Rayvin

Don't worry though, Donald Trump has our back!

Why is McCarthy even available and/or interested?

Well, seems pretty inevitable. Hard Brexit, no trading deal and the UK setting itself to become even more of a pro-Oligarchical state than it was previously with the tax haven status.

The thing is though, they need their national side to be better before they take the WC. The Olympics was a no brainer because they perform well in that, but their public has a similar level of disparaging hatred towards their national team as we do to ours They consider them to be a national embarrassment, and the likelihood is that the team would lose crushingly at the tournament to everyone they came up against, and would ultimately have to issue formal apologies to the nation. In short, China would lose face on a large scale.

Bloody hell, that would be something to see. If he goes though, it'll just cement the idea that he's a busted flush.

Would be funny if Rafa's take on the injury problems were that we needed to replace Anita

At least he's actually earned that I suppose.

Roll on benevolent dictatorship.

Yeah but he'd signed up by then, hadn't he? He signed up with City back in January, before it was certain that Leicester were going to win it. Moreover you could just as easily look at that and conclude that all teams in the PL are equally shit. Which might be true, but now also includes his own side.

Yep. I genuinely don't think he expected it to be this competitive.

On current form you'd have to fancy Spurs for that I think.

Yeah, that's true. It'll be interesting to see what he does, especially when the press turn on him (which is imminent if their 'poor' form keeps up).

Suspect this is true, but he has left when it got tough previously, I think. Didn't he go the year Barcelona were evicted from their position of dominance in La Liga?

On the other side of this Brexit stuff mind, it's starting to sound as though we have a negotiating position/plan. It's very negative, but that stuff about corp. tax, the US deal and so on are the most coherent things that have been said.

Fair points I guess, their recruitment has been questionable for some time. Begiristain or whatever his name is doesn't seem to be all that good at picking players.

You're suggesting the only possibility is that he doesn't see it intellectually though. The other, more likely scenario, is that he's too much of a purist, too stubborn, to actually want to adapt. Hence the situation with Bravo and Hart.

I'm prepared to accept that he's past his peak or something rather than just 'never having been any good' which is rather preposterous. He just doesn't look like he enjoys it tbf. Plus, Tiki Taka was never going to be improved post-Barcelona. He'll never work with a team of players that good again. The whole point of moving on is surely to adapt and change your outlook, not attempt to recreate it at every turn.

A decent number of City fans on Bluemoon suggesting that they should bring Mancini back

Something about how something that happened to Bravo was a foul anywhere but England - standard whinging really.

Was that self deprecating humour or a total lack of self awareness... I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt but it's close.

Not looking good for him. The PL is simply a more competitive league than what he's used to - that may well be because the teams in it share a similar level of shiteness, but either way, that's his big problem.

Firstly, how on earth do they know that. Secondly, it'd be fucking stupid unless it has Benitez's blessing. Unless Ashley thinks that once we're back up this is all just a formality again.

Really? Then I must have picked a shotgun instead. I'll check when I'm next on. And sure I'll see if I can get on, have a good session either way!

No I do mean the one that becomes available at lvl 10 actually... I dont pay attention to names! I'm gonna be playing some rocket league tonight but I'll see you over the next couple of days I'm sure!

I like the starter gun for support but I'm only rank 1. For Assault I choose the lvl 10 shotgun.