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    Banned

    How many 'new' devices can someone have in the space of 2 1/2 weeks
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    England Squad

    Looked fine when I saw him play a couple of weeks ago
  3. Feel for Reading, I know someone who works there, apparently they got rid of all the chefs as a cost cutting measure, lots of microwave meals. I've been lucky to go to Bearwood and its an incredible facility, the mocking Charlie Savage got for saying it was as good as Man Utd's training ground, well he's not far off, genuinely could be a PL training ground. I don't really get the Wycombe hate, if they'd said no (heard somewhere they were approached over buying it) then I imagine it probably would have been sold to property developers or something and a waste of a great facility. Bolton sold their training ground to Wigan who sold it to Preston and there wasn't really a fuss. Also, supposedly some serious money behind Wycombe now, new owner not announced yet.
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    England Squad

    He’s had nearly a year off through his own fault. ‘Probably’… and if he doesn’t improve his form? This was a good chance to get Solanke some senior experience against good opponents and see how he got on. On form right now I’d be taking Solanke.
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    England Squad

    Just realised he’s gone Toney over Solanke, Solanke has been great this season where Toney has barely showed anything since the ban ended
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    England Squad

    Surprised Butland didn’t get a look in
  7. I thought one of the whole things in the creation of the PL was the financial support of the EFL? So can’t see how clubs attempting to pull any deal have a chance.
  8. Clearly does well enough making the case for us if those players then still want to come in
  9. I think part of it comes from the lack of an experienced CEO/COO alongside him, if Gould or Alexander were still here or a replacement hired there may be less of an issue, its that lack of experience working at first team level in the roles people are doing. Brian's main success has been working in the academy, developing players and working on the pathway, that I don't think any City fan really questions that. I also agree when the club are looking for a Technical Director they're probably either looking externally or the most likely internal candidate is probably Tinnion at that point. Personally I don't think our recruitment has been bad for 90% of the players we've brought in since Tinnion has had greater first team influence, people can cite the lack of reinvestment but quite frankly that could be a decision made above Tinnion's station and he's left trying to give a plausible reason to the public, I'm sure he'd love to recruit the best players we can afford with reinvestment. Similar with Pearson's sacking, few people will know the genuine things that happened behind the scenes that led up until that point, I think most people on here acknowledge the reasons given publicly are probably a sham, but again perhaps the real reasons were to be kept quiet and Tinnion/JL left to try and make something sound reasonable to the public. what if it was also a case of it being SL/JL's decision to sack Pearson & Tinnion just had to go along with it. I'm completely working off guess work here, but say Pearson's health issues had reached such a point that it was clearly impacting his work in a negative way but he refused to resign, City can't fire him on that basis and performances are likely cover story, the real reason has to stay concealed and a sham reason in public which people then base their opinions off. A lot of fans don't realise just how much said by managers, CEO's, technical directors etc in interviews is flat out & deliberately untrue, but because its appeared in an interview its taken as gospel at times. This isn't supposed to be a 'Tinnion has been treated too harshly and should be let off' post, but more of a how much has Tinnion had lumped on him from above and had to try and make palatable to the public and therefore he takes the brunt of it. Personally I wasn't really in favour of Pearson going and I'm unsold on Manning thus far but I can factor that not everything can be a matter of cut and dry as it appears.
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    Adam Murphy

    But Curtis has turned out for their 21’s
  11. Bell is assistant
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    FGR

    Lump on Forest Green to do well next season
  13. Probably one of the ones along with Kadji that Tinnion was referring to that had their chance at first team level and didn't take it
  14. Laughable case because if Hamilton was wanted to win they could have manipulated the gap to be so much larger over the course of a season
  15. Yeboah's last game for Bath before the youth cup was over a week before so plenty of training time, he's probably training with the 18's on days Bath aren't training too. So its a bit different to an 18 on the bench for 1st team. Equally Its hard to chuck them on the bench for the first team if they've been training with the 18's, they need to be in training/analysis meetings with the first team to understand the tactics required should they need to go on even if the intent would be not to use them. It sounds like Manning is understanding of the situation even if he doesn't like it, or he may not have put young players on the bench regardless, who knows, but perhaps we need to judge Manning on young players making the bench once the youth cup run is over.
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