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People who say he’s like Benteke are mistaken. Both might be strong but technically Benteke is more gifted. However Duran has his own attributes, I don’t usually have confident of him keeping the ball but somehow he delivers it ok. His way of playing and running is strange, but I think he’ll be perfect for City. He’s the type of player that would make issues wether he have technique or not. More like Antonio. The good thing is that he’s strong while still young, other attributes he can learn (especially decision making which is already improving). I think he can hurt City as Mateita done with Palace. I just hope we put the right players, as going with an attacking side will be hard to watch. This time Tim has to start.
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I think our win was massive but Utd losing points the way they did is very important to our run. I was gutted by Luton mistake which lead to Spurs goal but then and us winning might gave Utd more doubts. This can give us some space with the coming run in. If Utd failed to win next game as well that would be a big bonus (whatever we do at City). If both of them failed to win then that would be as if we won at City. We’ll still have some important European games as well. So each win will really help us rotate well. Especially that we’re going to a point where European wins could be more important than league games and easier to secure CL qualification.
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Nor Kamara.
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I don’t think the impact of Archer or Ramsey will help, but hopefully JPB does. Depends on what he does the remainder of the season.
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Ireland had couple of good games that season, add to that he came as a part of Milner deal, usually in those kind of deals fail. I’m usually against getting fancy names thats why I was against Coutinho for example. But I think Grealish is still a good player, we had good days with him. Even Young which we had him after more than 10 years helped us qualifying to Europe. A loan for Grealish would be perfect. We’ll need a proper rotation next season anyway. I doubt City would loan to be honest, but I think that would be perfect for all parties.
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Ireland somehow was our player of the season on McLeish days. Lescott didn’t come directly from Man City from what I remember. Richards was free transfer. Only Sinclair was who we got from them, he didn’t do much but won us against Tesco Bags in our cup run if I’m not mistaken. Our issue was much bigger than buying from City.
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Depends who we could get, and how much we could get for him.
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I don’t think Emery’s playing them because they’re young, even without Duran and Rogers he didn’t start Diaby and Zaniolo. All have different attributes, I think he played both because of the physicality of West Ham. Although I don’t agree starting two forwards but I can see where Emery came from. If he starts Rogers, Duran and Tim, it won’t be because he’s developing kids but because he needs them. Somehow those kids adds physicality which senior players lack.
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If he got a good offer I’d sell him. He’s been a good signing generally, and we need a squad depth, but he’s better more advanced, so with Buendia back, Rogers, Ramsey and even McGinn I think we have a good depth there. But if we got a more proper CM or DCM, I think it’s what’s we need especially with Kamara not featuring for a while. It’s not that we don’t need him, it will be a tough season to maintain what we’ve done this season and most likely play in a tougher European competition wether it was CL or Europa. But if he could generate some amount I won’t be against that. For now hopefully he continues helping us on our goals, and then wether he stays or go I think both will be good for the club a way or another.
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Very important draw for a lot of things: -Not going into a losing run -Keep our form for away games (not losing away since December) -Getting back from losing -Keeping the belief despite the absences (mainly McGinn) -Keep more pressure on Spurs and Utd, especially when they know that Villa hasn’t surrendered yet, nor willing to. -Making it 9 points with Utd, let’s assume them winnig their game in hand, we made it 6 now and GD on our side. -Better GD than Spurs again although it can change, but atleast keep some distance which is better than 2. You could see us pressing them even when have missing players, which still shows the belief we have, the quality we still have. All in all, very encouraging game, hope to win the derby, very huge game, we’re due a win against them.
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Hopefully him and Zaniolo help us going to the CL, and winning the UECL and they will be remembered like our players in the promotion season. They might not be the level we want but they helped us.
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I think he should start, I don’t see any other way to go there without starting him.
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The issue is we’re making it tough for ourselves all the time (ofcourse a lot of things included), so every game is becoming more important than the previous one. If we got 4-6 points from our next 2, I’d start Duran against City for example.
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So you’d prefer Diaby or Tielemans to be put run by the most physical team? For me Diaby has to be kept to the second half. Rogers to start first half. Tielemans starts as well but with both Tim and Luiz behind him. Unless if Ramsey was ready (which I won’t risk as he will have more time to get ready during the international break).
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If we managed to win UECL and qualified to CL I think we’ll be in a very great position. The squad should be stronger with Buendia and Mings back. Then we have Zaniolo and Lenglet back to their teams which reduce wages. I’m not sure wether Sanson gone already or not yet I remember something like 4m. I think we could offload Dendonker for 5 or around that. Not sure about Coutinho, but if we managed to offload then we’ve had done really well. Chambers contract will run by then or have 6 more months. Not sure about Dinge situation, won’t try and sell unless we get someone as Frimpong, but if we still get a decent offer then we shall take it. If we won the Conference and went to the CL, it will get more attraction to our non wanted players. So hopefully it will help that as well.
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Crucial times for him, Tim and Rogers. Especially the first two. They’re needed in a very crucial time, it’s not about them needing time to improve but we’ll demand a lot from them. I think he will help us a lot in the coming games. Tough game Sunday, hopefully we can win that.
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For me, I’d start Tim and Rogers. With Tielemans as well. The physical presence of the two would help minimizing McGinn absence damage. Tim has to start all 3 games, then for the other two positions it will depend if Ramsey was back or not. If Tim succeeded, I think he’ll continue playing beside Luiz even if McGinn was back for most games. Hopefully he success sooner than later.
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Tough draws, I think there is other way to think of it. Italy will have one team out, with hopefully another if Liverpool made it. So hopefully they will only have two. If Leverkusen won which is likely so they will play Italian team. One of them will go out. Fiorentina draw seems easy but if they went out somehow that would be great for us in the UECL if we made the final and in terms of points. Hopefully Dortmund goes out as well which will help as well. Lot of stress to be honest, that’s without considering the stress of our League and UECL games! Spurs and Utd games as well. I remember doing these things on Swansea, Wigan, QPR, Sunderland…etc fixtures. Then Derby, Boro….etc We’ve made a long way, to start considering big English teams and some relevant European giants!
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It might not really worked for him mainly because of injuries, but if we made it to the CL and won the UECL, I think we’d give credit to each point helped us in the process. We’ve won some important points with Carlos starting. He even scored at UECL, all these small details will be remembered if we achieve our goals. It will be a good memory despite not having what was originally expected from some individuals, but on total it will be different. Like when we look at Hause or Targett,Trez…etc had their involvements on our journey. Even Dendonker helped us win some critical points last season, which helped us going to Europe. We can’t just go and say we didn’t benefit out of him. Especially now with this critical part of the season, we’ll whoever is around to be fit, it will be a challenging journey.
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We don’t have the squad for the next couple of games, but if we won our next two, then again Man City and Arsenal games will be interesting. Not at home, without Kamara, but who knows how Tim will step up? No McGinn for City as well. The difference between getting excited of winning next ten, while failing to win another 2-3 is really small. So another two wins will help lifting some pressure out of us (with hopefully some losses for Utd more importantly and also Spurs). Even if we do we’ll have tough time to deal with UECL, but it is what it is and let’s take it game at a time and see where it takes us.
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A win against West Ham at these circumstances will mean a lot to us, will put us in a really decent position before the next derby game. Big game for Duran and Tim, they need to step up, and make the manager think again how to go for the next couple of games. It’s their chance. If we won our games, McGinn red card could be good for our next couple of games, he gets rest, Tim gets more confidence. But ofcourse so far it will big a very big miss by the look of it. Up to Tim to show us different outcome.
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I’d start him at West Ham, it’s going to be a tough game anyway. He have strength so no real worry about that aspect, it will help him short and long term. More importantly no need to rush Watkins, possibly keep him on bench. You’d like him to have some rest rather than going for international games in this stage.
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So with how tough we’re making it, we still have some things to follow. Three draws on Friday, Fulham and Spurs Saturday. Fulham has been great to us, hopefully they continue their favors.
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I think he’s done really well, as usual not helped by a yellow card, but I think he’ll be helpful in the coming run.
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Is it confirmed that he won’t feature at all this season?
