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***Official*** English Football Season 2017/18
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dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Whatever helps you sleep at night buddy.
Nearly meaningless except for the 20-point gap, yes.
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Look, City deserve all the praise they get for the way they are playing right now. No other manager besides Guardiola would have them playing like this even if you handed them an infinite transfer budget, or the right to pick any player they wanted. City also haven't spent 100m+ on one player like PSG/Barcelona, or splurged huge in one or two transfer windows like Madrid did in 2009, or Chelsea did when Abramovich bought them. Their players' price tags actually look reasonable right now given the way they are performing.
Having said that, City have the massive advantage of being able to write off transfer failures immediately - and they have cycled through a large number of players to get to this current squad. Spurs cannot immediately replace the underwhelming players in their squad for the best choice, they have to wait until they spot a very promising young player, or a bargain becomes available due to a contract situation or something. Liverpool can't replace Mignolet if they've spent a huge amount on Van Dijk. Their managers have to work hard to get the best out of players who aren't quite the finished product, Guardiola doesn't (though he does get the best out of most players anyway due to his style of play, especially attackers). That is a big advantage. I would like to see Guardiola use more players from the academy TBH, he did that successfully at Barcelona. But that's probably a bit of a pipe-dream these days.
Having said that, City have the massive advantage of being able to write off transfer failures immediately - and they have cycled through a large number of players to get to this current squad. Spurs cannot immediately replace the underwhelming players in their squad for the best choice, they have to wait until they spot a very promising young player, or a bargain becomes available due to a contract situation or something. Liverpool can't replace Mignolet if they've spent a huge amount on Van Dijk. Their managers have to work hard to get the best out of players who aren't quite the finished product, Guardiola doesn't (though he does get the best out of most players anyway due to his style of play, especially attackers). That is a big advantage. I would like to see Guardiola use more players from the academy TBH, he did that successfully at Barcelona. But that's probably a bit of a pipe-dream these days.
Niall
International Coach
Yep, none of them exactly cheap, but plenty of other big hitters could have snapped them up.
Correct me if I am am wrong lads,,,but there wasn't any sort of bidding war for Salah this summer was there? Odd if not. Superb piece of business.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
To think if they'd just spent an additional £10m they could have had Sigurdsson...
Furball
Evil Scotsman
PSG have completely neglected their midfield.
Veratti and Rabiot are good but they need a 3rd in there. When Thiago Motta is a first pick you know something's not right, I still don't understand them so easily giving away Matuidi.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Someone like Netflix will surely go for those packages
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Judging by how Chelsea have messed up with players teams should be lining up to sign Batshuayi in the summer. Maybe not.
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Arsenal finishing off one of the best weeks in Europe for English sides in a long time in style.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
City fans on twitter are trash. How any of them could say that Delph shouldn't have been shown red there after the complaints we've made for months needs their head examined.