Wouldn't put it past them to pip us on GD. Think it would be the third time in 6 years.
Manchester City 17/18 discussion | "If you're here for the Champions clap your hands" (#6505)
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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?
Quite a lot of optimism and glee on this forum lately.
Does it not concern any of you that maybe we're not quite at our best yet, and that we'll improve again next season?
Does it not concern any of you that maybe we're not quite at our best yet, and that we'll improve again next season?
Judging from history that never happens with clubs who have won the league in the last decade. City and Chelsea especially find it difficult to retain the league.
You will improve and win 38 games in the season?
I don't see this city team improving, you got knocked out because of the manager trying to be a smart arse in the 1st leg. I think you will be at the same level but with different personnel.
Retaining the PL is extremely difficult, because you have multiple clubs with lots of money. An example is the derby. Normally, if you were Bayern Munich or Barcelona you would be able to buy up all the talent in the league. But in the PL you lost out on Sanchez. Sanchez was instrumental in our fight back.
Not quite at your best?
Don’t make me laugh.Most teams have thrown the towel in against you all season, beaten before they started.In the last week Liverpool & United have exposed Pep’s feet of clay.
May all the talk about being the best English team in history dies for ever. Very good team, great league season, but I can count at least 3 English teams in history that were better, 2 of them are United ( 99 and 08 ).
Of course you will. Pep is gonna spend massively, again.
only 2 managers have ever retained the league title. SAF and JM. I hope it continues like that
Hopefully!only 2 managers have ever retained the league title. SAF and JM. I hope it continues like that
That goes without saying. You'll probably go into the market for a new keeper and 2 new CBs. At least.
Both teams will look to improve over the summer and they have the funds available in order to achieve that, but it's only logical to expect United to improve further simply because we have significantly greater room for improvement than City. The gap will close over the summer.
Jose doesn't like finishing second and neither do his employers. We will be coming for the title next season.
Add a 3-1 win at Spurs to Gundogan's collection of helping us get great results while playing in the holding role.
City have won all PL games in which both KDB and Silva started except Everton at home when Walker got a red card in the first half. Sterling did not start this game though. Which means that City have not lost a single point so far with KDB, Silva and Sterling in the starting XI.
Well deserved title winners.
Very cocky of them to start a livestream in stoppage time 
shame we didn't score
shame we didn't scoreWell deserved.
Deserved it from the word go. Congratulations.
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History made. Deserved title winners, well done City.
It'll be much closer next season I agree. Think Chelsea will be in the mix too, they seem to do win the title, get the manager sacked, win the title, get the manager sacked.
Mercenary cnuts playing for a plastic meaningless football club sponsored by an actual State known for human rights atrocities meanwhile their pretentious overrated chequebook manager puts a bouquet on his jacket to promote democracy, hypocrite.
Title means nothing when you've literally just continually invested £3 billion of blood money through financial doping.
Pathetic. State sponsored football.
Pointless season really.
Title means nothing when you've literally just continually invested £3 billion of blood money through financial doping.
Pathetic. State sponsored football.
Pointless season really.
Congrats.
Hope we'll be in the mix next season.
Hope we'll be in the mix next season.
Most dominant title win I can remember in my lifetime
Never seen so many teams beat so easily at times
The Premier League clubs have to raise their game for next season
Never seen so many teams beat so easily at times
The Premier League clubs have to raise their game for next season
Deserved title winners but, us and Liverpool took a bit of shine off that title
I hate to break it to you, but your team spent similar amount to City since Ferguson left.
Lol, you make this even better.
£3bn? Our £3bn was the reason you couldn't beat West Brom at home? Also where did you pull that figure from?
I can only imagine that this feels like it did back when I’d take over every club on championship manager and buy my shittest players for stupid amount of money and then win the league because I had all the best players. Very hollow indeed.
Seriously though, congrats.. thank those Arabs for everything because without them you’d still be a nothing club.
I am taking this well, promise.
Seriously though, congrats.. thank those Arabs for everything because without them you’d still be a nothing club.
I am taking this well, promise.
I know it's been a forgone conclusion for weeks (months?) now... but I just saw the headline on BBC Sport confirming that City are champions. Still stung, not going to lie.
Well done. Feck off.
People can claim that it's not just the money, but you don't dominate the PL like that without Arab money. Simple as that. Proof of that is that it hasn't been done.
Ugggg that hashtag is fecking cringe. OurTimeOurCity
Who the feck comes up with this. Plastic shithouses.
Who the feck comes up with this. Plastic shithouses.
Similar as in less?
In the end, I wasn't surprised that City were going to win the title. What I was surprised was how the title it ended up being won, not in the Eastlands against United as I thought, but rather in the rain in Old Trafford against West Brom of all teams.
So if they sack Conte and avoid doing what it is needed in terms of trasnfers, forget them being title contenders next season.
I think this this time round it is going to be a lot harder for Chelsea to simply bounce back and be a serious contender for the title, partly because the squad quality is worse than what it was during Conte's first season, partly because they also have to play in the Europa League (unless they properly address both the squad quality and strength in depth issues) and partly because it was Conte more than anyone else that won them the title last time round.
So if they sack Conte and avoid doing what it is needed in terms of trasnfers, forget them being title contenders next season.
They deserved to win it...but feck them
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Difficult to be okay with a dictatorship akin to terrorism spunking billions they have acquired from the exploitation of their impoverished population for the sole purpose of a vanity project designed to launder their image worldwide...
Who’s bitter now?