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we have too many squad players who just aren't good enough. Park, Nani, Anderson, O'Shea some of them aren't even good squad players. Don't think much of Wellbeck either. With the loss of Ronaldo and Tevez we have to play these more and more and it's no wonder we are third in the league.

Fell sorry for sparkey I get the feeling he was sacked just because everyone thinks you need a foreign manager to do well

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What is it between Arsenal and Hull. Gah.

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The only comment i can think of concerning the sacking of Mark Hughes is It`s wrong. Now we have a manager who doesn`t know or bought any of the players just because he`s a name!

:td: :td: :td:

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At least Sparky will Rene from Allo Allo (ie Rafa) to keep him company down the jobcentre soon.

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Just read the news & I'm shocked. As a life long city fan I had at least expected sparky to see out the season.

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Seems the top 4 no longer is the top 4. TBH I wasn't expecting Hughes to be sacked, he's done a great job getting City knocking on the top 4 places. Perhaps the people in charge wanted somebody who would listen to them as opposed to run the team how the manager wanted.

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Another great weekend for us Gooners \o/

EDIT: Looks like John Terry's carrying on the family tradition of being a nasty piece of work;

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...h-scandal.html

Why couldn't he arrange it properly? Why does he have to be sneaky? Why is he hanging around with ****? Why can't he give his own money to charity?

This guy is on £100K+ a week. The Terry family are shocking.

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Pfft. Donate money to a Children's charity then I'll show you personally around the ground? Can't really get worked about him doing that.

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I find it rather strange that not a single Manchester United fan has posted anything in defence of their turning over by Fulham, I mean 3 - NIL.:D:D:D

Read about it here

:D:D:D

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I'm guessing you missed post 1284 perhaps?

Still, it's better than being beaten by the team at the bottom of the league I suppose.

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Thank you Russ I missed that one and would have expected more posts.;)

They deserved to get spanked 2 - NIL did they not.;)

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City's holding a press conference at 5pm today to introduce the new manager

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Wonder how long until he is fired.

Most of us expected Hughes to be fired in the Summer, and it looked as if the owners were going to patient team builders rather than attempting to simply buy the league. Now it looks as if they were after the latter despite all their lip-service to the former.

I feel sorry for Hughes but he must have seen the writing on the wall. His ruthless pursuit of Lescott (who has been worse, this season, than Dunne who left the club to make room), the fact he was allowed to spend £18 Million on Toure (whom Arsenal replaced, at half the cost, with the far superior Vermalen) were not the actions of a team concerned with slow, stable team building like Arsenal or United. It was a total of £200 million I believe he spent.

He also thought he could stop Adebayor from being the lazy, disruptive player he was at Arsenal but after Adebayor impressed in the first few games and Man City dropped off the pace he lost interest again and even Hughes simply dropped him for his final game at the Weekend. Tevez also showed why he was not a first team regular at United!

Bellamy and Given were his best signings and they were the ones who tried to stop him being fired.

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There isn't much to say really that hasn't been known since the Wolfsburg game. Fletcher / Carrick are decent tacklers etc but they have no sense of positioning in the defence. That was obvious against Wolfsburg just they failed to take the chances (they missed a sitter seconds before Owen scored his third).

If you have a "defence" that is all over the place you're going to concede and especially against a team in form like Fulham. The defeat wasn't down to a bad performance or poor team selection or poor decisions by Fergie so there isn't much to complain at. We only have 1 defender who knows what to do (De Laet is too young/inexperienced) and as he spends more time going forward we effectively have no people in defence who know what to do.

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if you defence is weak then you should control the ball in midfield which again is something we failed to do.

For the biggest club in the world it seems all our reserve and youth players are so bad that we have to play CMs in defence rather than use them.

Think this season we have a very weak squad and are having to rely more and more on squad players who aren't good enough. We have very little world class talent any more.