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I will appreciate a good criticism of Mourinho when I see one. I see a few here and there, but a vast majority of what I see here are just knee jerk reactions to city's performances and we really should be better than that.

Oasis007:


United Fans are celebrating 2nd on the Table?! Wonders shall never End! Fergie really killed us by choosing Moyes as his Successor.

By the Way...... no one is calling for the Sack of JM. Also no one is discrediting his Achievements with the Club so far. But it seems we are asking too much for hoping he could compete with, and outshine Fraudiola?

Fans are beginning to see the Light now, Pep ain't a Fraud, he's a competent Tactician who knows his Onions. Sterling has become a great Player, Sterling of all Players?! We all know Sterling had huge Potentials, but he's fulfilling it under Pep.

Take it or leave it..... JM needs to upgrade. He needs to be more competitive against the Top Teams.

this isn't the case of 1 and 0.
That one isn't coming here to shed tears and lament whenever pep performs doesn't mean that the person is celebrating being 2nd.


Pep and Mourinho are very different kinds of managers. If you use Pep's style as your benchmark for your validation of Mourinho, then you will end up complaining till his time at this club is over.

That Mourinho's style isn't yielding results that measure up to what pep is doing at the moment, doesn't make the style appalling or even inferior

There are a lot of other factors to consider, for anyone capable of looking beyond the surface.

Wether you like it or not, the team is still a work in process. It is just a shame that guardiola got his formula and personnel working before Mourinho did.

Mourinho stopped guardiola with a better Barcelona side that had messi, and chased him out of Spain. I see no reason to not believe that when he gets it right, he won't topple him again, even if it's not this season.

Some of our fans really need to chill and stop acting disgraceful every time city put up a good performance.
It is the reason why some people will never stop wondering if you are true fans or not

If you keep looking to City for before you make any observations about this united side, then you are very likely going to remain miserable throughout the season.

We are playing some of our best football post Fergie and if city's run and won't allow you appreciate that, then it's rather unfortunate.

I read pochetinos interview yesterday and my manager said that kind of rubbish after a 4 1 drubbing, if I no fit summon my bini people to use thunder fire am, I go decamp.

The idiot was said a lot a of trash and capped it up with 'at least they tried to play'

Does he think Spurs are Swansea?

This Dayo of a man na real tortoise. See how he dey stylishly ignore parts of replies to him and dey focus on other things.
The kind of thing that makes on in the middle of an argument sigh and go 'fúck this shit I'm out'..

So because I slapped my wife a few times when I was 27 years old means I can't speak against domestic violence several years later?
Even when I have been educated about the ills of it and turned a new leaf, for the past several years?

Some people on this board think with their anus

ybalogs:
My opponent launched his bench boost and we're 20-1 as it stands. He captained Hazard though so I'm waiting for Captain Firminho to beast .

lol

This thread has become an eyesore. I no even know where to start

elampiro:
Win or lose, I dey hear to face any body. Oba no dey go transfer or run away.

I don't go to laugh at people on their threads, but here, I wait for anyone, anything.

we dey your back

Abeg make Person drop shuku shaker, Aya shoemaker...

Bless

Lana1:
Lord "Best Midfielder in the world" Kante!!
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football don suffer sha

Stats in the hands of elampiro na real wahala

If it's any consolation the gulf between city's regulars and not so regulars is just as big as ours if not bigger.
On the long run, it may bode well for us if they become unfortunate with bad injuries

All of Una no know ball

This elampiro sef. Smh

CapitalCee:
But to say the truth, that Lukakus goal is an outstanding goal. But nobody will applaud him. Morata today cost Chelsea top spot by missing sitters, but the Einsteins said its only Lukaku that miss chances. Ok oo

lol. E Don do

elrony:
You say

he had a small incident towards the end of the game when all the subs were used and played like someone nursing an injury for the reminder of the match

Looks like Luke Shaw got himself injured yet again

3 4 1 2 gives us a much better balance. Allowing martial and or Rashford to play centrally along with Lukaku.
Rashford being better down the middle is not new, but martial is proving to be more dangerous down that middle too.

Even our Valencia and young seem to be doing better as wing backs than the traditional fullbacks in a back 4

We should stick to this formation and not just use it for big games.

Mkhitaryan, Mata and lingard call kill themselves for the spot behind the front 2.
Lingard seems to be edging the battle now, but I sincerely hope the other 2 pick up soon. Mhkitaryan especially.

Oasis007:
Nothing is wrong with Shaw at the moment. He's fit, always training hard to earn his Spot in the starting XI. But it seems with Young present Form - it's gonna be hard for anyone, not just only him, to get a Look in as a LB or LWB.

that doesn't explain why blind and darmian seem to be ahead of him in pecking order

SailorXY:
both Rose & Shaw have questionable fitness so I'd say let's buy Rose & keep Shaw as well. it wouldn't surprise me if they substitute themselves on the sickbay but then again it ensures we lose no quality @ all.

see what's happening with our center backs now. when season started we believed the number of bodies were too much. the one surprising me now is Bailly. you'd never see him injured in a game but then he suddenly disappears from the team & accumulate weeks upon weeks on the sidelines. I no know weda na flex he dey take permission go flex abi the guy just feel like to chillax for a while. No update is heard in his matter till suddenly he's back straight to the starting 11 just like that. I am not understanding it ra ra.

I'm a bit sceptical about letting Shaw go easy.
I honestly do not know what exactly is wrong with him

afrodoc2:
Danny Rose or Alex Sandro, we have to get one of them. Rose will be cheaper but Sandro might have the higher ceiling.

Sandro is available for around 50m as well. My fear is that he may favour a move to Paris

Facepalm

elampiro:
.. and those shouting stats, Ramsey has 6 Assists, 3 goals in the league from Central Midfield.

Make una cool down for this una pepper body.

nobody is shouting stats. What we are shouting instead is for a player like Pogba, stats should not be a whip for flogging him.

What people are shouting now is that, that whip cannot even be used this season.

Lindelof wasn't even flawless yesterday, but we are all happy because he is showing signs of improving and was generally solid.
Imagine if someone from nowhere took his time to analyse his performance yesterday with the sole purpose of looking for faults and hanging those faults on his neck like Bling Bling, for no other reason than 'he cost xyz million'.

Elampiro, I will let your blanket statement about Pogba's half season performance and out of context link fly because I'm not in a position to go in depth now, maybe later in the day.. But the above was what was happening to Pogba last season and that to me was unnecessary.
It may look necessary to you, but it wasn't to me. We can leave it at that.

He is playing well now and everyone is happy. Let's leave it at thatm

If na someone else like Morata or any other white footballer with a reputation for fancy football slide that pass to martial for lingard goal, we for still dey hear of am.

But hey, it's Lukaku.. He is supposed to be jambody. Only the bad first touches or the misplaced passes will etch in their brains, because it is what will fit the narrative.

Against Watford, someone(a supposed united fan) was reviewing the game and he had only negative things to say about Lukaku’s performance, I was shocked

Is Lukaku supposed to be doing better? absolutely.
But I am satisfied with whatever it is he is currently offering and calls for him to be dropped are absolutely rubbish.

Wether you like it or not, the rubbish he has been playing were vital in our last 3 wins, and I am satisfied with that.
The goals will come.

Part of my new season resolutions was to avoid any form of back and forths, especially on these boards.
Na why I no go engage in any Lukaku argument and why I overlook all the people Wey don already write Lindelof off after 2 bad games.

Uncle time go resolve everything last last.

Neymar cost 200m and cannot outscore merefish delay in that farmers league. Mbappe has 4 or 5 goals playing for that psg side in the league.

But nobody will talk trash anywhere, because common sense will somehow be in their heads.

At some point last season, they were talking about goal drought for Pogba, a CM .

Oasis007:
"It didn't look vindictive. It's 100 miles per hour and there can be accidents like that but I suppose the referee will say, by the letter of the law, he was left with no option. But it was a very, very unfortunate incident that wasn't intentional."

- RON ATKINSON

things are looking good for an appeal.

The criticism of Pogba last season was unnecessarily harsh On too many occasions and whenever you tried to point it out, they would always fall back to things like price tag, numbers and even big game performances.

The price tag argument is dead and buried now thanks to neymar, Mbappe, Dembele etc.

The numbers have started to stack up thanks to people like martial And to few others stepping up and Ibrahimovic out the way.

The big game performance nonsense go dissappear too.

elampiro:
If we play Smalling and Rojo, Lindelof will be on the bench. Moreover, Blind can still manage that position against small teams or teams that play slowly.

blind at CB is a no no. Especially against small teams. The man can't win a header to save his life, and small teams can very easily capitalize on that.