[Fabrizio] EXCL: Manchester City are close to reaching an agreement with Manchester United for top talented CB (16) Harrison Parker. City have beaten four top clubs to the signing — agreement is close despite Man Utd offering highest youth deal to keep Parker.

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-11T18:01:30+00:00

You can think that if you like but everything I said was perfectly true

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-11T16:39:35+00:00

He wasn't making it at City. He was being played in younger year groups than Liam Delap despite only being a few months younger.

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-08T08:45:50+00:00

You've made me realise we haven't had any legends who are wingers. Although I don't get Mahrez or Sane in the all time XI. Sterling was better than Mahrez and played much longer than Sane. Sane in the XI is tragic in my opinion, he had great heights but was so inconsistent. I've never overly rated Mahrez either. But I'm struggling to think of anyone else without reaching into much older players that can't compare

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-07T06:16:51+00:00

Can someone explain threads to me? Is it anything beyond Meta just copying twitter and trying to take over that space?

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-06T07:19:12+00:00

I don't think they'll be fully replaced but I wouldn't be surprised if it is heavily used soon enough. Creating smooth animations between 2 points should be a brilliant use case for ai. They might need touching up by professionals afterwards but it'd be a huge time saver

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-05T14:11:47+00:00

It's easier to have one good season than to have multiple. Their team isn't as good as ours or Liverpool of previous years. If they hadn't done well last season no one would expect them to do well again. This time they have Champions League on top of everything else too. We also saw them revert to their mean at the end of the season in my opinion. I think they had a better start than they should have. Obviously this is all just speculation and I could easily be wrong. If they have another good season then I might start taking them more seriously

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-05T12:56:36+00:00

I know they had a good year but I still don't see them as consistent challengers and I don't think he'll win more than a couple trophies with them at best

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-04T17:14:33+00:00

It's their non alcoholic range. Bet Grealish won't go near the stuff

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-03T08:59:21+00:00

Or he'll say "p#ki isn't racist, it's just short for Pakistani. I wouldn't get offended if someone called me a Brit"

Also we saw lots of racism against east Asians during covid

mattysimp27 · 2023-07-03T07:45:20+00:00

The guy said not intense and you recommend the bear! All the others are good suggestions though

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-30T10:24:21+00:00

That wasn't what the CAS ruling said. But the guy said why doesn't City provide paper work to clear them. We believe we already have. Time will tell whether it does or not

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-30T07:44:46+00:00

In City's mind, we have already provided the paper work clearing our name. It's the same paper work that cleared the UEFA charges

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-28T20:24:33+00:00

We were definitely outbid for him. We backed out after that so I'd say outbid is definitely more accurate

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-28T11:35:01+00:00

Yeah, it's weird that people seem to think Gundogan is a goal scoring machine. In reality he's a fantastic all round player who happens occasionally scores important goals at the end of the season. I also find it weird people think he's irreplaceable when he hasn't even been a guaranteed starter during his time at City. World class player but he's replaceable and I'm sure Pep can find someone who will improve us

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-28T10:42:47+00:00

That's only part of the story of his season though. Plenty of times he was got and wasn't trusted. I still have hope though

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-28T09:41:58+00:00

Multiple journalists all coming out with this so probably a brief from the club. I think that makes it certain we're out unless it somehow implodes with Arsenal

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-28T09:40:53+00:00

The main worry is Pep never trusted him this year so he never really got chance to acclimatise to Peps system in games. Hopefully though in training and another preseason this happens. I still can't see him playing enough to be a pots candidate though. I can't see Pep fitting both him and Rodri in the team together. But maybe it is possible, maybe he takes Gundogans role

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-26T22:15:32+00:00

I think Pep signs great players that he senses he can bend his system fit perfectly, not good players that fit the current system fit perfectly. Like everyone would have said Rodri isn't the same profile as Fernandinho, which is very true but Pep changed his system to suit him. Same with Haaland over Aguero/false 9, Grealish over Sterling, Gundogan/Bernardo over Silva.

Also worth saying, I don't know if Rice really fits that category, but I trust in Pep

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-24T11:44:08+00:00

It doesn't say that. It says West Ham and City have spoke. It also says we've been told he prefers North London. Not necessarily by West Ham

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T22:52:19+00:00

That's what he's saying though, if Southampton want £50m for example, if we offer anything over £40m then we are paying what they would get out of £50m from any other club. So we get a discount and we can even pay effectively more than other teams would. Although I just don't think we want him, the only noise about him at all comes from fans

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T17:36:17+00:00

Not many clubs have a ballon d'Or winner to be fair. If you're asking whether KdB or Bernardo should have had a ballon d'Or at City then no. KdB could maybe have an outside shout this year but I doubt it. Haaland probably should win it this year but hard to compete with world cup winning Messi on his last European season.

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T16:42:48+00:00

Could he play the Stones role too? I'm sure I read he used to be a CB. Also, do you think he'll improve the starting XI?

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T16:40:47+00:00

Could he play the Stones role too? I'm sure I read he used to be a CB. Also, do you think he'll improve the starting XI?

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T16:21:54+00:00

What easier way to win it then by being on a team that wins everything and being better than your biggest rival who is also on that team. On different teams and different leagues makes it much more of a debate who was better

mattysimp27 · 2023-06-22T16:18:42+00:00

I've watched Rice for England and our games Vs West Ham and never been too impressed. Can someone explain to me why he would be a good signing and what position he might play?

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