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How's he been pre-season?
On the topic of food, <3 Wagamama.
Paella is fucking wonderful, if when I'm abroad and it's ever anywhere Spanish there's nothing quite else like it, especially when the fish in it is caught that day.
Paella is fucking wonderful, if when I'm abroad and it's ever anywhere Spanish there's nothing quite else like it, especially when the fish in it is caught that day.
What the hell is wrong with you?
I've been a couple of times, and whilst I really like it, I've only bought the rice and curry sauce dish. I love it, but it's essentially what I can get from the chippy for a couple of quid. Not really worth the money to me, and a lot of the menu puts me off. Would rather go to Nandos or something.
Willkiller
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Not too sure, I haven't really been following it that closely.
Yeah the menu can be quite... daunting, I'm still scared to try stuff but I'm always glad when I do. The Katsu curry though is hard to beat, and Asahi bear is lovely.
Oh, and they do a gorgeous starting of ebi katsu, whatever that sauce is you get with the prawns is superb.
The most common fresh fish at most restaurants down here. Good grilled or blackened or any other way. Pretty versatile fish flavor wise.
EDIT: Also called 'Mahi Mahi'
City have posted the Mancini press conference online.
http://mcfc.co.uk/citytv/Interviews/2012/August/Chelsea-v-City-Mancini-preview-1
The transfer talk starts at 1.00 roughly, and damn he looks pissed. "Talk with Marwood please."
http://mcfc.co.uk/citytv/Interviews/2012/August/Chelsea-v-City-Mancini-preview-1
The transfer talk starts at 1.00 roughly, and damn he looks pissed. "Talk with Marwood please."
If he starts the season anything like he ended it you'll be flying.
Don't even think we have that over here.
Cheers.
About to start a network game of FM12 with a friend. I'm Napoli, he's Udinese. Going straight for Veratti, Lucas, and Aquilani (mate has freed him up and lowered his wages in the editor). Retooled midfield three.
Yea pretty positive you don't have it either. If I could compare it to a fish you'd have had I'd compare it to tuna with less fish odor and smell, which is why its so popular. Tad bit flakier than seabass.
Willkiller
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Hopefully! It'll be one hell of a feat to replicate this season what he did last season but he's clearly a natural goalscorer so I'm not worried. If we can get Ba firing again alongside him then we'll be flying.
Don't even like reading it, it just angers me when I see the words.
Lol At Mancini. I want to feel sorry for him, but with the size of your squad and how much has been spent along with the outrageous salaries your players get, he has no right to be angry whatsoever. He should have known that he can't spend carelessly every transfer window.
He annoys me because instead of trying to coach Savic, a player he bought just last year, he'd rather go out and spunk £30 million on Agger. Lazy management. Imagine if Kenny went out and bought Joe Allen, not Rodgers, he'd be getting stick for it, and Mancini rightly should too.
Four years once you factor in the cost of the aborted IPO.
On Liverpool's performance yesterday: We played an inferior team but I was happy to see that we actually wanted to play some nice football. Most of the players in that starting XI seemed fairly comfortable with the way we played. The only starter I have any doubts about is Downing. We need someone else in my opnion. He did okay, but that won't do when we play better teams. Carroll is a player I have defended, and I'll always support him, even if he leaves. But, I can see why Brendan can do without him. Yesterday, the players were moving quite freely in attack, and if Carroll can't do that, then he'll probably be sold. I think from the way Rodgers have been speaking in pressers, Carroll will move on. (i want him to stay.) Not playing him makes it even more obvious to me. On the other hand, if we sell Carroll, we should also look to offload Jay Spearing and Stuart Downing. I don't think they have what it takes to play in this team. Henderson and Adam can be used as squad players, playing the games where we can afford to rest Gerrard and Lucas. if Carroll leaves, that would also mean that we need to sign a new striker. We do have Borini and Suarez, but we'd need one more option. Question is if we can lure a quality player to join us. Maybe Dempsey (if he comes) will play in the central role. We'll see, I guess. The defence is decent. The only one I don't like is Jose Enrique, I get pissed off everytime I see him. It's mostly the back ups that worry me. An injury here or there and we're ****ed.
We might not get a Champion's League spot, but I can live with that if we actually start playing entertaining football this year, but ofcourse we need to be more effective than we were last season.
We might not get a Champion's League spot, but I can live with that if we actually start playing entertaining football this year, but ofcourse we need to be more effective than we were last season.
He's a good manager in my eyes. He's ballsed up with Balotelli at times, Tevez a fucking load, is too eager to take advantage of the finances, and fucked up last year but we fucked up even more. A good manager who has done well getting City's egos to play together, but I don't think he's the type of manager that will go down in history as a great.
Network FM games are the best but my mate wont play anymore cause I tan him every season. Cavani is such a beast.
I don't think Ancelotti is a great manager but he's much better than Mancini. He should have done much better in the league with Milan. A very good manager though, a very very good one. But not great like SAF, Wenger, Mourinho.
Guardiola was a great manager for Barca but it would be nice to see if he can do it somewhere else. Benitez has all the makings of a great manager but needs to get back in the game.
Ancelotti is head of a similar team: PSG.
You think he could do a job?
Ancelotti won the double with a Chelsea team that imo was on the wane. Hes a very, very good manager. The best managers in the world imo are SAF, Wenger, Mourinho, Pep, Ancelotti, Capello. Any one of these managers would kick City on to a higher level.
Steve Clarke pulling off connections.
Can think of better places he could have gone. Odemwingie and Long are both better than him.
StealthGoblin
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Here's hoping he gets regular first team football. Have high hopes for him.
Better than Mancini, yes.
Scrubs!!! FM is all about managing lower league clubs and rising them to the top.
I would take either one if they were available. Long could be as good as Robbie Keane was.
To be fair, his Chelsea were fantastic.
I love Ancelotti, I really do. I couldn't hate Chelsea when he was there, I felt sorry when we were knocking him out of the CL.
To be fair you've probably listed the best ones. Benitez like I say, is a tactical mastermind, he's done brilliant in the past with Liverpool and Valencia, but he needs to get back in the game and prove Inter was a one off.
Conte could also be something special if he keeps it up.
Broder Salsa
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Savic won't be a major player, I'm sure of it. He's promising enough, but I don't think he's anywhere near potentially great.
Yeah Long is class, natural goalscorer
I think hes done as good a job as possible when you consider that Arsenal have been selling their best players for the last 5 years.
Broder Salsa
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That is true. But with network games it's more fun to start with a subtop of top team as you will probably never play more than a few seasons anyway.
Maybe if he would stop being a stubborn old man they would even have won a trophy or two. He's hardly the elite of managers around with the way he has run Arsenal the last many years.
Wenger's fantastic. For what he did in 1998, for what he did in 2002, for what he did with the Invincibles, for how he gets them into the CL year after year, for how he revolutionised the club.
Shake Appeal
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Mancini is not a good manager. His entire reputation is built on doing tolerably well with Inter at a time when their competition was hamstrung. He's had good fortune and sugardaddy riches covering his inadequacies for more than half a decade.
Yeah a lot of stuff in the past few years has been out of his hands really.
Furthest we got was 3 of us, me City (I know I know..) and Chelsea + United. We played 3 and a half seasons and I just went MENTAL with transfers.
Ronaldo, Cavani, Neymar, Alexis Sanchez were my front 4 so both of my friends quit. GG.
When GAF last tried it I think we got to the second set of preseason games then it died.
Moving Yaya up into more attacking positions was a masterstroke, but he's pretty inept in other departments.
To be fair Fergie's hardly a tactical mastermind, our play revolves around wingers and full backs a lot of the time. It's his determination, belief and man management that wins us titles.
He had a bad game against Braga. He hasn't played much. I think Ramadan has something to do with it.
Avram Grant got a team to within one kick of a Champions League trophy.
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