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Couldn't agree more. It's also madness to assume that the stats you see on guardian chalkboards or football manager. are the only stats that clubs use to analyse players.

As Rafa says

So what you're saying is that because 1 stat can be vaguely construed as misleading, all statistical analysis is rubbish?

Probably both. A good PR would get the Journos supporting us rather than attacking us. This is clearly lacking, with some minor exceptions (The Times).

Would be a great move for him, Having watching him a few times since he came back from loan, he seems like he might be a player. That surprises me slightly but it's pleasing.

Yeah he's almost as good as wayne.

Is an attacking midfielder...

Honda would be amazing but he's not going to prop up our paper thin midfield. It was clear that we never had a proper backup to Lucas at the beginning of the year, whereas we had many attacking midfield options.

He did try to sign blaise matuidi, who would have been perfect for our current predicament. Instead we got adam....

Be nice to him, he's only 12. He's probably had too much sugar.

I did feel dirty using them, but Swindle's point was that teams never play consistently after 6 months. I get that they're not perfect examples, but I was trying to say that it's not unreasonable to expect teams to be playing consistently after 6 moths. That doesn't mean winning every game, it just means turning up, working hard and playing as a team.

I remember that, it was amazing. But what's happened since then? Why aren't we playing like that anymore?

What about chelsea under mourinho? What about sunderland under o'neill? I don't like either of these managers but they galvanised their teams pretty quickly. Kenny has been here over a year now and I'm not seeing a team who knows what they should be doing. I'm not sure if you're responding specifically to my post or just generalising, but I'm not calling for him to be sacked or issuing ultimatums. I am however asking why the f*** are we playing so poorly? What was unhealthy about my criticism? Yes. No one knows what they should do.

Personnel is a huge part of tactics. I don't expect us to win every game. I don't expect us to play like barcelona. I expect everyone on the field to play like a team, to work hard and look like they give a f***. I expect the team setup to be balanced, so that the players create more chances than they give away, I expect everyone on the field to know what they f*** they're doing. It's the managers job to make sure all of this happens and at the moment, none of it is happening.

I've lost faith. Kenny, Comolli and all those douchebags on the field. f*** em all.

f*** this.

The thing is, it's really easy to play against us. Just press our mids and defenders and we f*** up. No real goal threat, no outlet and no one who is smart with the ball.

Hendo as holding mid?

The original tweet made me chuckle aDirtyHarry harry_callaghan @paddybarclay Hey picard, you are a mong of the highest order. BTW what's it like being made redundant?

Torres, Sheva & Winston Bogarde.

IIt will piss people off making them less likely to sign the petition. It also undermines the credibility of the petition and makes cheapens the attempts to get people to sign it. That is a lot of harm in my view. And then they'll close the page straight away without bothering to read it, pissed off that they were mislead.

I think it shows really poor judgement. Giving people fake links about transfer news isn't going to make them sign the petition.

He's jack's liver.

If he's 19 he must be at least worthy of a place on the bench? On another note, isn't sporting lisbon a feeder for the mancs? Why didn't they pick up this kid? Edit: Other mancs it seems http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/11/manchester-city-partnership-sporting-lisbon

Love it when journalists tell me how to react to news. That's good reporting that is..