A director of football who’s made his name by operating prudently on a small budget and identifying bargains for his club? Exactly what Man City have been doing for the past fifteen years.
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Look, we don’t know what kind of budget they’ll have when they’re out of the Football League, let alone the Premier League.
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Preach, brother!
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Come on, United. You know you want to!
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Has @Alright_Now_Legend 's account been hacked?
He’s actually made a funny post.
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Try as you may, I will never not like you
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Lots of talk about Man City being the big winners last weekend, and yes they went back to the top of the league when their two biggest rivals were playing each other, but they struggled badly against a Southampton team that are arguably the worst side in the league and leaking goals for fun, that’s on the back of a last second winner against Wolves who are one place above that Southampton team. They drew their two games before that (Newcastle away and Arsenal at home).
Yes they’re back top of the league but they’re playing badly, the attack is struggling and they’re conceding an average of a goal a game.
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I hear what you’re saying and hope it’s the harbor of a big steaming cheats crumble but the retort is they’re top without playing well; when they click into form they will be uncatchable
Something tells me we wouldn’t be given the same credit.
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We haven’t got the charges on the board, so to speak…
I said it’s a bad result but the least bad result the chasing pack could have had.
At home you’d expect a cricket score.
This is right, but I am reluctant to lean on it too hard because this is how a lot of last season went. For long stretches they “did not play well” and often huffed and puffed to squeeze past some mediocre teams, leading to hope they were always on the verge of dropping points. But after the loss to Villa in Dec they won all but 4 of their remaining games, losing none, and with 2 of those being draws with title contenders.
I am coming around to this side’s median level being lower than what we’ve come to expect from them but getting by with more ruthlessness
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Isn’t that just the old canard of “winning while playing bad, that’s the sign of champions”?
I dont think so. I think it is less about picking up points while not playing well and more recalibrating what a good performance looks like from this version of city and what thinking they arent looking good means to their chances of winning (almost nothing, they still almost certain to win).
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It was really a weekend when, as long as they did the business against Southampton, they were always going to gain something on at least one of their two challengers for the title.
We had one a few weeks ago, when City and Arsenal played each other, and they drew. Arsenal have one of those in a few weeks when we play City.
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Yes they often grow into the season and get better in the final stretch - I just think the narrative of “Man City are the real winners” as Liverpool go away to the team who have pushed City for the last two seasons and get a creditable draw is such a phony story. As much as we may expect City to pick it up and get better it can’t be ignored that they’re playing like dogshit currently. Once City come through a test like playing Arsenal or Liverpool away then maybe we can start talking about them being “real winners”.
As far as I’m concerned this week was tagged as the one that would find Slot out by a lot of neutrals. Chelsea-Leipzig-Arsenal. As it turns out we beat Chelsea, easily handled Leipzig and dominated the second half to take a point at the Emirates. It’s Liverpool who have won this week.
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Yeah, that all seems right to me as well.
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But 2 games in 4 days v Brighton upcoming. Arne’s first real test 
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