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KingPepeReina. said:
I would love it if Man Urine got relegated it couldn't happen to a better club and their scum players and manager.And it would should Bobby Charlton up,and that would be ****ing marvellous.
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Liverpool will be relegated long before United will finish outside the top 4 KPR.

Tbh Liverpool were a little fortunate to avoid relegation last season at one point.
 
Swarbs said:
Well imo the problem City face is not needing to buy more players, but needing to buy players that will improve their current line up. They have probably the strongest set of players in the PL, but they don't gel together as well as Utd's, Chelsea's or even Arsenal's. And with FFP coming in they can't follow their current tactics of buy every player that comes available and stick with the ones that turn out to be right for the team.

Every team needs that one or two players (think Cantona, Vieira, Keane, Henry, Drogba) that turn a collection of good players able to compete for trophies into dominant title winners. City still need to find that player and, as Ranieri, Benitez and Keegan found out, finding that player isn't always easy.
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IMO Silva can be that player if he adds goals to his game. And if they get Aguero, then they'll go to the next level, from what I've seen Aguero is miles better at involving his team mates in play and getting stuck in the build up play, Tevez is much more Torres-like when it comes to his gameplay.

They've already improved the left back position massively in my opinion, and they could do with maybe a right back to replace Richards and a goalscoring midfielder that's tad more consistent than Yaya Toure.

On their wages thing with FFP, apparently if the player isn't in the 25 man squad then it doesn't count towards FFP, which is crazy in my mind but it'll help them with the fact they won't have to try to shift so many deadwood. They can actually afford to keep them in the ressies.
 
Jonesy, I just thinking exactly the same thing, but thought it was just part of my pedantic make-up that would be misunderstood amidst this hot house of debate. Let me know when you fancy running a 'proper punctuation' thread somewhere on the Board? ;o)

GKRK.
 
1. Chelsea
2. Man U
3. Man City
4. Arsenal

9. Newcastle

18. Nowrich
19. Swansea
20. QPR
 
1. Mancs Yanited (regretably!)
2. Dynamo Chelski
3. Mancs Citeh
4. Spud U Like (4th is toughest call. Hope wrong, but can't see Pool getting it)

10. Arsenal (relagation form at end of last season - so regrettably mid table unless some serious signings are made!)

12. Swansea (confident of a good first season, esp with a couple of new signings)

18. Wolves
19. Wigan
20. QPR
 
Raaaul said:
IMO Silva can be that player if he adds goals to his game. And if they get Aguero, then they'll go to the next level, from what I've seen Aguero is miles better at involving his team mates in play and getting stuck in the build up play, Tevez is much more Torres-like when it comes to his gameplay.
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Silva and Aguerro could be those players, but then there is no guarantee of that, or that Mancini will actually allow them the freedom to influence games and drive the team forwards like SAF allowed Cantona and Keane, Wenger with Vieira and Henry and Mourinho with Drogba. I still get the feeling that Mancini is just too cautious to give any of his players the freedom and responsibility they need to inspire their team mates. Tevez is their only real source of inspiration atm, and as you pointed out he inspires his team mates more by scoring goals and focusing on himself than by inspiring others.

Raaaul said:
They've already improved the left back position massively in my opinion, and they could do with maybe a right back to replace Richards and a goalscoring midfielder that's tad more consistent than Yaya Toure.
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Those will help, but they would be fairly minor changes imo, enough to keep them where they are and hold off challengers to their top 4 spot, but not really strengthening their squad.

Raaaul said:
On their wages thing with FFP, apparently if the player isn't in the 25 man squad then it doesn't count towards FFP, which is crazy in my mind but it'll help them with the fact they won't have to try to shift so many deadwood. They can actually afford to keep them in the ressies.
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Really? That'll piss KPR off no end! Tho' I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere - the only wages I have seen excluded from FFP are the wages of players under 18 and still in the academy as they count as youth development. Do you have a source?
 
Good afternoon fellow premier league supporters, my prediction is :-

1. Man city
2. Chelski
3. Man u
4. Liverpool

relegation

QPR
Norwich
Wigan

with the mighty swans finishing 14th ;)
 
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