clause to sign Real Madrid's Spain midfielder Marco Asensio, 21, before Thursday's transfer deadline. (Sunday Express)

Everton will move for £40m-rated Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, 30, who is also wanted by Chelsea. (Sunday Mirror)

West Ham's proposed club-record move for £38m-rated Sporting Lisbon and Portugal midfielder William Carvalho, 25, has been placed in jeopardy by their poor form. (Sunday Times)

Arsenal are set to lose defender Kieran Gibbs, 27, midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 24, forward Lucas Perez, 28, and defender Shkodran Mustafi, 25, before the transfer window closes. (Sunday Telegraph) 

Liverpool are pushing to sign Oxlade-Chamberlain, who has also been linked with Chelsea. (Sunday Mirror)

Liverpool have set a Monday deadline for Barcelona to agree a fee for 25-year-old midfielder Philippe Coutinho. (Onda Cero - in Spanish)

£97.9m loss leaves Manchester City struggling to meet FFP terms
Annual wage bill has risen from £173m over £201m


Owner Sheikh Mansour aware Manchester City are prized scalp
Manchester City are facing a severe challenge to comply with Uefa's financial fair play (FFP) regime after yesterday announcing annual losses of £97.9m.
The sum was reduced to less than half the £197.5m loss the club announced 12 months ago because of increased revenues. But City's annual wage bill has risen from £173m to a fraction over £201m – and if the club is to hit the limited losses allowed for in the initial two-year FFP monitoring period, they will require a spectacular performance in the current financial year. The figures reveal that failure to qualify for the Champions League knockout phase was a heavy blow to the club's efforts to meet FFP targets.
City – whose figures reveal a £500,000 "compensation for loss of office" pay-off to their former chief executive Garry Cook – insisted last night that they remain confident of complying with FFP. An estimated £15m of the losses are "allowable losses" under FFP because they have been spent on infrastructure and young players, which do not count in the final FFP reckoning.
Money spent on wages in contracts negotiated before 1 June 2010 is also deductible and there is a feeling at City that this may help them get close to the Uefa target. That allows them to take Carlos Tevez's wages out of the equation, for example. But while the contracts may enable City to shave another £50m off the £97.9m losses – taking the FFP loss figure to around £30m – the small print of the FFP guidelines reveals wages may only be counted in this way if they are the sole reason a club has failed to hit the compliance target.
The two-year monitoring period, of which the latest 2011-12 season figures represent the first year, allow for an overall accumulative loss of £38m. With the City wage bill for 2012-13 unlikely to drop and no substantial new commercial deals believed to be in the pipeline, converting the notional £30m "FFP loss" into an overall two-year £38m "FFP loss" looks a tall order. The £50m pre-2010 wages figure cannot be taken off again in the accounts delivered next year. A potential £20m evaporated when City failed to progress in this season's Champions League.
The results, which were slipped out late yesterday afternoon, demonstrate why City's manager, Roberto Mancini, will have a very difficult job persuading the club's chief executive, Ferran Soriano, to spend this winter. Transfers will only be sanctioned in a medical emergency, even though Mancini yesterday said of the January window: "I don't know. Now we will see what happens."
It appears to be a question of by how much City will miss Uefa's £38m target, rather than whether they will miss it. City will have to hope Uefa applies substantial weight to the "trending" factor and credits them for trying to drive down the losses.
City have always said – with total justification – that they would need to spend heavily on transfer fees and wages to take them where they want to go under Abu Dhabi ownership, rather than grow organically, and yesterday's figures do reveal a club building commercially on the on-field success. They report turnover in the 2011-12 season of £231.1m, the highest in the club's history and also confirm that owner Sheikh Mansourr Bin Zayed al-Nahyan has strengthened the "capital base of the club ....through the issuing of £169m in new equity during the year, avoiding debt-based funding and continuing to ensure the club is virtually debt-free".
While the results show marginal increases in gate receipts and TV revenue, it is in the commercial sector City are making huge gains, with the Etihad sponsorship deal bringing in £35m-£40m a year and worth £400m over 10 years. Revenue went up from £64.7m to £121.1m, underlining City's increasing global exposure.
Soriano said: "What I have found is a club on the verge of a historic transformation, reinforced by a genuine commitment to doing things well. It is a club with a rich history and potential for an even brighter future."

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35 Amount, in £m, paid for Sergio Aguero in 2011, City’s record buy
£201m Man City’s wage bill last season - up from £173m in 2010-11
£97.9m Annual losses for City – a fall from previous total of £197.5m

Manchester City's Vincent Kompany rejects call for netting
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany plays down calls for the introduction of netting to protect players, saying fans should not be treated "like animals".
Kompany wants action to be taken after his Manchester United counterpart Rio Ferdinand was struck by an object as he celebrated Robin van Persie's winner in their 3-2 victory over City on Sunday.
But, the Belgian international is against netting going up at grounds as he says it would be treating fans as "animals that have to be behind cages".
Watch the full interview on Football Focus: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20725888

Yaya Toure set to play in Africa Cup of Nations
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini admits midfielder Yaya Toure is likely to be unavailable for five weeks due to his Africa Cup of Nations involvement.
Mancini had hoped the Ivorian would opt out of the tournament but now expects him to leave after City's FA Cup third round tie against Watford on 5 January.
"It is difficult," said the Italian. "I think he will go to the Africa Nations Cup after the Watford game."
The tournament in South Africa runs from 19 January to 10 February.
Toure has been a key figure in the centre of City's midfield since joining from Barcelona for £24m in 2010.
He played in this year's Africa Cup of Nations as Ivory Coast lost the final to Zambia on penalties but managed 32 league appearances as City won the Premier League for the first time, ending a 44-year wait for the top prize in English football.
The champions suffered their first defeat of the season last weekend against Manchester United and are six points behind their local rivals in this year's title race.
It was claimed Mancini had words with Joe Hart and Mario Balotelli in the immediate aftermath of the game, hinting at serious rifts within the camp.
Mancini denied this though, stating he preferred to keep the content of such discussions in-house.
Meanwhile, the City boss also played down talk of nets being required to preserve player safety after Rio Ferdinand was hit by a coin as United celebrated Robin van Persie's injury-time winner at Etihad Stadium.
"Football here is beautiful," said the Italian. "People here are very close to the players.
"I am very sorry for what happened in the derby. I hope it won't happen again. But football is better without nets."

Manchester City reportedly bids $100M for MLS expansion club in NYC; Beckham to hold stake?
Wealthy English Premier League power Manchester City, which is owned by a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, reportedly has emerged as the favorite to be awarded a Major League Soccer expansion club in New York City.
Citing three unnamed sources, Bloomberg News reported Friday that City will pay a record $100 million for the rights to operate a team based in the borough of Queens. MLS intends to start construction next year on a new 25,000-seat stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that it hopes to open in 2016. League officials have said repeatedly that there are multiple parties interested in bidding for the expansion club, although only the group that owns the New York Cosmos, which will begin play next year in the second-tier NASL, has expressed its intentions publicly.
Manchester City intends to name its new team New York City Football Club, plans to involve local minority investors and has reached out to David Beckham, who recently played his final game for the L.A. Galaxy, to gauge his interest in playing a role, according to Bloomberg. Beckham holds an option to purchase an MLS club at a below-market rate, thought to be $25 million, that does not extend to New York City. He became a star playing for City’s archrival, Manchester United.
The league’s most recent expansion team, the Montreal Impact, paid $40 million to join. It was granted entry in the spring of 2010 and played its inaugural season this year.
Reached by Bloomberg, MLS executive vice president Dan Courtemanche said, “Our discussions remain private.” A Manchester City spokesman declined to comment.
City was a middle-of-the-pack club in the EPL until Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan took control in the summer of ’08. With money no object and with no salary restrictions in place, Mansour invested heavily in the team and soon saw a return on the field. The Citizens won the FA Cup and qualified for the UEFA Champions League in ‘11 and last spring won their first English league title since 1968. There hasn’t been much progress on the club’s balance sheet, however. On Friday, City announced a 2011-12 fiscal year loss of $157.9 million. According to Bloomberg, the club has spent more than $806 million on salaries and transfer fees since Mansour took over four years ago.
It’s also made an effort to increase its global cache to match EPL rivals like United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea. City has embarked on summer tours of the U.S. in two of the past three years.
Manchester City would become the second foreign club to share ownership with an MLS team. Chivas USA, based in Los Angeles, and famed Mexican outfit Chivas de Guadalajara both are owned by Mexican businessman Jorge Vergara. Chivas USA has been a failure on and off the field, missing the playoffs for the third straight season in 2012 and posting the 19-team league’s lowest average attendance.
Iconic Spanish club FC Barcelona was interested in investing in an expansion club, possibly in Miami, back in 2008 but pulled back when the global financial crisis hit.
While MLS has kept quiet about potential ownership groups, it has waged a vigorous PR campaign to generate support for the new stadium in Queens. Commissioner Don Garber recently hosted a town hall where he said that the privately financed facility would generate 2,100 jobs and $60 million in annual economic activity. MLS also has pledged to replace the parkland occupied by the stadium and to renovate nearby soccer fields. MCF.net THREAD: viewtopic.php?f=119&t=44739

Graham Poll: How much are referees influenced by Ferguson?
So, does Sir Alex Ferguson influence the Barclays Premier League through his relationships with and behaviour towards match officials? Undoubtedly, Yes.
Fans, players and managers have alleged, alluded and openly accused referees of being influenced by his mindgames and in doing so only serve to prove that Ferguson, as usual, has won as they have fallen under his spell.
Ferguson often uses his Friday morning press conference to understandably talk about Manchester United’s forthcoming match, and all too often the referee is mentioned.
Poll says Ferguson undoubtedly influences the Premier League through his behaviour towards match officials
I refereed United 57 times in my career. Thirty of those were at Old Trafford and I can say with a great deal of certainty and 100 per cent honesty that I was never in any way affected by those comments.
Ferguson is quoted in my autobiography stating that whenever United had a big game against difficult opponents that he expected to see my name as the referee. He was pleased to see that name but not because he felt he could influence me. Why should he want to?
He believes and ensures that the players who work under him believe that United are the best team, playing in the best stadium.
Poll doesn't think he was influenced by Ferguson when he refereed at Old Trafford
However, the belief still exists that referees favour United. Fans have photo-shopped images of Howard Webb to show him wearing a Manchester United shirt.
This to Webb, the World Cup final referee, is highly offensive, as the one thing a referee guards above everything else is his impartiality.
Jose Mourinho, when Chelsea manager, suggested to me in a very lewd manner that I would do anything to be in Ferguson’s good books.
And now it is alleged that Gareth Barry may have felt the same way following last Sunday’s Manchester derby. Social media was this morning awash with allegations that Barry made a remark towards fourth official Mark Clattenburg at least hinting at Sir Alex’s potential influence.
I find that fascinating given that I highlighted in my MailOnline column that every single controversial decision in last weekend’s derby favoured Manchester City.
And yet the perception remains and people will still ask the question: ‘How much are referees affected by Sir Alex Ferguson?’
The question that people should be asking is why a player who accepted the charge of abusing a match official is only made to serve a one-match ban?

David Silva expects Manchester City improvement
Manchester City playmaker David Silva has insisted that his team are capable of making the neccesary improvements to retain their Premier League title.
Roberto Mancini's side fell six points behind Manchester United with last weekend's derby defeat at the Etihad.
Silva admitted that City's start to the season has been below the required standard but thinks that there is still time to rectify the situation.
He told The Guardian: "You can always improve, but each game has its own circumstances and I'm sure we will improve and get back to our normal self.
"Six points is a gap, it is a big gap. But last year we saw how they were in front by quite a lot of points and we won the league anyway. It can be done.
"We're responsible for what has happened. The way we played in the Champions League, we all have to take the blame for that. It didn't start well in the Champions League and it became an uphill task. But you can't just blame the manager."
The Spanish international has scored just once in 17 appearances for City so far this season.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby carl_feedthegoat » Mon Aug 28, 2017 2:48 am

The one thing that sticks out in that BOLLOX chinners is his sneering attitude to the premier league, and the ''tough tough'' seemed a sarcastic response imo.....you'd have thought the bald cunt had won a cup , any fuckign cup, in his first season instead of battling just to get into the top 4 and fading away in every other cup competition,

Fuck me , if any of this wasn't taken out of context , he just goes up a notch in my dislike for him.
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Postby Tokyo Blue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:32 am

carl_feedthegoat wrote:The one thing that sticks out in that BOLLOX chinners is his sneering attitude to the premier league, and the ''tough tough'' seemed a sarcastic response imo.....you'd have thought the bald cunt had won a cup , any fuckign cup, in his first season instead of battling just to get into the top 4 and fading away in every other cup competition,

Fuck me , if any of this wasn't taken out of context , he just goes up a notch in my dislike for him.

A better answer would have been along the lines of:

How can it be the best competition in the world when you've got refereeing of the standard of our last two matches?

He seems to show contempt for the Premier League while stating we have got no right to boo the Champions League. Double standards, mister guardiola, and no-one likes it. I hope he can be bothered to learn how the other half live after his privileged existence at the two massively favoured clubs he has worked for. I doubt it though.
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Postby Mikhail Chigorin » Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:33 am

If we're now offering Arsenal cash plus Denayer for Sanchez, why don't we really clinch the deal by letting them have Bony as well ??
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Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:40 am

The arrogance is coming from the English press, they talk about how brilliant the PL is ad nauseam, he's just refusing to blow smoke up their arse and rightly telling them to respect the other leagues in Europe.

But it's cool to dislike Pep, so I take all that back, he's a bald cunt.
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Postby Tokyo Blue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:46 am

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:The arrogance is coming from the English press, they talk about how brilliant the PL is ad nauseam, he's just refusing to blow smoke up their arse and rightly telling them to respect the other leagues in Europe.

But it's cool to dislike Pep, so I take all that back, he's a bald cunt.

Wah fucking wah.

He is quite happy to take the higher pay he can get in England though, eh.
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Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:54 am

Tokyo Blue wrote:
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:The arrogance is coming from the English press, they talk about how brilliant the PL is ad nauseam, he's just refusing to blow smoke up their arse and rightly telling them to respect the other leagues in Europe.

But it's cool to dislike Pep, so I take all that back, he's a bald cunt.

Wah fucking wah.

He is quite happy to take the higher pay he can get in England though, eh.


What's that got to do with anything?

Them cunts are constantly trying to do him down by suggesting his past achievements don't deserve credit because he won inferior leagues.
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Postby Tokyo Blue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:01 am

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:
Tokyo Blue wrote:
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:The arrogance is coming from the English press, they talk about how brilliant the PL is ad nauseam, he's just refusing to blow smoke up their arse and rightly telling them to respect the other leagues in Europe.

But it's cool to dislike Pep, so I take all that back, he's a bald cunt.

Wah fucking wah.

He is quite happy to take the higher pay he can get in England though, eh.


What's that got to do with anything?

Them cunts are constantly trying to do him down by suggesting his past achievements don't deserve credit because he won inferior leagues.

He has shown very little respect for England and particularly City so far. I think it has got a lot to do with it, personally.
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Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:05 am

Tokyo Blue wrote:
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:
Tokyo Blue wrote:
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:The arrogance is coming from the English press, they talk about how brilliant the PL is ad nauseam, he's just refusing to blow smoke up their arse and rightly telling them to respect the other leagues in Europe.

But it's cool to dislike Pep, so I take all that back, he's a bald cunt.

Wah fucking wah.

He is quite happy to take the higher pay he can get in England though, eh.


What's that got to do with anything?

Them cunts are constantly trying to do him down by suggesting his past achievements don't deserve credit because he won inferior leagues.

He has shown very little respect for England and particularly City so far. I think it has got a lot to do with it, personally.


He's shown plenty of respect for England, his desire to manage in England was because of the admiration he had. He shows little respect to the small minded cunts in the press and rightly so in my opinion.
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Postby Tokyo Blue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:33 am

Doesn't explain his clear disdain for MCFC and the fans.

His comments would carry a lot more weight if had actually won something. Our last two managers won three pots between them in their first full season at the club. If the Premier League isn't that great and the Spanish league is so wonderful, after winning the Spanish league he should be able to win the Premier League. Is that not a reasonable conclusion?

I wouldn't mind if he had at least attempted to endear himself to the City faithful, which he hasn't even bothered to do. And the best players at City are still the ones here before he was.

A lot of people living abroad slag off the country they are in relentlessly and imagine everything in their own country is wonderful. it is bollocks and makes them look a bit of a cunt, truth be told.
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Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:38 am

He speaks very highly of England, City and City fans, you just have to know where to look. One place you don't look is at the responses he gives to them slimy cunts that are goading him with their shit little Englander attitudes.
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Postby Hutch's Shoulder » Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:46 am

I think Pep's right, PL teams are very competitive with each other but I have felt for some years they lack true all round quality.
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Postby Mase » Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:51 am

The Premier League is shite. Teams whacking 11 men behind the ball when they play away every week. It's crap. Top teams doing it as well - Chelsea at ours last season and the rags doing against everyone all season.
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Postby nottsblue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:31 am

Where do the CL winners come from recently? It isnt England. However, the PL is the most exciting league in that there are four or five teams challenging at the top. And the bottom half of the PL is much stronger than the equivalent in the other European leagues.

I think this is where foreign managers initially are surprised in the PL in that there are no easy games like in other countries
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby sheblue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:50 am

For fuck sake Pep doesnt like the fans and club, lol hahahahahaha.............This crazy, pathetic, idiotic idea that pep doesn't like MCFC as a club and its fans is clear illustration how a sizable element of the media in their 'selective' reporting brainwash some fans with their lies. A minority of fans thankfully.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby sheblue » Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:56 am

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:I think Pep's right, PL teams are very competitive with each other but I have felt for some years they lack true all round quality.


I dont think its all down to lack of quality.
The problem is the PL is probably too competitive, its hectic and too demanding, no winter break, every game a battle etc etc. Add to that two cup competitions.

The Spanish / German / Italian teams just do not have that domestic league intensity to the same extent and therefore can focus and apply themselves more to the CL.
The way the PL is set up English teams will always be at a disadvantage, only managing to succeed occasionally, as we have seen.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby Mikhail Chigorin » Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:26 am

Mase wrote:The Premier League is shite. Teams whacking 11 men behind the ball when they play away every week. It's crap. Top teams doing it as well - Chelsea at ours last season and the rags doing against everyone all season.


Yo're right Mase.

Technically, the Premier League has been inferior to some other Leagues, for some time now, but it used to be exciting; you might call it 'exciting rubbish' if you were being very unkind.

However, of late, the excitement level has fallen off to some extent and the comparison now would be 'boring rubbish'.

I think Mourinho has played a large part in this development, in his two stints here.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby zabbadabbado » Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:54 am

carl_feedthegoat wrote:The one thing that sticks out in that BOLLOX chinners is his sneering attitude to the premier league, and the ''tough tough'' seemed a sarcastic response imo.....you'd have thought the bald cunt had won a cup , any fuckign cup, in his first season instead of battling just to get into the top 4 and fading away in every other cup competition,

Fuck me , if any of this wasn't taken out of context , he just goes up a notch in my dislike for him.


He really is an arrogant cunt, every time he opens his mouth I dislike him even more. He treats the Premier League with disdain, you would think he would keep his mouth shut, just get on with the job, and let his team do the talking after winning fuck all last season. No he cant help himself, “Premier League is shit”, ”City are a small Club with no history”(until I arrived}, (we won 2 titles you bald twat),”Fans need to sing More”,” I hope Messi stays at Barcelona forever blah,blah,blah”. That stunt with the Granny Shagger was vomit inducing. If i had a caption for the picture of that love in, it would have said “Hey Wayne I tried to sign you, just to piss these blue cunts off”. He doesn’t like us, many fans are struggling to take to him, I don’t even think he likes England that much tbh.

£200,000 000 spent last season, fuck knows how much the bald “Football Genius” is going to end up spending this season to feed his fucking ego. He is the very definition of a cheque book manager.

It crossed my mind maybe he and his “Spafia” Buddies could actually be trying to fuck us up. I mean seriously talk of £30,000 000 + bids for Johnny fucking Evans,£70,000 000+ bids for Sanchez a player with just 12 months left on his contract is insanity,. He now needs success desperately at all costs, at any price to our club. What about the FFP economics, spunking another £100,000 000 on 2 players nearly 30 for instant success. It really is madness. Yet his sycophants think he is some sort of genius.

I am not rating him one bit at the moment guys. Those that said the Tea Lady could have managed a Barcelona side with Messi,Iniesta,Xavi,Puyo etc in their prime have a good point, It feels to me he is interested only in buying success for the duration of his City contract at any price, call himself a genius and fuck off to PSG or Barcelona.

I hope to God I am wrong, but i actually don’t think he is going to win fuck all, I want him to, of course I do I am a City fan after all. Early days, the signs are not good though. Already he has reverted to type(last season) with the fucking about, using one system pre-season then changing when the season starts, square pegs in round holes because being ultra clever demands he do something revolutionary then wait half a game to change it because his ego dictates he must. We look like 11 poorly managed stars who don’t really know what the fuck they should be doing on a football pitch. Ironically quite often it requires a moment of actual footballing brilliance from one of our players to pull him and his possession based obsession out of the shit.

I actually think our players look terrified when it comes to shooting on Goal, it sounds ridiculous I know. But how many times do you see players like Aguero,Sterling,KDB,Silva create good goal scoring opportunities only to pass the Ball at the last second. It is like we practice literally walking the Ball in to the net. When they do shoot it is only as a last resort because there is no passing option left for them, often it is a rash shot on goal, you see them look visibly dejected. These are players that can change a game, having what is good coached out of then in quest of the perfect goal and not losing possession of the Ball.

Guardiola needs to sort his shit out big time, candle waivers up next. We play against then like we have the first 3 games of this season we could be really humiliated. Their simple, no nonsense, rush football does us every time. This game won’t be the one for “Tefal” to be playing Sane as a wingback or putting David Silva in Goal.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby iwasthere2012 » Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:59 am

Mase wrote:The Premier League is shite. Teams whacking 11 men behind the ball when they play away every week. It's crap. Top teams doing it as well - Chelsea at ours last season and the rags doing against everyone all season.


I think you are spot on Mase. It will kill the league too.
I'm actually getting bored already, only three games in, at the thought of having to play, close to another 30 games like this in the league.
I don't think Liverpool will do it or Spuds but would expect it from the Rags and Chelsea.
Arsenal are incapable of it I think, although they did a variation of it in the semi-final last season.

It's anti-football and it will kill the appetite for English football despite the perceived competition in the league.
It happened in Italy where crowds dropped because they were sick of watching boring 0-0 and 1-1's.

Pep has a lot of faults, but I at least admire his aspirations of what football should be like.
Whether he gets this squad over the line and achieving what they should with the array of talent we have, is something we will find out next year.
I'm not going to second guess what's going to happen at this stage. There are too many other factors and influences at work and the transfer window isn't shut yet.

True, it does look very similar to last season so far, but I still sense something slightly different in the squad. We are being hit early with terrible decisions and I personally believe there is a fear of what we could be out there. I know the forum is divided about agenda/bias/no agenda etc but whether it is subliminal or blatant corruption, I really do feel that we are up against a concerted effort to keep us down until the Rags get back to the top.

Pep could be more pragmatic in the face of this, but I think he is in a bit of a dilemma when it comes to calling them out.
He's been on the other side of favouritism and in highlighting how certain teams get officiated compared to us he is also highlighting the way he would expect Barca/Bayern to be officiated. That's just my perception of the situation, you may not agree.

Back to your substantive point though, teams combating our style of play with negative anti-football are the ones that are making English PL shite, not us.
Even without some of the pragmatism I'd like, I'll back City the team and Pep to do it our way and live for the day we do it to spite them all. The FA and UEFA.
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Re: Early Monday's B*ll*x

Postby littlebig » Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:00 am

I hope that's bollox about 70 million plus Denayer! Ridiculous money, smacks of desperation
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