Manchester City Thread

[Neverna]

Chitty will be on you like a car bonnet, Luigi.

[Dillinger]

And Lulu would be on that like a fly on shit

[Chittychangchang]

Ffs

[Luigi]

Songkran Soi 7. Best make it a double.

[harrybarracuda]

Man City are like Oscar Pistorious.


Lost both legs and only got 4 shots on target.





Too crude?

Nope

[Luigi]

[Chittychangchang]

Kyle Walker has credited Pep Guardiola with improving him as a playerManchester City want to be regarded as one of the greatest teams in Premier League history, says defender Kyle Walker.
They won the title with five games to spare on Sunday when Manchester United suffered a surprise home defeat by West Bromwich Albion.
City have 87 points this season, 16 points ahead of second-placed United.
"There is still a lot of room for improvement," England international Walker, 27, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I have read some articles that say we need to win things continuously for a number of years before we are classed as a great team.
"Every single one of us wants to be recognised as one of the greatest teams to play in the Premier League.

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City lost 5-1 on aggregate to Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-finals.
"If we concentrate on ourselves then as a team we can go on to great things," said Walker, a £45m signing from Tottenham last July.
"But the Liverpool game showed us that we are not a perfect team."
City's title triumph came in manager Pep Guardiola's second season in charge, a campaign in which they also won the League Cup.
Guardiola won the Champions Leagues twice and La Liga three times with Barcelona, and the Bundesliga three times with Bayern Munich.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Pep Guardiola programme, Walker said: "Different managers have different ways of looking at things and the gaffer here is special.
"He has won everything you want to win. Bar three people in the dressing room, no-one has won the Champions League. He has done it on a number of occasions so you have to buy into his philosophy and his way of playing."
Walker provides an insight into what it is like playing under Guardiola. He reveals:
Fine margins - Guardiola's eye for the little details

"It's just the detail and simple things that probably others mangers bypass but he keeps banging on about it and banging on about it, day in and day out, until the penny drops. It has shown in our performances.
"It's things like if the passes come in, you take it with the correct foot. As footballers we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.
"There are also all sorts of things tactically. I don't get forward as much as I probably did at Tottenham but my defending has come on leaps and bounds here, where I have had to think a little bit more about my positioning and where I need to be on the football pitch.
"I have saved my energy in a lot of the games this season just by staying back and controlling my winger, which is something he does go on about a lot.
"The first half of the season was where I had to really concentrate. I am still learning in training now.
"I spoke to Leroy Sane and he said it took him maybe eight or nine months before the penny dropped in training what he needs to do to get the better of people in the possession games."




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"If you didn't believe you were doing something wrong or you could do something differently, he always says come and knock on the door, have a coffee with me and we'll go through it on the computer.
"He texted me the other day because I beat him in the long drive competition in golf. Something like that, which I've never really had before... we can just exchange text messages. It is not like teacher's pet or anything. He is a friend. He is the manager, but he is a friend as well.
"It is nice that you can have a simple conversation with the boss and have a text not about football, just about golf."
'He makes you always want to impress him'

"There are constant instructions (from the touchline) and for me sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It is probably because I want to impress him.
"He put the faith in me to sign me and the first text message I sent him after he won the league was to thank him - thank him for bringing me here and for putting the trust in me to play for your team. He said never to thank him and it was us guys who did it ourselves. It makes you feel good.
"Before you go on the pitch he makes you feel like you are the best player on the field. His emotions do run away from themselves sometimes and he knows that, but I would not change that for any other way because I know he is passionate about his job."

[PAG]

Maine Road before the Arabs took over:

[Switch]

They must be a right bunch of thickos if he has to keep repeating simple things until the penny drops.

[Chittychangchang]

^^ You wern't complaining when you accepted our charity....



Don't worry we'll help you out again in the future, some fookers got to

[Neverna]

Man City Premier League Title Win is “Victory for the Underdog,” Says Club’s Billionaire Owner


Sheikh Mansour hails win as message to downtrodden and weak.

The crowning of Manchester City as English Premier League champions has been hailed as a “victory for the plucky underdog,” according to Sheikh Mansour, the club’s billionaire owner.


“Our team’s victory is a clear message to the downtrodden and the weak that, with the right amount of effort, anything is possible,” he said.


“It’s honestly truly amazing just how far good recruitment, team focus, unity of purpose, grit, determination, a little splash of good luck and $1.2 billion in sovereign oil wealth will go.”



Man City Premier League Title Win is ?Victory for the Underdog,? Says Club?s Billionaire Owner ? The Pan-Arabia Enquirer

[Chittychangchang]

What a coontish thing to say, fook him if he did say it.

Might be a Rag reporter...

Its all about the club and fans.

[harrybarracuda]

What a coontish thing to say, fook him if he did say it.

Might be a Rag reporter...

Its all about the club and fans.

You complete dick.

[Switch]

What a coontish thing to say, fook him if he did say it.

Might be a Rag reporter...

Its all about the club and fans.

Its more about the manipulation of finance than football.

[Dillinger]

^ that piece was a manipulation of fools

[Chittychangchang]

Over 1000 passes today in our 5-0 victory over Swansea.

The highest pass rate in any EPL game since data records began.

City keeps breaking records. How many more records can they break this season! !!


On a side note...got a plant pot with some turf sitting proudly on the windowsill procured from today's celebratory pitch invasion.
2017/18 Champions grass

[Dillinger]

200 passes to score a fucking goal. Must be like watching ping pong

[harrybarracuda]

Even Claude got on the telly the other day. He told the interviewer he was having a good day.

In the tone of someone who'd just spent a week listening to Leonard Cohen albums and was about to slash his wrists.

[Luigi]

City keeps breaking records. How many more records can they break this season! !!

The only team in the World to win a league without 1 minute of playing time for a local/academy player?

[Chittychangchang]

The only team in the World to win a league without 1 minute of playing time for a local/academy player?

[Chittychangchang]

Manager Pep Guardiola says Manchester City's focus is on chasing records after they celebrated being crowned Premier League champions by thrashing Swansea.
Manchester City were given a guard of honour and there were celebrations at full-time in their first match since their third league title in seven seasons was confirmed.
Thousands of fans invaded the pitch as Guardiola's side emphatically ended a run of three successive home defeats.
And Guardiola said "looking for records helps to keep the players focused" as his side prepare for their last four games of the season.
This victory took them to 90 points, five shy of the Premier League record set by Chelsea in 2004-05, and they are also chasing the most number of wins and goals scored in a season.
"The league is won, now it's the records," said Guardiola. "It's never unfinished business in football, you have to keep improving.
"If you think 'OK, we are already champions', we are done and you cannot play like the way we played. If we are improving it will be good for the new season, finishing in a good way."
Raheem Sterling's cut-back set up David Silva's early opener before the winger poked in from six yards to make it two within 16 minutes.
Kevin de Bruyne scored with a sensational 25-yard drive before Bernardo Silva pounced on the rebound of Gabriel Jesus' saved penalty.
The Brazilian eventually found the back of the net when he headed in Yaya Toure's chipped pass.
Swansea are without a win in five league matches and remain four points above the relegation zone with four games to play.
And the Swans must take on fifth-placed Chelsea at the Liberty Stadium next week before hosting relegation-threatened Stoke and Southampton in a tough run-in.
Manchester City can look forward to their penultimate home game of the season against Huddersfield on 6 May, when they will be presented with the Premier League trophy.
Champions' guard of honour and pitch celebrations



Manchester City were given a guard of honour after winning the title with five games remainingIt was a day of celebrations for Manchester City, who were crowned Premier League champions last week following Manchester United's defeat by West Brom.
Supporters gathered at Etihad Stadium before kick-off to parade replica trophies, fly flags and welcome the champions on arrival.
They also stormed the pitch in numbers to celebrate at full-time - singing, taking pictures and setting off flares to revel in Manchester City's third Premier League title.
And Guardiola's side were applauded by the Swansea players and staff in a guard of honour before kick-off.


Fans surrounded Benjamin Mendy after he came on as a late substitute in his first appearance since SeptemberThe hosts' performance was worthy of a title-winning side, too.
They cut Swansea's defence apart in the opening stages and passed the ball around with flair and creativity.
It was a display of intent from the champions, and while they can still break Premier League records before the season ends in May, they are also chasing individual and club accolades.
Manchester City have now also broken their own record tally of 89, set in 2011-12, and Guardiola could beat his previous best points tally in a single league season as a manager - 99, with Barcelona in 2009-10.
No team has accrued 100 points or more in a single top-flight campaign, but City would become the first that if they pick up 10 from their remaining four games.
Records Manchester City can still break:

• Most points (previous record - 95 set by Chelsea in 2004-05)
• Most wins (previous record - 30 set by Chelsea in 2016-17)
• Most goals (previous record - 103 set by Chelsea in 2009-10)
• Biggest title-winning margin (previous record - 18 points set by Manchester United in 1999-00)

Manchester City's route to the Premier League title has been untouched by serious opposition - a coronation in the making since they went top of the table in September
It has been an impressive feat of management by Guardiola to turn a 15-point deficit to deposed champions Chelsea last season into a runaway triumph.
Guardiola has been helped, of course, by Manchester City's spending power but it must not be ignored that rivals such as United, Chelsea and Liverpool have hardly had chequebooks that were gathering dust.
All that remains is whether City can eclipse Manchester United's record Premier League-winning margin of 18 points over Arsenal in 1999-2000 to cap a spectacular title campaign.
So how has Guardiola transformed a first league season that was regarded as a relative disappointment into one of triumph the following year?

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[harrybarracuda]

[Luigi]

[Dillinger]

Guardiola said "looking for records helps to keep the players focused"

Just take the nobs round the Man U museum

The players should be focussed on their hols or the World Cup now, the leagues won you bald twat.

Their youth team should be getting the best experience they could ever wish for now

[Dillinger]

Chittys link with the bananaman at the bottom- the cnuts are deluded aint they.

Hammered twice by Liverpool, bottled the league to their fiercest rivals after going 2 up, scraped past Wolves, beaten by Divison 3 Wigan.

Best team to win the premiership ever?

The twats havent even won the double