Not surprising when we are giving the ball away that much...

HOLYSHIT! WOODWORK...Y U NO LET ME SCORE!

The need for a true goalscorer couldn't be more apparent.

Lol why so happy? Just proves that Hearts defender better at finishing than any of our players loooooooooool joke

Wow every time Downing gets the ball we either lose it or it gets out of play...

Must it be said again? Assaidi is cup-tied for Europa qualifiers.

Wenger didn't have a choice so stop hating. Both Juventus and City didn't want to meet the asking price whilst RVP has his heart set on remaining in England so United was his best choice. Wenger can't force him to Italy if he doesn't want to be there.

The clause only forces Madrid to accept the bid at the end of the loan period so yes we can still sign him but I doubt he and Madrid wants to. Madrid wants him to be a future replacement for Alonso and Sahin still has hope of breaking into Mourinho's first 11. Also the reason he wanted Arsenal in the first place is because of CL football and judging on our last 2 matches its highly unlikely for us to make top 4 this season. If he does well with us this season surely his value will go up significantly along with other clubs' interest in him.

Plenty of suitors but only United and City in England. Doesn't really matter anyway because if he has his heart set on United, its sell now or lose him for nothing 1 year later. He will still end up at United anyway, only 1 year later.

Hazard's pace and trickery on the ball is too much for most defenders.

He came on as a sub in the WBA match and got himself injured again within minutes.

He is now linked with a 4m move to QPR, sure hope so. 4m for a 30 year old and 90k wiped off the wage bill, nice!

Don't think so. I remember reading somewhere saying Sahin won't be registered into the squad in time for our City match.

Is BR trying to hit City on the counter by choosing Sterling over Downing. Sterling clearly has more pace and seem more willing to take on defenders, fearless little winger at the moment really. It also helps that he is somewhat of an unknown player to these City defenders so he is more capable of springing surprises.

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Aug 26 2012, 10:27 PM

But to think that we could have gotten a Hazard instead of Carroll, Oscar instead of Henderson, Kagawa instead of Downing. Its not like these are small name players that requires intensive scouting like Ba, Tiote, Cisse etc. Those are pretty big names in their respective leagues and to think that we could have gotten them, yes they might not be interested in coming to us because we can't offer CL football BUT if we had spent that Torres, Alonso, Mascherano cash wisely we could have gotten a bunch of big names the way City and Chelsea did and I have no doubt it would have propelled us back to top 4 in no time.

The way the funds got wasted made it seem as if the works of Rafa turned to waste. Instead of building on Rafa's success we took so many steps backwards its comparable or maybe even worse than Houllier's squad?

coates pay attention!!!

Turning up The Kop's volume

Kompany's finishing sucks LOL

NICEEEEEEEEEEEE

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Aug 26 2012, 11:34 PM

That was what I liked about Rafa but BR's style incorporates high tempo slick passing in offence as opposed to Rafa's more rigid offense that often requires magical moments from Torres Gerrard or a great pass from Xabi.

The challenge now is if we still have gas in the tank to continue that high tempo pressing. With the weapons at City's disposal, no doubt they will be coming out of half time with guns blazing.