***Bodo/Glint v City Official Match Thread***

[Mase]

However, because we paid more for our players, we should win apparently.

If you don't think we should be beating Bodo then it's truly bizarre

[Outcast]

Donnarumma,

Ait-Nouri - Khusanov - Alleyne - O'Reilly

Reijnders - Rodri (C) - Lewis

Foden - Haaland - Cherki

Ok, look at that team. It's not half bad is it?

The fact that Pep, for some obscure idiotic reason decided to put Ait-Nouri at RB is stupid, the fact he didn't change it when it was obviously not working is on him to defend.

He had a very good option of moving Rico to RB, Nico to CM and Ait-Nouri to LB without affecting the team at all, and then giving us the right balance.

I don't think he is perfect. I think he should be given time to rebuild and prove once again why he is the best in the world at what he does. True fans of City owe him that, after he has given us what we would never have even dreamt possible. He has earnt that respect, if you think he hasn't, then god help us.

If you look back on my posts, despite Carl's drivel, I have said Pep should be called out for shit decisions and he is not beyond reproach. I am just not one for the kneejerk reactions, I hate the flip flopping mind changing brigade, cheering one minute and have the gallows out the next.

The players need to be held accountable as well as the manager. Once they cross that white line, it's up to them to give everything for the shirt. That didn't happen and questions need to be pointed to them too.

I said Bodo were not as bad as people thought in this thread earlier. Their results have not been that bad in the CL. They certainly proved their position was a false one tonight. However, because we paid more for our players, we should win apparently.

Kneejerk reaction? He's been shocking for over 18 months playing same boring flat football. What exactly is he rebuilding? How long does need? His contract will expire soon and can't see him renewing. Get a new manager and start rebuilding now. We dont owe him anything, he's been giving all the tools and rewarded handsomely. Thanks for all the success and memories, its been great but its time to move on, afterall this is business, no room for sentiments

[bigblue]

Hopefully it'll be 2nd season come good, but it should be pretty obvious at this point that Reijnders is just a more limited version of Gundo. And Lewis needs to hit the gym for a few months or years before playing at senior level again.

Also nice day for the 6 academy players taking the trip to Norway just to sit the bench while everyone in the game plays horrendously and the manager makes a single sub

[carolina-blue]

Erling Haaland: “I take full responsibility together with Rodri, Gigio [Donnarumma], Tijjani [Reijnders] - us experienced players.

“I don’t want to blame anyone but we need to take more responsibility, because at the end it’s not good enough. We’re #ManCity, we can’t go around and not win games, it shouldn’t be like this...” [via

[Wonderwall]

Donnarumma,

Ait-Nouri - Khusanov - Alleyne - O'Reilly

Reijnders - Rodri (C) - Lewis

Foden - Haaland - Cherki

Ok, look at that team. It's not half bad is it?

That team has no one in front of the back 4 (besides a player coming back from a knee injury playing on turf who also played a few days ago) who can defend with any physical presence or track back effectively. He basically put out a back 4 of:

- A left back w/ no right foot playing on the right
- A young player just getting his first run of games for awhile
- A young player just recalled to the squad 10 days ago
- An attacking midfielder who is excellent on the ball and in challenges, but massively struggles when someone dribbles at him

with absolutely no protection in front of them. Pretty much all the goals came when our midfield was brushed aside by a simple pass to expose an out of position, inexperienced back line who obviously have gotten little to no instructions for how to play together.

The players were beyond bad, but Peps bizarre team selection enabled it to happen. And he obviously did not inspire them to play with any determination at all - not that they should need it but obviously this group does.

5 of that starting 11 also started against Real Madrid. Of the other 6, 4 are injured, 1 suspended, 1 on the bench.

When you have a lot of injuries, you need to utilise your squad. It's pretty simple. However, hindsight is 20/20 vision!! However most people were completely perplexed by the Ait-Nouri switch, still cannot understand it now.

[Mase]

Erling Haaland: “I take full responsibility together with Rodri, Gigio [Donnarumma], Tijjani [Reijnders] - us experienced players.

“I don’t want to blame anyone but we need to take more responsibility, because at the end it’s not good enough. We’re #ManCity, we can’t go around and not win games, it shouldn’t be like this...” [via

He posted similar on his social media after the rags defeat. All lip service. He's saving himself for the WC

[bigblue]

5 of that starting 11 also started against Real Madrid. Of the other 6, 4 are injured, 1 suspended, 1 on the bench.

When you have a lot of injuries, you need to utilise your squad. It's pretty simple. However, hindsight is 20/20 vision!! However most people were completely perplexed by the Ait-Nouri switch, still cannot understand it now.

Peps system only works when we defend from the front and win the ball back quickly in the opposing team's half. Our recent line ups lack anyone who know where to position themselves off the ball and can then press with intensity. Which is why teams easily cut through our first 2 lines and look dangerous because every attack is running at a back line pressed way too high for the midfield to not also be pressing.

And this should be obvious to Pep but somehow he keeps getting it wrong and we keep giving up ridiculously easy goals

[bigblue]

Finally it also seems like us playing slow sideways football has coincided with Rodri coming back into the team. Makes me think it has been an intentional shift by Pep because he thinks we can control the possession better with Rodri back and Rodri would not be able to keep up right now with more direct play. If so it's a massive blunder

[carolina-blue]

Erling Haaland: “I take full responsibility together with Rodri, Gigio [Donnarumma], Tijjani [Reijnders] - us experienced players.

“I don’t want to blame anyone but we need to take more responsibility, because at the end it’s not good enough. We’re #ManCity, we can’t go around and not win games, it shouldn’t be like this...” [via

He posted similar on his social media after the rags defeat. All lip service. He's saving himself for the WC

Yep big difference in saying we need to take responsibility and actually taking responsibility !


Foooookin spuds above us in the Chumps league
Let that sink in Erling

[Nick]

Saving himself for a tornie in 6 months where they wont get out the groups and he doesnt break sweat week to week hahaha

[Dubciteh]

Foden getting away with no criticism tonight I thought it was his worst ever performance and he played a huge part in rodri getting sent off.

Two of possibly the worst performances in ten years back to back. No one can hold their head up high and that goes all the way to the fucking tea lady in my book. You all took the glory when we were winning so you can take a share of the accountability after that shit show.

Fella who scored two goals for them was mixing with the city fans in the local supermarket today, borderline amateur players made us look like the amateurs.

[zabbadabbado]

Some are saying Pep is being let down by all the new signings.

Like al these signings have fuck all to do with him, that he is being forced to accept them.

This is the Manager who signed Nunez from Wolves, and said the Lad was too fucking thick to play in the middle.

Backbone of Pep success came from a Squad made up by other Managers signings FACT.

As the Squad aged and got Older and Pep replaced others signings with his own we got worse FACT

Our decline directly correlates with him buying his own players FACT.

The new Guy will be left an expensive squad of over priced mediocrity he will have too move many on at great loss.

This isn't a rebuild. It is simply making sure there will be another 2,3 years of mediocrity after Pep. Leaving the next ,manager a huge rebuild moving on average players like Reindeer/Alt Nouri/Nunez/Marmoush/Lewis etc

He should have gone last Season, it was obvious Pep Ball was done then.

Now we will pay a price.

[zuricity]

Some are saying Pep is being let down by all the new signings.

Like al these signings have fuck all to do with him, that he is being forced to accept them.

This is the Manager who signed Nunez from Wolves, and said the Lad was too fucking thick to play in the middle.

Backbone of Pep success came from a Squad made up by other Managers signings FACT.

As the Squad aged and got Older and Pep replaced others signings with his own we got worse FACT

Our decline directly correlates with him buying his own players FACT.

The new Guy will be left an expensive squad of over priced mediocrity he will have too move many on at great loss.

This isn't a rebuild. It is simply making sure there will be another 2,3 years of mediocrity after Pep. Leaving the next ,manager a huge rebuild moving on average players like Reindeer/Alt Nouri/Nunez/Marmoush/Lewis etc

He should have gone last Season, it was obvious Pep Ball was done then.

Now we will pay a price.

Please don't write FACT.

Put some context into your statements.

All managers inherit players.

[Wonderwall]

Some are saying Pep is being let down by all the new signings.

Like al these signings have fuck all to do with him, that he is being forced to accept them.

This is the Manager who signed Nunez from Wolves, and said the Lad was too fucking thick to play in the middle.

Backbone of Pep success came from a Squad made up by other Managers signings FACT.

As the Squad aged and got Older and Pep replaced others signings with his own we got worse FACT

Our decline directly correlates with him buying his own players FACT.

The new Guy will be left an expensive squad of over priced mediocrity he will have too move many on at great loss.

This isn't a rebuild. It is simply making sure there will be another 2,3 years of mediocrity after Pep. Leaving the next ,manager a huge rebuild moving on average players like Reindeer/Alt Nouri/Nunez/Marmoush/Lewis etc

He should have gone last Season, it was obvious Pep Ball was done then.

Now we will pay a price.

Ok, we need to define the rules here. Are they peps signings or Txiki's signings?

FACT pep's/Txiki's signings won the treble
FACT 10/11 pep's/Txiki's signings started the champions league final against Inter. The only one Pep didn't sign KDB went off on 36 mins.

If you are going to rant on facts, at least state facts.

[Nick]

https://x.com/0161Darren/status/2013698 ... 0&ref_url=

[carl_feedthegoat]

Donnarumma,

Ait-Nouri - Khusanov - Alleyne - O'Reilly

Reijnders - Rodri (C) - Lewis

Foden - Haaland - Cherki

Ok, look at that team. It's not half bad is it?

The fact that Pep, for some obscure idiotic reason decided to put Ait-Nouri at RB is stupid, the fact he didn't change it when it was obviously not working is on him to defend.

He had a very good option of moving Rico to RB, Nico to CM and Ait-Nouri to LB without affecting the team at all, and then giving us the right balance.

I don't think he is perfect. I think he should be given time to rebuild and prove once again why he is the best in the world at what he does. True fans of City owe him that, after he has given us what we would never have even dreamt possible. He has earnt that respect, if you think he hasn't, then god help us.

If you look back on my posts, despite Carl's drivel, I have said Pep should be called out for shit decisions and he is not beyond reproach. I am just not one for the kneejerk reactions, I hate the flip flopping mind changing brigade, cheering one minute and have the gallows out the next.

The players need to be held accountable as well as the manager. Once they cross that white line, it's up to them to give everything for the shirt. That didn't happen and questions need to be pointed to them too.

I said Bodo were not as bad as people thought in this thread earlier. Their results have not been that bad in the CL. They certainly proved their position was a false one tonight. However, because we paid more for our players, we should win apparently.

Why dont you spare us your half arsed, delusional drivel where you pretend to critique Pep while bending over backwards to protect him from any real fucking blame. Your "not half bad" team just got mullered 3-1 by the 'mighty Ducks' from the arctic !!—a Norwegian nobody which is in their first Champions League season, worth a fraction of our squad ( not that you think that is fucking relevant !!) and you're still parroting the same tired wank excuses!! Hogh ( noone has ever heard of him !) bags 2 goals in two minutes and another nobody rifles in a 25 yarder , and we scrape a consolation from Cherki before Rodri gets himself sent off ( he probably had enough as well !). Humiliating? That's a fucking understatement; it's one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history, as per ESPN and every outlet covering it....Baldy loves to embarrass us now and again....but twice in a couple of days is taking the piss !!

You admit Pep's "obscure idiotic reason" for shoving Ait Nouri at RB was stupid and yet he didn't fix it—yet you dismiss that and tell us all that we should "give him time to rebuild." Time? are you on fuckign drugs or what ? This is the same manager who's overseen an unbelievable shit show to start 2026 - just TWO bastard wins in SEVEN fucking games (a 10-1 FA Cup thrashing of League Two Exeter and a 2-0 at Newcastle), THREE draws and TWO back-to-back defeats (2-0 at the sscum where we had ONE fucking shot on target !—the worst in years under Pep—and then this Arctic embarrassment). Winless in four of the last five PL games before tonight - sitting mid table in form tables, and now our top eight CL hopes hanging by a thread.Pep himself admits "everything is going wrong," we're fucking "fragile," "predictable," and need to "change the dynamic quick"(his own words). But sure, "true fans owe him" endless patience while he clings to failing tactics like Ait-Nouri at RB, refusing the obvious switch at RB, Nico to CM, Nouri to LB that could've balanced us without the fuckign chaos that followed - we pay him 25 million pounds a year to win and he gets bonuses on top of that....we gave him last seasons failures a pass but he deserves no extra credit if he fails this season.

Whilst I'm in the mood for a rant - You also claim you've "said Pep should be called out for shit decisions"— total bullshit ! despite my "drivel," you're the one flip-flopping, cheering his genius one minute, then mealy mouthed "he's not perfect" the next while blaming the players. Players need accountability? Fine—intensity was lacking, Haaland anonymous again, defense a joke with Max at fault for two goals. But who's fucking picking them? Who's spearheading the tactics? Who's stubbornly not adapting mid game? the answer is THE FUCKIGN MANAGER !!

As for Bodo being "not as bad as people thought"? They were fucking winless in the CL before tonight , but they "proved their position false" by outplaying us clinically because we were wide open, unbalanced, and fucking predictable—Pep's fingerprints all over it.
As for paying more for players should mean winning? No, not at all, but it fucking well means we shouldn't be getting schooled by a fucking team whose entire squad costs less than Haaland's fucking wages !!!.
This also is not Knee jerk by most fans on this thread , it's just facts slapping you in the face while you bury your fucking head in the sand with your cult like devotion. "God help us" if we question Pep? God help City if we don't—trophies are drying up, confidence shattered (Pep's words), and your selective blindness is what's truly embarrassing the fan base.

[just sayin]

Well.....it could have been worse.....we could have had Ake in the team!

[Harry Dowd scored]

This was one of the worst nights of Pep Guardiola's Man City reign, writes JACK GAUGHAN - there are no excuses for a shameful defeat that leaves club's stars with serious questions to answer

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... ights.html

Scathing match report here

[Wonderwall]

Donnarumma,

Ait-Nouri - Khusanov - Alleyne - O'Reilly

Reijnders - Rodri (C) - Lewis

Foden - Haaland - Cherki

Ok, look at that team. It's not half bad is it?

The fact that Pep, for some obscure idiotic reason decided to put Ait-Nouri at RB is stupid, the fact he didn't change it when it was obviously not working is on him to defend.

He had a very good option of moving Rico to RB, Nico to CM and Ait-Nouri to LB without affecting the team at all, and then giving us the right balance.

I don't think he is perfect. I think he should be given time to rebuild and prove once again why he is the best in the world at what he does. True fans of City owe him that, after he has given us what we would never have even dreamt possible. He has earnt that respect, if you think he hasn't, then god help us.

If you look back on my posts, despite Carl's drivel, I have said Pep should be called out for shit decisions and he is not beyond reproach. I am just not one for the kneejerk reactions, I hate the flip flopping mind changing brigade, cheering one minute and have the gallows out the next.

The players need to be held accountable as well as the manager. Once they cross that white line, it's up to them to give everything for the shirt. That didn't happen and questions need to be pointed to them too.

I said Bodo were not as bad as people thought in this thread earlier. Their results have not been that bad in the CL. They certainly proved their position was a false one tonight. However, because we paid more for our players, we should win apparently.

Why dont you spare us your half arsed, delusional drivel where you pretend to critique Pep while bending over backwards to protect him from any real fucking blame. Your "not half bad" team just got mullered 3-1 by the 'mighty Ducks' from the arctic !!—a Norwegian nobody which is in their first Champions League season, worth a fraction of our squad ( not that you think that is fucking relevant !!) and you're still parroting the same tired wank excuses!! Hogh ( noone has ever heard of him !) bags 2 goals in two minutes and another nobody rifles in a 25 yarder , and we scrape a consolation from Cherki before Rodri gets himself sent off ( he probably had enough as well !). Humiliating? That's a fucking understatement; it's one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history, as per ESPN and every outlet covering it....Baldy loves to embarrass us now and again....but twice in a couple of days is taking the piss !!

You admit Pep's "obscure idiotic reason" for shoving Ait Nouri at RB was stupid and yet he didn't fix it—yet you dismiss that and tell us all that we should "give him time to rebuild." Time? are you on fuckign drugs or what ? This is the same manager who's overseen an unbelievable shit show to start 2026 - just TWO bastard wins in SEVEN fucking games (a 10-1 FA Cup thrashing of League Two Exeter and a 2-0 at Newcastle), THREE draws and TWO back-to-back defeats (2-0 at the sscum where we had ONE fucking shot on target !—the worst in years under Pep—and then this Arctic embarrassment). Winless in four of the last five PL games before tonight - sitting mid table in form tables, and now our top eight CL hopes hanging by a thread.Pep himself admits "everything is going wrong," we're fucking "fragile," "predictable," and need to "change the dynamic quick"(his own words). But sure, "true fans owe him" endless patience while he clings to failing tactics like Ait-Nouri at RB, refusing the obvious switch at RB, Nico to CM, Nouri to LB that could've balanced us without the fuckign chaos that followed - we pay him 25 million pounds a year to win and he gets bonuses on top of that....we gave him last seasons failures a pass but he deserves no extra credit if he fails this season.

Whilst I'm in the mood for a rant - You also claim you've "said Pep should be called out for shit decisions"— total bullshit ! despite my "drivel," you're the one flip-flopping, cheering his genius one minute, then mealy mouthed "he's not perfect" the next while blaming the players. Players need accountability? Fine—intensity was lacking, Haaland anonymous again, defense a joke with Max at fault for two goals. But who's fucking picking them? Who's spearheading the tactics? Who's stubbornly not adapting mid game? the answer is THE FUCKIGN MANAGER !!

As for Bodo being "not as bad as people thought"? They were fucking winless in the CL before tonight , but they "proved their position false" by outplaying us clinically because we were wide open, unbalanced, and fucking predictable—Pep's fingerprints all over it.
As for paying more for players should mean winning? No, not at all, but it fucking well means we shouldn't be getting schooled by a fucking team whose entire squad costs less than Haaland's fucking wages !!!.
This also is not Knee jerk by most fans on this thread , it's just facts slapping you in the face while you bury your fucking head in the sand with your cult like devotion. "God help us" if we question Pep? God help City if we don't—trophies are drying up, confidence shattered (Pep's words), and your selective blindness is what's truly embarrassing the fan base.

Christ, that's a chatshitGPT special right there from the MAGA lover. Wow

[carl_feedthegoat]

Donnarumma,

Ait-Nouri - Khusanov - Alleyne - O'Reilly

Reijnders - Rodri (C) - Lewis

Foden - Haaland - Cherki

Ok, look at that team. It's not half bad is it?

The fact that Pep, for some obscure idiotic reason decided to put Ait-Nouri at RB is stupid, the fact he didn't change it when it was obviously not working is on him to defend.

He had a very good option of moving Rico to RB, Nico to CM and Ait-Nouri to LB without affecting the team at all, and then giving us the right balance.

I don't think he is perfect. I think he should be given time to rebuild and prove once again why he is the best in the world at what he does. True fans of City owe him that, after he has given us what we would never have even dreamt possible. He has earnt that respect, if you think he hasn't, then god help us.

If you look back on my posts, despite Carl's drivel, I have said Pep should be called out for shit decisions and he is not beyond reproach. I am just not one for the kneejerk reactions, I hate the flip flopping mind changing brigade, cheering one minute and have the gallows out the next.

The players need to be held accountable as well as the manager. Once they cross that white line, it's up to them to give everything for the shirt. That didn't happen and questions need to be pointed to them too.

I said Bodo were not as bad as people thought in this thread earlier. Their results have not been that bad in the CL. They certainly proved their position was a false one tonight. However, because we paid more for our players, we should win apparently.

Why dont you spare us your half arsed, delusional drivel where you pretend to critique Pep while bending over backwards to protect him from any real fucking blame. Your "not half bad" team just got mullered 3-1 by the 'mighty Ducks' from the arctic !!—a Norwegian nobody which is in their first Champions League season, worth a fraction of our squad ( not that you think that is fucking relevant !!) and you're still parroting the same tired wank excuses!! Hogh ( noone has ever heard of him !) bags 2 goals in two minutes and another nobody rifles in a 25 yarder , and we scrape a consolation from Cherki before Rodri gets himself sent off ( he probably had enough as well !). Humiliating? That's a fucking understatement; it's one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history, as per ESPN and every outlet covering it....Baldy loves to embarrass us now and again....but twice in a couple of days is taking the piss !!

You admit Pep's "obscure idiotic reason" for shoving Ait Nouri at RB was stupid and yet he didn't fix it—yet you dismiss that and tell us all that we should "give him time to rebuild." Time? are you on fuckign drugs or what ? This is the same manager who's overseen an unbelievable shit show to start 2026 - just TWO bastard wins in SEVEN fucking games (a 10-1 FA Cup thrashing of League Two Exeter and a 2-0 at Newcastle), THREE draws and TWO back-to-back defeats (2-0 at the sscum where we had ONE fucking shot on target !—the worst in years under Pep—and then this Arctic embarrassment). Winless in four of the last five PL games before tonight - sitting mid table in form tables, and now our top eight CL hopes hanging by a thread.Pep himself admits "everything is going wrong," we're fucking "fragile," "predictable," and need to "change the dynamic quick"(his own words). But sure, "true fans owe him" endless patience while he clings to failing tactics like Ait-Nouri at RB, refusing the obvious switch at RB, Nico to CM, Nouri to LB that could've balanced us without the fuckign chaos that followed - we pay him 25 million pounds a year to win and he gets bonuses on top of that....we gave him last seasons failures a pass but he deserves no extra credit if he fails this season.

Whilst I'm in the mood for a rant - You also claim you've "said Pep should be called out for shit decisions"— total bullshit ! despite my "drivel," you're the one flip-flopping, cheering his genius one minute, then mealy mouthed "he's not perfect" the next while blaming the players. Players need accountability? Fine—intensity was lacking, Haaland anonymous again, defense a joke with Max at fault for two goals. But who's fucking picking them? Who's spearheading the tactics? Who's stubbornly not adapting mid game? the answer is THE FUCKIGN MANAGER !!

As for Bodo being "not as bad as people thought"? They were fucking winless in the CL before tonight , but they "proved their position false" by outplaying us clinically because we were wide open, unbalanced, and fucking predictable—Pep's fingerprints all over it.
As for paying more for players should mean winning? No, not at all, but it fucking well means we shouldn't be getting schooled by a fucking team whose entire squad costs less than Haaland's fucking wages !!!.
This also is not Knee jerk by most fans on this thread , it's just facts slapping you in the face while you bury your fucking head in the sand with your cult like devotion. "God help us" if we question Pep? God help City if we don't—trophies are drying up, confidence shattered (Pep's words), and your selective blindness is what's truly embarrassing the fan base.

Christ, that's a chatshitGPT special right there from the MAGA lover. Wow

Chat GPT ??? Thats for fucking beginners you cretin -
Having said that, maybe you should actually use it once in a while to make sure you don't flip flop between posts like a confused Cunt..
As for me being some MAGA lover… PMSL.