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dopeJemi:
Give the same City team to another manager, and some of these players will be bang average, it is no surprise that individually, this is their best season, give mourihno this team and watch him defend and this same "best squad" will be just another struggling squad, Give fergie this current Man Utd squad and see if Opinions won't change


Enough with the excuses abeg, Give credit where credit is due.. call it ass licking or whatever, it doesn't change the fact that Pep is the best manager in the league

Goodnight

Who is not giving Pep the credit he deserves, you re the one that think Pep is throwing some magic wand around that's turning his players to world best which he wasn't able to do last season. The best manager in the league presently is Conte. let the season end first before you start handing out the accolades. Don't forget that these same players play under other coaches also before they were bought by City with top dollars.

dopeJemi:
Apart from De bruyne, Silva and maybe Aguero, can you list how the players in that city team that are better than the ones in United?

Mendy
Walker
Stones
Delph
Otamendi
Sane
Fernandinho
Ederson
Sterling
Jesus
B. Silva

please feel free to compare these players with ours and tell me who they are better than in our squad

De gea
Jones
Bailly
Valencia
Young/shaw
Matic
Lukaku
Martial
Rashford
Mata
Mkhitaryan

Stop saying apart from KDB, Silva and Aguero because they do make up the City squad and that's what makes City a better squad than us, the difference between City and Utd re the difference makers in the team.

If you are to do a combined eleven of City and Utd players, how many Utd players will make it to the starting eleven not to talk of the bench.

De Gea

Walker Kompany (Bailley or Otamendi) Mendy
Pogba KDB Silva
Sane Aguero (Martial or Rashford)

Even bench will be something like Ederson Fernandinho Jesus (Rashford or Martial) Matic Sterling Jones Stones Valencia Lukaku Gundogan

Tell me how Utd has a better squad than City. Just telling me, you don't have to deceive yourself or allow Dayo amala turning to turn your eyes upside down. (This takes nothing away from the good job he's tho.)

dopeJemi:
did he not add to the squad? Was pep's problem last season not the defense? Has he not fixed that? have the players not improved from last season? is it not the same attackers from last season that are still there this season?

Has he not made the best out of the squad?

Pep came and met aging legs in his squad, especially in the defense and that was his greatest undoing, because his attackers were firing on all cylinders last season, he has fixed the defense this season and his attack is still firing, how is that not making the best out of your squad? Why did mourihno not make the best out of his squad last season? after all, we were the highest spenders

If you want to draw me into your Pep vs Mou argument, you re on a long thing. It's only in your head that Man Utd has a better squad than City.

dopeJemi:
Man Utd

You definitely re trolling. Man Utd has a better squad than City?
LOL

Last season, the players were not good enough, the players let him down, this season he made the best of his squad that he wasn't able to do last season after outspending everyone. Awesome.

dopeJemi:
Will danilo and Walker bench Valencia and Azpilicueta? will Otamendi bench Bailly and Koscielny? will fernandinho bench Kante? will Sterling or sane or bernando Silva bench Hazard, salah and Mane? will Delph bench Young, Shaw and Alonso? will Jesus bench Kane, Lukaku and Morata? will ederson bench De gea?
look at all the recent awards given this year and tell me how many city players made the list compared to Liverpool, Man Utd and Chelsea

City don't have the best squad, Pep has made the best out of the squad

If city doesn't have the best squad, which team does?

Athletico will decide who will top this group, I believe both Chelsea and Roma will beat that Qarabaq.

You play 3 in the middle at your backyard and you almost lost, then you feel you can go play 2 in the middle against the same time at their home ground with a strong midfield like theirs.

Lmao, Conte is a tactical genius truly.

Dantedasz:
Ha!Ha!
Where are the nay sayers now?
This was supposed to be Jose Mourinho's comeuppance. This was susposed to be his destruction. This was susposed to be Jose (enemy of football) versus Pottechinio (Friend of football)
Another Jose master class . All fake fans should bow down and kiss the fvcking ring.
Three points on the log.

Lol, If you really dig deep, you will come to understand that you re not much of a fan than they re, they are just what I term "Mourinho Hater". They do not hate the team or the club, they just hate Mou. That's all.

afrodoc2:
Solid performance against a very dangerous team.
The entire back 5 were immense especially Young. Matic and Herrera worked really hard and the forwards worked their socks off, only Mikki was crap today.

I have always maintained that the way Mou will set up his team away from home is quite different playing at Home. It might not be performance we all dream about, but I believe we will play different at home than away.

Don't be surprised if Mou park the bus again next week.

diggz:
Offside....ojare

Report to FA

3 massive points. Solid performance.

On to the next one.

Pa diggz, you re not watching the match, re you?

Marital

I think anytime we want to play 3-5-2 , Mou should start with Martial and not Rashford.

metodman:
I know, just shows you the kind of quality we have. Mata is more consistent than Miki but Miki has more quality than Mata but highly inconsistent.


Both need a very good player behind them.... wait for Pogba to come back and u might just see a better Miki...we need better players than both Miki and Mata

Pogba does bring the best out of some of our players. That injury to Pogba will make us appreciate him better when he comes back.

Miki is doing absolutely nothing in this game. Mou sincerely needs to start playing Mata behind our attackers, Miki is offering us nothing so far.

Mata and Martial should come in abeg.

Lana1:
My friend shut the fûck up and get off ur high horse. U go on and on attacking people with contrary opinions as if u're the Lord and saviour of this thread.

I dont see how anyone can blame Mata for the goal and not appropriate equal blame on Young. They were both at fault.


Go to ur village and be asking ur people these kind of stupid questions. U might be able to find an answer there.

Sorry o Emperor supreme of Manchester United thread. Anyone now that talks about City now u can tell them to go support them instead. Nonsense.

Yh. I dont mind my business. And i poke my nose where it doesn't belong. Says the guy who was minding his own business when he decided to jump into someone else's mentions and tell them to go support City.
Mehn gerrarahia!!

LOL. I never attack anyone on here that has a contrary opinion from mine, in fact I try to learn as much as possible from people. I never for once claim to be the Lord or savior of this thread and neither do I have to strength to change your opinion if you do see me as the Lord and savior of the thread, then so be it.

Lana1:
For someone who claims to know football, its either u're u're pretty dumb and dont know shît, or u need to watch the match again.
Go and watch the replays for the 1st goal again. Mata was already been marked and under pressure before Young gave a stupîd pass. How do u now expect him to calmly bring an awkward pass under control when there was already a player on his tail??

All patrickmurf said he admires the way Spurs matched and played Madrid and he hopes to see United play against big teams in a similar manner.
But as expected, Mourinho fanboys interpreted it as him saying "Spurs is better than United".

If u like, cry from now till next yr. Doesnt change the fact that u were caught telling someone to go support City on this thread. Which was indeed a very stupid thing to say simply because u didn't like his opinion of what he had to say about the match. Glorified Landlord.

If that's your assessment of how the first goal happened, then I don't think I need to keep arguing with you because it's obvious you watch your own match under in the infamous canopy and you rush down here to spill your hate on Mou.

What exactly did Spurs did against Madrid that United didn't do that wants to warrant United copying Spurs?

If not you re not stupid and always trying to poke your nose where it doesn't belong when you re not nosa, you could have seen that when I made that statement to that particular moniker, it wasn't on a match day and it wasn't even because he criticised the team or not, it was his ass licking of City and Pep that brought about that but I don't expect you to understand that since you can't understand even things you saw with your own eyes talk more what someone else wrote.

eph12:
Errors are made in every match even during barca reigning days, but it's how the team responds that's important

No one is saying error does not happen, the team responded terrible yesterday, everyone has acknowledged that much, everyone is busy blasting Mou saying all sort but forgetting those same players that made the error in the first place.

Imagine someone say we should blame Young who passed to Mata. Because it's Mou, everyone just bash him. If you wanna bash the manager, at least do that with all sense of objectivity, not shouting Mou upandown even for our players school boys error.

Lana1:
Na so. So because we had more possession and pass accuracy vs Madrid than Spurs means we played better or are better than Spurs? Why stop there? Why dont u make ur inference based on corner kicks and throw ins too? And while u're at it, u might as well add offsides and who has the finest jerseys to ur parameters.

Of course. Blame Mata for the goal and be completely oblivious to the useless sideway pass Young gave Mata in the first place making it difficult for him to control.

Na so. Association of "True fans" keep crying. While u re at it, u can tell us to go support City again if we dont like how the team is playing.

Of course, don't let us blame Mata that can't control a simple pass in the middle of the park with no pressure from no one, let's blame Young that gave him the pass and Mou who played Young who passed to Mata. Lmao.

I never claim to be a true fan more than you, if you feel that way, I'm not going to do or say anything to change your opinion.

How did Tot play better than Madrid than Utd, we created more chances, had more attempt, just name 1 thing Tot did more than Utd against Madrid.

While you re at it, kindly show me where I asked you to go support City or any other team, if you can't provide proof, then you must be very stupid to have come here to peddle lies.

LMAO.

Against Madrid we had 41% possession Tot had 38%, we created more chances, had more passes, had everything more than Tot but No, you re proud of Tot performance and yet still bash the same team that did better than Tot against Madrid as lacking gut. LOL, Mou is the manager, it's easy to bash him. LOL.

Play Mata behind the striker, who couldn't control the ball at the middle of the park without no pressure from any one that lead to the first goal? Your guess is as good as mine. It's Mou. LOL.

Online analyst, continue biko.

patrickmuf:
Who trains them, who is responsible for the lineup and match day squad, Online analyst? It's the managers job to improve the players and find the best system to suit the personnel he has at his disposal at any given point in time...Has Delph improved? How about Sterling, Sane looks better...Zabaleta, Clichy, Sagna, Navas, Fernando and a host f others who were deemed not good enough were shown the door after one season but here, we still have Young, Lingard, Darmian etc getting game time at the expense of talented youngsters...It's no wonder Andreas Pereira opted for Valencia.

Yes. I agree with you, Mou is the problem.

Lol.

It's Mou that's making our shit players play like dunderhead. Mou is the one holding Miki, Mata, Herrera, Martial back.

LOL. Everyone is an analyst online.

Bia Chelseafan1, which bet re you talking about? I don't remember entering into any bet with you or any one.

Chelseafan1:
See nice selections....na dt useless Madrid spoil my tickets.

Thunder strike Benzema.

I dey fear Liverpool and the odd wey them give City o2.5 no good at all, na wetin push me to Dortmund be that oooo. I no know say they those bastards get other plans.

Better days ahead.

Dortmund is a bastard team.

cc Chelseafan1 airmak

diggz:
Game over...deserved draw!

Pochettino is a coach not a bus driver like moanrinhoe

How did Mou park the bus but Poch didn't?

We really need to start debunking some lies tho. Almost everyone will say we park the bus against Madrid because Mou is our coach and it's really annoying.

I leave you all to the stats of the match.

Neymar1095:
Mourinho should learn from Tottenham and there style of parking the bus .Spurs sat back against madrid and still had some great
chances and committed players forward.but still put in an attacking
performance which could Have gotten them the
victory. Ekpa mourinho will be parking a double decker bus agsinst a mid table Team. Man u aren't winning Shittt this Season. Manchester is Blue

How did Mou park a double decker bus against Madrid?

Elxandre:
Nobody has answered this question.

Tell me two big matches you enjoyed last season with Mourinho and wasn't ugly?

What's interesting about football when you can't even hold unto a memorable performance against one of the elites?

I'm probably a bigger Mou fan than many here.
Supported him with Inter and Madrid sef, but it will never stop me from speaking the truth.

I agree with you, all the big games with Mou since last season till now was utter dross, ugly and uninteresting.

Can we move on now then?