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We're having a f**king horrendous season yet we're still 8 places above Liverpool in the league, I think this chump should go and f**k himself.

Playing horrendous, negative, turgid football under someone like Benitez is one thing but failing to pick up points in the process is another. We are in a dire situation. Our season is over but the one thing in our favour is money and options.

He was right to get rid of RDM. The best part of £100m spent and we have a sh*te team. The mistake he made was the replacement...

Benitez has so far delivered on the horrendous turgid, negative football that we saw in his Liverpool time, the only difference is hardly picking up any points. I don't know what Roman was thinking...he strives for purist, total football yet went for the polar opposite for 6 months ?

What we really really lack at the moment and haven't had since Mourinho is quite simply a top manager and Guardiola is the man. The money we spent this summer is frightening for how dreadful a team we have. If we didn't have Juan Mata we would be absolutely f**king abysmal. This January we need a manager, world class central midfielder + striker and that is just the bare minimum. RDM spent the best part of £100m this summer, sickening.......

RDM spent over £75 this summer as well as getting an enormous wage budget, he's the main reason we are in this mess. £75m f**king spent and we have a sh*te midfield and no half decent striker. All RDM spent money on was attacking midfielders. I live in hope that this summer the cheque book gets opened again and Guardiola sorts the team out. Then maybe we can get the academy sorted out and stop paying over the odds for other club's players.

The one positive from Benitez is we might start to bore the opposition into defeat. We're going to struggle to make the top 4 this season let alone challenge for the title. We have no striker and a terrible central midfield...

This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read online.

They had more of the game today and created more chances. So yes they did play better.

Try telling back to back European champions as well as world champions Spain that 'possession means f**k all'. Maybe if England tried to adapt their methods to the likes of Spain they might actually win something for a change.

Possession means f**k all? Typical ignorant English attitude stuck about 30 years behind modern times.

Just because they are top of the table, it doesn't make them a great side. I don't consider any premiership team to be up to much at the moment. I think European performances back this up . City maybe didn't dominate the game but they still had almost 60% of possession and much more shots.

Yes, because clearly we didn't need a huge amount of luck to win that match.

City have been very mediocre and largely dominated the game today. Plus they were away, we were at home. Both sides were poor, it was a terrible match and a snoozefest but City still had a lot more of the ball. Also, lacking a quality striker is far from our only problem - we severely lack quality in the middle of the park and rarely control games.

It was the worst match I've seen in ages. Big matches in England usually are pretty bad. We also had 1 shot on target all game.