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Jim Radcliffe is Tory as f*** though and it's absolutely fine to point that out.

Fair point SL, I found it triggering when Ombudsam brought up Dejan Lovren too.

Is Pep's big bald head supposed to represent a 1 there as well?

We said that about United when they weren't in the Champions League as well.

Can definitely imagine Donald Trump saying that last line.

Slot did act like a massive whopper as well though.

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God I loved Bobby Firmino. He might be one of my favourite ever Liverpool players. What a guy. What a bizarre set of hairstyles.

Still, nice one Everton for upsetting Balogun so much that it torpedoed both moves.

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I'd love it if Isak could be as good for us as Sturridge was. Ideally with less injuries, but this is Isak we're talking about here.

He could be the new Dirk Kuyt! He's got the barnet for it.

Sorry, probably should have phrased that better. I meant that Wirtz looks to me like he's playing deeper and playing a lot more through balls because that's the sort of service that Isak thrives, not that Wirtz specifically is being successful with it. Maybe Wirtz just hasn't deemed it to be necessary to get involved in any goals or assisting? Did anyone think of that?

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Probably a more accurate stylistic yardstick to judge him against is someone like David Silva. Silva got 6 goals/15 assists in his first season at City, Wirtz got 7 goals/10 assists last season, so not miles off, and bear in mind that Wirtz was in a badly functioning team which hardly scored any goals. Obviously you could argue that he was part of the problem. Second season, Silva got 8/19, and Wirtz has 0 goals/1 assist, so he needs to pull his finger out. His contribution is definitely a lot lower than it was at Leverkusen. I read an article over the summer which said that he's creating about half the amount of big chances that he did in his best season at Leverkusen, but also that he was creating a very high volume of "low quality chances" for his team mates. I think (based on nothing more than the eye test) that Iraola is getting him to play deeper than Slot did and play a lot of line breaking passes. I guess that's the key to getting the best out of Isak, and it seems to be working.

Not that it's healthy to invalidate people's feelings, but it's fun to relive bad moments for United, so I thought I'd see if I could find some worse times! After 28 minutes in the 7-0 game against us, there wasn't a single 15 minute period where we didn't score a goal against them and there were two separate 15 minute periods where we scored three goals including one for Darwin in each of them. Seems like an obvious low point. Salah scored a hattrick in the 5-0 between 38 and 50, and United had four players booked. That seems pretty bad. They conceded three goals in 2 minutes stoppage time when City beat them 6-1 in 11/12. Brighton scored 3 goals in 11 minutes against them at the Amex in May 22. Honourable mention for MK Dons who were 6 minutes away from entering the list for their 4-0 win in the League Cup second round in 14/15

There's a blast from the past. He's probably older than Christopher Samba Edit: Just looked it up, Cherno Samba is 41!

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Christopher Samba's lad scored two for City the other night too.

Or if we really want to punish him, he has to watch Kerkez playing at left back.

To be fair, that is a bit weird that a 15 year old wants to leave in search of first team football. He's 15. It's not even legal for him to play in the Premier League or the Champions League is it?

Maybe he actually just had one bad season. And it was a really bad season, but he wasn't alone in that.

To quote Goldbridge on that video above "About as useful as an inflatable dartboard full of piss".