freshie wrote:With the squad we have and the relative inconsistency of all the top teams we should be making a serious challenge for the title, not
looking over our shoulders at Spurs as we battle to hang on for 4th place.
Inconcisistency of
all the top teams. It is just a strange season and that is how the cookie crumbles.
freshie wrote:In addition to this he makes baffling team selections, uninspiring substitutions and despite a wealth of attacking options that would be the envy of most prem teams he sends his teams out with the most negative tactics to play the most boring style of football seen since Stuart Pearce was in charge.
As I stated, there's no rule that one has to be entertaining. It is a misconception. If you want to be entertained and you don't get it, well I'm sorry for ya. I'd rather see City win the EPL with "boring negative" football than come 2nd with impressive football.
freshie wrote:As for his signings, despite spending close to £150m on players we are no better off than we were last season and David Silva is the only signing he can be proud of - the rest have been abysmal. To top it all off he has fallen out with Bellamy who was one of our best players last season and has clashed on numerous occasions with Tevez (who now looks like he may have played his last game for us) yet signs an extremely difficult player in Balotelli who quite frankly has been more trouble than he is worth. Balotelli or Bellamy? I'm with the fiery little Welshman.
Rant over ;)
I think Yaya has been pretty good and Dzeko has shown signs of what's to come when he gets the service he requires... but that's just me.
freshie wrote:I would hardly call 10 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats a poor away record. Do some research before posting
When your only rival is Barcelona and no other team matters, those 4 draws and 2 defeats are pretty abysmal.
freshie wrote:Well we're playing ugly and still not winning so what next?
But we're fourth. Wasn't that our target? Or has this suddenly changed?
freshie wrote:You're right, there is no rule that states a game has to be entertaining. But then by your logic there is no point trying to win games either because there is no rule that states teams have to win. The reason we go to watch football matches is because we want to be entertained. If the only reason you watch football is to watch your team win then you are no better than the glory hunters who 'support' the scum. Unless my memory fails me we have won fuck all in the last 35 years so why support City?
Actually, there's a rule that states to win the EPL, you need to have the most points out of any team. This can only be achieved by winning enough games, so indirectly the rule states you have to win games to win the league and, in the end, that is what it is all about, win titles, win trophies.
And no, I don't watch a team just to see them win. However, I'm not saying that I'd rather see them play brilliant and lose, than play boring and win. I'd rather have 3 points than take credit for playing brilliant. Your last comment proves my opinion exactly. For 35 years, we've won nothing. Now we have a manager that has sorted out our defense and has made us one of the toughest teams to break through, we're fighting for fourth and are still in the FA Cup and we're
complaining? The last two season have been by far the best we've had since a very long time and it is not good enough? I think a rich owner has made you spoiled.
I agree that it can be frustrating to watch, however, we're doing better than we've done in a long time. On top of that, this is only our second season with him, if you really expected to win anything this season, then I feel really sorry for you, the media fever must have gotten you. I, personally, didn't expect to win anything. Not because I don't think we can't, but because I think we need to improve and be a cohesive unit, rather than 4-5 good players and a bunch of others around that. Maybe it is the realist in me.
freshie wrote:The reason the Premiership is the most watched league in the world is because it is the most entertaining. It's massive worldwide appeal ensures that we get the highest possible revenue from worldwide television rights and the subsequent inflow of money allows English teams to buy some of the best players in the world. If every game finished 1-0 or 0-0 would this be the case? I think not. The Sheikh's vision is to make City one of the biggest clubs in the world which includes increasing our global support - this will happen by being successful and playing attractive football as that is what fans want to see. There is no reason why being successful and playing attractive football have to be mutually exclusive
I think it has more to do with the success of British clubs in Europe. I mean, La Liga is pretty exciting too and has a lot more attractive football than the EPL has. Even clubs like Hercules can be entertaining where clubs like Bolton and Blackburn just rough players up.
Your last comment is not entirely correct. Clubs like Juventus, AC Milan and Inter have all been the so-called "boring" football teams, yet their stature in Europe is great, especially AC Milan. If we can win by playing attractive, great. I'm all for attractive football. However, if we can win by being effective, great too. Considering you complain about the fans of Rags Utd, the "business" fans, corporations and basically the glory hunters, as you call it, why would you want City to get the same fans?
In the end, let's have Mancini just do his thing. We've only just started with him. If we keep changing managers around, we'll hardly get any success. As much as it pains me to say, Rags Utd success didn't come, because they changed managers around all the time. They stuck with a man... troll and it paid off. If we keep moaning every two seasons about a manager not being good enough, we'll get nowhere.
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