City sweep past Spurs

[strader]

But also, if we don't win this unfair league, I won't cry. What we've done already is amazing and I'm happy with it.

I guess i never enjoy seeing spurs lose especially in the manner like this. Occasionally it requires me counting to 1001, abstain from posting on here for a few days. RO mode..... This rich owners aka oil money are just making it a one sided affair.

 

[S17PUR]

Yeah that doesn't sound great does it. Can't read too much into preseason games though.

Agree with that, but it's Poch's comments that bother me, not so much the performance. Sounds like he's frustrated by our relative lack of transfer activity and possibly even that he didn't want to sell Walker.

 

[shelfboy68]

I guess i never enjoy seeing spurs lose especially in the manner like this. Occasionally it requires me counting to 1001, abstain from posting on here for a few days. RO mode..... This rich owners aka oil money are just making it a one sided affair.

Yes but nothing is going to change is it you either spend and hope to keep up or not, the saying of if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen springs to mind.

 

[Japhet]

Meaningless pre season game and result (unless of course we'd battered them 3-0, in which case it would make us odds on for the title).

 

[Declan]

I get a lot of jibes from friends and work mates about not having signed anybody but my response is who is there that we could have realistically signed that would walk into our team? Would Morata or Lukaku displace Kane, i dont think so and they certainly wouldnt settle for a rotation role.

I'd have liked us to have went for Sandro & Klassen, they wouldn't be starters but would have been good squad options. Would they come to us on that basis?

Just curious as to who you guys think we should/could have signed so far?

 

[strader]

To be fair to poch, during the game he was not as animated in the dugout considering how dreadful we were. Hence his comments about he is only focused on our fitness levels need to be considered when the toys are been tossed out.

 

[mawspurs]

One of the reasons for being out there is to win new fans, I can't see many of the crowd being impressed enough to add to our fan base out there.

We needed a better performance than that even preseason.

 

[2bearis2do]

Reality strikes
We were not just outclassed good and proper-the City machine could have beaten us with their second team.
The only solace is they will do it many times to other unsponsored teams this season.
The bottomless pit of oil money is unstoppable - not bothered about the negative shit I'm writing - got better things to do this season - just wonder when, or if, this shocking period of sport ruled by foreign money will end.
I admire Poch and his philosophy - but I realised it will just be drowned by the greed and avarice that's fu...ng this planet up

Spot on - And what happened to the idea of Financial Fair Play? (anyone know?!) It's worse than ever now - kills the sport on so many levels.

 

[McArchibald]

This should finally wake Levy from his self induced stupor and realize that reinforcements are in fact urgently required. Get your chequebook out!

 

[stuffies]

Watched the game and to sum it up we weren't good and man city were really good.

Man city played the way we did last season pushing fullbacks high up like wingers and pressed hard from the front.
The amount of time we tried to play out the back when being pressed so much was shocking....Hugo would roll the ball out next ball was a sideways and by then there was 3 or 4 city players pressing and cutting off the next pass.
We need to mix it and a simple ball through the mid or a longer ball to with flanks and we'd be out of danger and on the front foot....specially with their fullbacks so high.
Could go on about a number of things but I'd be here all day lol.

Overall it was a pre season game and if a proper prem game I'm sure we would have played alot better.
But what it did show is we need some pace down the flanks ....Davis and trips know their own weakness ( pace ) and you could see they didn't want to push forward too much knowing city's fullbacks were really high and would be caught out.....so we must address this.
Of course having Rose back will help on the left but the right side we need that player with pace maybe KWP can do that role and switch with trips depending on the team were playing against,same with Rose and Davis.

Like i said don't what to be too critical due to it was a pre season game but don't like seeing us lose and not like that.
But I strongly believe come.kick off we'll be fine and will look much better than that showing.

 

[dricha1]

Agree with that, but it's Poch's comments that bother me, not so much the performance. Sounds like he's frustrated by our relative lack of transfer activity and possibly even that he didn't want to sell Walker.

I've seen this "Poch didn't want to sell Walker" all over Twitter this morning. Do we all forget Poch dropped Walker for all the big games from about March onwards last season? If Poch wanted to keep Walker he would have tried harder. Now if Dier, Toby or Alli were to be sold then I'd imagine Poch would be cheesed off, but I think he sanctioned the Walker sale.

He may of course have expected to replace Walker with the proceeds, but that's a different matter and is probably down to how attainable Poch's targets are.

 

[Sweetsman]

Reality strikes
We were not just outclassed good and proper-the City machine could have beaten us with their second team.
The only solace is they will do it many times to other unsponsored teams this season.
The bottomless pit of oil money is unstoppable - not bothered about the negative shit I'm writing - got better things to do this season - just wonder when, or if, this shocking period of sport ruled by foreign money will end.
I admire Poch and his philosophy - but I realised it will just be drowned by the greed and avarice that's fu...ng this planet up

They bear Real Madrid, too. I wouldn't expect them to beat them in real life.

 

[S17PUR]

I've seen this "Poch didn't want to sell Walker" all over Twitter this morning. Do we all forget Poch dropped Walker for all the big games from about March onwards last season? If Poch wanted to keep Walker he would have tried harder. Now if Dier, Toby or Alli were to be sold then I'd imagine Poch would be cheesed off, but I think he sanctioned the Walker sale.

He may of course have expected to replace Walker with the proceeds, but that's a different matter and is probably down to how attainable Poch's targets are.

I'm basing that purely on his comments this morning about City having an advantage by keeping the players they want to keep. Not sure who/what else he could be talking about, if not Walker, unless he was making a general observation.

 

[shelfboy68]

I'm basing that purely on his comments this morning about City having an advantage by keeping the players they want to keep. Not sure who/what else he could be talking about, if not Walker, unless he was making a general observation.

Maybe he was suggesting that city can financially keep theirs while we struggle a bit, otherwise it's down to poch to explain what he means.

 

[barry]

Someone said this yesterday and it's so true. Our game is based on intensity. I would imagine it is hard to bring the pain in a meaningless game, after a Poch preseason.
City played well but I suspect for many of them this is an audition to actually play in the big league, for our players it was a fitness exercise. Let's see how we do against Newcastle before getting the knives out.

 

[shelfboy68]

Someone said this yesterday and it's so true. Our game is based on intensity. I would imagine it is hard to bring the pain in a meaningless game, after a Poch preseason.
City played well but I suspect for many of them this is an audition to actually play in the big league, for our players it was a fitness exercise. Let's see how we do against Newcastle before getting the knives out.

But city were quite intense in their pressing so I don't know how that stacks up.
It looked to me that city have improved and are and were the better team nothing to do with anything else.

 

[barry]

But city were quite intense in their pressing so I don't know how that stacks up.
It looked to me that city have improved and are and were the better team nothing to do with anything else.

Maybe Pep's preseason is more forgiving, and like I said it's an audition for their players, so they took it more seriously.
I can guarantee that if this game meant anything our team would not have played so passively.

 

[shelfboy68]

Maybe Pep's preseason is more forgiving, and like I said it's an audition for their players, so they took it more seriously.
I can guarantee that if this game meant anything our team would not have played so passively.

Mmm I'm not so sure mate.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

City were at full strength....we had no Rose, Big Vic, Lamela and Son....no need to panic just yet!

We haven't had Rose for half a season, and as for Lamela? Can someone post a picture to remind me what he looks like?

Wanyama, and Son i will give you and therein lies the problem.