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Danners9

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Gary Neville‏ @GNev2 2h2 hours ago
Gary Neville Retweeted James Ducker
He's at the wrong Manchester club for getting a sustained opportunity. City have a lot of great kids. They should be playing...

He means Phil Foden. James Ducker RTd a video of the player vs Bayern: https://twitter.com/TelegraphDucker/status/889038904904503296

City fan replies:
The flaw with comments like this is that more kids got the opportunity at United simply because they had the best players.
Now the top talents are coming to the forefront at City, you will see them integrated into the first team more often.

(This is despite Pep saying in May that the young players will train with the first team but not play much)

Gary Neville‏ @GNev2 6m6 minutes ago
Gary Neville Retweeted Hello City.
The flaw in your comment is that you now have some of the best young players and they don't get in..



Also, not sure these players would play at United with Mourinho in charge, but he would probably put them in the early rounds of the cup or towards the end of the season if there isn't that much going on. Guardiola will have such a full squad that the lesser-used players will fill out their team for those games.
 

Col_M

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Who are these young players getting into the United team? The same ones that played the remaining few premiership games to protect the seniors from injury before the European cup final?
 

spursfan77

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They are embarrassing English football with spending all this money and that's some achievement.

The over reaction of one kid playing well is also testament to that. He won't play a minute of premier league football for them this season.

Guardiola will leave there sometime in the next 12 months. If they aren't top of the league pretty much from the get go then the journalists he has already made his enemies will have the knives out and will be making his job harder. He can't take criticism so that won't end well.

We can just hope they have s bad start or dodgy period, because if/when they do it will be amusing.
 

Shadydan

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As I keep saying, more spending just guarantees more pressure and higher expectations. There's 3 teams who will be expected to win the title next season and at the very least put in a respectable challenge for it but only 1 can win it. what's going to happen when these managers who have spent millions of pounds and their teams have hit a blip, the media and fan pressure will be outrageous.
 

Dougal

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As I keep saying, more spending just guarantees more pressure and higher expectations. There's 3 teams who will be expected to win the title next season and at the very least put in a respectable challenge for it but only 1 can win it. what's going to happen when these managers who have spent millions of pounds and their teams have hit a blip, the media and fan pressure will be outrageous.
Any manager hitting a blip will have every reason under the sun thrown at them for their perceived failures. Spend too much, spend too little, journalists and fans with hindsight cannot be beaten.
 

Sandros Shiny Head

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As I keep saying, more spending just guarantees more pressure and higher expectations. There's 3 teams who will be expected to win the title next season and at the very least put in a respectable challenge for it but only 1 can win it. what's going to happen when these managers who have spent millions of pounds and their teams have hit a blip, the media and fan pressure will be outrageous.
Well Mourinho will be 2 years into his 3 year cycle and Conte is always on a knife-edge about quitting and Guardiola has just had his first season without a trophy so it's quite likely that there's at least 2 if not 3 or 4 teams looking for a new manager next year
 

dontcallme

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As I keep saying, more spending just guarantees more pressure and higher expectations. There's 3 teams who will be expected to win the title next season and at the very least put in a respectable challenge for it but only 1 can win it. what's going to happen when these managers who have spent millions of pounds and their teams have hit a blip, the media and fan pressure will be outrageous.

This is basically it.

City are spending ridiculously but then Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are too.

3 of them are expecting the title and the other two will be thinking top four minimum. It's going to lead to more upheaval and less consistency for them.
 

Buggsy61

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Its the end of the Sky4 now with 6, possibly 7 (with Everton) all with high expectations of top 4.
The only certainty is that one(possibly 2) of those clubs mangers is going to be on his way at the end of the season.
 

WalkerboyUK

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The thing with this big spend at City is that there's almost zero chance that they will all integrate quickly enough.
They're buying 3/4 full backs for starters - half a defence.
It's one thing to get one new defender integrating into a system without issue, but a handful?! Could make for some absolute City Gold comedy next season.
 

SpaggyBoy

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Pep Guardiola is an amazing manager, provided he has a team of world class players and an almost infinite transfer fund...
 

DJS

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Quite disgusting how much they're throwing money at their problems.

I don't think even Chelsea in their early rich bitch era quite spent such obscene amounts in one window and most of City's is on two right-backs, a left-back and a goal keeper (as the one Pep got last Summer for a large amount of money turned out to be crap).

Even if they win anything this season it'll be no achievement as they've just bought it.
 

DJS

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Would be bloody hilarious if they don't strengthen central defence and still ship a shitload of goals next season as a result.
 

cookiemonster

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This Man City are utter clowns

How are they going to win the transfer window balance sheet trophy like that?
 
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