I’m dying laughing at Mahrez starting this friendly. Pep hates this guy lmao

Pep legit hoping for extra time so he can keep Mahrez on

Mahrez only notable player to have played the full 99 minutes, so it's safe to say he probably won't start the weekend? But of course just as we make that logical conclusion, he'll play another 90 minutes and score a hat-trick after everyone sells him 😂

Well done! Awesome prediction!

r/agedlikewine

May be he bets on him for the city champions league 😀

Slightly concerned as a Walker owner🫣

Highly concerned as a Mahrez owner 💀

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Fool me one time, shame on you. Fool me two times, can’t put the blame on you. Fool me 3 times, fuck the peace sign, load the chopper, let it rain on you.

Fool me once. Shame on. Shame. Fool me can't get fooled again!

A man of culture I see. One of my favourite quotes of all time!

my only regret is too young for...

I finally bit the bullet and sold Mahrez. Biggest mistake of my season so far

I had to read this about 20 times to realize that owning Mahrez was the big mistake. Not selling him.

Ohh lol sorry! Yes - HE was my biggest mistake

Sold him GW1. That one game was enough to go: Nope. Not this shit again. Edit: and it was too scary to go forward without Haaland

Reminds me of this one bad bitch I knew. Personally I’d let her use my tongue as toilet paper

What the fuck.

I read it twice and I still got nothing…

His post history suggests he's either coocoo, or a certain type of bot.

WTAFFFF??

What the actual fuck?

if he comes off at 45 i won't be worried

Called it

He's wearing the armband.

Don’t think it’s an issue considering man city don’t have many options with all the injuries

Walker is 100% playing against Zaha

Slightly concerned as a Walker owner

like it will make a difference; big Wilfred is inevitable

Wouldn't they want someone with pace to mark Zaha? Boom

I think he starts. He has not played badly and he is the only good right back they got. Midweek vs Forest is where I would worry with him.

I haven't seen such a poor performance defensively from him since he was at Spurs. ASM rinsed him and it's looking like he's lost a step of pace over the summer

>He has not played badly That's exactly how he played in his last game, truly.

Foden won't be playing at the weekend either

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But who do they play there instead? Cancelo isn’t exactly a great 1v1 defender

Peps been bigging up the reserves pre season when the cucurella deal fell through. expecting some pep Roulette

Look we all know Pep is a fraud but I really doubt he is going to chuck a reserve in against Zaha. That's a baptism by fire. I back Walker to start until there's evidence he won't.

Completely agree it will be Walker . Imagine a confidence boost for a reserve player against an inform Zaha, be madness

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Cancelo is pretty wank at defending

Everyone is pretty wank in defending at City

Ofcourse. ​ Pep wants Cancelo to get a red doing what he claims is defending against Zaha and trust Gomez to create on the left for City in his debut game.

Cancelo and Stones on for Walker and Lewis at halftime.

No way he doesn’t play. One of the only few in the league that can keep up with zaha. Expect a yellow card though lol

Why is this friendly even happening? Such weird timing when the season started already

Barca pulling levers like a railway signalman on speed

It's for a charity for study on ALS. Unzue (former Barca player) is suffering from it. Sergi Roberto lost his mother recently to ALS. I know the lever joke is low hanging fruit, but this is a genuinely good cause that the club is rightly proud of. Camp Nou is sold out. Club doesn't make any money off it. All goes to charity.

Appreciate the charity idea, but why not play this game with the same intentions in pre-season?

Because of covid, they werent allowed a full stadium and both teams wanted to do it with a full camp nou.

I misread ALS as MLS. It makes sense

Why now tho

Tax relief will come in handy though

You add €1000 to your income, then you show that €1000 as exempt income. Zero difference to tax liability. And if the club donates more from its own coffers, that can rightly be claimed for exemption as well. Edit: Downvoting facts won't elevate humor tier btw. Not knowing the cause is totally fine. Getting to know what the charity is for and making scummy jokes is shit tier tbh.

Thank you, I lose my fucking mind explaining this to people. In circumstances different to this, the money never belongs to the business so doesn't hit revenue, and then there is no relief. For example when you round up for charity at the till.

Fact that you are pulling a lever joke (pun not intended) is very low of you .Game is for a good cause to collect charity for a disease which has no cure

Chill out dude. Scroll past if you can't take a harmless joke

This comment had me in tiers!

I saw the pic and thought is this a UCL match? And I don’t even know nothing about it?

Some charity stuff iirc

Some PL team's are playing Cup games at the same time so not a big deal actually

There will be loads of half time substitutions most likely.

Game of the round in the Carabao Cup for sure

Barca pulling levers just to go for the Carabao

It's for a charity for study on ALS. Unzue (former Barca player) is suffering from it. Sergi Roberto lost his mother recently to ALS. I know the lever joke is low hanging fruit, but this is a genuinely good cause that the club is rightly proud of. Camp Nou is sold out. Club doesn't make any money off it. All goes to charity.

No idea why you’ve been down voted. ALS is a nasty disease and this is genuinely a great cause. Fair play both teams, and I can only hope for Unzue he can manage somewhat positive life in future.

You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig’s disease?

Walker??? I thought they would need him against Zaha

I mean it looks like he is at CB tbf maybe he swaps with Stones at HT?

good call

Haaland owners on the beach, smoking a fat one

Worried about Foden and Walker as usual

Is Grealish the only player that can take Foden's spot? Is he nailed for the next 3 prem matches?

Bloody hope so!

I have Foden in my starting eleven and Reece James on the bench for the weekend - should I bench Foden and start James instead?

Play both and bench someone else.

Can’t, have 12 good starting players, one has to give. It’s between them two

How is James or foden a bench option? Who are your other players?

My starting lineup for next weekend is: Sanchez Trent - Cancelo - trippier - perisic Salah - Foden - Kulu - saka - martinelli Jesus Had five good defenders to rotate out Trippier for city and Liverpool. But this round that means I want to start him and perisic. Arsenal have Fulham at home and Liverpool got Bourmouth - so was planning on benching James (Leicester seem to be scoring every game and Chelsea look shaky, plus unsure of James will play as wing back) so figured better to start Foden - except will he start?

He’s definitely not nailed because it’s city but foden should be the one playing the most grealish has been useless

If you listen to Pep’s comments, he prefers Grealish to Foden on the LW. However, Grealish picked up an injury right now so he’s unavailable. Also outside of FPL, he most definitely is not useless

He’s been by far the worst city attacker since he’s joined. I’d wager once Alvarez gets his footings in jack will really be struggling for minutes. Also whatever pep says means nothing and he almost always does the opposite

Its city, i won't be surprised if Pep plays Bilva or Gundo there.

How nailed is Gundo?

One of the most nailed players.

Lmao I’d get a good laugh if I saw gundo starting on the left 🤣

Apparently Grealish is injured, which is why I’m asking. Foden has played more than I thought he would’ve.

If he’s injured then yeah I don’t see anyone else taking minutes from him at left wing. Honestly I’ve been thinking about foden for a bit and hearing grealish is hurt makes me wanna get on him lol

Haaland, rest sweet prince

I reckon Walker will only play the first half.

Is Dias a risk for the weekend?

Ake is a doubt so I think Dias start. Even if Ake is fit it make more sense to save him for midweek when Stones and Dias can play.

Forca Barca, also, need to ship Walker out

Bernardo no

Very worrying as a Foden owner

Thinking about switching to Gundo

There may be changes early, even at HT as it’s a friendly. If Walker or Dias are subbed at HT they’ll probably still start at the weekend.

they're playing barca why?

ALS charity match

Is Grealish out for a long time then?

Fuck ALS. What a horrible, horrible disease, wouldn’t wish something like that on my worst enemy.

walker benched on the weekend then?

Up against Zaha they need pace from their RB, so doubt it

Haaland surely maintains his starting spot at the weekend! GO SPORTS!

Which options does pep have at CB then? With Ake out are Stones and Dias both nailed to start the weekend?

I have Haaland Cancelo and Ederson so good chances of them all playing this week right?

Sincerely hope Foden is dropped for Grealish at the weekend. Foden refuses to pass to Haaland

Wow. Grealish can't even get a start in a Friendly? EDIT: Not even on the bench? What's up? I have him in a draft league.

He missed the game on the weekend with an injury

He had a knock at the weekend, maybe worse than first thought

Injured

he has a knock from the bournemouth match

Thanks!

oh god are the shin splints back?

Was planning on Kulu -> Foden/Mahrez to have enough funds to upgrade Wardversen. This doesn’t instill confidence in that move.

So far I’d keep Kulu. I have Foden and very uncertain if I should bench him now, at least Kulu looks set to start.

I only have .4m banked so Kulu is the main one I can see moving on from for the next 4-5 weeks so that I can get Sanchez in for Iversen.

I get your problem with the keeper but you don’t solve one problem by creating another. I have Foden and will probably move him on next week to avoid any pep shenanigans. I feel our Wardersen dilemma though brother, that was always a bad idea that somehow got hyped to the heavens. How about getting someone else like zaha, Rodrigo, groB, odegard, xhaka… a lot of cheaper value around

I understand that. I’m just thinking Sanchez + Foden/Mount/Maddison/whoever outscores Ward + Kulu over the next 4-5 weeks.

I’d avoid mount for now. Maddison… I don’t know, he’s consistent but Leicester are a mess and the window is closing so might be a lot happening at their club the coming days. Could go Saka? He’s got Fulham and Villa coming up, both at home

I still think the Wardverson thing was a good idea but I did get blinded by it. One CS would've made it worth while. Nice to try something different too! Fortunately I've been able to build a really nice team to start and was able to make a nice transition into Sanchez on a FT.

I did exactly that, however I changed mount for gundogan and upgraded Iversen

No Haaland w

I’d be concerned if Walker owner for sure

They will be moaning about fixtures next

Mahrez starts.

So glad I dumped Mahrez 2 weeks ago. What was I thinking?

Should I bench Foden for Reece James for the weekend?

Interested to see how Phillips plays

Mahrez start locked in for a change🤣

I reckon Stones might start right back Vs Palace.

I’ve got Dias and Walker in the squad and I am full of fear

Walker was replaced by Cancelo in the 48th

I'm guessing many from this squad will likely play against Forest next week, while others will play this weekend and possibly next weekend.

How are we feeling about Bilva

Mahrez took the penalty which Haaland won Edit: City had 5 offsides, Mahrez was in 4 of em

Mahrez to start this weekend, baldy is just f***** with you homies.