City v Spurs

[Leyton388]

Finished 4th last season which was a good achievement despite the money they spent. They spent another bucket load of money and are about to finish 6th and out of europe, with some of the players likely to abandon ship. About to be overtaken by a team who had a car crash start to the season who lost their star player in Jan. As we all said, it's spurs, it won't last. We were all right.

Maybe we should help them out and take Modric off their hands.

[Fivex]

i noticed the sky "all things manchester" love in has begun.

At least it dilutes the previous 'some things manchester' love in.

[Rudo]

Fair to say the future of the big boys in the North West of England is healthier than in the South.

[Buzzo]

From the BBC:

Not meaning to dampen Man City spirits at all - enjoy it, folks, really do - but a word of warning: among the nine other teams potentially involved in Champions League qualifying next season, they currently include Villarreal, Bayern Munich, Udinese and Lyon. Wowzers.

[Craig_H]

City dont have any kind of european history either, so they shouldnt be seeded, should they? Would love to see them draw Bayern Munich.

[Buzzo]

City dont have any kind of european history either, so they shouldnt be seeded, should they? Would love to see them draw Bayern Munich.

Yeah - I can't see them being seeded. It would be a work of Genius if they spend BIG (again) and go out in the qualifiers.

[Shaggy]

DTguardian daniel taylor
Harry Redknapp a bit prickly when reminded that it's one win in 13 for #THFC: 'I'm going to commit suicide, it's so sad . . .'

[Craig_H]

If that was Rafa, it would've been called a 'rant'.

[Shaggy]

If that was Rafa, it would've been called a 'rant'.

Indeed.

Also couldn't believe Sky tonight, celebrating City's 'magnificent achievement' in coming 4th, having spent more in a year or two than Rafa did in his entire time with us. Yet when we came 4th it was abject failure and relentless criticism.

[Arn]

You could clearly see the way Redknapp set up the season. Light pre-season training so the team will be starting the season very good and be in good form in the CL group stage.

Works the first four, five months then the form starts to dip and the players get tired the last few months of the season because they didn't worked harder in pre-season.

The opposite to how Rafa sets up the season. Will be interesting to see how KK and Clarke will set up our pre-season training.

[Gray]

****in Martyn Tyler going on about how City are building the right way. Are you ****ing joking!!! Treat ya managers like ****, spent hundreds of millions on countless **** players and employ a tosser like Garry Cook.

[Kenneth]

I don't believe that they were tired because of a light preseason tbh. I think they are just the sixth best team in the league.

[yamiedo]

You could clearly see the way Redknapp set up the season. Light pre-season training so the team will be starting the season very good and be in good form in the CL group stage.

Works the first four, five months then the form starts to dip and the players get tired the last few months of the season because they didn't worked harder in pre-season.

The opposite to how Rafa sets up the season. Will be interesting to see how KK and Clarke will set up our pre-season training.

I honestly don't think it makes much difference

[Arn]

I honestly don't think it makes much difference

Of course it makes a difference the way you set up the season. You could set it up in many different ways. The pre-season being key to that.

If you do light pre-season training then the players will be in good form at the start of the season. Harder pre-season training and the players will feel the effect the first couple of months but be stronger the second half of the season because they will be trained to last the full season.

It is even more important in a world cup year.

[Kenneth]

You and you're wacky bull****.