Just seeing some of the reports on the City CB injuries. They are written with Glee. Disgusting, but not surprising.

Pep getting worried thinks everyone in football and the media want Liverpool to win, in fact he says everyone.....

Does he mean by that officials too, yet can't say it? 

8 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

He was half right. The media certainly loves Liverpool, but pretty much everybody outside of Liverpool and the BBC can't stand them.

😃

Looks like Haaland to Man City is a done deal. Pep managed to hold on last summer and now they will ruin football with that new striker, he’s 10 times more potent than G.Jesus.

Just now, Gol15 said:

Looks like Haaland to Man City is a done deal. Pep managed to hold on last summer and now they will ruin football with that new striker, he’s 10 times more potent than G.Jesus.

Yeah saw that. Their finances are so dodgy - no way can they afford that without inflating their sponsorship. We looked at it but balked at the price. Wasn’t it something like £63m to Dortmund plus another £70m to the agent? PLUS massive wages. Insane figures. 

I’m glad it’s looking like Arsenal will get top 4. I know Arteta is annoying but the last thing we want is Conte with CL money. Arsenal are going nowhere under Arteta so let them have CL this season and let Spurs annoy/lose the best manager they’ll ever have. 

8 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Yeah saw that. Their finances are so dodgy - no way can they afford that without inflating their sponsorship. We looked at it but balked at the price. Wasn’t it something like £63m to Dortmund plus another £70m to the agent? PLUS massive wages. Insane figures. 

When we went for him the price was much higher than of Lukaku and his wage demands were sky high, seems like Man City can just do whatever they want.

Our new owners should show some teeth in the summer or we might just never manage to reach Man City in the near future.

Would not be surprised to see Spurs beat Arsenal and claim 4th spot.

Edited May 9, 20224 yr by strider6004

15 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I’m glad it’s looking like Arsenal will get top 4. I know Arteta is annoying but the last thing we want is Conte with CL money. Arsenal are going nowhere under Arteta so let them have CL this season and let Spurs annoy/lose the best manager they’ll ever have. 

Arteta is friends with Pep so Arsenal with a top 4 finish might get G.Jesus and now some reports say they will look if there is a possibility to get Sterling as well. Conte has never done well in Europe and the extra high quality fixtures would bother him more than anything, feels like there is a huge push for Arsenal to be a bigger club once again. 

Edited May 9, 20224 yr by Gol15

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

I’m glad it’s looking like Arsenal will get top 4. I know Arteta is annoying but the last thing we want is Conte with CL money. Arsenal are going nowhere under Arteta so let them have CL this season and let Spurs annoy/lose the best manager they’ll ever have. 

Don't be naive...Arsenal are 4th for a reason. And this is without Aubameyang (who was their top scorer before he left), Thomas Partey and Tierney who are injured.

If anything WE are going nowhere at the moment.

Edited May 9, 20224 yr by Mana

We can only hope that Haaland turns out like Grealish for City, square pegs and all.. Is he injury prone as well? He hasn't played more than 28 league games in any season yet.

6 hours ago, Mana said:

Don't be naive...Arsenal are 4th for a reason. And this is without Aubameyang (who was their top scorer before he left), Thomas Partey and Tierney who are injured.

If anything WE are going nowhere at the moment.

Difference is, we have a world class coach and Arsenal have.....................................Arteta!!

Will post this now in case I forget tomorrow. 

Crucial 2 days in the title run in I think. First of no way Saint Steven puts a stumbling block in the way of his beloved Pool, just a case of how many goals he is willing to see the side he manages lose by.

Wolves showed against us they still have teeth, and with City left with only 1 cb and that cb being Laporte I fancy Wolves to get a result on Wednesday 

5 hours ago, Nibs said:

Difference is, we have a world class coach and Arsenal have.....................................Arteta!!

At this point I don’t care about having world class coaches…as long is our coach is doing a fantastic job for our club.

Arteta has beaten us way more times than I can imagine, and has beaten our world class coach twice at our home turf.

I’m not saying Arteta is better because these players we have aren’t TT players, but point is that having a big name for us means nothing if it’s not translated on the pitch. And last season he did a splendid job in Europe.

But we are on the verge on another disappointing, bitterend league season but you can’t say that with Arsenal.

Edited May 9, 20224 yr by Mana

17 hours ago, Mana said:

Don't be naive...Arsenal are 4th for a reason. And this is without Aubameyang (who was their top scorer before he left), Thomas Partey and Tierney who are injured.

If anything WE are going nowhere at the moment.

I tend to agree with that to be honest. I hate Arsenal with a passion, but I think with a couple of astute buys they could be closer to the big two next season.  they've had no european football and didnt do much in the cups this year so well see how good they are though. On the plus side they haven't won the league in 18 years, it must be killing em

20 hours ago, Gol15 said:

Looks like Haaland to Man City is a done deal. Pep managed to hold on last summer and now they will ruin football with that new striker, he’s 10 times more potent than G.Jesus.

It’s a bit demoralising really. They've won four of the last five titles and a couple of them without a top quality recognised striker. It’s a forgone conclusion that they’ll win the league next year. Everyone else is playing for second and the cups.

7 hours ago, Mana said:

At this point I don’t care about having world class coaches…as long is our coach is doing a fantastic job for our club.

Arteta has beaten us way more times than I can imagine, and has beaten our world class coach twice at our home turf.

I’m not saying Arteta is better because these players we have aren’t TT players, but point is that having a big name for us means nothing if it’s not translated on the pitch. And last season he did a splendid job in Europe.

But we are on the verge on another disappointing, bitterend league season but you can’t say that with Arsenal.

Really? This was just a few weeks ago. Yes they beat us, a fading West Ham and a joke of a United side, but you just want to forget these?

Arguing about who is best between us Spurs and Arsenal right now is like arguing about which roadkill is the most dead.

1 hour ago, Blue Exile said:

Really? This was just a few weeks ago. Yes they beat us, a fading West Ham and a joke of a United side, but you just want to forget these?

I’m not forgetting those but I’m looking at the league table. Where’s Arsenal again?

We are not any better with our results, and Arsenal has more wins under their belt than us.

1 hour ago, Mana said:

I’m not forgetting those but I’m looking at the league table. Where’s Arsenal again?

We are not any better with our results, and Arsenal has more wins under their belt than us.

We are above them with more points, a vastly superior goal difference having lost 5 less games than them.

That league table? 

14 minutes ago, Blue Exile said:

We are above them with more points, a vastly superior goal difference having lost 5 less games than them.

That league table? 

Yes that league table. 1 point ahead of them. They closed the gap on us after being 8 points ahead.

You are naive if you think Arteta isn’t doing a great job being THIS close to us in the table. No one gave them a prayer at the start of the season.

If this was Lampard, you’ll be singing praises.

Edited May 10, 20224 yr by Mana

2 hours ago, Mana said:

Yes that league table. 1 point ahead of them. They closed the gap on us after being 8 points ahead.

You are naive if you think Arteta isn’t doing a great job being THIS close to us in the table. No one gave them a prayer at the start of the season.

If this was Lampard, you’ll be singing praises.

I think if we'd beaten them the other week we'd have gone 11 points clear of them and pretty much sealed the CL spot. That game was an utter disaster in every respect. 

23 hours ago, Mana said:

Don't be naive...Arsenal are 4th for a reason.

We heard similar regarding Ole last season and look how that ended.

1 hour ago, Backbiter said:

I think if we'd beaten them the other week we'd have gone 11 points clear of them and pretty much sealed the CL spot. That game was an utter disaster in every respect. 

Yep, that the game was an absolute disgrace. We kickstarted Arsenal's surge. They were lost 3 games in a row and looked very helpless, staring at Europa League football. Then here comes Charity FC! Comedy FC!

Now we made it super hard for ourselves.

1 hour ago, Argo said:

We heard similar regarding Ole last season and look how that ended.

United and Arsenal are different in the way they structure. For example, Arteta is the Arsenal manager and actually coaches, while Ole was just "head coach". And I'm putting that head coach title VERY lightly as Ole said it himself, he doesn't coach his players.

Then the boots. Arteta kicks out players that don't listen to him. Ole never did this, because he cuddles the players and egos.

I don't want to go in to detail more, but it's obvious that United are different from Arsenal.

Edited May 10, 20224 yr by Mana

40 minutes ago, Mana said:

Yep, that the game was an absolute disgrace. We kickstarted Arsenal's surge. They were lost 3 games in a row and looked very helpless, staring at Europa League football. Then here comes Charity FC! Comedy FC!

Now we made it super hard for ourselves.

United and Arsenal are different in the way they structure. For example, Arteta is the Arsenal manager and actually coaches, while Ole was just "head coach". And I'm putting that head coach title VERY lightly as Ole said it himself, he doesn't coach his players.

Then the boots. Arteta kicks out players that don't listen to him. Ole never did this, because he cuddles the players and egos.

I don't want to go in to detail more, but it's obvious that United are different from Arsenal.

It's not exactly unknown for man manager types to get further than obsessive coaches.

Case in point, look at how Rafa Benitez got on at Real compared to Ancelotti.