Manchester City

[Phoenix07]

Sky Sources dismissing the story.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/10722767/man-city-not-interested-in-signing-ivan-rakitic-from-barcelona-sky-sources

[Irishnev]

Sky Sources dismissing the story.

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...na-sky-sources

Hadn't see that - looks like City will buy a replacement for Gundogan this winter!

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/819228496392318976[/ame]
Manchester City have been charged by the Football Association for failing to ensure anti-doping officials knew where players were for drugs testing.

Clubs are required to provide accurate details of training sessions and player whereabouts so that they are available for testing at all times.

The club allegedly failed to ensure that their 'club whereabouts' information was accurate.

City have until 19 January to respond to the charge.

It is understood the information was not updated following a change to training routines.
BBC

[Chris]

Dr Fuentes dishing out them special milkshakes? Though they dont appear to be working very well!

[Rich]

Just using gold top milk, honest.

[baitman]

Sakho wants in on this

[Roboklopp]

Pep looking like a toddler about to burst into tears in the recent interviews. Totally lost.

[RedAndWhite]

Pep looking like a toddler about to burst into tears in the recent interviews. Totally lost.

Complete rebuild required for a manager who has been handed to great team in the past and only needed tweaking.

[spud_gun]

Complete rebuild required for a manager who has been handed to great team in the past and only needed tweaking.

You know what's mental about all this rebuild talk?

He's already spunked £180 million in the 6 months that he's been managing them.

The glorious thing is he's made them weaker despite spending the GDP of Guam.

Here's a list of the summer signings

Claudio Bravo (Barcelona), Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund), Gabriel Jesus (Palmeiras), Marlos Moreno (Atletico Nacional), Nolito (Celta Vigo), Leroy Sane (Schalke), John Stones (Everton), Oleksandr Zinchenko (FC Ufa).

The above list of ****e equates to about £180m!

Aside from Gundogan who looked good prior to his knee falling off, again, it's safe to say that not a single one of those players is an upgrade on what was already there.

[Shaggy]

Isn't it Txiki doing all the buying though? If there's a fraud at City it's not Guardiola. This is the fella who bought dross at Barca including £20m about 8 years ago on that Chygrinskiy.

[spud_gun]

If Pep isn't doing the buying then christ knows what he is doing because his team have been utterly clueless as of late.

Let's not forget they won their first 6 league games on the bounce.

They've only won 7 of the last 15 league games they've played.

Not saying he's a bad manager, plainly he isn't. His Barca team, and it was his team don't listen to the 'he got lucky' bollocks, were an absolute joy, but something is seriously a miss at Citeh at the moment..............And it's ****ing glorious.

[Buzzo]

Not many supporters would have realised how much better Mane>Sane in the summer..!

[Shaggy]

If Pep isn't doing the buying then christ knows what he is doing because his team have been utterly clueless as of late.

Let's not forget they won their first 6 league games on the bounce.

They've only won 7 of the last 15 league games they've played.

Not saying he's a bad manager, plainly he isn't. His Barca team, and it was his team don't listen to the 'he got lucky' bollocks, were an absolute joy, but something is seriously a miss at Citeh at the moment..............And it's ****ing glorious.

[ChesterDave]

..............And it's ****ing glorious.

My Citeh supporting mate on Facebook has been quiet of late. Which is always a treat

[Irishnev]

Isn't it Txiki doing all the buying though? If there's a fraud at City it's not Guardiola. This is the fella who bought dross at Barca including £20m about 8 years ago on that Chygrinskiy.

That was sooooo out of left field!