foxfan92

We should have paid the release clause for Corberan even if that gave us a smaller transfer budget. We could have saved £25 million on Skipp and £3 million for Ayew, for a start.

I get your points here and agree with them, but I think Ruud is trying to make us hard to beat away and against the better teams and will go more attacking against those teams he feels we can beat and when at home against most teams. I've no evidence yet this will be the case, just how I view the bizarre decision to drop Buonanotte. Assume he feels Ayew may offer more defensively against these oppositions and I think we have looked more organised at the back generally under Ruud ... and we're clearly trying to counter attack (but then I'd definitely have Buonanotte in the side to do this, and don't think he's that much different from Ayew defensively. Like I said I agree with you, just voicing why I think he's doing it. I can't understand the 5 minute from end cameo by Okoli either. Surely that's just a waste of a sub, when, if losing, we could be bringing on someone more attack minded.

Actually leave Ayew on ...

Get Buonanotte on now please

I thought Soumare did well, especially first half. Ayew was too slow on the transition and Jacub was a million times better than Ward.

It's tricky. I think there is a decent player there but he needs a goal or two because he's not looking confident in front of goal right now. Should have done better with that one (and only) chance we had in the second half.

Think we looked better at the back than last 2 games, which to be honest isn't saying much, but we couldn't get the ball out of our half. Yes it was against a rampant Liverpool who've been turning over everyone (except Forest) but we need to be braver going forward. I don't know why RVN can't play Buonanotte and El Khannouss at the same time?

When things are looking bleak.... When you're losing games, and looking clueless... When you're conceding goals against poor opposition, and struggling to score yourself... Don't worry Man City, you'll manage to put your season back on track when you put 5 past us!

Soumare has looked good the last few games, shame there are too many of our players around him who haven't. I'm not talking about today necessarily, we were always likely to lose this, but against Wolves last game and Newcastle before that.

Just the sub we need with 5 mins to go. Forget about the exciting young player on the bench.

Doh.

Yeah I was about to ask why is he doing that? It's not like we've been in their half that much.

To be fair he's a hell of a good player, but I swear JJ looked a much better player before this season. Not sure what's gone on. He seems to be a player who's getting worse each season.

I'd have kept El Khannouss on

Nice to see our keeper making a save. Last 1 and half games have made me forget they can do that.

Daka must do better there

Looks off.

Damn

I think you're forgetting we've also got De Cordova-Reid, Edouard and Luke Thomas on the bench!

Could have done with just hanging on there. But I bet we'd all have taken 1-1 at half time at the start of this game.

Crap

Just thinking that from the little I've seen. Ndidi looks good too. We're defending a lot but you can see we're one good pass away from getting Daka on a one v one situation a few times.

Wonder what the odds were for us scoring first? Wonder what the odds were for the scorer to be Ayew too?

I've just noticed Ayew scored. I take back everything bad I said about playing him before the match started.

Wow. Only just got the kids to sleep. What's going on???