billybunter

I'm flitting between apathy and anger. f***ing hate what football has become. Buying stupidly expensive players on stupidly high wages (who arent fit to lace the boots of our previous greats), playing under the watch of referees who constantly ruin the game, in front of fans who need some f***ing joy more than ever. Absurd wealth messing around with our hearts and minds. And city will likely escape proper punishment because there isn't much room for justice against corruption these days.

Could see Dom at Madrid. Looks great on the highlights reel and would fetch a really nice fee.

Think it was the Adam Clery vid on him that mentions his stats for RW aren't half as good as when he plays his preferred position on the left. I really like the look of him. Seems a good lad too.

Bradley apparently had cramp. Phew.

Kieran Morrison gave a good interview. Mentioned how Iraola has transformed how he sees the game. Really positive stuff.

Back to being able to enjoy this thread.

We decided to throw Kerkez in without allowing him to get up to speed, and then just as he started hitting some form we've dropped him for Robertson. Terrific managing there.

We wont make them run around much either. Not only do players get to go on more holidays and enjoy more time with their families, but they'll be less knackered too. Maybe that is what Slot told Wirtz to convince him to join us over Bayern.

He's a decent option from the bench. His pace would come in handy on the wing when defenders are tired, but yea he's not good enough to be starting.

I don't think I'm very good at this watching football thing, as I thought Wirtz played ok and did some nice link up play, and thought that Jones was poor. Seeing him walk back after losing the ball yet again made my blood boil. That said, I def agree that Isak was ineffective. He just looks weak, slow and not bothered.

Depressing to watch that analysis but we can all see it with our eyes. My concern is how can we get back that pressing ability. The players we've signed, it doesn't seem to be in their locker. I remember reading about how Isak doesnt press much and thought well, we can probably get away with it as he's going to score loads.

We really were spoiled with Jurgen, as he was everything. I like Alonso, and would be happy with him, but ideally we want someone berating the s*** out of anyone who's not doing their job right and he's not that kind of fella. Are there any up and coming managers out there who are tactically astute but also inspiring?

Any time they slip up the knives come out for him. Feel he doesn’t get enough out of their players and plays turgid football. I can’t stand the sight of him personally and even if he won the league for them I wouldn’t want him managing us.

Are there any happy fans anywhere? Arsenal fans hate Arteta as well. Does stand out to me how much more booing there is at stadiums around the PL these days. I guess football has become less fun in a lot of ways to watch, so if teams don’t produce results then fans are quicker to show their disproval.

Thought the game was on tomorrow, and completely missed it. First time in years I've done that. Watched the highlights...how on earth did we not score more than one. Gakpo clearing it off the line for them. Virgil also should be putting that away. I do think if we hadnt been s*** most of this season then we'd chalk this one up to just one of those games, but yep this can't continue.

I've had a hatred for these long throws you see in most the games these days but I got it today. When you're utter s*** and can't string a few passes together, and you see your guy drying the ball and lobbing it in you finally feel a bit of hope and excitement.

I couldnt believe with all our subs that Arne didn't listen to me and take Macca off.

Football has been fun again today. Really really needed that. Feels great!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Surely this can't be true? I'd be alright with a million a year to play for my local team but that's a tenth of what a lot of his teammates are on. They probably feel bad asking him to get the round in.

I thought we showed a little more today. We hunted them down in packs and it looked almost comfortable at one point. Back to that feeling of we def winning this one. I've had an almost irrational dislike of Kerkez but he was decent, apart from the stupid slide tackle in their box which you could see happening a mile off. Then they began to have acres of space in the centre of the park. A Fabinho style player would have nullified that - perhaps Macca should have come on earlier. Incredibly frustrating and entirely predictable that they score and we just lose the ability to play. We need that Steve Peters lad back. I'm trying to tell myself that I don't care as much anymore and I shouldn't let the game ruin my weekend. It's easier to do when not as much is riding on the results.

The second half was us back to our old level. Really proud of the lads today.

There were some moments in pre-season where we played some absolutely scintillating stuff. Truly thought we were going to go up a gear and dominate world football for a while. To go from that to what we play now seems mad. Has ever a team dropped this hard before? I felt so damn fortunate to have Slot last year and I'm struggling to go completely against him now, but he's got an absolute mountain to climb.

When I saw this thread had jumped 20 pages I thought he’d been sacked and my initial reaction wasn’t “oh good”. I do think it’s going to be a huge ship to turn around and I’m not optimistic it’s going to happen but last season he seemed such an adaptable tactician. I feel the hopelessness but surely we’ve got to give him a little more time to see if he can overturn this slump. Does feel like the gods of football have decided we were having far too much fun last season and now are punishing us. We have been bad this season but we’ve have some poor luck as well.

No one in the studio thought it should have been disallowed. Yes we've been second best but those kind of goals change games. A s*** example of modern day football today. Very soft penalty given and then cancelling a perfectly ok goal from us.