I like your optimism but personally I don’t think this is some deliberate master plan to reserve our energy for the run in. I think it’s just opposition teams sitting deep against us that’s stifling our attack

This is true and I’ve often heard City games described as boring to watch, but their chance creation metrics are better than ours. It’s definitely something Mikel needs to figure out

Look, he wasn’t playing to the standard of a £65m player. He’s surely not playing to the standard of a £275k per week player. He’s a nice lad with a good attitude but let’s get real, this signing made & makes no sense at all

I mean, is it that bizarre?

Guardiola replaced Hart with Bravo who he then binned and signed Ederson.

Klopp replaced Mignolet with Karius who he then binned and replaced with Alisson.

Sign Koopmeiners in January 🙏

In all the games he’s played so far? I’d wager at least 1

This season feels a bit like deja vu.

• Last season we tried Eddie as the 9 for a while, he had some good games but overall we were worse with him in front. So played Trossard as a false 9 and looked much better

• This season we tried Eddie as the 9 for a while, he had some good games but overall we are worse with him in front. So now we’re playing Trossard as a false 9 again and have looked much better

I actually don’t hate this as a cheaper alternative to Toney. Could be a really astute signing.

Still I expect us to maybe sign a midfielder and that’s it this January

It’s more that Raya is not a clear upgrade, which he needed to be in order to justify his purchase