Davefevs

Lee Johnson???

Just for info, this is my crude (but fairly accurate - based on prior years accounts) view of City’s amortisation costs each year going forward. We can argue £0.5m here or there, but shows how Nige has wiped c£5m off of our amortisation. In 19/20 it was £11.4m (expect 20/21 to be a similar amount). That saving carries into 22/23 as well and if we bought nobody woukd be a £10m saving in 23/24. Can add significant wage bill drop too that as well.

Desperate and cringeworthy. Those are not the actions of a CEO. He is still a wannabe footballer. Grow the **** up you bellend.

King had a tight thigh from Wednesday.

The focus of my “the little things” feature on twitter this morning. I don’t think we let them….they just took advantage of poor shape. I won’t bore you with lots more stats / pics, but they generally cross evenly from both sides, and at significantly lower volume. City the first entry below the average in pale blue..

This is the key bit for me: @BigTone condensed version. Cheating bastards - got caught.

A stray apostrophe - it was all so innocent ?

I think they targeted our right side because McCallum is so much better than Odubajo, Willock and Chair like to drift left too. Its interesting that we saw little of Dickie (RCB) coming forward with the ball.

We’re a couple.

Exactly. I’ve no idea how good it bad he’s gonna be but I like the theory of top club junior, goes down the leagues, wants to make it back up the ladder. I call it the Kieran Trippier model….who I saw at Burnley, on loan initially from Man City, then moving permanently there….wanting to play to show he could get back up to that level. If George is of that ilk, it bodes well. I was more than happy with him today. It uses an algorithm, I wouldn’t lay too much stock in it. Weimann (is he flappy?) got two assists and that weights his scores massively. I watched on Robinstv so cannot comment on comms between Tanner and Kalas, but I thought Kalas’s positional play in terms of supporting Tanner wasn’t great…but I can rarely fault his commitment to the cause in other aspects.

He’d suck his own cock if he could wouldn’t he?

got a week to get it treated.

Yep, shape did him no favours at all. Kalas wanted him too close to him imho, which meant McCallum had acres on their left. The few occasions Kalas pushed him onto their LWB we made them hit hopeful passes. Think we could’ve shunted the whole team across the pitch 10 yards and made it much harder for them. Just watched interview. Nice.

I wouldn't say out of his depth, more, horribly exposed by our terrible shape without the ball. With the ball, pretty tidy, got a bit of pace. I don't think he really did much if any wrong. Not his lack of ability that left them with overload after overload. Good, promising debut imho.

which two?

He's got to wait his turn hasn't he? Others ahead of him from a "waiting for their chance" perspective....and NIge has rules!

I drink it in the Congo!!!

Talk of a 2 year transfer embargo too. Not so attractive ?

Suspect one problem might be that Wilder had a £4m “payoff” which might actually mean they didn’t pay him off but are still paying his wages…until someone wants him and will need to buy him out of his contract. Paying off £4m is not good for FFP.

Nige said he’d had a couple of little set backs but trained fully on Tuesday.

Ta….I’ve no idea who owns the ground anymore, or whether it’s part of the myriad of companies included in the administration as per the statement. Big question, who will buy the club without the ground? Agree…..I’m also grateful for his backing / sensible backing, but he’s made some big mistakes too.

Ta. I’d say positionally we are doing better than expectations. Performance wise we are still mixed…but been some good ones and a couple of poorer ones. We have been “in” every game, look more physical. We’ve improved our set plays, well the ones taken with feet!!! We have scored 4 from set plays…last season we scored 5 all-season. Its far from perfect, but was it ever gonna be after losing lots of players and being hamstrung financially? What we are seeing now is probably what Nige would’ve liked to have dine last season….make us harder to beat, start from the back, etc, etc….but the squad wasn’t up for that build….so it commenced in the summer. I don’t dismiss last season, but it’s not very relevant imho, apart from delaying the “true start”. Others will disagree.

Out of interest, what do you reckon SL does with the snake oil Ashton sold him?