LondonBlue

Given that this is the third game of the season, this from Pep might give cause for optimism for you guys... “We cannot forget three seasons ago when Liverpool won the Premier League, we lost five points in the first five games. “Two seasons ago we lost seven points in the first five games and last season we lost five points in the first five games. “Always in this period we drop points, (then) after we make maybe 12, 13, 14 games in a row winning. so that means we're due to drop points against at least one of Newcastle, Palace, Forest, probably two. My money would be on Palace as they did the double on us last season me thinks.

actually it might be worth just singing "loadsa money" type songs and go for banter instead then any result on the pitch will be a bonus lol not sure why i type thing like lol, i'm nearly 60. i see some city fans are surprised that you haven't "gone big" in the transfer market yet. some seem to think it'll take forever with a slowly slowly approach. i went to city v Bournemouth and it was just stupidly hot. had to down a pint of water before my first post match pint, probably should have done before the pre match pints too tbh

you'll get used to it. tbh it takes a while to stop noticing the 40 point barrier. i'll probably lose interest eventually but for now i'm still curious about the takeover. i think uefa pulled up a FFP drawbridge and we just scrambled over before it shut. And uefa have been on us ever since. i'm still dreaming of breaking the 100 point barrier again but as invincibles all the while scoring more than a 100 goals and conceding none. impossible. i would take any sort of a win but would like to see haaland score. i guess i ought to make a prediction. i'll go 3-1 city.

Thought i'd come see how you guys are seeing the Newcastle United v Manchester City match (written in full cos none of us like the abbreviations). I've been on our bluemoon pre match thread and i'd see this post pretty much sums up the feeling "Not going to be a walk in the park but with our extra quality should be enough for the 3 points.". Thats a quote from our forum. My feelings is similar, Eddie is astute so can he come up with a game plan? We're a new beast this year and we don't yet know how it will handle adversity so i reckon you guys should give it a go, but in spells. 90 mins of end to end would play into our hands i think as we've learnt to counter quickly.

Ah, now i see the attraction of Newcastle lol

Paqueta? we have a thread about him on bluemoon. usual stuff about if bernado goes who should we get in. he made that list. last message in his thread was tuesday.

xg's ? i can't really comment too much on how well you'll do although i rate Eddie. you're on the ladder but how long it takes you to climb it i've no idea. the scum will always be up there or thereabouts. the money from their fanbase is just too silly for them to slump for long. their new CB looks tiny though. i would imagine they'll still finish above you but just depends how far they slump and howe quickly you climb. they are the weak link though. all 3 london clubs look better plus us and the bin dipping victims (can i say that?) should cope with our own transitions without too much worry.

not an easy path to tread. what i would like to know is why Chelsea paying 63m for cucurella is seen as a statement of intent, when we overpay we're ruining football etc. we've made 232m in player sales this calendar year. and spent way less. our academy helps massively. where's the city are prudent stories in the media. sorry that belongs on bluemoon really.

it wasn't really a hi-jack. city bid 30m (so maybe we valued him around 40m who knows) but city have a track history of making a valuation then walking away if it becomes clear we'll have to pay more. It will cost us a few deals but there's always another player. Numerous cases, we walked away from 80m for Koulibaly a few years back and got Diaz which worked out ok. Similar for Fred, Sanchez, Maguire over the road. when the price got boosted.

Wasn't his best outing, but his shit is still better than the headless chickens over at the swamp. His pass for Haalands second was none too shabby so should be fun when he gets in his stride...

maybe to Barca and we buy Frenkie De Jong and whilst i'm fantasizing they leave Bernado Silva alone

as a city fan i'm really not comfortable with letting Sterling go. my feeling is that he'll stay and then go abroad for free next summer. thats mostly based on him saying in numerous interviews that he'd quite like to play abroad some day.

the boy likes to party but its nothing new. as long as he keeps it to the close season i've no problems. i think he was quoted as saying something along the lines of enjoying life and play hard party hard etc. Pep himself likes to party when the time is right. have you seen those clips of him smoking cigars and singing wonderwall etc. must admit i preferred the quiet life of David Silva, Aguero, Zabaleta, etc.

Hopefully Ekitike outscores Nunez

fairly sure those other numbers have been hyped up in the same way his clause was up until it was triggered, but don't be surprised that city have got a player in cheap. Bernado Silva 43m, Kevin De Bruyne 54m, Zinchenko 1.7m, Gundogan 21m, Jesus 27m, Alvarez 15m some big fees but no bidding wars. we tend to walk away when the price goes up. Think Sanchez and Fred to man united.

I suspect he followed both. but there are loads of pics out there of him as a little one in city shirts. His dad played for both. I wonder how long we'll see him out on the town with Grealish and Foden.

City sign Haaland but watch the press try and make Nunez sound like the better deal. Haaland costs less, is genuinely a city fan, is younger (just) and has ridiculous stats. whereas Nunez is a nonce (probably)

We City fans feel pretty much the same. Replacement for Fernandinho. Take some of the load of Rodri.Very risky for Kalvin Phillips in a world cup year as Rodri is probably the first name on our team sheet (after Ederson).

Ake is, at best, okay. Took him ages to adapt to our way of playing. although to be fair most players seem to take a year to adapt to us. but he seems to have mistakes in him, plus, despite his leap, he's pretty short for a central defender. I'm in no rush to see any City player go but i wouldn't be sad either.

When we signed him, he was a number 10 but Pep converted into an emergency left back. We like to push him infield sometimes to make the opposition think there are 2 Kevin De Bruyne's. Pep likes to play midfielders all over the pitch. Sometimes i wonder if Ederson's actually a midfielder.

for me the dream was to go into any game knowing we have a decent chance of winning and i'm living it. Now that the season is done i can relax and press F5 on the transfer centre for three months

Hmm bit early for that i think, give it a couple of years. I'm going to predict top 2 for us and, god i don't know, 6th for you guys. Let me finger in the air a bit more. behind us, the red dippers, the rent boys, spuds and the gunners. but hopefully above the rags.

With any luck you'll hit it by Christmas 😀

Is there a thread predicting when you'll reach the 40 point mark next season yet? It honestly takes a while to stop checking for that.

ah the attendance thing. Most City fans know by now not to leave too early when there's something at stake. I did that myself in the 80s when we were playing chelsea in the full members cup final at wembley (yeah i have no idea what that is either). We were losing 4-1 and my mates all wanted to head off into london for beers. Walking away we heard a lot of cheering. turns out we lost 5-4. we had a full stadium week in week out in the 3rd tier back in 99. so our core is good. not sure about the new breed of plastics though. That year we had our now usual heart stopping final game. 2-0 down to Gillingham in the playoff final then 2 injury time goals to level it and eventually win on pens. That was the most important game ever for us i reckon. The rags stole our thunder with a late CL win the same year. so personally, i never leave early. too risky.