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I'm going to book an appointment with my GP to talk about stress/depression and if he asks why I'll just tell him Danny Ward might start first match of the season. Sure he'll understand.

I thought that about a video I watched last night 👀

Every time I see this thread reappear I expect to see a statement that we've taken out £50m against guaranteed Premier League money for 5 years

If put you on a bus Ed. One that says Penzance one way on the front.

Can't believe people defend decisions like charging £10 to watch a friendly still. What they'll gain in profit probably doesn't even cover Susan Whelan's taxi on expenses. For what extremely low income you game from things like charging from friendlies, raising ticket prices slightly, having dodgy sponsors that put fathers off, you lose the more important things like kids becoming fans. That's for life. That means more than more to the club long term than doing shit like this. The vast majority of fans have had reminders time and time again that this isn't the club it was under Vichai and you'd hope his father's legacy would mean more to Top that he has shown in the last few years.

Can't wait to see everyones pop belly

Its laughably painful to the shit we had to listen to from him. He's going to get battered and be arrogantly saying well that's just how I play. They'll be memes like "This worked against Rotherham"

You could play more or less any tactics with Man City and win the league and it wouldn't be down to some amazing philosophy. To say oh it won the league and ignore the unbelievable resources at his disposal compared to the rest and put it down to the tactics is ignorant in the extreme. It was a bit like a player scoring 20 goals and winning the golden boot and saying he's the best striker you can't say anything. When in reality he's just a flat track bully who scored against all the poor teams. We beat who we should have beat, because they all respected us way too much and we painfully passed them to death at the back while they all sat back and let us. Anyone who played against us quickly found us out and luckily there wasn't enough time left for it to go totally tits up. Nearly managed it though.

Wasn't though was it? He missed the one sitter but it was painfully obvious we wouldn't score once Plymouth did. As was the case against Millwall the match before. If you limit yourself to one good chance against a team like that then your tactics aren't working.

You can differentiate success from tactics though too. When it came down to it and he needed to show he was proactive, he was anything but. We had least conceded but a game like Plymouth we were massively exposed for the one chance they had and they stuck it away and no one expected us to score. With a team like ours that was shameful. You can apply the same to most the games round that period until they started playing on the break and a lot different to the dross that came before. I just don't buy it that that system works. Chelsea fans are already saying how shit they look and you just know he's going to get sacked within 6 months. Its the elephant in the room that Man City are often boring to watch. But we've all been brainwashed into thinking that's the way to play football. It isn't. There's many ways. Many more entertaining ways and the way that all clubs want this style at the top now is actually ruining football as entertainment.

Good analysis this. Exactly how I see it.

We talk a lot about the arrogant attitude British people have about us being better than everyone else but we also have this strange self loathing at times. Steve Cooper being not the best looking chap and British seemed to be far less appealing than exotic names who'd done far less than him to people on here.

Even on that picture he looks like a clueless outfield player asked to go in

Yeah I'd be more worried about everyone having bj on the front rather than the Crypto aspect

Rudkin patiently waiting for the fax to confirm Sanchez is coming the other way on loan after confirming Mads for £45m, only to receive Enzo's photocopied butt cheeks at 12.03 on deadline day.

Not excusing the clubs in any way because I think it's shit, but this is the other 14 clubs looking for any way to give themselves more of a chance of competing because of the PSR rules. Really need to change them.

Omg

Has anyone made the joke that Thomas should be left back in the changing rooms yet?

I can't think of feeling less inspired by a season than when we hired Ranieri to be fair. I'm honestly a lot more positive with Cooper in charge than Enzo

To be fair last season's was amazing and exactly what we all wanted. This isn't as bad as the initial mock ups. I think the sponsor doesn't help. It would be so easy just to release versions of classics that's have sold well in the club shop though. You could do the green and gold one, the yellow one we had. It really isn't anything difficult.

Think it would be a brilliant signing. People going on about caveman football need to realise we need different ways to win. Not a chance Cooper will want to play kick and rush when he's clearly been told the vision by Top. I think, unlike Maresca, he realises that you can't just play one specific way giving everyone a set of instructions how to play. So much negativity on here

Think it would appear for who he follows that he's liked a page

They'll offer £20m and Sanchez to us on loan

You know what I'm glad in a way that they continue to highlight how disgusting the people at the top of our club are. It would have been quite easy to paint themselves in a decent light at the minute but no, they keep managing to shine a light on exactly what they are like.