Manchester City Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

Silva is a class act, and don't forget KDB was on the bench. I think when he is back we will knock in a few more goals . Chelsea on a wobble now hopefully we do push on .

Ah well. It wasn't to be. Wishful thinking on my part.

Jesus Christ! Just imagine being corrupt as well as incompetent!

A chance to give our GD a boost tonight. Oh, for a striker.......

Another one or two would be ideal. Got to try to narrow down the difference in GD between ourselves and Liverpool.

And there was me thinking that might be the toughest one of the December lot!

Good to see the real KDB back!

That's a strong XI. No messing about this afternoon lads, go out and take care of business. A solid, stress free 2-0 will do nicely.

"10 goals scored in the space of five days". Seriously? These are supposed to be professional commentators. God knows, I'm not the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer. But even I know that 7+4 does not equal 10.

3 points clear at the top, with nearly half the season gone. The hard work starts now. We're there to be shot at. Hopefully Pep and the lads have a good, Covid-safe Christmas, and be fit and raring to go for the Leicester game on boxing day.

Especially if Liverpool have 3 key players in the African Cup of Nations.

No Dias, Stones or Rodri, apparently. Covid, possibly? Damn.

Never in doubt, eh?

Christ, we made harder work of that than we needed to. It looks like we were trying to outdo Leicester in the hopeless defending stakes. They won the first half, definitely. But we trumped them in that second half. I think i sweated off yesterday's excesses watching that!

The main thing is, we got the focus back when we had to. Walker and Rodri were big misses today. I love Dinho, he's been fantastic for us. But, hate to say it, his legs are gone.

He would be very difficult to get from Leicester aswell .

Well done to Leicester, and to Newcastle last night. Belated, but welcome nevertheless, Christmas pressies!

Big month coming up. We've got a trip to a rejuvenated Arsenal at lunchtime on saturday, followed by the visit of Chelsea a couple of weeks later, combined with the Chelsea/Liverpool game on sunday afternoon. If we can take 4 pts from those two games, and the other game finish up as a draw, we'll be in a strong position. We'll also be losing Mahrez to AFCON, which will be a blow.

It's on Amazon Prime in the UK.

Pity that there's no Rodri, Walker or Stones available, but it is what it is. I would have concerns about Dinho; his legs are pretty much gone. He won't be able to catch any of the Brentford players to foul them!

;-)

Please lads, no silly mistakes or complacency. Treat Brentford with the respect they deserve (they held Liverpool to a draw not that long ago). Respect them, but don't fear them. A solid, professional, scare-free 2 or 3 goal win will do me nicely.

It's over, relax.

Not sure why we actually bought him, to be honest. We didn't need him. Kev, Ilkay, Phil, Bernie all play in more or less the same AM position. Yes, there were fears that Bernie might leave. But even so, the priority should have been a striker.

And was SHOCKED to hear the commentator say that we sold Torres to Barcelona!!!!

So had to google it and it’s true!! And only for €57+/- million. Jeez .. that was bad business. I thought he was gonna be Aguero replacement.

So still no outright striker......

When we bought Mahrez we did not need him either, we were well covered in that position already. And indeed, he did not play very much in his first season as it took a year for Pep to get him to adapt his style to suit our game. Same with Bernardo. Same with Rodri. Same with Cancelo. Just look at those players now - give Grealish a year to adapt before you write him off. If he's still not producing next season, THEN we think about cutting our losses.

As for signing a striker, of course we are crying out for someone to put all those chances away, just imagine what Haaland would do with that kind of service. HOWEVER, playing an out-and-out striker would disrupt the present team structure, and if the pressing stops working our whole style of play stops working. That's why Pep won't sign a striker in January, it just does not work that way. He needs time to adapt our play to incorporate a striker without taking away what we've got already. (And thank f*ck we did not sign Ronaldo!)

A happy new year to my fellow blues on here...