KegCity

They’ve won a major trophy (relatively) recently.

City give managers a lot more time than most clubs, LJ and Pearson were both given time to address bad runs of form and realistically Manning will be given the same.

Is it more cost effective to rip up another squad for a manager who hasn’t shown much promise, or get a manager in who’s style of play fits with our current squad? Start of the season we seemed to be a creative player and a goal scorer away from genuinely challenging the top 6. If we’re going to persevere with Manning we need to change most of the squad to players who are much better retaining and using possession.

If you strap a monkey into an F1 car and it crashes, who do you blame? The monkey or the guy who put him there? Tinnion is completely out of his depth, but he should never have been given the role in the first place.

Disappointed no south stand season tickets will be available, returning to the south west and was going to buy one. Won’t be bothering now.

Was very nice work from Joshua, quite surreal seeing Ngannou on the other end of a devastating KO after seeing him flatline so many people.

As do I, as an MMA fan his comments towards Fury at the press conference were so satisfying, he also fully deserves his payday coming from such humble beginnings. Joshua should cruise through, I do think if he gets dropped the momentum will shift and could then see Ngannou ending things.

Fascinated to see what happens if Ngannou starts landing.

How many minutes has he played? Got to give him a chance before writing him off surely.

Most clubs do. Birmingham City did a full range of retro shirts that were really good, had the original sponsors etc so it’s definitely possible. No longer on their website so I can’t share but studied with some Blues fans and the quality was great. Considering how much the club (understandably) money-grab wherever possible I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened. It can’t be related to boosting home shirt sales as there’s never any stock anyway!

The reasoning behind it is tinpot but in fairness to the club, there’s been real demand for an official retro shirt to be released and they’ve finally done it. There’s clearly demand as it’s sold out immediately. Hopefully they take the hint and actually release a range of retro shirts and have them for sale year round. It’s a no-brainer, fans clearly want them and it’s actually a good product instead of the usual shite that’s in the store.

Is west Wiltshire too far away from Bristol for City to be my local team?

We’ve struggled with creating chances so have signed two players who can help with that. What’s wrong with that approach?

Not a fan personally. I understand why clubs, and businesses in general, are choosing minimalist logos but they’re often bland.

He's got a contract to play for. Great to see Williams in the last few weeks, his most consistent spell for the club in my view. Hope he can both keep this up and stay fit until the end of the season.

It’s all guesswork though isn’t it? Nobody knows what he’s earning. We don’t know our wage structure, but if we want a player good enough to string our attack together and get us into the playoffs that’s how much we’ll have to pay. Did I say we’re not paying a loan fee? I said it would more than likely to be taken into account in the buy option e.g when put with the buy option it comes to the value of the player. We’ve done the same with TGH by all accounts.

He’s a squad player for Burnley. Would probably be similar wages to Weimann at the most, and if he’s coming in to be our main creative player that’s fair enough. Loan fee would be taken into account in the option to buy. There’s plenty to moan about with city but us properly investing in a creative midfielder, which we badly need, isn’t high up on the list! If it was the £5 million move that was initially quoted I’d be with you about the finances.

What are you talking about? We lack creativity, Manning has worked with Twine before and £2.5 million is a fair fee. Wages won’t be astronomical. I’m glad we’re neither sitting on the Scott money nor blowing it on overpriced signings. Reports starting to say it’s a loan with a buy option, even better.

Can’t have it all. Do we want to bring in quality? If so we’re going to have to spend money, we can’t just be a side made up of gems from league one.

Panic over, we’re not spending 5 million. Whilst there’s disappointment we couldn’t sign him for free, we’re addressing one of our biggest weaknesses and getting Manning’s first choice through the door. Very happy with that.

Are there any football clubs that aren’t making those losses? If a mess like Birmingham can get fresh investment we can too.

What big decisions have the Lansdowns got right? Appointing Cotterill and Gary Johnson? We need fresh ideas and we need people who know the game to run the club.

Makes sense if he’s still based in Solihull. Hope someone else is coming in, Weimann can cover several areas and we’ll miss having that extra body.

Can’t see us putting down £700k for a loan and not keeping him.

I can see why he’s done it. If he takes Ngannou seriously he should be able to outbox him, making him look better than Fury who got sat down by Francis. I think if Ngannou lands that big punch as he did to Fury, Joshua doesn’t get back up.