English PL 21/22 season

Villa and Everton may have to start looking over their shoulders after todays defeats.

Edited by Double Maxim - 02 Jan 2022 at 4:21pm

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Any ideas who the new Chelsea manager will be ?

" BFC always gives me a laugh........ "

Cabra Hoop wrote:

Any ideas who the new Chelsea manager will be ?

I guess you posted this at 2-0 yeah? LOL

Full credit to Wolves but dear me I couldn't believe how poor Man United were.

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Roberto Baggio wrote:

How can a team finish second in the league in May, sign Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane and are now closer to Norwich City than Manchester City?

Looks like Ole had them over performing.

Roberto Baggio wrote:

How can a team finish second in the league in May, sign Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane and are now closer to Norwich City than Manchester City?

Liverpool and City under performed last year. This year it's Arsenal who are over performing. United just need to spend another billion and they'll finish second again. Never seen an attempt at buying the league go so badly wrong.

Man City sitting very comfortable at the top, no one cares as the owners of the club are horrible scum.

I notice the media have a similar attitude to most fans and just ignore it too. You'll see more news on Liverpool or how United are doing poorly then how good Manchester Country Fc are doing.

It's a pity Guardiola didn't create his project with another club.

It would damage this forums' reputation

Guardiola is a checkbook manager. If he wanted to test himself, he would take on a project like Arsenal or Tottenham or any Serie A side. He's managed a Barca side with peak Iniesta, Xavi and Messi, a Bayern Munich team in a one team league and a Man City side that can afford to sell a talent like Ferran Torres halfway through a season without losing anything.

He hasn't won the CL in a decade. He's winning leagues with a squad that could put out 2 sides that would beat any Spanish or Italian side. They can't even select Benjamin Mendy and it doesn't affect them at all!

For all his pomposity, there's a severe lack of ambition in what he's doing.

Territorial wrote:

Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

For all his pomposity, there's a severe lack of ambition in what he's doing.

A "severe lack of ambition" is it?

Alone of all the big PL clubs, M.City under PG challenge for every trophy they enter, every season. Last time around they won the PL by a street (again), won the League Cup (again) and only lost the final of the CL and the semi-final of the FA Cup by a single goal each.

He would have it much easier were he to manage a similarly big club in a much weaker league, where winning the title by Xmas is a given, and he could concentrate all his resources on the CL for the rest of the season.

Or alternatively, enjoy a nice, cushy sinecure managing eg NY City FC.

I don't greatly like him, but he's arguably the most fiercely competitive, therefore ambitious, man in football.

Depends how you define ambition - If ambition is solely defined by winning things then being in one of the few places that can spend unlimited amounts of money on players obviously lends itself to that.

If ambition is defined by actual achievement, then you can't really credit him much for that at City.