Ryan

I think the whole thing is designed to create that kind of atmosphere unfortunately. Football is such an ego-driven thing too; everyone’s opinions smell sweeter than everyone else’s. You realise how bad it is online when you speak to people at the pub/the match/whatever and they’re normal.

I’m trying to get away from this. X is/was a problem in itself. Toxicity galore.

I also find that when I go to games (Saturday a prime example), the way people behave afterwards is shocking, like they’re in a bad mood so can do whatever they see fit. It’s grim.

It’s not been true for many years, as we all knew, but the 15-16 reliable first-teamers we did have were *so* good that it papered over it.

Once Rodri was gone, it was curtains for this season. KDB being out (essentially) during these 5 losses has also played a massive part.

I don’t like the word ‘crisis’, because long-term, we’ll be fine.

But you can put any of this season’s failures to come firmly down to poor planning from the club, whose attention seems to be elsewhere. Pep might be culpable too; probably is.

It’ll be a slog unless we go big in January (we won’t).

We all knew Walker was declining rapidly last season, let alone this.

We all knew that De Bruyne is another year older with a poor injury record.

We all knew the same about Stones.

We all knew, but the club didn’t ask. We will pay the price heavily this season on a trophy front.

City’s squad planning heading into this season was catastrophic.

Anyone with a pair of eyes knew that not having a player to rotate with Rodri would kill us.

Anyone could’ve told you that an injured Bobb, an unproven Savio, a patchy Doku and an unavailable, inconsistent Grealish wasn’t enough.

Terrible game.

None of this will get better with the personnel available.

Disgraceful defensively. Pep is out of ideas too.

Anfield will be horrendous next weekend.

The bubble had to burst eventually.

Savio shouldn’t be our number one winger.

Foden being anonymous every game is killing us.

Haaland is nothing without service.

Lewis, Gundogan and Bernardo as a midfield three is laughable.

The defence looks like a shadow of its former self, particularly Stones, Walker and Akanji.

Savinho suffered the age-old City problem of looking sharp for two games and everyone losing their mind.

Every year. Same thing. Doku last year. Same thing. A good player who is not ready to be the star man at City. Wake up and see what’s in front of you.

Grealish is without doubt, our best option on the left wing at the minute, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s his own availability issues that plague him, not his football ability.

Either injured, suspiciously unavailable or just openly not right, he misses too many games. Time to get rid.

It’s an oddly vital game for City today and yet I couldn’t feel less nervous if I tried.

Lose or draw and the title looks more and more difficult.

Feels like we’ll see a reaction today though. Have a feeling on a Haaland hat-trick.

Couldn’t agree more. KDB’s salary, injury record and age should make it a no brainer. He’s one of quite a few City should be looking at moving on in the summer if we have any chance of realistically rebuilding. He’s objectively the best player we’ve ever had but it’s time, for me.

When you consider how absolutely ‘done’ City would’ve been with one bad injury in a few positions prior to the season starting, it shows you how appalling the squad planning was.

Haaland, Rodri, KDB. Any of those three out for the season derails us. One’s already happened.

Enjoying my Bluesky feed but what I would say is, I ticked off that I liked sports and now I’m having NFL and NBA rammed down my throat almost as hard as I was having right-wing nonsense and porn rammed down my throat on X.

At least I like the NFL a bit.

If Van de Ven is missing, that’s huge for us.

One of the only centre-halves who can legitimately keep up with Haaland.

I’m feeling pretty relaxed. In some ways, it’s a must win and in some, it feels like the pressure is off for us. Think we’ll be up for it and ready.

Something where they don’t need to control the camera and move at the same time. My partner really struggles with games where camera movement is needed to be done manually. Lego games are a good in for this usually!

My guess is that he’d go with Walker as the right sider, but I’m pretty certain that that is a horrible idea. Stones is a clear starter but often unavailable. Maguire, Guehi, Dunk, Harwood-Bellis, Quansah etc. all feel in that similar boat of ‘meh, not good to start for England’.

Because they literally have no idea what’s going on. They work on whispers and the whispers are all different so it’s a complete minefield. I’m sure someone knows something legitimate but how do you separate that from the chancers and grifters? We’ll know when we know.

Definitely feels like an unbalanced mess. We literally don’t have a natural left-back with any kind of top level experience but we pretty have have to leave one of Palmer/Foden/Saka out every time we play. No established centre-half to partner Stones but 3 unbelievable right-backs for years. Pain.

I recently played TimeSplitters: Future Perfect on PS Plus. Truly, one of my favourite PS2 games ever. It just didn’t hit in quite the same way.

Nostalgia needs to be protected sometimes by simply never going near the media again!

I’m also really into my video games and looking to talk more about them on this platform.

Can’t be a football one-trick-pony anymore.

Some of my favourite games:

- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Death Stranding
- God of War
- Astro Bot
- Crash Bandicoot
- Spyro the Dragon
- Ratchet and Clank

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