2 AC (After Cook)

[Tokyo Blue]

Tevez aside (we still have to confirm a replacement for him) we are stronger at the moment than last season. There's a slight question mark over how our two newbies will like the Prem and perform in it but they have countrymen on the team already to help them adapt.

Maybe we should see what happens when we play some matches before we crow about how wonderful we are or how wonderful the manager is.

Which is pretty much what I said in my second sentence surely.

I think perhaps I have quoted the wrong post there.

[sandman]

Sandman, I have a failsafe method to get you through this. Go to your bedroom. Stick your head under the pillow and wait until we tell you it's ok to come out.

FFP ffs.

FFP is the bullshit excuse used by many when the fact is that these player's are still being signed by top clubs for ridiculous figures? Do people on this website only think that FFP applies to City? The fact is that none of the top players want to come here, we were one an attractive proposition to big names like Silva, Yaya, Tevez and Aguero, however now we are not taken seriously.

[Twobob]

FFP is the bullshit excuse used by many when the fact is that these player's are still being signed by top clubs for ridiculous figures? Do people on this website only think that FFP applies to City? The fact is that none of the top players want to come here, we were one an attractive proposition to big names like Silva, Yaya, Tevez and Aguero, however now we are not taken seriously.

Why not? Why aren't we taken seriously? Do you honestly believe that players came here for the lure of an ex-Nike executive?

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

In all the whining about Isco and lack of marquee signings, very few people are mentioning the best signing we have made in Pellegrini. He has a proven track record of working with a team full of non galacticos, he can make a silk purse out of a sows ear so I believe that our current squad is something that he can engineer (see what I did there) into a mighty force that will challenge on a number of fronts in both league and cup. I would however be happy to see one striker and one central defender signed in this window.

Just to play devil's advocate, what has he ever won in Europe?

That is a rational point of view, we know he got a record points tally at Real but didn't win anything, the same can be said of his days as commander in chief of the yellow submarine. Winning is a mentality and that only applies to end result, league or cup. There is a belief system at work here, and in many ways we have to, as fans,buy into it. Pellegrini instills confidence in me, he seems like the kind of person I would respect and enjoy as a boss and from watching the video of his first 48 hours at City, that feeling has been strengthend. I believe in him, the same could and still can be said for mancini, from my point of view but I could also understand why he got the boot. I am going to enjoy Pellegrinis tenure, Isco or no disco

I'm not saying I'm against him being in charge. He will get fair chance from me and I quite like him as a character. However he has been brought here to win and I fully expect him to at very least show he is capable of doing it in his first season.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Considering the lack of funds at his disposal ,he got further than Mancini ever did and if it wasnt for a cheating scottish twat of a ref then he would have got even further.

If my aunt had balls and all that. Some managers seem to consistently win shit and others don't. With us Pellegrini needs to jump from latter group to former. Simple as that.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

In all the whining about Isco and lack of marquee signings, very few people are mentioning the best signing we have made in Pellegrini. He has a proven track record of working with a team full of non galacticos, he can make a silk purse out of a sows ear so I believe that our current squad is something that he can engineer (see what I did there) into a mighty force that will challenge on a number of fronts in both league and cup. I would however be happy to see one striker and one central defender signed in this window.

Just to play devil's advocate, what has he ever won in Europe?

Intertoto Cup.

Just out of curiosity, does his record in management in S. America not count for anything?

[Original Dub]

FFP is the bullshit excuse used by many when the fact is that these player's are still being signed by top clubs for ridiculous figures? Do people on this website only think that FFP applies to City? The fact is that none of the top players want to come here, we were one an attractive proposition to big names like Silva, Yaya, Tevez and Aguero, however now we are not taken seriously.

We had our huge money windows. They are having their's now.

It's financial fair play, not gary cook mate

[johnny crossan]

It will be unsettling if Cavani goes to PSG.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

FFP is the bullshit excuse used by many when the fact is that these player's are still being signed by top clubs for ridiculous figures? Do people on this website only think that FFP applies to City? The fact is that none of the top players want to come here, we were one an attractive proposition to big names like Silva, Yaya, Tevez and Aguero, however now we are not taken seriously.

We had our huge money windows. They are having their's now.

It's financial fair play, not gary cook mate

It's also the Sheikh's desire that we build a sustainable club.

@Sandman, are you suggesting that before we'd won the league people took us seriously but since then they don't? FFS Aguero.

[dazby]

FFP is the bullshit excuse used by many when the fact is that these player's are still being signed by top clubs for ridiculous figures? Do people on this website only think that FFP applies to City? The fact is that none of the top players want to come here, we were one an attractive proposition to big names like Silva, Yaya, Tevez and Aguero, however now we are not taken seriously.

Can you not recognise that the big players on stupid money were bought before the FFP regulations kicked in? The strategy was to show a big loss, then work towards moving to break even. Which the club has done.

Other clubs may be snubbing their nose at FFP. We sure aren't.