working away on their goal difference.
A draw at Tottenham and an easy 4-0 win against West Ham will see them lift the title as we labour to a 1-0 win against Everton.
They really do leave no stone unturned...
working away on their goal difference.
A draw at Tottenham and an easy 4-0 win against West Ham will see them lift the title as we labour to a 1-0 win against Everton.
They really do leave no stone unturned...
If I were nasty, petty and vindictive (though I am actually nasty AND both petty and vindictive so perhaps I ought to say, had I more TIME to be nasty, petty and vindictive) I would argue it's high time the Premier League got its act together and relegated everyone at Manchester City to the Scottish Division.
I know what'll happen though; they'll give them an enormous, pointless fine in return for assurances that those individuals responsible for the double-dealing are no longer at the club, plus all the receipts. The authorities will be working this case for years.
They ARE a decent side though, to be fair :-\
So, a corporate sponsor decides to pay 80 million a year to have their logo on the sole of the right sock of their training gear. The sponsor is a company in an Emirate with no obvious ties to the owners. The holding companies that own the equity of the sponsor all eventually trace to a series of offshore accounts..... the trail goes dead. No proof of wrongdoing, so much of corporate funding is complex, rules unclear etc etc etc......
On to the next offence.......
Let us assume they are just as clever, just as organised, just as dedicated, just as brilliant off the pitch as they are on it. There is no way this case will ever close.
We’ll only threaten them next year buy improving the squad and not doling out new contracts on players who aren’t good enough.
The hangover from the Wenger years was the root cause of our last fall from grace. Too many average players rewarded with expensive contracts.
The Jorginho renewal I accept, as it appears his value off the pitch equates to the handful of appearances on it.
Partey needs to go. He gets robbed far too often and another year won’t improve him either.
ESR was farked the moment we signed Odegaard but the club could secure a decent fee for him in the summer. I’d still keep Jesus for his trickery but Nketiah needs to move on, although his ridiculous contract won’t make that easy.
Nelson, gone. Zinny, gone. Ramsdale, gone.
A top midfielder and forward must be the priority ?
I think we are good enough, with a few stronger squad options. What has cost us this season is the period up to Christmas where Raya was still all over the shop and we were fielding the Chelsea Havertz in midfield. Now that we have a decent keeper, a solid range of midfield options in place and the Arsenal Havertz up front we are a different side.
We lost the title at home to Fulham, Spurs and West Ham, and away to Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle and Fulham, all in the first half of the season. The side we are now would win half of those games at the very least.
True. And City were 'there for the taking' this season. They are only going to finish on 91 points which isn't that impressive, for them.
(I know they finished on 89 last season but that is because they didn't need to win the last two. Had we pushed them, they would have finished on 94).
What is clear is you can't go into January trailing because you simply won't catch them. We need to start well, get in front and stay there, as Liverpool did in the only season City didn't win the title in the last 7 years.
Yes, Rui Pinto.
Everything on the internet leaves a digital paper trail though. Investigators might not think it important enough to hunt down; it's only soccerball, after all. The details relevant to the AFC and Premier League etc. will be rolled up in other ongoing cases.
The other thing about Jorgy is this.
If we bought a young, long-term Jorgy replacement with bags of potential - a Mudryk Jorgy - ideally we'd start him during his first season in the easier games, but might keep him on the bench for the Big 6 sides.
The thing about Jorgy is he can sit on the bench in the easier games where we play Dec as DM and a Havertz {or ESR or Fab etc} as the left 8 in a 4-1-4-1 but when we have the hard games, Jorgy can come in and play top of his game despite it being his first start in a month.
i.e. the total opposite.
It's almost like will buy a new young DM, and make him Dec's backup or the DM with Dec at 8, but for the first season, start Jorgy in the hard games.
I normally hate players we sign from the Chavs but I love Jorgy and Kai and GG {him, not me} and John Hollins. Jorgy was a very astute buy. So glad he's signing for an extra year. Would love him to stay beyond that, do his coaching badges, become MA's assistant and in a decade or two, manage us to a 13-0 win at Stamford Bridge, breaking our 12-0 Loughborough record.