Premier League Season 2016-17 Stuff it in here.

[Guest Col city fan]

Where is the midfield dynamo Lee Cattermole? Injured?

[SystonFox]

53 minutes ago, StanSP said:

i wish people would stop going on about Gueye. Yes we didn't sign him. There's nothing you can do about it. Move on.

Well we can try sign him???

[Bryn]

We should have signed Gueye.

[Guest Col city fan]

There was lots of criticism on here about Lukaku.

Under the right manager I think he's a brilliant striker.

[LCFCFOX6190]

4 minutes ago, Bryn said:

We should have signed Gueye.

would have been perfect. Amartey doesn't seem the best on the ball, Gueye can defend and attack.

[tsintskaro]

Gueye played full 4 games

5.5 tackles per game so far

 

 

[deejdeej]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

There was lots of criticism on here about Lukaku.

Under the right manager I think he's a brilliant striker.

No idea why Chelsea got rid. Couldn't have wished for a better Drogba replacement.

[Wymsey]

Lukaku is great.

 

Controls the ball well, as if he sticks it to his feet, and good awareness.

 

Couldn't resist but maybe Okazaki could learn a lesson or two from him.

[ScouseFox]

35 minutes ago, deejdeej said:

No idea why Chelsea got rid. Couldn't have wished for a better Drogba replacement.

today was the first time he'd scored in his last 14 games. his last league goal before tonight was the first week of march. over six months ago. 

 

he has now scored the same amount of goals as wes morgan in the last 6 months. 

 

 

 

also we should have signed gueye 

[MC Prussian]

Who was the last player in the Premier League to score a proper hat trick (meaning three goals in one half only)?

[Corky]

Just now, MC Prussian said:

Who was the last player in the Premier League to score a proper hat trick (meaning three goals in one half only)?

Mane?

[chili_con_carne]

Everton tonight reminded me of the way we were playing last season. Convinced Steve Walsh has had more input there than just targeting players. There players look to have really high fitness levels too! 

[Samilktray]

22 minutes ago, chili_con_carne said:

Everton tonight reminded me of the way we were playing last season. Convinced Steve Walsh has had more input there than just targeting players. There players look to have really high fitness levels too! 

Yeah dunno why they're even paying Koeman to be manager

[chili_con_carne]

5 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Yeah dunno why they're even paying Koeman to be manager

It's like suggesting we won the league all because of Ranieri :rolleyes

[Donut]

I actually thought Sunderland would be respectable under Moyes. Thought this might be the season theyd move away from the bottom 3. But its looking like a long old season again.

 

Theyre putting a lot of faith in youngsters like Pickford, McNair, Gooch, Januzaj....... just wonder whether this is by choice or prevoius mismanagement.

 

I could certainly see them and West Brom, two established Premier League sides as candidates for going down .

[Fox92]

Everton donated £200,000 yesterday to Bradley Lowery.... Superb.

 

They really are the people's club. Don't think I've ever met anyone that doesn't like Everton (apart from Liverpool fans).

[Fox92]

10 hours ago, chili_con_carne said:

Everton tonight reminded me of the way we were playing last season. Convinced Steve Walsh has had more input there than just targeting players. There players look to have really high fitness levels too! 

Koeman is a superb manager and he'll have Everton top 7 this season. They looked really good yesterday, devastating going forward. 

[AjcW]

22 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Koeman is a superb manager and he'll have Everton top 7 this season. They looked really good yesterday, devastating going forward. 

It was interesting to see that it wasn't just the obvious players impressing. Even Gareth Barry looked like he's gained an extra yard from somewhere!  Mirallas who was dead in the water under Martinez looked sharp, remember the taxi driver who gave us a lift to goodison last season was fuming about Martinez not playing him. 

 

I really like Deulofeu too, there's every chance he could keep Barkley out of the side for a period of time.

 

And Coleman... I have no idea how he has never got a "Top 4" move, the lad is pure class. 

[Guest Col city fan]

Look at Sunderland's record WITH Cattermole in the side, compared to without.. It's true of every season he's been at the club.

Just saying.....

 

[chili_con_carne]

52 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Everton donated £200,000 yesterday to Bradley Lowery.... Superb.

 

They really are the people's club. Don't think I've ever met anyone that doesn't like Everton (apart from Liverpool fans).

While it is superb... I find it a bit unfair on other terminally ill kids. They have managed to get a big stage, with the game being on TV. And I just think to myself, thousands of other parents in the world who need to raise money for treatment, and they could only dream of this sort of publicity. 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

Everton donated £200,000 yesterday to Bradley Lowery.... Superb.

 

They really are the people's club. Don't think I've ever met anyone that doesn't like Everton (apart from Liverpool fans).

Sorry to disagree, not for the sake of disagreeing, but I used to hate them with a passion for their long-ball, Duncan Ferguson, Walter Smith, just staying up by the skin of their teeth antics every year in the late 90s and early 00s before Moyes arrived.

 

Now they're a bit more bearable but there are clubs that are much more likeable such as Southampton I'd say. Think many people only like them because they are the underdogs to Liverpool who are quite an unpopular club.

[foxy boxing]

11 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

Who was the last player in the Premier League to score a proper hat trick (meaning three goals in one half only)?

the perfect hatrick is left foot,right foot,header, i can remember an Everton player doing it against chelsea a few years ago

[purpleronnie]

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the perfect hatrick is left foot,right foot,header, i can remember an Everton player doing it against chelsea a few years ago

Mahrez against Swansea?

[deejdeej]

21 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

the perfect hatrick is left foot,right foot,header, i can remember an Everton player doing it against chelsea a few years ago

Naismith?

[purpleronnie]

Well man city are set to expand their stadium again.  Although it comes from a story in the sun so...

 

http://www.mcfcwatch.com/2016/09/10/manchester-city-to-go-ahead-with-plans-to-make-the-etihad-stadium-a-61000-seater/

 

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Manchester City will press ahead with plans to expand the Etihad Stadium for a second time, according to a report in The Sun.

Plans to expand the North Stand, making the entire stadium three tiers, have long been mapped out, with the only question being when. But, with 98% of tickets sold on average for Premier League games, plus 41,000 season ticket holders and 10,000 on a waiting list, City chiefs believe the demand is there for a second expansion.

Once the development is complete, City’s Etihad Stadium will be able to seat around 61,000 fans, making it the second largest club stadium in Britain behind neighbours Manchester United.

The Sun quote a ‘source’ as saying:

“The club feel the time is right to extend the stadium even further to mark the Pep Guardiola era.

“Planning permission was sought to extend both ends of the stadium when the expansion scheme was first started.

“Talks are now on-going to find the best possible time for contractors to start moving in to begin the work.”

City regularly sell out Premier League games, although a large number of season ticket holders frequently not turning up has led to a perception that this isn’t the case. The Etihad Stadium expansion saw the average attendance jump around 7,000 to 54,041 last season, making it a big success. Only Manchester United and Arsenal had larger average attendances.

In the long-term, City’s owners have a plan to expand the Colin Bell (West) and East Stands to take the Etihad beyond Old Trafford’s 76,000 capacity, the report claims.