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#153895 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
That's not quite what happened but I agree with your assessment of the rules. All they're going to do is protect the clubs that are established at the top. They've come into play a few years too late to stop us, but they'll make it even harder than it already is for clubs outside the Champions League to challenge.
That's already going to be happening. Just getting rid of Lescott and Barry will free up ~200k p/w and they're unlikely to be the only departures this summer.
#153852 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
#153851 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
#153774 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
Aye, it does seem a bit far-fetched. Especially with Liverpool looking like a certainty for the Champions League.
#153651 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
Also, Duncan Castles is in The Sunday Times claiming that City are 'plotting huge investment in Suárez'.
#152721 Champions League 2013/14
bluemoon.
Courtois is so much better than Cech.
#152146 The TV Thread
bluemoon.
Parks has been a bit shit recently too. Doesn't help that Rashida Jones has left either.
#152051 The TV Thread
bluemoon.
The entire last season was crap tbh.
#151545 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
#151544 The Manchester City Thread
bluemoon.
Offensive on a number of levels.
#151517 The Manchester City Thread
bluemoon.
I wasn't particularly disagreeing with the article, I was disagreeing with Carroll's bollocks about Yaya going missing in big games.
I agree, it's one of the reasons he 'goes missing' in these away games against the weaker teams. I suspect it's something that will be addressed in the summer with a new defensive midfielder.
It's not complete garbage, there's a few good points in there but it's a very confused article. The bit about Micah Richards bears little relevance to the larger point, which is in itself presented quite poorly. There's no lack of leadership in our team, there's a lack of leadership in our backups and given that a chunk of these backups seem unlikely to be here next season it doesn't seem like a massive issue tbh.
#151454 The Manchester City Thread
bluemoon.
Are you kidding? Touré's pretty much the big game player in the Premier League at the moment. His problem's not the big games it's the ones against smaller teams away from home, when he gets lazy.
#151282 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
#151255 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
He's a dirty little sod is our David. Still brilliant mind.
#151235 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
#150709 The Manchester City Thread
bluemoon.
Zabaleta.
#150637 Old Trafford Lounge
bluemoon.
It's a shame we can't block individual users any more.
#150441 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
I disagree about Sagna not adding much to City though, if nothing else, the simple fact that he's fit and able should enable Zabaleta to maintain a higher standard of performance, because for most of the last two seasons we haven't had a proper back-up for him and as a result we've run him ragged. If it carries on like that then sooner or later it's going to catch up with him and his performances will - understandably - suffer.
#150355 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
I can see some sense in it. For Sagna it's simple, he gets a pay-rise, a three-year deal and a good chance to win some silverware. For City we need a reliable back-up right-back but also need to strengthen several other positions, so whilst his wages will probably be larger than most of the alternatives, the fact we wouldn't be paying a transfer fee could come in useful for when we're trying to sign a defensive midfielder, a centre back or Luke Shaw. Lastly, his age arguably works in our favour, we have a number of talented young right-backs and signing a younger player would make it harder for them to get their chance in a few years time. Sagna would be a good signing for a few years before leaving at the time we'd be expecting one of these young players to be making the step-up to the first-team squad.
#150166 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
bluemoon.
#150156 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
Just open it in a Private Window (if you're on Firefox) or whatever the equivalent is for Chrome.
#149926 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
That's not fair, he's a good target man when played behind the striker. Unfortunately for Moyes, that's just a further indictment of Fellaini's signing because United should not be buying somebody like him to play behind the striker.
#149904 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
It's been that way for years with Rooney, he gets away with practically everything. The amount of dissent/swearing at referees he does without getting booked is astonishing.
It's as clear a red-card as you'll see. Shame he can't be banned for it after the match.
Aye, Rio's clearly past it now.
I've thought he's brilliant for a long-time but watching him against Barça really brought it home to me. I don't think there's a team in the world he couldn't/wouldn't get in to. He's phenomenal.
#149893 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
He's still so, so under-rated.
#149891 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
In United's defence that was Dzeko on a good day. He was definitely in the mood today.
#149792 The Armoury
bluemoon.
Given the lack of depth they have up-front, he'd still be a decent signing.
#147731 The Armoury
bluemoon.
Except that's very much disputable. Of our last three games before the First Leg we lost one, drew one and won one, Arsenal's record was the same.. On top of that we were missing a number of our most important players (Aguero and Fernandinho). We weren't in much better form between the Second Leg and the First, we scraped two narrow wins and lost to Wigan whereas Arsenal had two 4-1 wins and a 1-0 loss against Stoke.
Again that's subjective and again, no you haven't. You've gotten more stick from some people. Stop treating the opinions of one or two journalists as the opinions of all people.
And I would argue that with 16 successive years of Champions League football under one manager, Arsenal and Arsene Wenger are better suited to the pressure of facing teams like Bayern and Barcelona than City with their relatively new manager and only in their third season of Champions League football, and with the players at their disposal (Cazorla, Ozil, Wilshere, Koscielny, the BFG) they should have done better. Similarly I would say that a 3-1 aggregate loss doesn't reflect the standard to which Arsenal have played for the majority of the season.
City's defeat wasn't roundly declared as valiant and brave though - apart from by a section of the media who consistently label away failures by British teams as valiant and brave - Did you miss the aftermath of the First Leg? Pellegrini was slaughtered for picking the 'donkey' Demichelis, decried for picking a 'defensive' team and even criticised for not starting James Milner who wasn't even fit enough to start.
Frankly this just invalidates your whole argument.
tl;dr: Some people criticised Arsenal, some people criticised City. Stop talking as if everybody lionised City and bitched about Arsenal, because that's not what happened and you're just making yourself sound paranoid.
#147617 The Armoury
bluemoon.
That depends entirely on you listen to/read. I heard more than a few journalists saying we were done but Arsenal had a chance. It's all opinions.
#147573 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.
Everton are a far, far better team than West Ham and Stoke are at about the same level. Losing to either of those teams is not a massive deal.
#147490 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
bluemoon.