I appreciate our defensive efforts this season but to be fair, Spurs have almost half of the starting 11 out due to injuries. 3 of them being in the back. Like. You can’t expect the bench to hold up City.

Could anyone tell me what happened in this game? Did not catch it live.

Sell Rashford. That tells everyone in the club that they are not bigger than the club and are free to go if they do not want to work for it.

That’s the best thing they can do.

They have several young players that have potential. Play them in his place.

Sell old players who destroy the locker room. They spend nearly 400mil since Ten Hag and most of his acquisitions do not even play and are warming the bench.

They are entering a very dangerous spiral and I hope as a rival fan that they can fix that. I do not think they will be top 8 at the end of this season.

I do not think sacking Ten Hag is a solution, as yes, he’s not doing good job, but the core squad is the same since the first sacking of a manager. I would suggest recycle the players and if that does not work, then goes the manager.

It’s not managers fault if several managers who are highly regarded (ETH is basically on paper the worst of them) fail miserably without showing any progress along the way.

If you cheat as a player, then later on in your first proper managerial job, then go onto a club that cheats and say publicly “if we are found guilty, I will leave to have no association with this”, and yet, they have been found guilty by uefa (the only reason they did not see punishment is 5 years period, technicality, but they were found guilty) and yet stay there for several years…

He was always shady, always lying, and if out of your 4 jobs 3 of them are tainted with cheating scandals, bribing, doping and so on… I would say its pretty safe to say that he knew or orchestrated most of those things. There were several managers at both City, Barca or other big clubs, managers like Mourino who have almost triple the length of their managerial career and did not see any cheating scandal, Pep in his “legacy” is since he stopped playing in some sort of cheating scandal. Thats not a “bad luck he was in bad teams”, thats being the driving force to encourage that cheating.

So next Newcastle manager being Pep? Loaning Neymar and so on :D That would be just pure comedy.

We all knew they were cheating even before he got there and he was part of various scandals, being it with referees, corruption, players, shady deals and so on, even from his time at Barcelona and even form his time as a player.

I never considered him the best manager. He is the one willing to do anything it takes and to make his hands dirty, yes.

You can have your opinion. If you as a world class see Ronaldo level of player at sub 20 you delusional. You do you.

I am talking about the young ones, yes, they do have two 26 and 28 year olds respectively. What does that have to do with anything?

I do not really get your point, so to put it simple.

1/ EPL is much harder to compete in, you cant play with kids without risk to be out of europe or worse (see struggles with Chelsea, they are mid table team, with their 22-23 average age squad), they simply are not mature enough.

2/ Generally all big teams have insane amount of young talent, but EPL has the money, they want matured proven players, so we are talking 19-22, the finished product you can splash that 100mil on. But every team has several amazing players in that age range, Liverpool, Chelsea, City, United, Arsenal, Tottenham… all of them do.

So, what is your point? You are bothered by the fact that managers in England do not play enough football manager and do not play kids only? If they do, they will be facing relegation and sacking.

As an Arsenal fan this is not really a place where I see them. I consider them very strong and with huge potential. You were comparing them with United… every single position in United squad is much older, with midfield and defenders being almost decade apart. Not something United can fix over one transfer window or during the season.

But Chelsea has players from 18-23 years old in every single position that are considered world class talents and will grow into it, even Mudryk whos getting a lot of hate is only 22. The average age of their squad is 23 years, while having freaking Thiago Silva at almost 40 in the squad.

Palmer is amazing for his age, he will lead this team very far, having impact right off. The defense of Gusto, Colwill, james, Fofana, Badiashille… the oldest of them is James at 23. All of them can hold their own in the PL.

Midfield? Lavia, Enzo, Caicedo, Gallagher, Palmer… oldest of them Gallagher at 23.

Attackers? Jackson, Mudryk, Borja, Madueke… oldest 22 once again.

If they manage to keep them all in the squad and will enforce in the ATT area, as that seems as the weaker point and they will be very well set off.

Wait, thats a thing? Selling karma on reddit?

I wish Live would win, so I made a bet on City (works every time, I never win)

Can they really punish the manager and club for responding to questions? How is that legally binded? Like… they had to sign up for the league and have piece of paper stating “if we fuck up, you shut up”? Its weird they can do that. He and everyone else should be able to speak his mind.

Are there any news on their charges? To me it seems stagnant for a year?

As someone pointed out, there will be no challenges till they call each other mate and nicknames… will you really screw over your friend?

He may have shot himself in the first two weeks. Or not… we will never know.

I barely missed Sat Sep 23, 1995, when we beat Sheffield. Born on 24, unfortunately, no game that day.

It also helps to pay apart from Manchester Shity (United), sorry guys, but the guys doing finances are just Shity. And then… Manchester OilCity.

Who have ±40mil wage bill bigger than any other team in the league (Arsenal, apart from United, who are even with them)… below Arsenal is another 16mil drop to Chelsea. They essentially spend 25% more on wages. If you have the luxury to do that, the bench may be very competitive place to be and those guys might even be happy to be there.

Just to put it into perspective. Their wage bill - 202mil. Arsenal 166 mil., Odegaard, Saka, Jesus, those 3 are 35mil, imagine you can have this caliber on top of the current squad and still fit within their budget. Lets say bench consisting of Vlahovič, Maddison, Rodrygo. And even with those 3 they would still be under the wage bill of City.

Its not that hard to manage as it is hard to fit within your FFP 200+mil wage bill.

Or make it simple. Do it like rugby. They show the best angles on the big screens which jas every single stadium in PL. Fans see it. Ref ses it. He gets clue in his ear What they think they see and he is watching as they comment along.

Why the hell would you send him across the pitch to look at shitty little display. The current system is just pathetic excuse that allows them to be shit and then have a piece of paper that states they tried.

I do not think its just about good headers. Arsenal can play various solutions to any set piece which makes it difficult for deffenders. With West Ham you know the ball goes to Souček.

Arsenal switches the style of set pieces two three times a game. Far. Front. Short. Long. Fast ball, high ball, direct. They are also very good at controling the zone afterwards. Getting rebounds and keeping you locked in.

Which I would argue is more difficult to deffend opposed to just keeping big guys at the big guys.