Moyes spent 38 million on Mata and tried to fit him into a flat antiquated version of a 4-4-2. I have no faith that any of the signings he would have made would have been good enough or played well enough in his system.
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Football Thread 2014/15 |OT8| - Sunderland 0
- Thread starter Lana Del Rey
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Moyes spent 38 million on Mata and tried to fit him into a flat antiquated version of a 4-4-2. I have no faith that any of the signings he would have made would have been good enough or played well enough in his system.
amazing
Yeah, it's 0230 Monday morning here and that's my takeaway from the game, which I still enjoyed sitting up for. Two of the silliest pieces of football you'll see by Smalling. Valencia (aside from being too square on in the leadup to the through ball that lead to the goal) had a pretty good game at right-back, probably the most assured player in the back line really, though Shaw was good too. Not that City really gave them much to do. Fellaini can feel alright about his game as well, bad shoulder/header aside.
It was a weird game in many ways, I haven't seen the ball carried through the centre third so nonchalantly - and slowly - as many times as it was in the first half, there was consistently space in there. ADM needs to run at players far more often, and work on his corners. And as to why Rooney didn't shoot at the end of his run, well, that's just in keeping with the rest of this odd match.
The_Hitcher89
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You'll be fine as long as Paulinho isn't in the stadium. He exudes mediocrity, and it infects those around him.
KidA Seven
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These tears of sadness will turn to tears of joy next week.
Vivalaraza
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snoopeasystreet
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Yeah, I hope City get on a good run just to make a contest of it. Can't see Mourinho dropping too many easy points this season.
Getting Origi and Wisdom back from their loans will help I think. That would let us move Skrtel to the bench and hopefully would mean we could move back to the diamond on a regular basis.
Valdes wouldn't hurt either.
The_Hitcher89
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Liv/United conversations are tragic.
We used to laugh at this kind of desperation. Furiously scrummaging for some pride.
Feels bad man
I think they're fine as long as we accept that neither of us are anywhere near where we should be
Anything to distract us from our own shiteness innit. Mutually beneficial, if pointless and rather pathetic.
Gareth Bale
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You lot didn't know about the buy on get one free promotion?
Gold plated tinpot club
Gold plated tinpot club
because the play has improved, unfortunately it has not translated to points on the board
I told you. Richer fucking Leeds.
Diablo Rosso
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Who though? That's the problem.
LabouredSubterfuge
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:lol
Best thing about my bet already being dead is I don't have to cheer on Spurs.
UP THE VILLIANS.
The_Hitcher89
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Valdes is ManUtd-bound, the money-grabbing fucking idiot.
Not sure what we need to do to get Origi back. Should leave Wisdom on loan unless we trust him to play CB, Flanagan and Manquillo is fine for RB options. Skrtel is better than Lovren as well, by a distance imo.
FootballFan
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Nicktendo86
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I really feel it will though. We are getting there, need our injured players back though.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Fucking great seeing Carrick back today.
Was impressed by McNair again too.
Was impressed by McNair again too.
KidA Seven
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Ameri ichinose
snoopeasystreet
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They'll soon be promising free soup and sandwiches at the end of the game.
The_Hitcher89
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@Killer, if you ever go on TLoU MP, give the thread a shout and I (maybe a few others as well) might jump in.
Yep. Both of them far more composed than Smalling and Rojo.
Really needed to beat WBA.
without sounding defeatist, I think we played really well all things considering, last season went over there and shipped 4 goals.
thats why I aint mad, of course Smalling is an idiot, but we all knew this before kick-off
Totally lost Aguero on the goal doe.
Lana Del Rey
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I probably would join in for some TLoU action
The_Hitcher89
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Brilliant mentality to just ignore the opening 7 or so fixtures, which could hardly possibly have been more favourable
Vivalaraza
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What the fuck are you talking about.
You know it's bad times when you start talking like that.
It's simple. We have 13 points from 10 games. It's not good enough it's not even close to being good enough.
Diablo Rosso
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If I'm online and you're playing TLOU, give me a shout, haven't played it in a while.
And Leicester.
As I said before, Hargreaves and Townsend only thought Yayas was a pen.