City an utter embarrassment against Liverpool, No Superbia in Preolio

I've took time out for reflect and calm down but, I'm still annoyed about our teams performance. Some City fans won't agree but I'm sorry, it all has to be said that Manchester City have been an utter embarrassment to our away fans this season. Not once but twice away from home against a much less talented Liverpool side who are on half the wages our players are on.

Twice now our players have allowed themselves to be bullied off the park, it was absolutely outrageously embarrassing to watch. I have never ever walked away from a game in 30 odd years, I've lived the lows of our history, took the laughing and jokes in the School playground. Put up with a life time of mockery and ridicule by United fans and so on but, I could live with it because I could accept they were better and more deserving, all be it because they all had more money than us and sugar daddies.

Now however we are better than them all, 16 plus ahead of them all yet when it comes to Liverpool away, our players allow themselves to get bullied and go missing (I'm sure you've guessed by now I'm angry). I'm not even going to have a pop at the Referee because, despite the fact he allowed Liverpool to constantly go in heavy on us from behind. It's no excuse for our players to not give as good as they got back to Liverpool, instead they play with little urgency and act like they have all the time in the world. I've finally worked out Pep Guardiola's weakness, his failure to encourage his players to give as good as they get. When I heard him say he likes his team to play beautiful football, I didn't realise he meant literally like ballerina's trying to tip toe the ball into the back of the net.

While the entire Liverpool team play with high octane gonads and work their backsides off, it's like they have an entire team of James Milners, not that he's something special, just his work ethic I'm highlighting. Our players barely break a sweat, yet again for the second time they've gone missing in the first half against the same club. It's absolutely embarrassing and I strongly believe our club should compensate our travelling away fans for both games tickets and travel. It's one thing to embarrass our fans once, it's another to embarrass us twice against the same club in the exact same way they did the first time out.

Our players didn't deserve to win, they need to grow a backbone and stop allowing teams to bully them into submission. I'm sorry but football isn't a no contact game and we can't continue to go on acting like we can play without giving as good as we get, otherwise we are never going to win the Champions League.

Pep Guardiola and his team are equally to blame for this, he needs to adapt his philosophy to accommodate the aggression of English football. He said we started with enormous personality, I say rubbish. He said he was looking for more passing and more control, what he didn't notice was, the Liverpool players were robbing our players of the ball from behind, how the damn couldn't he see that? the even more ludicrous thing was that, our players who kept getting robbed from behind kept allowing it to happen.

We've made Liverpool look better than they actually are, I would happily trade our 16 point lead in the league to replay both Liverpool games and see our players play like they have spines. It's like we lost our Superbia in Preolio.

Many of our fans are using Gundogan as a scapegoat but I prefer to blame the entire team including Pep Guardiola. Yeah yeah I know, we've won the League Cup and are about to lift the Premier League title so give it a rest right? No not at all, I'd rather lose the title than be humiliated twice in the same season, in the exact same way by an average over rated team like Liverpool who's only strength is to bully with heavy handed tactics. Like I said our players need to Man up and grow a pair fast, technically we could still lose the title and lets face it, right now our players have been kicked off the park twice so what's to stop them throwing it away?

It's even crossed my mind, what if they tried to walk it to save themselves for the Derby but to be frank. I would have preferred to turn Liverpool over more than beat United, I'll go wash my mouth out now.

You could point to the fact our team coach got pelted with bottles, bricks, Rocks and even what seemed like a petrol bomb after the Coach roof was set on fire but, a few of our players came out with a load of never say die tripe about not being affected by it all so I think they deserve a bit of criticism if that's the case.

Liverpool FC and Liverpool Police allowed Liverpool's fans to execute their plan for a hostile and violent attack on our team coach, makes me laugh every time I hear that the British Police force are launching an investigation. You can imagine it like this. Lets see what went wrong, well it wasn't our fault so lets find one or two individual Liverpool fans to prosecute and sweep it under the carpet.

I suspect all UEFA will do is fine Liverpool for the cost of Coach repairs and give them a slap on the wrist, lets face facts. UEFA don't want to be making an example of any of their beloved favourite clubs, how on earth would they make more money if they sent a message out to the rest of Europe's fans, that if they do it they will face severe punishment. I suspect the English Football Association does absolutely nothing also.

I'd rather we play with pride, not allow ourselves to get bullied off the field and not be humiliated than win titles and trophies. Lets hope they don't repeat the same performance against United.

Rant over. I'll support our Club until I die but, right now I don't think they fully deserve it.

Ederson's the Keeper to take City to the next level, thoughts on Sanchez to City

Manchester City's latest signing has me extremely excited, City's new No1 Brazilian Goalkeeper Ederson Moraes has it all. City were first linked with Ederson in 2015 before Benfica signed him, I was extremely disappointed and especially now that we find ourselves paying 3 times the fee for him. Not that he's not worth the money, I am over the Blue Moon that we've finally captured his signature. I was a huge fan of Joe Hart up until he constantly failed to shake the monkey off his shoulder, was sorry to see him go but I think Guardiola was correct in shipping him out. Joe's still be best England have in between the sticks, managed to keep his place in the England squad so every body's happy.

With the right Defence in front of him we will be a formidable side, this is by far our signing of the season no matter who else we sign.

Lets look at Ederson Moraes:

Full name is: Ederson Santana de Moraes

Aged 23 and standing 6ft 2inches Ederson is strong in the air and off his line, a great shot stopper from both short and long range.

For Benfica last season he made one Assist and was rewarded for 2 Man of the Match performances.

In 2016/17 Uefa Champions League Ederson kept 3 clean sheets and saved 1 Penalty for Benfica.

2016/17 for Benfica across the board

Saves made 56

Saves caught 4

Saves parried 23

Saved shots inside the box 28

Saved shots outside the box 28

Catches 22

Punches 7

Crosses not claimed 1

Total passes 764

Pass accuracy 65.3%

Completed Passes 54

Successful distribution 233

Unsuccessful distribution 92

Clean Sheets 22

Penalties Saved 2

Discipline: 4 Yellow Cards 1 Red card

As you can see his pass accuracy and distribution is relatively high for a Goalkeeper, exactly what Pep was looking for and what Manchester City require. Along with that we gain a Goalkeeper that likes to save and catch when he can. Ederson is strong at intercepting corners, something we've struggled with lately.

He has the ability to pick out players in advanced positions with powerful accurate long balls and can hit them almost the entire length of the pitch. This will add spice to our passing game, another weapon against teams that play high up the field like Pep's City do.

Ederson Moraes only one weakness is his Discipline but, he's still relatively young at age 23 so it's not such a big deal. I'm 100% sure Manchester City and Guardiola can take Ederson to the next level, exciting times now that we have the best of Brazilian up front and in goal.

Ederson's coming to an entirely new and tougher league so will need patients from my fellow City faithful but, one thing stands out and that that, this lad has it all to make it to the top.

Sanchez to City

Earlier I re-tweeted Gerard Romero's tweet on Arsenals Alexis Sanchez imminently signing for Manchester City, I'd be a little sceptical but it's Gerard Romero and he's certainly in the now for sure with a reasonable track record so I'm going with this one. Arsenal fans are split on this one, while you have your die hard fans aka the anti Clichy and more so anti Nasri brigade moaning about not wanting to lose more players to Manchester City, others are saying it's not so bad as long as Wenger signs an adequate replacement of the same level. Current Arsenal grapevine is that Wenger's targeting Real Madrid's James Rodriguez, Spanish television show El Chiringuito claim Arsenal are looking to hijack Man United's plans to sign the Colombia international. Get complete coverage of football matches today. It's been suggested that Arsenal submitted an offer of around £60 million for Rodriguez and Jose Luis Sanchez, a Journalist close to Real Madrid has stated that Real have rejected the bid with it falling just short of Real's £69.8 million valuation. Where as Man United have played hard ball over David De Gea and now refused to sell him to Real Madrid, this is being touted as pay back for the Sergio Ramos saga, so it's highly unlikely that Arsenal will have any opposition to United in the race for Rodriguez.

I was sceptical when we were first linked with Alexis Sanchez but, after Romero's tweet I'm more inclined to believe City signing Sanchez is a real probability but it will all hinge on whether or not Arsenal can sign a replacement. Sanchez still has a year to run on his contract so Arsenal could play hard ball but, risk losing him on a free in 2018.

Will we sign Sanchez? Well news is the player wants to play for Guardiola and has rebuffed Bayern Munich in the process so? YES

Temperamental anti Manchester City, Uefa co FFP instigator Arsene Wenger can play hard ball all he likes, if he refuses to let Sanchez leave then Arsenal stand to lose him on a fee bosman in 2018. If that was to happen then Arsenal would go down as the most childish bite their nose off to spite their face club in footballing history.

Final thoughts: If I'm honest I don't even think we need Sanchez, do I want City to sign him? Not really that fused if I'm honest. Would I welcome him? Sure, he'd be an asset to any club but no matter where he ends up I'll wish him the best, doubt many Arsenal fans will though with their track record.