your only as good as your last game or the table never lies, take you pick?

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Either way city would give anything to be 12 pts clear and still in the CL.

genuine question - if mancini fails to make it out the group stages of the CL next season will city fans want him sacked?

It is Macca. Personally, I don't think our set up suits him, he is playing on the left wing yet his natural tendency is to cut inside and get the ball centrally. The problem is, Silva does the same from the other side and both Aguero and Tevez like to drop deep too, so all the space comes congested.
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Surely that's just down to the coaching/tactics.

Nasri cuts in, Tevez goes wide and so on. Interchanging is something learnt on the training pitch and I guess there has to be an understanding with the other players too. Also it should leave plenty of space for Zab to attack too, which you do see alot.

The areas Barca play in can become congested but they deal with that that easily with traingles, one two's, etc.

When it comes to Nasri, he just appears to not be doing the shirt any justice atm for me, and alot of that is he just doesn't look happy whatsoever which is starnge considering he got himself a medal last season

DIdn't Utd do the same? The team/squad that won the league in the early 90s was the most expensively assembled squad in English football history at the time.

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can't win anything with kids

comment by UnitedRedMacca- Clevshire for the 2014 WC (U2024)
posted 16 seconds ago
DIdn't Utd do the same? The team/squad that won the league in the early 90s was the most expensively assembled squad in English football history at the time.

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can't win anything with kids
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That was late 90s mate.
Beckam and co were still in nappies when you won the league in 92.

Beckham was still in nappies in 92? Wierd, he was 17.

And the "You don't win anything with kids, was 95".

mancinicity was in nappies when he was 17 - he just doesn't know any better.

Was Beckam, Scholes, Butt, Nevilles part of the title winning team of 92?

all of them bar scholes made appearances that season

That 92 team was made entirely of mercenaries.

It's hard to run in a nappy.

schmeichel

parker
pallister
bruce
irwin

mcclair
ince
giggs
sharpe

cantona
hughes

And which of them came through your academy?
You nicked Giggs off us remember.

"Anyways if Mancini actually believes he is the best manager in England he has truly bought into the narrow minded obsessing with everything to do with United and constantly compare everything to United."

Why? He was asked a question due to speculation about his job (widely reported due to quotes from that all knowing footballing soothsayer.....Danny Mills). All he was doing was defending himself and his record so far, which to be fair is pretty good. It did not come across as anything to do with United, it actually made me think more of Wenger and how long he has gone without winning anything.

yeah giggs wasnt an academy graduate we only trained him since he was 14

Giggs was a bit of both. I did hear Ronnie Irani on talksport the other day (i know, i'm sorry) saying he thought that the best player to come out of United's academy was Ronaldo.

That man really is an idiot.

comment by FatJanMolby (U4297)

posted 10 minutes ago

its relatively easy to win the league if you spend a ridiculous amount on amassing the worlds best footballers.

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DIdn't Utd do the same? The team/squad that won the league in the early 90s was the most expensively assembled squad in English football history at the time.

The amounts of money is now a lot of higher, but Utd did then, what City are doing now.

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Is this fact though? Have each teams costs from back then been totalled up and compared or is this something you've just said?

comment by Sir Mex!!!! Owen Farrell's Eyes (U6687) posted 51 seconds ago

yeah giggs wasnt an academy graduate we only trained him since he was 14
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Clevs was a Bradford product

He's only been with us since he was 12 so his development has zero to do with United either

I'm pretty sure Leeds won the title in 1992, United won their first title in nearly 3 decades a year later when the big PL money started rolling in.

And which of them came through your academy?

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Which players from your title winning season were brought through your academy?

i know macca

comment by meltonblue (U10617) posted 1 minute ago
Giggs was a bit of both. I did hear Ronnie Irani on talksport the other day (i know, i'm sorry) saying he thought that the best player to come out of United's academy was Ronaldo.

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No way

1.2m for cantona BOOM!

comment by Boris "Inky" Gibson (U5901) posted 6 seconds ago
I'm pretty sure Leeds won the title in 1992, United won their first title in nearly 3 decades a year later when the big PL money started rolling in.
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Nah

We nicked Leeds best player for peanuts

surely they can only be described as true utd products if they are born in utd's training complex