Finnegan

Ffs this weekend man

Lacroix what an absolute moron. Doesn't have to do that at all. Most senseless foul ever

No in fact I think one showed it was nowhere near him

That is ****ing embarrassing Minteh

In fairness, Facundo was pretty awful last time out. I imagine he'll be on off the bench, will hopefully be back to his old self and then he'll start next time.

Stay in your own lane pal

Was about to post this. Mads is all of us.

Don't think Johnson or Maddison deserve to be lumped in with Werner. They're solid top six players, Johnson has had a good season so far. Would agree that Solanke is very mid table and I don't know what possessed them to pay that fee.

Son will probably catch him so he's likely to need to retire at #9 to stay at #10 for a while. So that's 164, 22 more. Could do it if we stay up and he stays. Otherwise, no. I'll be happy if he just overtakes Michael "Vardy's Not A Natural Finisher" Owen which will take another 9, still a bit hard this year.

Gotta laugh at Postecoglu man. Picks a footballer who is absolutely terrible, he plays absolutely terribly, Ange says that that's unacceptable. It's Timo ****ing Werner, my guy, what are you expecting.

There is 0.0001% chance Liverpool are planning to bid for a guy that joined a Premier League club for 20 million a couple of months ago.

I mean, they're the reigning champions and lost only 3 games last year scoring just short of 100 goals. That's an improvement on the previous season (when they did the a treble) and is consistent with the season before. It's probably a little bit extreme to suggest any kind of twilight for Guardiola. I don't think you can quite "catch him up" because he's just about the best in the world at what he does. He's far more than the sum of his preferred tactical approach. There's also that he's extremely good at coaching and organising footballers, he's extremely good at watching a game of football and seeing the space and opportunities available on the field. If you think of football as a chess game, tactically, which it sort of is - he's Magnus Carlsen. If Pep was forced to go back to the drawing board and reinvent himself, I suspect he'd do a much better job of it than Jose Mourinho, for example, because he has those gifts and that's probably why his career has had such consistent longevity. It was easier for Mourinho to be sussed out by the footballing world. I think we've been here before with Pep, there's a very obvious financial incentive out there for the media to sensationalise Man City's situation and to come up with dramatic narratives to sell the story of woe. I just think ultimately they're going through a wonky spell and they'll (probably) turn it around. Unless, of course, the fact the players DO know about looming off-field catastrophe really is tanking their morale and motivation in which case the coach is dealing with something that's going to be fairly unprecedented for him and, sure, they probably won't do much recovery but then that's not really a footballing issue.

I don't really ever remember a conversation I've had or watched about football where someone has suggested there's only one way to play. What I do think is that Pep's approach is the best approach for breaking down and countering extreme bus-parking which makes it the most effective way of winning a league title as an extremely dominant team. This is ultimately why he's won as much as he has. It's frequently said that he plays the game on easy mode because he's only been at the big clubs but how many supposedly elite managers have we seen go in to massive clubs and fail to win? I think it's over simplistic to blame Man City's current problems on any one thing. I think you've got a bit of a perfect storm going on there at the moment and a little bit of everyone's opinion is right. It is a little bit about Rodri, it is his best players aging, it is the off the pitch disruption, it is a hangover from the last couple years push, it is proof of a divine presence having a laugh at Russell Martin's expense. Any one of these things alone is easy to overcome in isolation but it all piles up.

Hey man, I've had this bridge for ****ing ages. It's a great bridge, served me well, but the missus is fed up of it and it needs a new home. I'm looking for a buyer and you know what I thought of you.

If you want a list of Bulgarian fifth division left footed right wingers your club should buy or you want a tier list of the entire Fray Bentos catalogue then in either instance we'd nominate @Ric Flair

So what you're saying is, we need our winger that can't dribble and beat his man to play like a full back so that our full back that can't dribble and beat his man can play like a winger?

But we don't use them, either. I don't think Ruud will be as rigid with his formation as Enzo was but I also think he'll be a lot more fixed than Cooper. How we're currently playing is how his PSV played and how he's likely to continue.

No he doesn't. He'd be one of the first names on the teamsheet if we lined up the same way we did last year, I'm not disputing that. But we don't even play his natural position anymore and, I'm sorry, I think BEK is an upgrade as an actual 10 or an auxilary 10/11.

I mean I'd gladly swap him for any of our commentators. What a voice.

They're very different players. We wouldn't be playing KDH the same way we play FB.

Think he's a really decent League One box to box midfielder.

"Football Insider sources" is Twitter Rumours thread fodder really isn't it. It was only a matter of time before someone wrote this story without any basis just to fill some column inches because they think it makes sense. I'd be livid if I was Ruud and Leicester did this. He doesn't play 8s at all, KDH doesn't have the positional discipline to play at 6 and both Facundo and Bilal are better 10s. He's not coming back, we've got nowhere to put him. Edit: for the record, the only reason I'm not merging this in to the Twitter Rumours thread is because I think this story will just keep coming back being repeated by every blog and tabloid going. But please, please stop making new threads based on Football Insider.