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City have been very good. That Gundergan (sp?) looks a player and half, calm on the ball, picks up good positions... wearing number 8 on his back and doing a job the best number 8 of all time would be proud of

Massive difference when your not covering the whole center mid alone in terms of defensive duties. Really rate fabregas but not in a midfield 2. Kante also looked pretty human next to him

Agree there are parallels but one key difference that is endearing me to conte even more is his apparent lack of interest in the commercial element, he doesn't seem to be someone that would ever be interest in brand Conte. Can't help but think it has effected Jose some what

Has anyone actually had a look at the fixtures after feb (cup games permitting of course) I think if we are still in contention at that point we have a very very good run in, not that any game is easy really, I would like to play Sunderland asap

Can't say it enough,his leave involved his mum dying

It's a tough one because it's impossible to know the level of influence any one manager had over transfer dealings. with limited knolage you would have to give it to Ranieri hands down, Brought terry through, got lampard in, Chec and robben, I have to ignore the likes of Duff and Joe Cole as they weren't exactly hidden gems so to speak. But I'd give him credit on the macalele signing as not many would have splurged so much back then on a 31 year old DM. He he also had some shockers, Zenden, Veron, Mutu, deluca. which of are managers since then have really signed a non eshtablished player and managed to push them on, maybe zouma and I'll give Robbie D Dave

Always loved Jose, backed him till that last and didn't want him to go. That being said, I'm enjoying the failure at united much more then I'd imagined. I initially thought i would be torn, wanting only the worst for united but not wanting to see Jose suffer with them, I'm surprisingly much more ok with it then I thought. on the man him self this is what I think... Jose was well ahead of the curv, a pure man motivator with fresh, if some one pragmatic ideas about the game, he left no stone unturned in his preperation for matches and always had multiple plans. I would still argue that the 2004/5 side was the best in the world and the beat the prem has ever seen. But I think he's been caught up, much like wenger, unless you are going forwards your going backwards and with the likes of klop,conte , porch etc there are more managers on these shours brining a new level to thing. Jose will have to adapt, much like fergi did time and time again, hopefully it happens when he goes back to inter

He sold Sturridge to Liverpool

He's young has the tallent Needs games

Man Utd 2-0 Burnley Boro 0-1 Bournemouth Tottenham 2-1 Leicester Watford 3-0 Hull West Brom 0-2 Man City Brighton 1-0 Norwich Like this

You don't get an unlimited amount of time of work when you loose some one. Team needs its depth sometime

Ainia may need a loan, lots of talent but will need the games he won't get here

Supposed to see like for like here but Michy can have no complaints

Might be the stream but JT has been a fraction slow on both goals

Obviously never lost anyone close to you

Stop inviting pressure

This playing it short stuff is frustrating, if a team is pressing pay it over them

Big game for chalobah, a few things so far he looks like a man now, strong solid frame, won't be pushed around easy he seems like a natural leader, would love to see him nurtured to be our next captain he actual looks like the most complete center mid we have hopefully he dominates the game today and never looks back

I think the intensity of the first half started to show at the end , a few passes went stray and some bad decision making in otherwise an a amazing diceplined half. More of the same but I'd bring Willian on for Pedro

We need a performance akin to that of Italy against Spain in the euros

Arsenal 4 - 0 Middlesbrough Burnley 0-3 Everton Hull 1 - 3 Stoke Leicester 1 - 1Crystal Palace Swansea 2 - 2 Watford West Ham 2 - 0 Sunderland

Surly this is the game to tell him, do what ever the hell you want - take a free role and reek havok show Jose what he's missing

What happened to the classic run up and smash

So far I would say Swansea game aside conte has won all the games he was supposed to, and to take a positive, the last two at a canter. The team had proved they can turn a game around or salvage somthing from a game. Where he has fallen down so far has been the 50/50 games, the ones that on paper could go either way. In years gone by you could get away with out winning those games because these was like 6 of them... United, Liverpool, gooners (not so much) then add City to mix and now you could add spuds and even Everton in to the mix ( I think they are much better under kouman) now we are up to 12 games a season that you just can't call, have to win at least half of them for me and we are 2 and zip right now. next week will be a massive test for conte we need to get somthing from the United game

Need to use some subs, get the intensity back in to our game