***Spuds v Champions Official Match Thread***

[london blue 2]

I can’t help feeling that KdB isn’t carrying this team the way he perhaps should. We are lacking leaders.

He's the only player that actually looks like a leader. Moaning at Otamendi on Wednesday, sending players away from the Spurs players today and getting Sterling off the pitch.

No mate, he’s also playing awful.

[sheblue]

Fuck me 22 points behind. Yes 22 just shameful stuff.

[Outcast]

Sigh... Did anyone really believe we going to be any different today? It's becoming the norm now we're so inconsistent, the back 4 are shambles, the vermins are where they are due to having a solid consistent back 4, it's not rocket science, the chop and changing and change of formationsalong with plsyers just isn't helping. I've lost interest in the prem this season, let's focus on the cups and hope we get by.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

I can’t help feeling that KdB isn’t carrying this team the way he perhaps should. We are lacking leaders.

He's the only player that actually looks like a leader. Moaning at Otamendi on Wednesday, sending players away from the Spurs players today and getting Sterling off the pitch.

No mate, he’s also playing awful.

Absolutely true. He was beyond wank in midweek. You can't keep giving the ball away in a possession based team. Not much better today. But Sterling, oh my. He needs to stay away from the pitch for weeks. He looks completely shot.

[carl_feedthegoat]

I can’t help feeling that KdB isn’t carrying this team the way he perhaps should. We are lacking leaders.

He's the only player that actually looks like a leader. Moaning at Otamendi on Wednesday, sending players away from the Spurs players today and getting Sterling off the pitch.

No mate, he’s also playing awful.

. But Sterling, oh my. He needs to stay away from the pitch for weeks. He looks completely shot.

Hes injured so my guess is he will be out for a while...sounds horrible saying it as we don't wish injury on anyone , but Ill make a fuckign exception with sterling as the bald cunt just will not drop him.

[london blue 2]

Fucking shit.

[sheblue]

Can we not just freshen it up and play a few of the younger players.
Rather loose like that than loosing with teams like today's.
Pep is just too stubborn and repetitive in his errors.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Fucking shit.

I'm not pissed off mate - its been shit for ages now. I wouldn't mind if PeP was using young players more and he dropped non performing players and we still lost..id forgive him for at least doing the above.

The fact is though he hasn't and it seems like he wont be playing any of our young players in meaningful games unless hes forced to.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Fuck me 22 points behind. Yes 22 just shameful stuff.

After Norwich away, I said we wouldn't get within 10 points of the title. I got slated. It turns out I was being optimistic.
Gundowank MUST go now. I like Rodri, but maybe he is the problem. Pep must decide on his best attacking 11. Foden has to play more. Maybe when Laporte is back, Ferna goes back to midfield. Please sell that German fuck immediately. He is at the heart of everything we do badly.

[zuricity]

so we have created over 40 scoring chances in two games and everyone is blaming the manager for us not scoring enough. fucking madness, the players are letting the club down big time and fucking off if they can they bothered. clearly something is wrong and its time for some to go no matter how big they think they are.

Who is the blame for Sterling not being dropped?
Who is to blame for continuing to play the same players that are fucking these easy chances up?
Who is to blame for Foden and Garcia being on the bench and not on the pitch?
Who is to blame for having zero shield in front of the defence because Fern is playing out of position?

Don't go there, Mase.
People will call you out for not being a City fan and don't understanding that all is "fantastic".

There is a radical difference between questioning the choice of tactics, team selection and asking players to play out of position, to wishing your team get seriously defeated to make some point to the manager.

There are some clear issues that need to be resolved on the training field.

One that particularly springs to mind is before the Spuds first goal , three players were rushing into their five yard box and the ball was played behind them all.
There must always , always be one player holding off. Basic attacking options. Ask the Croatians and the Germans and indeed the Dutch from where they all learned these things after King Johan the Cruyff.

[harveytravis]

Please please please rest Sterling Pep.

Oh and there's a player you think is best thing since sliced bread... Foden I think his name is... why not give him a few more games

Thank you Pep

[Bear60]

Bad day at the office Fuck it forget it move on

[everyonehatesus]

so we have created over 40 scoring chances in two games and everyone is blaming the manager for us not scoring enough. fucking madness, the players are letting the club down big time and fucking off if they can they bothered. clearly something is wrong and its time for some to go no matter how big they think they are.

There is a thing called dropping an under performing player for a fuckign better option - PeP does nothing but pick the same shit players game after game..usually the same player missing chance after chance....so yes...players are at fault but so is the cunt who picks them.[/quote
and we don't have those better options, we need to go and find them in the summer. and please don't say foden, hes not better hes even as good.
things aren't going our way, its shit to deal with but that's life. things need to be shuffled to get back on track that's clear to see but we are where we are for this season so have to try and grab what we can. our back for are in trouble but if the front had done their job then 99% of the problems we are facing wouldn't be be there as teams would be put away in the first half. we cant keep missing so many chances and pens for fuck sake. any cunt that doesn't score a pen should be docked a weeks wages, all they do is practice kicking a ball so to not score from 12 yards in unforgivable imo.

[Redna]

How can we beat Real?

[carl_feedthegoat]

Bad day at the office Fuck it forget it move on

Bad day at the office was when we played the Munchens , today was an apocalyptic day at the office.

For the record - I moved on a while back when it became obvious Baldie gave up this season and decided to blind fold himself when he fills in the team sheet for match day.

[Hazy2]

Enjoy the last knocking for this squad, Real Madrid is the only game this squad has in it, as we cannot defend it will be interesting p.

[zuricity]

Open your eyes with KDB. He give A the ball away constantly

You mean trying to make goal scoring opportunities ,or like the dick head Spuds defenders in their own box? That we didn't capitalize on.

Trying to create something all the time, Kev had a good game today.

[s1ty m]

Fuck me 22 points behind. Yes 22 just shameful stuff.

After Norwich away, I said we wouldn't get within 10 points of the title. I got slated. It turns out I was being optimistic.
Gundowank MUST go now. I like Rodri, but maybe he is the problem. Pep must decide on his best attacking 11. Foden has to play more. Maybe when Laporte is back, Ferna goes back to midfield. Please sell that German fuck immediately. He is at the heart of everything we do badly.

He is total coward mate. I've said so from Day 1. Hides.

[Nigels Tackle]

How can we beat Real?

with sane and la porte back in the side

[PeterParker]

so we have created over 40 scoring chances in two games and everyone is blaming the manager for us not scoring enough. fucking madness, the players are letting the club down big time and fucking off if they can they bothered. clearly something is wrong and its time for some to go no matter how big they think they are.

Who is the blame for Sterling not being dropped?
Who is to blame for continuing to play the same players that are fucking these easy chances up?
Who is to blame for Foden and Garcia being on the bench and not on the pitch?
Who is to blame for having zero shield in front of the defence because Fern is playing out of position?

Don't go there, Mase.
People will call you out for not being a City fan and don't understanding that all is "fantastic".

There is a radical difference between questioning the choice of tactics, team selection and asking players to play out of position, to wishing your team get seriously defeated to make some point to the manager.

There are some clear issues that need to be resolved on the training field.

One that particularly springs to mind is before the Spuds first goal , three players were rushing into their five yard box and the ball was played behind them all.
There must always , always be one player holding off. Basic attacking options. Ask the Croatians and the Germans and indeed the Dutch from where they all learned these things after King Johan the Cruyff.

There are a lot of things we don't know, a lot of things behind the closed door that are happening around the dressing room and in the staff room, those might explain what is this calamity this season.

My own opinion is that all of this is happening because he is trying to prove a point, a point because in the summer the club refused to bring him Fernandes and Maguire, if you listen to the players we were really linked.

He is like a kid who deliberately fucked some things up to force the club to bring him what he wants to (in his mind) win the champions league.

There are a shitload of problems with us, they were also in the last two seasons in key moments when his managerial blunders came in key moments.

Going to that corner, it's not the first moment when this happend. Our set pieces are the stuff of nightmares. And the list might go on, so yes, the Guardiola issue needs to be solved quick, for the sake of the club.