hallamblue
Player Valuation: £50m
For goodness sake Dave have a word with yourself. They lost 1 home game last season, to Chelsea. They have an abundance of attacking talent, and bar a couple of 5 minute periods we defended pretty well.
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Our squad hasn't gelled together yet tbf
Schneiderlin was saying in the paper before the Stoke game to judge them in October once they've had a chance to get some chemistry and bed in the new players. I think that's fair
ijjysmith
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Scored Leicester's very late equaliser against us when we played them on the opening day a few seasons back.
But then Aiden McGeady scored for us in that game so it means nothing after all this writing.
Ah I see
I didn't go that game mate, due to work
I missed Leicester away two seasons on the trot in fact, one was for work and the other was for a wedding
"Racist finder general" lol
Given our recent track record against City I was expecting us to beat them at least 0-5 (it would progress from last time we played them) and given that we've spent £130m it should have been more like 0-8 (not even bothered they've spent £100m more because it makes no difference). I also thought it was disgusting the way Koeman allowed youth time on the pitch and especially British Youth. All in all massive steps backwards....
whiteshadow
Player Valuation: £25m
What a load of utter drivel.
Net spend has to be used. You said yourself that Lukaku would be irreplacable, yet won't use net spend to account for Koeman having to replace a player you yourself said would be impossible to replace.
You also ignore all the teams above us outspending us for over a decade and us having to play catch up. Add to that you're not even waiting until the end of the transfer window to get a fair reflection of where we stand and it just proves you chat total utter wham.
Teams above us have teams that cost multiple times what ours does yet you ignore that, focus on the fact we've spent more than usual despite factoring in that every team has more money than normal due to the TV money.
Total utter joke of a post and total distortion of the truth.
Throw yourself in a bin.
I think the second half performance as much as the result is terrible. Don't get me wrong surrendering the lead against 10 was very poor. However had we have done that while attacking them, not finish our chances and have a sucker punch that is one thing. Last night we froze though.
At a key moment in the game when any of the other top 6 would have killed City we stood off.
That's the big worry for me. 1-1 can happen. 10 men when playing at home can get a goal back, goodness knows they've got enough lads to score out of nothing. It's part of a pattern now though that goes back 3 managers. We don't deal with being favourites in big games well enough. We freeze.
Against 11 we played better. Essentially when the pressure was off and we had a game plan of stifling them. When the onus was on us we froze.
Look at Burnley at Chelsea last week. They nearly through it away as well but that was nativity not freezing. You could see them go through the gears when they sensed weakness and attack.
It's my biggest concern of last night. The result and two lost points is fine, it's August and it's a game I felt we'd get nothing from. However we will not win trophies, or win at away grounds if we keep losing our heads at key moments.
mooseatingnome
Player Valuation: £6m
Except Man City have still spent exponentially more. Despite the money spent, there is a still bit of a gulf in the class of player.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
The board got to employ Dave as the manager. He discribed getting a point at Citch's home ground 'a terrible result'. He probably expect to win the league with £140m spent. Mind you ain't no net spend this time because we ain't discussing Moshiri.
mooseatingnome
Player Valuation: £6m
Improvement over what we got against City during the Roberto era. Not even 1 win in 6 attempts.
What a comment, a terrible result against City away, we would have took that result and ran with it before the game, stop talking absolute bubbles mate!
ijjysmith
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I've seen you type this a couple of times and I don't get it.
He a New Zealand lad, so a lot of talk from over the water about him..... they think he is gash too!
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