Premier League Fixtures 19/20 March

Great goal from Ramieres. When did he decide he was a footballer?

Ramires

Bar Silva and Tevez I don't rate any of these City players. Who have they actually spent money on? What a disgrace Mancini has been for them.

Kolorov hasn't impressed me so far at all in the games i've seen of him.

Luis wrote:Bar Silva and Tevez I don't rate any of these City players. Who have they actually spent money on? What a disgrace Mancini has been for them.

Johnson

Toure too actually..

Benfica Boys save Chelsea

Luis wrote:Bar Silva and Tevez I don't rate any of these City players. Who have they actually spent money on? What a disgrace Mancini has been for them.

Toure and Kompany

Ramires. Great goal. Chelsea still in with a shout of the title.

christmasborocooper wrote:

Luis wrote:Bar Silva and Tevez I don't rate any of these City players. Who have they actually spent money on? What a disgrace Mancini has been for them.

Johnson

Toure too actually..

Johnson is indeed great but Mancini doesn't seem to think so...

Yaya's decent enough I guess, doesn't strike me as an exceptional player.

Yaya is immense.

Luis wrote:

christmasborocooper wrote:

Luis wrote:Bar Silva and Tevez I don't rate any of these City players. Who have they actually spent money on? What a disgrace Mancini has been for them.

Johnson

Toure too actually..

Johnson is indeed great but Mancini doesn't seem to think so...

Yaya's decent enough I guess, doesn't strike me as an exceptional player.

Stick him into a decent team and he would stand out much more. The guy is a beast of a footballer.

This City side is just shite. The only reason they are in the top four is squad depth.

8 points behind these idiots - and we still got to play them and spurs. 4th would still be on if we had the belief like the old days.

There's plenty of players in this city side who would walk into Asenal or Man uts starting teams:

For Arsenal, for example: Hart, Kompany, Yaya Toure, Tevez.

Really, Mancini must take the blame here. If he finishes fourth with no trophies, I guess he'll be fired at the end of the season. One more season after that max.

Luis talking out of his arse just for a change.

Tevez is awesome.

Jinky is quality.

Yaya is fantastic.

De Jong is rightly slaughtered for the nasty side of his game but is very good.

Silva is brilliant.

Richards is a great prospect.

Hart is a great prospect.

Kompany is good.

Zabaleta is very good.

Balotelli is a great talent but a liability.


They have plenty of good players but an average manager as well as some really shit players like Barry, Milner and Dzeko.




Torres

His substitution was key because it meant that Chelsea had a set-piece taker.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Luis talking out of his arse just for a change.

Dzeko and Kolorov look to be a pretty bad example of how to spend 50 million.

David Luiz is the man......City are way to conservative that it stifles creation in the side going forward anti-football for sure.

Spurs having shit/underperforming/underused strikers is the only thing keeping Citeh in the top 4.

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:Spurs having shit/underperforming/underused strikers is the only thing keeping Citeh in the top 4.

+ a Mr Royston Hodgson

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Luis talking out of his arse just for a change.

Tevez is awesome.

Jinky is quality.

Yaya is fantastic.

De Jong is rightly slaughtered for the nasty side of his game but is very good.

Silva is brilliant.

Richards is a great prospect.

Hart is a great prospect.

Kompany is good.

Zabaleta is very good.

Balotelli is a great talent but a liability.


They have plenty of good players but an average manager as well as some really shit players like Barry, Milner and Dzeko.




Torres

His substitution was key because it meant that Chelsea had a set-piece taker.

Saved me a long winded post cos Luis was indeed talking out his backside

Hlebagone wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Luis talking out of his arse just for a change.

Dzeko and Kolorov look to be a pretty bad example of how to spend 50 million.

Well for a start they cost £40m anyway Kolorov's been ok and Dzeko like Torres is a decent player but needs time to settle into our team...and for him get used to playig in the epl.

Dzeko looks alright. I feel the pacy EPL might be a bit difficult for a non pacy player. And not sure if he'll ever get the time to settle. Should've gone to Italy.

I'll give him some time though. Other technically gifted slow strikers have been succesful here: Pavlyuchenko, Berbatov.

COTR wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:Spurs having shit/underperforming/underused strikers is the only thing keeping Citeh in the top 4.

+ a Mr Royston Hodgson

Do you recall last season at all?

Hlebagone wrote:Dzeko looks alright. I feel the pacy EPL might be a bit difficult for a non pacy player. And not sure if he'll ever get the time to settle. Should've gone to Italy.

I'll give him some time though. Other technically gifted slow strikers have been succesful here: Pavlyuchenko, Berbatov.

Despite having some fans of him here I don't think Pavlyuchenko has been succesful in PL, he is doing okay, but nothing special. Dzeko lost every battle against David Luiz today, it didn't look well.

debaser wrote:

COTR wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:Spurs having shit/underperforming/underused strikers is the only thing keeping Citeh in the top 4.

+ a Mr Royston Hodgson

Do you recall last season at all?

Relevance to the 2010/11 season please ?

Having a team that arent good enough is the only thing blocking most of these teams not being in the top 4

christmasborocooper wrote:Having a team that arent good enough is the only thing blocking most of these teams not being in the top 4

True

But a Mr Royston Hodgson was quite an extenuating circumstance for our current points tally

If we had Kenny from the summer we'd either be 4th or much nearer to it then we currently are. Simple as that, all the stats prove it

As for talking out my arse about City well I still don't see a great deal of world class players for the money they've payed.

Zabaleta, Richards, Kompany? meh. De Jong? meh. Hart is a good prospect but I don't rate him as much as some people do if I'm honest.

It's a good squad with 2 or 3 genuinely class players. Dzeko and Balotelli may have quality but not proven in this league just yet. Balotelli isn't worth the risk or money, he's just a complete tosser and will cost City more than he accomplishes for them.

If I looked at a City team sheet with no Tevez or Silva in it I'd expect us to draw if not beat them.

I bet there's stats to say Liverpool have been better off without Torres and with Suarez. Maybe thats all Hodge needed..better players.

christmasborocooper wrote:I bet there's stats to say Liverpool have been better off without Torres and with Suarez. Maybe thats all Hodge needed..better players.

That's just one player though. A swap Torres for Suarez. Caroll has only played 1 league game so not counting him.

Hodgson had everyone else yet players like Meireles, Lucas and Agger weren't anywhere near as good under him.

The shite tactics and mentality we had for 6 months may have ultimately cost us a challenge for 4th this season, thats what COTR was saying.

COTR wrote:

debaser wrote:

COTR wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:Spurs having shit/underperforming/underused strikers is the only thing keeping Citeh in the top 4.

+ a Mr Royston Hodgson

Do you recall last season at all?

Relevance to the 2010/11 season please ?

You had a slightly stronger team, and better manager. City and Spurs had weaker sides and still both finished above you.

Besides, have you Liver lot completely forgot the whole Hicks/Gillette thing? Y'know how your owners were complete c**ts and sold good players and fucked the morale of the team and all that...that did happen, right? I know Dalgish is magic and all, but there would still have been inconsistency with that whole ownership thing was going on.