Atticus

OMG noooo

8 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

Not great from O'Leary but realistically that's just down to piss poor defending.

Yep. Awful defending for a couple of minutes preceding that. 

You have to wander what the hell is it that Lansdown wants. 

You have to start questioning if he has the clubs best interest at heart or his own ego.

Yeah some of this ain't sitting right with me. 

It's crystal clear that NP is being kept in the dark regarding the future of our players and potentially being lied too.

It's evident Lansdown was looking to sell Scott this summer whereby Pearson believed our preference was to keep him if we could. 

To come out and say these summer signings were on the assumption we sold Scott, and Pearsons comments that we signed Knight not as a replacement. And he wanted them playing together, plus his obvious disappointment when we sold him. 

It's just contradictory. 

This is all concerning. 

Is Lansdown actually actively looking to sell the club? If ever there was evidence of somebody taking us as far as they can, this is clearly it. 

13 hours ago, chinapig said:

Yes, after all what does Vincent Kompany know about football?

In fairness, Kompany appears to like to sign 50,000 players and sees which stick. 

He has already signed a couple of duffers for Burnley. 

The only viable option would be to get shot of him surely. 

So have we caved then?

Not £25m?

Mid,striker,goalie please with the money. 

6 hours ago, Offside said:

It was a drab game and City were disjointed throughout. Preston were well organised and much more composed on the ball than we were. Our inability to keep hold of the ball always made the equaliser likely  

I thought our best players were Vyner and Bell. Everyone else failed to make an impact. 

This is not a good sign. 

Never particularly liked it even in its heyday, but its clearly become way worse as the years went on. 

Wow, this is woeful. 

34 minutes ago, Rocky said:

He does have a right to earn. However football is watched and adored by millions of children, who will assume his behaviour is acceptable. Just because he has had his charges dropped, doesn’t mean he’s 100% innocent, he probably has/had the best lawyers in the land. 

Plus for his sake, and potential future victims, I'd say its crucial he is removed from the career which has undoubtedly helped lead to his belief that nobody has a right to say no to him..

3 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

It's just about the worst case scenario for Man Utd. Lost him for a year, had to pay him while he was suspended, can’t sack him, will get peanuts for him if they sell him, the fallout if they decide to let him play will be seismic and he's contracted for another 2 years.

Good luck sorting that one out.
 

Isn't there a way they can still sack him for damaging clubs reputation or something?

I mean all the stuff that we heard was sickening to say the least. I'd be very uncomfortable if he was a player for us personally. 

3 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

It's a calculated risk but City are between a rock and a hard place - we'll never know if it was the best thing to do, but it seems a completely reasonable course of action to take based on our current circumstances., especially if we have a plan of action to mitigate the loss in the short term (i..e. a decent PL loan, of bringing forward a signing we were intending to make (maybe on an ooc player) in the Summer.

Well soon see I suppose. I'm not holding much confidence in being able to mitigate the loss at all during the Jan. window. 

1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

I’m really not sure about the rants I’ve seen on here. Selling best players blah blah, season ticket blah blah, etc etc

City needed money from somewhere and this opens the opportunity to maybe have a little to spend come July. It also opens a pathway for Sam Bell. It’s how it works! That’s how Brentford did it and what we are trying to emulate.  
 

If Premier clubs come for your players then it’s incredibly difficult to keep hold of players who are dreaming of the riches available!

Anyway newsflash, it’s highly likely Alex Scott will be gone by the beginning of next season and hopefully another lad will come through or be brought in. Get used to it! Most are!!

That's all fine and dandy, and can completely understand it if it was pre season. What really gets my back up is selling irreplaceable players mid season when we are by no means safe. 

It's just going to make me laugh, when we are going to have the same people demanding Pearson being sacked when we look turgid again.

Good luck boys. Keeping us up this season and next will be the miracle. Imo he'd deserve manager of the season if it happens. 

We all know deep down who the problems are at the club. 

It will just be amusing if we see posters demanding him go when this is what he is working with.

Good luck to you all.

Enjoy tossing off to former players while we build an average league 1 team then demand the manager sacked for losing. 

So much fun. So much ambition.

Love that you are all ok with us selling our best players. Enjoy. 

In January no less. When we are in a relegation battle   **** me. 

Edit

The end of the day. This is a club going nowhere fast. 

Whilst we watch other clubs get away with **** knows what ie Bournemouth. 

We need new ownership. 

How much of that will we get for new players? My guess is not much.

And how can you even replace somebody like Semenyo? You can't. So to sell him in January is not only baffling, it's a Hitler esque shooting oneself in the foot. 

This shows where we are as a club. 

It's in a sorry state.

One that's willing to sell not only a key asset. But one that is virtually unreplaceable in terms of what he brings. In the middle of the season, when we are scraping results at the bottom half of the table. 

Dire. We are in a mess. I think its time the lansdowns went. The quicker, the better. 

2 hours ago, 22A said:

Agreed, but are certain players also just not good enough?

Well, the players he picking in the positions he's playing them certainly aren't seeming to be.

I'd take him over Pearson. 

Sack.

Refusing to change formation. Playing players out of position. Not playing players he signs.

Defensively we show zero improvement week in week out.

Really woeful imo. 

8 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

No, I am intrigued. 
 

I have plenty of time for Pearson, and considering the sinking ship he inherited I’d certainly give him more time. However, in what way has he proved himself to be a ‘proper manager’ during his time with us? 

Defensively we are worse though.

And the picking players out of position, refusing to change formation is getting to the point of ridiculous. 

22 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

That's all very well, but there is more than a hint of hypocrisy that as a meat eater you accept that eating animals that have been electrocuted, shot with bolt guns, had their throats slit, or in the case of chickens gassed, is OK due to your dietary preference. 

This hypocrisy is hard for people to acknowledge as we're indoctrinated from a very young age that farm animals are "meat" and dolphins, lions, giraffes etc are magical creatures whose lives are worth more. But if you want to be consistent then surely ALL bad treatment/killing of animals is unacceptable?

Try halal then, which more and more supermarkets and takeouts are serving