Match Day Thread Man City v Southampton Sunday 4th November 3pm

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Anyone else wondering Ings will still be here at the end of the season? Liverpool will probably think they could get a better deal elsewhere, like the Toby scenario.
Deal is already done. I do wonder if we have a relegation clause though? Would be crazy having Ings on 70k a week in Championship
 
Spending £19m on Vestergaard was way worse then spending £10m on Gunn. I would love to ask why we don't buy Championship players at all

You can't expect every signing to work out, it doesn't work out 100% of the time for any club. But our recruitment has been beyond poor for too long now. If you have a limited budget, you need the players you do bring in to work out more often then not and that has not been the case.

We needed to spend on a CB and did. Unfortunately, and I don't want to completely write him off yet, he isn't living up to bill. Armstrong and Ely are in the same boat, meaning we are pretty much running out the same players that barely crawled across the line last season.
 
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Can't wait to see what Hughes says after this game
"Clearly we didnt start well and left ourselves a mountain to climb, But the players clearly showed real character and I thought we had a spell mid way through the second half when we were the better side (for about 5 seconds). Clearly we need to learn from this and step up. We have a big game next week and its clearly important the fans show their support as they did last time out against Newcastle"
 
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I think at this this point, Hughes pretty much has to go.

It’s not all his fault, and I would not expect any sort of immediate turnaround from a replacement. But I think we are going down, and there just aren’t many strings you can pull even in desperation.

And I certainly don’t think Hughes has made himself irreplaceable. Whoever we get might not be better,but I have reasonable faith we can find someone about as good. Or even if the new manager is worse, does it really matter if we are going down with Hughes anyway?