Yeah but if you include him over Cleverley then you're looking at having 4 central-midfielders over the age of 30 in the squad. That's at least one too many.

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Is Jesús Navas replacing Dzeko as your man-crush then?

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By Telegram Sam | On 07 November 2013 - 19:17 PM

Also, surely Gareth Barry is more deserving of a call-up than Cleverley?

He is. At 32, though, I can kinda see the logic in leaving him out.

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Decent squad, nice to see Lallana get some recognition. Can't see a good reason why Defoe/Welbeck/Cleverley have been picked though.

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By Sam | On 05 November 2013 - 21:52 PM

I have to say Nasri has improved so much since last season, another good game tonight.

Pellegrini seems to have figured out how to get the best out of him. He looks like he did when he was playing for Arsenal in 2010/11.

Unfortunately, the same is true for Clichy, he looks like a shadow of the player he was under Mancini. His decision-making is getting worse and worse. The penalty he gave away was horrendous.

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By Slashman X | On 05 November 2013 - 21:40 PM

BEEEEEAAAASSSSSSSTTTTTTTTT!!!!

Also, Young is a bellend

Seconded.

Negredo = Awesome.

Young = Wanker.

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By Slashman X | On 05 November 2013 - 12:10 PM

Plane from Moscow to Manchester had to be diverted to Denmark yesterday to throw off drunken CSKA fans. Bodes well for this evening

It was only 1 drunken fan. They threw off 6 of his mates for being dicks about it.

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By The Platypus | On 03 November 2013 - 21:15 PM

Eto'o and Ba.

Don't embarrass yourself, Krissy.

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By Carroll. | On 03 November 2013 - 20:25 PM

RvP & Rooney or Suarez & Sturridge?

Aguero & Negredo.

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By Jaygull | On 02 November 2013 - 20:30 PM

That is shocking, he is actively attempting to injure a young kid who is just starting his career. Should have a substantial ban for that, really poor stuff.

Frankly that has nothing do with it. That's a terrible 'challenge' whatever the age of the player on the receiving end.

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I'm not saying the full-backs don't overlap, they do. Just that Navas isn't being asked to cut inside because of them. Pellegrini likes his wide-men to cut-in anyway.

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It's really not. Pellegrini always has two 'interiores' - wide players who cut inside - besides which our full-backs haven't (consistently) been creative forces since the first half of the 2011/12 season. Which is when most teams figured out that only one of our full-backs can cross and only Richards can dribble/burst through a defence and started playing narrower against us to squeeze Silva.

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By Ninja | On 31 October 2013 - 12:23 PM

Navas smoked Evra by sticking wide and running really, really fast.

Don't really see how you can really fuck up a player like that.

To be fair, he played the same sort of role at Sevilla last year so he's not really fucked him up but, yeah, I'd just have him running past full-backs really quickly.

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By Poe | On 31 October 2013 - 01:01 AM

Aye but if Remy was playing with Shola I'd back him to bag 2/3 of the sitters Cisse missed.

He probably would have created more chances too. His pace against Lescott and Boyata would have been a hilarious mismatch.

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By Shola | On 31 October 2013 - 00:54 AM

Do you's rate Navas? I've thought he's looked pretty poor from what I've seen of him.

I do. There are a few beginning to have doubts though. Personally I think he's struggling with the combination of the physical side of the English game and the role that Pellegrini's given him. He seems to be being asked to cut inside a lot and he doesn't seem entirely comfortable doing that. Personally I'd rather see him cheesing past full-backs and whipping in crosses to Negredo.

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By Poe | On 30 October 2013 - 22:09 PM

Deserved to win that in normal time, just can't keep up with the class of City's substitutes.

Paul Dummet vs Jesus Navas ffs

Boyata is awful btw.

Yeah, you were by far the best team for 90 minutes.

He's not great.

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Frankly that says more about how poor he's been recently than anything else.

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Aside from that goal, Dzeko has been completely and utterly shite tonight. Tidy finish mind

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This match has been painful to watch.

...And Negredo's scored.

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That was a terrible first-half. Totally out-played.

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By TheClassicK | On 29 October 2013 - 21:37 PM

Shut up you mong, he's allowed to express an opinion but obviously when it comes to a question like that and you're the president of FIFA, you definitely should be more cautious in giving an answer. If it involved one of your City players in that whole feud I'm sure you'll be unhappy.

He wasn't speaking as Sepp Blatter FIFA President, though. He's allowed to express a preference. If it was an official FIFA event or he was actually representing FIFA it might be different but he wasn't, he was at a private event voicing a personal opinion. Anybody who has an issue with that can sit down and shut up.

Unhappy that he's said one of them spends more on his hair than the other? I couldn't give a shit. It's such a monumentally trivial thing to get annoyed about. If he'd said that he thinks Ronaldo is a preening, petulant, prima-donna who should act his age instead of bitching and complaining like a 12 year-old, then he'd have reason to be annoyed. As it is, he doesn't and he just comes off as being exceptionally thin-skinned and more than a little petulant.

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By TheClassicK | On 29 October 2013 - 20:39 PM

He also said Ronaldo has more expenses on his hairdresser, which is a joke but really no need to say it to the public especially in what is supposed to be a neutral position. He's certainly not paid to be the president of FIFA to say that he prefers Messi as well.

Fuck off, prick though Blatter undoubtedly is, he's allowed to express an opinion. This is just Ronaldo being whiney.

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Diego Costa's amazing.

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By Poe | On 27 October 2013 - 22:39 PM

I don't think Joe Hart will ever be one of the best in the world unfortunately.

He has the ability to be one of the best in the world but it's his mentality that worries me. He's unbelievably arrogant and just doesn't seem to be learning from his mistakes.

Seems like a typical case of a young(ish) English player who thinks he's made it before he has.

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By Jaygull | On 28 October 2013 - 11:08 AM

I've heard that Neymar is over-rated and Gareth Bale is the third best player in the world. Was I misinformed by the British press?

Oh so badly.

Neymar's brilliant.

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Even if we do buy Casillas or somebody similar (Caballero, perhaps) that won't be 'it' for Hart. It could see him loaned out but he's too young (and English and Home-Grown) to just give up on.

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Yeah but Pantilimon clearly isn't going to get a chance. If he was, surely he'd already have been given one. Hart's been playing badly for almost a year now.

It's not good enough.

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Fucking unbelievable. We desperately need a new keeper.

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Apart from the second 10 minutes or so, that was a fairly woeful first-half performance.

Clichy looks even worse than he did towards the end of his time at Arsenal.