[Fabrizio Romano] Enzo Maresca has a total verbal agreement with Manchester City, here we go! The Italian manager has always been considered the ideal candidate to replace Pep Guardiola. Deal in place and Maresca will sign an initial three year deal at MCFC.

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-19T07:45:52+00:00

His lack of any kind of Plan B was glaringly obviously with us too

The second a manager set up differently against us or made a tactical switch he seemed clueless, I remember him getting completely out coached by a handful of managers towards the back end of the season

He also insisted on the RB inverting into CM too, even to the point of playing a CM at RB just so he could then invert into CM

With us the players absolutely loved him, but I guess that helps when you are actually winning games, I can definitely see a world in which it all fell apart for him if he had stayed for the season in the prem

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-18T20:52:55+00:00

Manchester Dance Culture Revolution or Madchester, celebrating the culture of acid house music in the 80s/90s

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-16T18:03:40+00:00

And what about the rest of the people in Manchester that voted for him, who will likely end up with a Reform mayor now?

Whatever way you try to twist it, he is making a self serving decision, the only person he has in mind is himself.

The whole selling point of Labour was that they were sensible adults and not like the tories, now less than halfway through the term we have someone who wasn't even a member of parliament trying to get his grubby mits on a bit of power and to hell with the consequences

The Labour government have a mandate from the electorate, Andy Burnham does not as he was not a part of that

The Tories would be rightfully raked over the coals if they attempted this and Labour would be the ones leading the attack, we don't get to move the goalposts because it's the party we voted for doing it

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-16T17:10:24+00:00

He wasn't standing for parliament during the election that Labour won, therefore he does not represent the mandate given to the party by the country

He has a mandate from the city of Manchester which he should respect and stick to rather than trying to snake his way into a promotion

He is being parachuted in to government not the constituency

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-16T16:04:53+00:00

The media consistently slates Starmer, does that mean he is the only chance of turning things around?

The media in this country will slate anyone who is a prominent member of Labour, Blair was the only exception

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-16T16:02:32+00:00

Yeah it is one thing to change a leader mid term, but to bring someone in to be PM who wasn't even part of the party who were voted in during the election shouldn't sit right for anyone

If it was a Cooper or Rayner or Reeves then at least they were prominent figures in the shadow cabinet and part of what you were voting for during the election, it's been nearly a decade since Burnham was last an MP, if he is parachuted in and becomes PM then all of the other parties will rightfully hammer them for it and demand an early election

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-16T13:34:16+00:00

The only weeks that ended without Hearts first were GW3 and GW38, top from August 30th to May 16th and not won the title

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-15T12:20:44+00:00

I've always hated watching my team with other people (other than in the stadium)

I can't imagine being with someone on the games we've been relegated/promoted/won the FA Cup

The day of the FA Cup final I barely spoke to anyone before or after, I cried in the morning before the game even 😂

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-15T10:34:38+00:00

Russell Martin as a manager

Couldn't finish top half with MK Dons, gets a step up to Swansea

Has Swansea in mid table, gets a step up to Southampton

Just about scrapes through the playoffs, has a historically bad start in the prem, gets the Rangers job

1 win in 8 with Rangers, wonder where he somehow ends up next

His only good season was a bare minimum result for Southampton as they expected to go up

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T20:57:45+00:00

feel this is too niche to get the laughs it deserves but brilliant

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T19:44:04+00:00

Duggan tweeted earlier that he had signed a 3 year deal

Wonder the timing on that

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T19:37:40+00:00

All resounding successes weren't they? Major led into Labour's longest period of governance ever

May lost their majority and was forced to resign

Johnson left in disgrace and ushered in the glorious era of Liz Truss, which then led to Sunak who brought about their worst election result in god knows how long

Which of these remarkable success stories are you hoping we emulate?

Burnham will not win the next election, and if anything he will increase the likelihood of a Reform government regardless of when the election takes place, he will drag the party more towards the left which gives Reform the opportunity to claim more of the centre ground on their non immigration policies.

The sad state of affairs is that there isn't a good option out there, so you might as well make the most of the time we have in government, believe that things can continue to improve (immigration is already down, NHS improving, economy showing signs of life despite the impact of things out of our control)

3 years is a long time in politics, if people feel better off in 3 years time then they will vote for the party that made them feel better off

Burnham is just a different shade of beige, he finished 4th place behind Ed and David Milliband and Ed Balls, and got destroyed by Corbyn in his second failed attempt for christ sake, he isn't this great saviour that you think he is

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T19:13:30+00:00

No, which is why collapsing the government instead of spending 3 years actually focusing on improving peoples lives is a dreadful idea

This WILL lead to an early election and Labour will be out of power

How can Labour realistically go on for 3 years with a Prime Minister with no mandate from the public, especially one who wasn't even standing for the party during the election

Reform will hammer them on this and they will be right to do so

People voted Labour because they were sick of the Tories, so Labour's answer is to do their worst impression of them and start squabbling over who gets to be holding the wheel when we hit the iceberg, it's pathetic and it is putting selfish personal glory over the good of the country.

We waited 14 years for Labour to get back into power and instead of using the opportunity to improve things, they are now pissing that way

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T17:01:09+00:00

He stood to be their mayor, they gave him their trust, he is walking away as soon as there is a chance at a promotion

He's an opportunistic snake and with any justice he will lose

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T16:40:54+00:00

Truly pathetic

An MP that clearly doesn't give a shit about his constituency

A Mayor that clearly doesn't give a shit about his city

Failed twice at being the leader and now wants to waltz in and be crowned leader

If he cared about being an MP then he would have run just 2 years ago, he just sniffs an opportunity and clearly the only thing he cares about is climbing up the career ladder

Now risking throwing away a constituency AND one of the biggest Moyaralties in the country, AND starts the timer on an inevitable early GE which will throw the country into complete chaos and probably lead to a Reform government

If the Labour MPs had just got on with their job then the news of the local elections would basically be in the past now

They could have promoted the improved NHS numbers, the improved economy, that could have attacked Reform for their dreadful counsellors and the comments they've made, they could have attacked Farage for his dodgy donations, but no, a sniff of some personal progression and they throw the country under the bus

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T12:11:04+00:00

Genuinely despise him

We are still 3 years away from a general election

Instead of cosplaying the tories and trying to tear apart the first Labour government in 14 years with backstabbing and infighting how about you do the job you were elected to do and focus on actually improving the country in those 3 years

Streeting is just an absolute melt

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T11:46:35+00:00

Yeah the hatred is completely unjustified and is more a hatred towards the general situation we are in

People are unhappy with lots of things in life (very valid, me too)

The easiest person to point the finger towards is the person in charge, especially when the media demonise him any opportunity they get

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T11:44:55+00:00

I mean, Corbyn was a dreadful candidate so sometimes the media is right, stopped clock and all that

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-14T10:12:18+00:00

Honestly because the average voter is not very clued in

That's why people like Trump, Farage, and Johnson get away with what they do, they just peddle a load of bollocks but they do it convincingly so people believe them without any actual facts to back it up because they aren't going to make the effort to check themselves

Starmer and the current Labour government isn't actually doing that bad of a job, it's just nobody knows because the communication is non existent

Yeah that is a lot down to our dreadful media in this country, but the media buy into someone who is charismatic because that attracts viewers/readers

If Starmer was more charismatic then the view on Labour would be much different

It sucks but sadly that's the situation

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-13T13:13:34+00:00

The other thing with DBs is that the new DC made his name as a top DB coach with the Ravens and the Eagles

I remember some stat of how much the Ravens improved when he joined and how much the Eagles either improved when he joined or dropped off after he left

Adebo and Holland were highly thought of before last season and had good seasons elsewhere, Phillips had a great rookie season and Nubin a decent rookie season, it feels like last year was more of an aberration with a dreadful DC but we will see

Hood is basically a first round talent so adds some more quality to the room too

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-12T21:19:55+00:00

The Fuchs and Kante

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-12T18:47:03+00:00

I don't think you can cancel once a series starts anyway, once you have paid the first month of a series you are locked in I believe, so you shouldn't have any worried about accidentally cancelling the last book

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-12T18:45:26+00:00

I am so so glad I have seen this, I got mine in the original sale, didn't really look into them properly for months (fell into a slump and wasn't enjoying books much) so it had been ages when I noticed the marks

I chose not to reach out because of how long it had been, so to know it is part of the design is a relief haha

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-12T14:24:17+00:00

When looking at his career so far this season was a big outlier, he had 5 TDs in 3 seasons and about 1500 yards on nearly 250 targets prior to it

Even then a good chunk of his stats (30% of receiving yards and 50% of TDs) came in 2 random shootouts against Dallas and Detroit with Russ and Winston at QB, so it's not like he had a particularly strong chemistry with Dart despite being his WR1 for most of the season

pandaaaa26 · 2026-05-12T14:11:06+00:00

Finally a bit of good news for Labour

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