Pfft. We can field a 270m bench just as easily.City's bench.. £££££...
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Fricking hell. Just the salaries (including the dodgy offshore payments) for that bench would make other whole first team PL squads weep.City's bench.. £££££...
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Benteke the massive useless 50p head, he should have buried that!
Sterling's wastefulness in front of goal really doesn't get talked much does it. Everytime I watch him, he misses 2/3 pretty good chances by taking too many touches.
He’s been like that for years.
He thinks AWB still plays for Palace.
Pundits at half time are shockingly biased, if United had put in the performance city just have they’d be ripping us to bits.
Palace have had more shots and City have had none on target. . . Are palace playing the low block?
Odd from Zaha at the end. Just sat on the sidelines while everyone went in. Wonder if he was injured or unhappy?
0-2 in like a minute.
2-0 they are picking them off...ffs Palace.
Game over 
They’ve been absolutely shite, 2 shots on target 2 goals, I haven’t been impressed with these cnuts all season, remind me of Liverpool last year.
Can’t wait until Pep fecks off and takes his boring death-by-passing football with him.
Well... With any luck they won't replace Aguero when he leaves.
2-0 down at home to City's 2nd string side, I hope Hodgson and his Palace side are relegated next season.
Such a strange take. They have the most shots, most shots on target, highest xG, most goals, fewest shots conceded, fewest shots on target conceded, fewest goals conceded and lowest xG conceded in the number one domestic league competition in the world. If this is not impressive then I really don't know what is. Unless you're expecting even better numbers but I'm not sure that would be fair.
Their squad depth is strong. And we have Daniel James instead.
Their 2nd string would finish in the top 4.
They're a cheat code team and Pep is a chequebook manager. Not catching them any time soon.
With peak Sterling and peak Aguero, sure. Their current versions? Would be tough.
Behave yourself, just look at their squad depth.
Klopp rinsed his first XI over two years, if anything it was hard not to be impressed they won the title given the depth City has/had.
Behave yourself, It not so long ago Palace beat a full strength City away.
I couldn’t care less about xG mate I’m not interested, I don’t watch them every game, maybe I should have said every time I’ve watched them play I haven’t been impressed, all the “underlying stats” will obviously be in their favour they’re top of the league, doesn’t mean they impress me personally does it?
Every time I’ve watched them they pass it round for an hour then get a jammy goal, teams don’t have a go at them like United, Leicester and Leeds did, they just sit deep and wait for the inevitable. I’m not disputing the fact they’re top and have the best stats am I? Think you’re the one with the “strange take”
No chance. Most of those guys can't even play 2 games in a row, how would they finish top 4?
...it was just a flippant comment.
You think teams like Palace can just flick a switch and do that often?
Strangely, their passing it round for an hour seems to generate an awfully high amount of good chances. But you've got it all figured out.
Nah. A right winger and a defensive mid and we’ll catch them just fine.
Doesn’t mean it impresses me personally does it? Am I missing something here?
EDIT: I’ll reply later @Pagh Wraith I’ve ran out of posts mate.
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I'm not trying to pick a fight here but would impress you then? I mean their performances couldn't be much better.
Yea and thats a pure fluke.
This freak season aside, the last 3 seasons, the champions amassed 98-100 points.
Maybe I’m a pessimist but I don’t see us getting that kind of points tally just by signing two players.
I think those two signings gain us 10 additional points at least putting us in the high 80s. You never know whether City or others will be able to hit that threshold.
When is this gonna end. 5 leagues in ten years now.
Back in 2018, it was a fluke. Townsend scored a worldie he probably hasn't scored a better goal since.
Also before that they hadn't won away at City for 28yrs.
Don't think so, when they put in a full effort they can be difficult opponents as United themselves know.
And Sheffield United beat us at Old Trafford. So they should be winning the league soon should they?
Their individual players aren't better than ours. Pep makes them look better than they are. If we didn't mess up in the group stage I would back us to beat any of the teams in the CL Sfs, which is what annoys me so much watching it now.
City have a lot of B level players that Pep coaches to play in his system. This is by far the worst title winning squad he has had in his time as a manager imo.