You literally have Bruno who can play as an 8 or 10. You are buying up two players for every position same as City (you were just buying the wrong ones for a bit) and every other club who can. Phillips will play plenty once his injuries are over and just like the same nonsense said Ake (who's also played loads) this will go quiet. City will play about 55-60 games as usual. There'll be maybe 3 or 4 players who'll play over 40 of them (KDB, Haaland, Dias and Ederson) and Phillips like Gundogan, Grealish, Mahrez, Stones, Ake and co. will play around 30.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Don't you guys have Luke Shaw, Harry Maguire, AWB and one of Rashford or Sancho as spare parts now Antony has arrived? Half the England squad innit?
Yep, maybe.
How dare you turn this against us with truths
Oh, but those are just Englands spare parts, don’t you know?
At least Ake is playing
City fans used to moan that Ferguson's United sent their discontinued lines to whichever club Robson or Bruce was managing at the time.
Just smart business from United then and City now particularly with the Southampton link.
Phillips will be too now Bellingham has come of age and is a far better footballer.
Quite possible.
Crocked again(missed the game today, will miss the internationals) and may need surgery. No luck at all for this lad.
Such a waste of money but then again it's drop in the ocean for your owners
Almost.
Rashford, Antony, Sancho will likely play together. Will be interesting when Martial comes back.
Rashford through the middle? Would certainly be an exciting front 3 with Rashfords confidence back. Lots of pace and creativity.
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He’s only there to make up the numbers anyway
Proof that plank Southgate should never have taken him to the WC.
Are there any clubs other than City that don't get criticised for their shite £50m signings? Everyone always goes on about how good they are in the market but it's because everyone conveniently ignores their duds, they've spent money on some right shite over the years.
That's just pocket change to them.
We spend £15M on Malacia and expect a 1st team performance from him. They spend £50M (or £100M on Grealish) and if it doesn't work out, they just shrug their shoulders and move on to the next £50M+ player.
Obsessed.
Very silly move for his career. He should sack his agent/advisors.
Pointless move to City, he should have just got over the whole us/Leeds thing and came here and he would have been playing every week. (Yeah yeah I know easier said than done but anyway).
Can see him being available again this summer or next.
Can see him being available again this summer or next.
Yorkshire Pirlo my arse. Just because he has a shit haircut and sprays balls around. Moving to City was absolutely a bad move for his career, same with £100 million man Grealish.
What a waste, he should be playing regularly, i think he'll move to an Everton or Villa and continue to go downhill.
Nobody cares about them. If that was Chelsea, Liverpool or United, yes. But everyone knows what that club is, and what's the point is criticising? They buy players, win things, buy players, win things. They're dull.
Bullet dodged.
Good. Him and Grealish deserve this.
Suppose he’s earning quadruple (if not more) what he earned at Leeds. But yeah, could have earned more money plus game time elsewhere. Sort of reminds me of Scott Parker heading to Chelsea.
Seems like his time in City is done.
Casemero would not have happened... Philips is a massive downgrade on Case...So all for the best!
Yeah true. Although I was thinking more of him replacing McTominay or Fred rather than Casemiro because I forgot Phillips only joined them this season.
Think you missed the point. He's been taken out of the squad because he's not good enough and not because he's ill, which is what people have assumed as to why sancho isn't playing
Just give it a rest or you’re going to end up being banned. There’s no point to miss. Your comment was again inappropriate and if you want to talk about Sancho there’s two threads already about him.
When you're winning trophies everything gets ignored.
Grealish has 7 goals and 1 assist in 56 Apps and he's seen as a brilliant signing by City. Shrewd business.
Darwin has 9 goals and 3 assists in 22 for comparison and is widely considered as a flop.
Sancho has 8 goals and 4 assists in 52 Apps and is seen as flop of the century.
To be fair with Fernandinho leaving, I think he would have played more in rotating with Rodri had he not been injured. I have no idea how he has come back overweight and he should never have been in the WC squad in the first place.
One of these clubs is not like the others.
Chelsea piss more money up the wall than even City do. Two £250M+ transfer windows and I doubt anyone can name a single player out of that lot that improved them.
Is Grealish really seen like that ??? I doubt it.
Yeah not for £100 million. But he was never worth that. In today market he is worth half that price.
Playing here every week, would he? Only because we had McFred, which went on for far longer than it should have. He is below the standard we should be looking at and I can't understand why any United fan would be wishing he joined us ahead of them. They can afford to add decent players that never play to their ranks, we can't spend that money on a guy that is not good enough to be more than a squad member. I'm glad he didn't want to come here and I'm not convinced we were that keen on bringing him here anyway.
I thought most people see him as a flop.