: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:25 pm  

If I were City I'd have a crack at Alex or Carvalho. Carvalho is awesome but has had a injury-prone season. I think Alex is a quality player.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:26 pm  

Agree about Carvalho he stated he wants out and is a world class centre back was injured last year but if he proves hes fitness would be a vvery good signing

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:47 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

If I were City I'd have a crack at Alex or Carvalho. Carvalho is awesome but has had a injury-prone season. I think Alex is a quality player.

Fella, you and I tend to share the same opinion on players (I only post when I disagree with you ), but I cannot agree re Alex. I just don't regard him as partiocularly good. if he played for us, he would look as bad as Dunne did last season. I'd have Onouha over Alex.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:48 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Only in terms of current levels of competitiveness and CL qualification. In terms of popularity (i.e. supporters), you are still a fair way behind us even with your recent 'history'.

Judged by average attendence over the history of the clubs, Chelsea are the fifth best supported club in England and Citeh are 7th. But don't let facts get in the way of your dreams.

And I'm sure that it'd be really worth it for JT to go to Citeh for the "more popular" Citeh. Well worth giving up competitiveness in the league and CL for the extra support he'll get. Might be a bit puzzling for him why all those Man City fans don't manage to fill the ground for league games though.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:52 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Fella, you and I tend to share the same opinion on players (I only post when I disagree with you ), but I cannot agree re Alex. I just don't regard him as partiocularly good. if he played for us, he would look as bad as Dunne did last season. I'd have Onouha over Alex.

I've not seen enough of Onouha recently to say how good he is, but from what I've seen of Alex he's always impressed me. He's quite quick, strong and worked very well with Terry towards the back end of last year. Opinions, don't you love 'em?

I think City definitely need a centre half, but surely there are cheaper, more achievable options around than Terry?

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:54 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Judged by average attendence over the history of the clubs, Chelsea are the fifth best supported club in England and Citeh are 7th. But don't let facts get in the way of your dreams.

And I'm sure that it'd be really worth it for JT to go to Citeh for the "more popular" Citeh. Well worth giving up competitiveness in the league and CL for the extra support he'll get. Might be a bit puzzling for him why all those Man City fans don't manage to fill the ground for league games though.

According to some list I viewed a few weeks ago, City were fifth. Another list I looked at claimed we were third. I cannot even remember seeing Chelsea on the two lists.

Has there been any occasion in the last 40 years where you have had a higher average attendance than City for two seasons running? I would guess that not to be the case. However, in the reverse, I would say we have surpassed your average attendance many times. As long as I have been watching football, we have been far more popular than Chelsea.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:57 pm  

Willy-waving alert!

Perhaps (although i doubt it) you boys might take some time to step back from this, er, argument and realise how pathetic it actually looks.

Then you can play nicely. Plenty of toys for everyone!

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:59 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

I think City definitely need a centre half, but surely there are cheaper, more achievable options around than Terry?

Even Dunne would admit to that

There are cheaper alternatives but we do need a leader. Terry has never been a world class footballer IMO, but he does appear to be a very good leader. We will need a leader when we are in places like Stoke and our fancy dans are not having it all their own way. I cannot think of anyone else who would fit that bill. Vidic would be a decent signing, but I think it would be cheeky to steal two players from United in one season. We will wait until they have a fire sale

We are being linked to Lucio but not sure if there is any truth in that. I don't think he is the solution. Each top team needs a leader(s) IMO. We have some pretenders who could develop into leaders (e.g. De Jong and Kompany) but we need someone who can lead the club now.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:00 pm  

Sexual Deviant wrote:

Willy-waving alert!

Perhaps (although i doubt it) you boys might take some time to step back from this, er, argument and realise how pathetic it actually looks.

Then you can play nicely. Plenty of toys for everyone!

I cannot help it. Getting under the skin of John Senior / AP makes me happy

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:06 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote: According to some list I viewed a few weeks ago, City were fifth. Another list I looked at claimed we were third. I cannot even remember seeing Chelsea on the two lists. Do you remember seeing thousands of empty seats at your home games last season? Care to share those lists? If you saw them recently you shouldn't have too much trouble finding them again. http://footballgroundguide.ipbhost.com/ ... linearplus Has there been any occasion in the last 40 years where you have had a higher average attendance than City for two seasons running? I would guess that not to be the case. Well if that's your guess, it must be true. However, in the reverse, I would say we have surpassed your average attendance many times. As long as I have been watching football, we have been far more popular than Chelsea. Even if this was true, why exactly would JT give a schit?

Enfield Exile wrote: According to some list I viewed a few weeks ago, City were fifth. Another list I looked at claimed we were third. I cannot even remember seeing Chelsea on the two lists. Do you remember seeing thousands of empty seats at your home games last season? Care to share those lists? If you saw them recently you shouldn't have too much trouble finding them again. http://footballgroundguide.ipbhost.com/ ... linearplus Has there been any occasion in the last 40 years where you have had a higher average attendance than City for two seasons running? I would guess that not to be the case. Well if that's your guess, it must be true. However, in the reverse, I would say we have surpassed your average attendance many times. As long as I have been watching football, we have been far more popular than Chelsea. Even if this was true, why exactly would JT give a schit?