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that's because bellingham doesn't like to pass

fair enough. i just don't see him as a left back. but then we are short on options

well i was asked my opinion and i watch every game so i have one. although my memory is gone. he may be listed wide in a front 3, but that's not where he stays.

i know he scores goals, but kane just looks like a cart horse

pickford looked ok yesterday. looks a prick but did ok. stones looked a little rusty. hopefully he'll shake it in time for more serious games. was impressed with guehi last night. not sure he's along term solution but he did a job. walker was decent. trips just looks past it. but you guys know better than me.

think a massive problem was shaw not being fit last night. don't like shaw but trippier just isn't up to it on the left anymore. At City we like to push our full backs high and wide, chalk on the boots. interchanging with the wingers. allows the wingers to play inside. foden benefits from that style. also the year pre haaland we played foden (amongst others) as a false 9 and won the league.

he's the kind of player you want in your team for sure. but he is also a massive bellend. the biggest bellend i've seen on a football pitch for sometime. glad he's english mind.

most effective? coming inside. as for theoretical positions, he does play out wide sometimes but not as much as he used to. you'll normally see chalk on doku, guardiol or grealish's boots on the the left wing with bernado, foden or walker out on the right. but we change it around so much i'm not sure that bellingham passed to him last night. made me wonder if there is animosity between the two from the CL. but then i realised bellingham doesn't like to pass to anyone. stupid observation. bellingham is obviously way better than kalvin phillips but england seemed to have a better balance when he linked with rice. bellingham has changed the dynamic from a team performance to the bellend show. just to be clear, KP is rubbish now.

so unrestricted in terms of pumping cash into the club, the team, the infrastructure, the ground, and the wider local community but checks could be, zero debt, squad limit, home grown requirements, academy players in first team should be rewarded somehow (and i mean long term academy like Foden) etc. and i don't believe that the VERY best players would be happy sitting on the bench. i think real madrid are an exception.

and ban red as a shirt colour

and another thing. they should abolish the rule that says you can have £105m debt over a 3 year people. I thought that was meant to be whilst clubs got used to spending restrictions to help with rainy days. It's now used like a speed limit on a road. make it zero debt.

We don't win it at a canter though. and last year was a 3 horse race until 1 of the horses pulled up lame. An uncomfortable number of our titles have been final day wins. Older City fans have been dropping like flies due to the stress i'm sure. Our spending is not the reason we've won so much (yes a massive factor as it always has been). the reason was very clearly Pep. Unrestricted spending doesn't win you the league. The correct squad / manager combo does.

not so sure about that. it doesn't need to be unchecked. just not restricted. you have way more money than us. we have way more money than chelsea. chelsea have more money than anyone would reasonably spend on a football team. the squad limits alone would probably keep things fair as the very best players want to play not sit on the bench. for me the rules should be aimed at keeping the overall quality high. so investment good, debt bad.

Yeah i'm okay with the orange. tbh i hadn't thought about you guys wearing black and white stripes. Has there already been a vote that i wasn't aware of?

I have a fairly clear view point. Take another look at City and scrap the spending restrictions. City are debt free. That's the only rule you need (maybe some debt allowed, like mortgage against assets, so as not screw clubs like Man U over). City are incredibly well run. City behave with respect towards the wider community. The Premier League needs to be the richest league in order to maintain pace with the rest of Europe. Restrictions threaten that. City have massively invested in East Manchester. And it's paying off. Those cranes are to do with building a third in the one remaining two tier end. They are also building a hotel and new fan zone. Getting ready for non-league football.

I hope 14 clubs fall into middle east hands. then we can all vote for whatever we like. If that happens i think liverpool should have to play in prison stripes and have to carry a bag of swag.

the site problems prevented me posting so took a break. glad to see its working again. We're only doing for you @ewerk

just wanted to remind people that i mentioned the standard chartered stuff on here 18 months ago. but liverpool are a favoured team so they don't get hounded the way we do and to remind you to hate them.

The rule does seem pretty pointless. Basically you have to show that at "some level" the clubs are independent of each other. We're certainly not the first multi club organization to be allowed to compete. As an example,RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg have been deemed okay for years. That's my only grounds for justification tbh. Also i think we "only" own 49% of Girona, but i'm not 100% on that as i haven't seen the paperwork.

well on the one hand it strikes me that Eddie is more of a mouse than klopp, but then Klopp is more of a rat than Eddie. So its even stevens

It was in West Gorton It was our home before we existed. Back then clubs seemed to rise and fall before the ones we know now came about City DNA #20: The rise and fall of Hyde Road (mancity.com)

that's just what happens when you pour jam into the matrix

just happened on this from one of our itk's, it's relevant so here you go ... Manchester City v Newcastle United

well i've just had some fun. the missus and my girls all screaming. turns out Fish had brought a tiny mouse into the house to play with. proper game of cat and mouse until i finally got Fish (our kitten) to take it back into the garden. panic over.

yep. that's our model. It doesn't break any rules. At least not until they create them. think the cartel are stuck between banning it and copying it atm