What can the board do at this stage? It’s down to the players. The defence in particular is letting us down or I should say letting the excellent forward play, down.Managers said UTD, not in the title race? Other pundits disagree, some think City will get a blip.
Is this a comment from a manager, letting the board, owners know there is still players needed to compete for a title?
Or is it just trying to deflect, the cockups and defend his players. I just think a win against Everton when, the next day 2 teams chasing the title play each other would have put UTD in a far better position.
So we should replace both thenLindelof for me is in the DDG category - Scared of the ball. You can see how uneasy he is when getting the ball passed to him. Maguire is not that good I agree but Lindelof is worse.
I would be disappointed if we didn't finish second. Liverpool literally have no CBs ffsBeing within arms length of the leaders is progress these days, City have this wrapped up. City, Liverpool, United and Leicester - in that order.
This.I think Ole is being honest. We aren’t in a title race.
Agree with this completely; people love overarching narratives that don't necessarily make any sense. Most people see Shaw as a liability/our best player depending on what month it is. Ole is the best/worst manager in the league depending on our last result. Supporting a football team is such an emotional investment with no input from the fan (in terms of team selection/work on the pitch etc.) that you will get these wild opinions on forumsI dont think, and haven’t thought at any point, that we would win the league this season.
However people categorically stating City have already won it is a complete nonsense, there’s what 17 games left?
They are clear favourites but nothings guaranteed ffs.
Agree, and is that why, oles come out and says not in the race, is he letting the club know that theres short on defence at least.Never were in the race.
A title challenge is still some way off. Man city started poorly but have found form
Liverpool are struggling with being the hare from last season. Winning the title is easy compared to retaining it
Utd are still 2 players short for a title bid
Maybe, everyone else played through the xmas period every 3 days or so some 2 days. They played on 26th of dec and there next game was 3rd jan I think, that's a week. And that game was the quarter final of league cup, so there league game was another 3 days or so.Didn’t do what was needed yesterday and in too many other games hence the points gap. However, a lot of that can be attributed to City’s cheating with the cancellation of the Everton game. They have looked a different team and you can pinpoint it back to that.
Yeah if City weren't up against a team who have just recently lost three games in a row and another who you cannot tell which version of them is going to turn up then would have a little bit of hope of them dropping points in those gamesIn all likelihood it seems we are out of it, however it is a funny season & lesser leads have been dropped in the past. With this Utd team, what I can say is, OGS has a knack of going on a good run and we have had a blip but whilst it is really disappointing, especially the Sheff Utd and Everton games we have got 5pts out of 12 in the league where we all think 10pts would have been title challenge worthy however the next 3 weeks could set things up nicely.
City fixtures - Spurs, Everton, Arsenal, West Ham - an away trip in Europe in between the last 2
Utd fixtures - WBA, Newcastle, Chelsea
If we are able to get back to winning ways, that City run could pose challenges especially without KDB and Aguero - There is a chance they come out with 5pts from those 12 and if we somehow pull a full house we could be within 4 points before our showdown with them - you never know.
In all truth, if we can ultimately try and keep some means of proximity with City it may keep us out of what is turning into a right mess for 4th, with Liverpool, Leicester, Chelsea probably fighting for the spots till the end.
True - but then again Spurs and Arsenal both do have some recent joy against them.Yeah if City weren't up against a team who have just recently lost three games in a row and another who you cannot tell which version of them is going to turn up then would have a little bit of hope of them dropping points in those games
He spent 145M of that defence, bought 3 players to fit in and got Henderson back. So if anything it's his fault we are still so shit in defense.Ole knows he can't rely on that defence and you don't win titles with that.
Not really. Henderson has been given a year to learn and should get the chance.He spent 145M of that defence, bought 3 players to fit in and got Henderson back. So if anything it's his fault we are still so shit in defense.
