I would say it also depends on Salah etc being fit.
Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [2nd - 4th March 2024]
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Be a loss. Its a 50/50 game when we are full strength as we won't have at least 4 1st choice starters (my guess) I can't see any other result
Soldato
Wonderfully brutal and barely disguised dig at Man Utd from the BBC match report.
I fear that we've too many injuries at this moment in time, I'm saying a city win
Whilst it's hard to disagree with this the other side of matters is the management of squad outgoings also. The club has been terrible at moving out players that have been seen as not good enough for many seasons. Its recruitment criteria has also been awful. The jury is out on ten Hag's signings, Martinez is decent albeit perma-injured, Hojlund looks good, Mount is the right type of player but we have Bruno Fernandes in his position. Onana....hmmm. Casemiro is not who he wanted but who the club delivered after de Jong turned us down.
The problem I have with ten Hag is that there is no progress in a style or key characteristics that we can see after nearly two seasons. We haven't closed the gap to any of our rivals and show low resilience in too many games. He has nailed his colours to a chaotic style with Bruno Fernandes as the determinant of style of play because the squad isn't good enough. He's also, at least publicly in denial about how good we are.
Could anyone else get more out of this lot? Possibly.
Will he be at Old Trafford next season - highly unlikely.
Do I want him as manager? Not really but I don't know who offers better outcomes.
Caporegime
Really? I wouldn't have said that has any reference to United at all. They are both the same age and both came through the City academy at the same time. Foden decided to stay and back himself to one day get into the City first XI and Sancho left for Dortmund. One is likely to have a brilliant career and the other is floundering through his own choices/attitude.
Not sure there was any dig at United in there. Maybe I am being naive.
Caporegime
Feels more of a dig at Sancho tbh
Nah, haven't you heard, every ref wants Liverpool to win the league so I'm expecting 16 pens, 4 sending offs for City, Liverpool to start with a 2 goal lead and to play on until Liverpool get a winner in the event the previous hasn't already helped
Soldato
there wasn't and you're not. what yer man thinks that comment has to do with ManU is a bit weird. but everyone's gotta get their hate-on for UTD somehow i guess
Soldato
I think Sancho’s attitude is where the problem lies to be honest.
Yeah but the flip side of that is that every ref loves to get the enormous bank transfer deposit payments from Abu Dhabi, so its going to be a tough choice for them.
Soldato
that's what most sensible people say. the diehard UTD haters just gotta make it the clubs fault
- usually results in some entertaining if somewhat stupid posts.
Soldato
He was fined several times while at dortmund wasn’t he?that's what most sensible people say. the diehard UTD haters just gotta make it the clubs fault
Soldato
Aye, pretty sure I read reports to that effect at one time.
Caporegime
I don’t know what Henry’s talking about half the time as a pundit.
Glad to see Partey finally back on the bench, that's the strongest our subs have looked for a while.
I was just thinking the same watching a clip of him explain our defensive strengths, he has a way of saying absolutely nothing in the most complicated way.
Caporegime
I’m hoping Timber isn’t too far away now. Bloody gutted me that injury, he was class from the first game