Conte never talks about the refs....until he does:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12686524/antonio-conte-criticises-incredible-var-mistakes-with-spurs-manager-saying-no-one-is-happy-about-situation

City really hit the lottery with Guardiola. I think their dominance has been solely due to him. He has the aura to attract the best players and his style of play covers up the weaknesses of even his poor players. They were iffy in the league even after dominating spending until Guardiola arrived and took them up another level.  I hope he leaves them soon, otherwise the premier league will soon look like the Bundesliga if it doesn't already

5 hours ago, ducavis said:

Never wanted to come here, and I am not certain he would have replicated his form here. At City he needs just 5 touches in 90mins to score a hat trick. He would have been hung here for not pressing enough, and we don’t create enough chances.

🤣🤣🤣

Imagine the rage that this forum has if our st only touch the ball 5 times. 

I remembered a lot of people said just look at City. That is how "modern" offense work. False 9,fluid, interchange, teleport, magic football. 

I turn out City scored a lot of goal with false 9 and city is scoring a lot of goals with a true no 9 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe it does not matter whether you play false 9 or true no 9 or whatever. 

 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by Bob stark

2 hours ago, Bob stark said:

Maybe it does not matter whether you play false 9 or true no 9 or whatever.

For sure. What matters is that your players and your manager are good enough. Simple as that really.

Another thing that struck me is how Haaland, Alvarez, Jesus and Isak have all hit the ground running at their new clubs, but most of our signings always seem to need time to adapt to the PL, or gel with the team or require a different player alongside them or need a formation adjustment to play well.

It certainly feels that way.

Roman dropped the ball twice. Didn't want to pay the additionalal fees for Aguero. We end up wasting 50m on Torres and more millions on replacements. Didn't want to pay 150 for Halaand. Pays 100m on Lukaku and now more on replacements.

1 hour ago, Snedger said:

Another thing that struck me is how Haaland, Alvarez, Jesus and Isak have all hit the ground running at their new clubs, but most of our signings always seem to need time to adapt to the PL, or gel with the team or require a different player alongside them or need a formation adjustment to play well.

It certainly feels that way.

I argue that Sterling adapt to our game straight away. 

I think it is quite obvious by now how Tuchel want to play and more importantly who will fit what he want. 

31 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Roman dropped the ball twice. Didn't want to pay the additionalal fees for Aguero. We end up wasting 50m on Torres and more millions on replacements. Didn't want to pay 150 for Halaand. Pays 100m on Lukaku and now more on replacements.

1st. Haaland didn't want to come to us. He is a leeds fans.

2nd You will think about Haaland differently if he play for us. Haaland touched the ball 9 times and scored 3.if our st touches the ball 9 times, our whole offense stop working. 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by Bob stark

10 hours ago, ducavis said:

 

I simply don't believe that TT is training our lot to do that ... 

City buying players at knock down prices, i don't trust them, are they boosting these low prices with crypto or NFT payments to bypass ffp ? Since the energy/fuel crisis the Saudis have made billions and billions of dollars, and yet pay peanuts for their players on paper. It stinks. Der Spiegel know it,  fictitious consultancy contracts, inflated backdoor state sponsorship, have all been used in the past, but i think they have moved on now and are using other methods to bypass ffp.

Gold bars perhaps.............

Interesting. I don't know what Neville said in the post referred to but if found guilty of contempt of court could he imprisoned?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62756971

Pundit Gary Neville is to be referred to the Attorney General for a social media post he made during his ex-Manchester United team-mate Ryan Giggs' domestic violence trial.

The judge in the case, Hilary Manley, has referred it as a possible case of contempt of court.

The jury in Giggs' trial was discharged on Wednesday after failing to reach verdicts on any of the three charges.

Giggs denied headbutting ex-partner Kate Greville, 38, in a row at home.

Giggs, who resigned as Wales manager in June, also denied a charge of coercive or controlling behaviour towards Ms Greville, and denied assaulting Ms Greville's sister Emma, 26.

Any retrial will not take place until at least 5 June 2023, the judge said.

Neville's agent Di Law told the Daily Mail that the 47-year-old Sky Sports pundit was "absolutely adamant" that the post was referring to the Glazer family's ownership of Manchester United and not the Giggs trial.

Contempt of court law prohibits publishing any information that creates a "substantial risk" of serious prejudice to a trial - including on social media. It is a criminal offence, punishable by a fine or up to two years in prison.

The judge referred to the post by Neville on Wednesday.

Judge Manley said: "Given the author is a person with a high public profile and his social media account has 1.5 million followers, it could be seen to be an attempt to influence on-going criminal proceedings and could be contempt of court.

"Accordingly, I am referring the matter to the office of the Attorney General for the consideration of a potential prosecution."

A spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office said: "Contempt of court is a serious matter and the Attorney General will review any allegations brought to her carefully. We have not yet received a referral."

BBC Sport has contacted 47-year-old Neville's representatives for comment.

During the trial the lawyer acting for the prosecution said a social media post "by a member of the public who has a direct connection with this case" had been brought to his attention.

He added: "This may be a matter that requires immediate action, so far as that individual is concerned."

The lawyer defending Giggs, Chris Daw QC, wanted to make it "crystal clear" the defendant did not have anything to do with the Instagram post.

Judge Manley allowed the trial to go ahead after deliberation and as there was no indication that any jury member had seen the post.

The former Manchester United footballer had been on trial for four weeks. The Crown Prosecution Service has a week to decide whether to pursue a retrial.

Well we started well in this transfer window but deadline day seems to have become panic time and just sign any f**ker.

Honestly thought with the new owners they would have more strategy but it appears to e a case of same old, same old. So annoying when you see the gooners and the dippers doing much better business. Gutted when Liverpool signed Cavalho from Fulham as he looked quality and will be another great signing for them, when surely we could have got him from our local neighbours. Not that I see either of them challenging City who look like they could run away with it this season, barring an injury crisis (and that would have to be some bad injuries to weaken them!)

Pep must be sitting there tonight pissing himself at our late desperate attempts to bring in players that would struggle to make the City bench.

5 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Well we started well in this transfer window but deadline day seems to have become panic time and just sign any f**ker

Sort of like me out on the pull.

 

 

Even United are winning games now, 3 on the bounce.

https://fb.watch/fid9aRxAJU/

Klopp starting Carvalho & Elliott v Everton is our equivalent of starting Chukwuemeka & Casadei in midfield right?

Lamps looks to have ditched the back three and has gone for a more conventional 4-5-1, which I suppose makes sense now he has an actual centre forward.

On a far more serious note, is Gordon's hair bleached? To think we were willing to pay £60m for him...

anthony taylor is sh*t again 

Haha so with Carvalho's injury Klopp has given up on having a midfield and stuck four up front. This half should be fun.

Offside on that Everton goal?

Yes. Aww, come on Everton, make Frank happy.

Edited September 3, 20223 yr by Valerie

You don’t expect it 

VVDs tackle for us would be a red card. VAR didn’t even look 

Jota will win it for Liverpool now. Be stupid to not put money on it.