Manchester City

[wavydavy]

Dont give me that bollocks mate, i dont need your approval as to why i 'follow' LFC.

I'd rather have their kind of squad depth than ours. If you like it or if you dont like it, makes absolutely zero difference to my viewpoint.

That's not what you said originally. Serious question. Would you swap,lock, stock and barrel the entire City squad and financial backing/position for our own? Yes or no.

[greystoneslfc]

Re: the City front line, they can't even register half of those players! You can only register a 25 man squad like last season, check the rules online, we had 23 (or 24, not 25) players registered. If they put all those in, everywhere else will suffer!

Not going to explain the squad rule - too much typing!

[BillobShaisley]

I'd swap squads with city no question. I wouldn't support City as a club, which Wavy seems to be trying to twist the argument to, but they have a better group of players overall.

They didn't have too many problems keeping clean sheets either, not sure where this weak defence comes in, they have some boss midfield enforcers too.

[Craig_H]

I'd swap squads with city no question. I wouldn't support City as a club, which Wavy seems to be trying to twist the argument to, but they have a better group of players overall.

[Roboklopp]

The argument Craig was making - ie they have a much stronger squad than us- is entirely valid.

[Shaggy]

The argument Craig was making - ie they have a much stronger squad than us- is entirely valid.

It is, I agree, but wavydavy was obviously taking the emotional attachment into account...i.e. would you literally swap theirs for ours, right now, what with the attachment we have to players like Gerrard, Carra, Pepe, Kuyt, Suarez etc.

They have a better squad, and I'd swap it if all that stuff I just mentioned meant nothing. But it does mean something so with that in mind, I couldn't swap ours.

[Roboklopp]

Aye, he was but that wasn't really what Craig was on about though was it? Kinda distracted from the discussion rather than adding to it.

[Craig_H]

Aye, he was but that wasn't really what Craig was on about though was it? Kinda distracted from the discussion rather than adding to it.

[Muddled]

Manchester City are facing an uprising from defenders Vincent Kompany and Micah Richards as well as midfielder Nigel De Jong who believe they are underpaid after details leaked of Sergio Aguero's £200,000-a-week contract.

[JohnDoe]

Manchester City are facing an uprising from defenders Vincent Kompany and Micah Richards as well as midfielder Nigel De Jong who believe they are underpaid after details leaked of Sergio Aguero's £200,000-a-week contract.

And this is another reason why they're not going to come close to winning the league.

[Mostar]

And this is another reason why they're not going to come close to winning the league.

It's only a matter of time before their "house of cards" collapses.

[Roboklopp]

I'm sure there's plenty at Scum who think the same
too about Shrek.

[ChesterDave]

They could just as easily finish 5th as win it. They only finished 3rd last year because Arsenal choked their way to failure. I dont think there are many that disagree we would have been a serious threat to top 4 without the Bodge and our off field distractions.

I think city dropping out of top 4 is more likely than finishing top 2

A good squad does nor make a good team

[Roboklopp]

They finished on the same points as the Chavs. It would be foolish to dismiss them. Scum won the league cos everyone else was substandard, but it still counts sadly. (Not that I'm saying Citeh will win the league).

[Harv]

I don't see any problem with the way Mancini built the squad. He built from the back as most managers do. He more or less copied the way we played with Rafa as manager.

As I said before. They now have the pace in Aguero to be able to play the Rafa system much better than they have done before.

Rock solid centrally. Great attacking fullbacks and pace upfront.

The Rafa system