Fraudiola about to blow another £120m in addition to signing Laporte for £57m

Playing youngsters is a risk. It means that you're probably going to have to sacrifice some results in order to give them the time they need. Van Gaal understood this, probably more than Ferguson in that respect, Mourinho has sort of come to understand it.

Guardiola won £#%&! all last season, spent a huge amount of money so he's under immense pressure to deliver this season and playing kids would jeopardise his reputation and possibly cost City results, something which he's obviously not willing to do.

Originally Posted by TripDownMiseryLane

he plays a lot

Just passing on some knowledge mate....

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Playing youngsters is a risk. It means that you're probably going to have to sacrifice some results in order to give them the time they need. Van Gaal understood this, probably more than Ferguson in that respect, Mourinho has sort of come to understand it.

Guardiola won £#%&! all last season, spent a huge amount of money so he's under immense pressure to deliver this season and playing kids would jeopardise his reputation and possibly cost City results, something which he's obviously not willing to do.

Barring a freak run of results they have the league sewn up. Would be great to finally see some prospects from the academy to step in when someone is injured. All mouth when it comes to the academy and didn't the chairman even say he wanted more youth in the team?

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Just passing on some knowledge mate....

know who he is, but his chances there are nil. at least we give some of our boys a run.

They should be made to change their name to Abu Ciddy.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Playing youngsters is a risk. It means that you're probably going to have to sacrifice some results in order to give them the time they need. Van Gaal understood this, probably more than Ferguson in that respect, Mourinho has sort of come to understand it.

Guardiola won £#%&! all last season, spent a huge amount of money so he's under immense pressure to deliver this season and playing kids would jeopardise his reputation and possibly cost City results, something which he's obviously not willing to do.

Aye, I think you're right, and to be honest, I quite like the idea of all these supposed talented younger players at Citeh being on the inside of the club but all looking outside of the club.

Originally Posted by sub three hours

Aye, so they keep saying Bunks, and another one called Diaz apparently but can Citeh really expect youngsters to believe they will get opportunities based on the club's recent track record.

Is that the one they spent £10m on (mentioned in a post on the other page and I was wondering who the £#%&! he was)?

Don't think they can claim that one any more than we can claim Phil Jones as an academy graduate

Originally Posted by sa7

Is that the one they spent £10m on (mentioned in a post on the other page and I was wondering who the £#%&! he was)?

Don't think they can claim that one any more than we can claim Phil Jones as an academy graduate

I think that's him, Wikipedia says this

Díaz started his career at his hometown club Málaga, before moving to Manchester City in 2015 as a 16-year-old for an initial £200,000 fee.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Phil Foden

Not a Manc

Originally Posted by suedeshoes

Not a Manc

Stockport then.

Joined city at 8 years old...

He’s as local as they’ll get

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Stockport then.

Joined city at 8 years old...

He’s as local as they’ll get

Reckon it was a snide dig at Stockport his comment... he can £#%&! off tbh, good place to be these days....

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Subby at Mou?

City and United had finished level on points when they both arrived. During a season we were being managed by a clown. What gives?



Multiple Fred Sage of the Year awards in my cabinet, pal.

You wouldn't even win an award for best poster with Ziggy in his name.

Fall back.

City downed tools when guardiola was announced. It’s not the first time they’ve underperformed due to managerial issues. That’s what happens when it’s a team of mercianaries where the only reason to be there is money and no additional motive because the club is incidental.

Uniteds players started playing for pride when the battle was won and they knew they wouldn’t be stuck with the manager past the end of the season. If that battle hadn’t been won, the morale would have seen us mid table.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Youth...


https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/sta...51500842348544

The main difference between klopp, pochettino and mourinho is the financial realities and expectations of the clubs they’ve managed. Let’s see either implement a ‘project’ based around youth when the club is rich and the club and fans expect the very best instantly or you’re sacked.

Originally Posted by Seamus

it will be immaterial how much city spend at the end of the season when they have the bragging rights in Manchester and a couple of pots to show.

Why? What rivalry do Mancunian united fans have with Abu Dhabi? You can’t have bragging rights when the majority don’t give a £#%&!, as evidenced by many united fans wanting them to win the league last time they won it.

Originally Posted by sub three hours

Citeh might as well just shut down their academy...it's obviously of no use to them what so ever.

Give it time. Took both busby and Fergie around 7 years before their youth systems started to show proper results.

Iniesta to City this summer according to the Spanish press

Originally Posted by Pop

Iniesta to City this summer according to the Spanish press

He's ancient.

Would be much worse if they sign Isco...

Probably sign both.

Originally Posted by saffers

He's ancient

Would still be a shame, cos I like him.

Originally Posted by saffers

He's ancient.

Would be much worse if they sign Isco...

I'm sure he'll have more than enough to shine against the assorted premier league superstars at Burnley, Leicester, Brighton and Huddersfield.

Said it in another thread, we are on for a decent points total and can improve next season but not much we can do if City hit 90 plus points again.

Expect a summer of them spending loads and pushing on again, over by xmas. Doom.

Originally Posted by barca99

Said it in another thread, we are on for a decent points total and can improve next season but not much we can do if City hit 90 plus points again.

Expect a summer of them spending loads and pushing on again, over by Christmas. Doom.

There's not much we alone can do. Us and Liverpool are the only teams that have beaten them and we only play them twice each. There's not much we can do if the other 17 teams all lay down and die against them. The rest of the league needs to step up against them and stop being such unadulterated £#%&!ing cowards.

Far too many teams in this league are just happy to tread water, play 'cat n mouse' percentage football every week in the hope of scraping a draw and guaranteeing their place at the tv money trough for next season. Nobody plays with any intent any more and rather than see City as a billion pound scalp that can be got at, they just buy into all the hype and treat the game as a free hit.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

There's not much we alone can do. Us and Liverpool are the only teams that have beaten them and we only play them twice each. There's not much we can do if the other 17 teams all lay down and die against them. The rest of the league needs to step up against them and stop being such unadulterated £#%&!ing cowards.

Far too many teams in this league are just happy to tread water, play 'cat n mouse' percentage football every week in the hope of scraping a draw and guaranteeing their place at the tv money trough for next season. Nobody plays with any intent any more and rather than see City as a billion pound scalp that can be got at, they just buy into all the hype and treat the game as a free hit.

Originally Posted by Sandman

Yeah but we're actually good at it.