You ignored the one where he scored a hat trick to beat the best team in the world and now you dismiss a title winning goal in injury time so why don't you explain exactly what it is you are talking about?
Champions League R16 return fixtures
- Thread starter Skorenzy
- Start date
Pogba's injury is the only thing standing between juve and the CL.
Whoever took the decision not to reinforce their midfield and defense was extremely dumb.
Liverpool are the in-form team right now at least in terms of the PL
That's certainly the view I am talking about. The one I think Barcelona and Van Gaal and lately Bayern operate with. It is very ambitious though, takes a lot of coaching and training work especially for British based players because of the rigidity of coaching in Britian.
He scored plenty of goals vs Madrid and Barca for Atletico and he has scored lots of goals against United also.
Has Jamie Redknapp been on the sauce? He looks like he's spent the night sleeping on a park bench, crying.
City need a lot of players if they want to win the CL.. Silva, Aguero and Hart are probably the only players they have which are good enough for a time who wants to win the CL. Zabaleta is maybe good enough but Toure is not as good as he was.Pellegrini is a weird manager, his squad needs some quality in the defense and midfield and he goes to buy Bony in the winter break
Toure, Fernandinho, Toure, Zabaleta, Kolarov ... They have so many past it players.
Yeh the Bayern game is the most recent example. Told you I was misremembering it!
Yes he realised this is his last midweek getaway since all the English teams are out and Sky lose the CL next year
I think City need more players than us in the summer.
This is where FFP is really going to hurt them.
I honestly think we can finish above them, and it'd be bloody hilarious if we do.
Past it? He never had it to go past in the first place.
Oh God I just remembered that BT got the rights. God help us, Michael Owen commentating and Owen Hargreaves blathering on in the studio. Eurgh.
Toure. So bad you named him twice.
He was still a little better than his current form no ?
Indeed. He's become a major liability and a joke of a footballer with all his crying around.
"I've seen them given", still don't make it right.
He was flying through the air well before contact.
He was flying through the air well before contact.
Last edited:
If you think about it, other than Hart, Silva (who's 29) and Aguero, every single City player is on either on the decline, or on the wrong side of 30.
Not much resale value for any of their players, except maybe Dzeko and Aguero.
Not really. Kolarov had a decent spell at the end of 13/14 season where he was kinda first choice LB for us, but even then Clichy got picked for the trickier games like away to Liverpool to deal with Sterling. He's never been our undisputed first choice LB and has always just been an average defender with an immense cross, and still is.
Barca would've scored a touchdown today if it wasn't for Hart.
Sad for Dortmund on the other game but Juventus deserve to be through. Serie A is strong in Europe this year while Everton is the only English team left in Europe. I would worry if this becomes a trend.
Sad for Dortmund on the other game but Juventus deserve to be through. Serie A is strong in Europe this year while Everton is the only English team left in Europe. I would worry if this becomes a trend.
Hart not MOTM, for me. He made some good saves, yea, but could possibly have done better for their goal, in a game where the other keeper saved a peno.
It really annoys me how our team from 08-11 doesn't get the European recognition it deserves from these smartly dressed mugs.
It wasn't even a good peno!
That and the fact they aren't that good and there's at least 5 teams better than them left.
Champions League Quarter-Finalists since 2011/12
Spain - 11
Germany - 6
France - 5
England - 3
Italy - 3
Portugal - 2
Cyprus - 1
Turkey - 1
Spain - 11
Germany - 6
France - 5
England - 3
Italy - 3
Portugal - 2
Cyprus - 1
Turkey - 1
Slightly off topic -
What was the Noel Gallagher ? song at the end of Sky's coverage tonight ?
What was the Noel Gallagher ? song at the end of Sky's coverage tonight ?
Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) date
I also think their team is ageing.
Yeah, that tends to happen.
It's not that long ago they bought Fernandinho. I realise he's not been very good this season though
L
Because he is not meant to be the fix to all their problems but another part of the overall team they are trying to build? Plus he was available and the players the want at other positions weren't yet? Just a guess
Yes, and the point being you can't just blow ridiculous amounts to fix that. But you can be smart about your business and you'd know a lot more than me about young players coming through.
Problem with January window is the players you want are not Always available.
Exactly. Bony was to replace the gap Negredo's late exit had left in the squad. If we are going to address the midfield and defence considering we already have expensive players there in Mangala, Toure, Fernandinho etc. the kind of players we'll be signing to make it worthwhile are not going to be ones available in January. Wait until the summer and I think City are preparing for a big marquee signing, we haven't done one since Aguero (reputation that is, not price, I'm fully aware of the fee for Mangala, unfortunately).
I would think he stays till end of the season unless they start worrying that he might cost them a spot in the top 4.
The post was a bit tongue in cheek. However, broadly speaking, the BPL needs to improve in the champions league (if you look at it as each league sending teams to represent it).
At the minute, we're merely sending teams to make up the numbers.
Is that right? Arsenal have won some ties against Spanish clubs, I remember Chelsea beating Valencia at least once too.