No apparent reason that you can fathom, lets get it straight here. Its not "no apparent reason whatsoever", it's no apparent reason that you could possibly conceive of. Obviously there are many possible reasons, but with City away next week, I give you the obvious one. As for Sky and "everyone else in the footballing world", you'll find that most are media and its the medias job to make stuff up.
There's more than 6-7 who disagree with you. Maybe only 6-7 who will bother to take the time to engage with you anymore, but most others can see the futility of going over the same thing again and again.
By "running their contracts down", you mean they are not signing new contracts and are deliberately refusing transfers in order to leave on a free in the future? Because they're not, are they? So it's not quite a fact is it? Yes, they will both be out of contract soon, that's a fact, your sensationalist hyperbole isn't fact.
Poch is saving Jan for City away, he's sitting wrapped in proverbial cotton wool in the stands. It's as fair an assumption as any you have made, except without drama. Why does it have to be the sky falling down every time the manager makes a decision you don't understand? I'm sure you love the club and are worried about losing our best players, and as someone who was a vocal advocate of Levy backing Poch in the transfer market, you should understand that buying new players means other players leave. Ok, losing them on a free isn't best practice but I'm certain Levy is a lot more pissed off than you about it!
Ok.
No. I've been proved wrong on many an occasion. I've also been right on many. like this one.
No logical reason for leaving our second best CB out of the team for the first game of the season when he isn't injured? Unless of course he is indeed being rested for City but can you not see why people are concerned when we have all the other issues with players nearly out of contract and now a player that is a constant in our side has suddenly been dropped and not even made the bench a mere week after discussing contracts in the press?
I just seems suspect to me and many others.
I was simply saying it's always the same 6-7 posters calling anyone who disagrees with their opinions "melts" or "negative" it's like arguing with religious people who don't want their religion questioned with these individuals, the inability to critically think about things is a sign of complete idiocy as far as I am concerned.
I would rather be wrong and know that I have considered all possibilities than outright dismiss others opinions because I am so deeply embedded in my own bias I can't get my head out of my arse for 5 seconds to consider if I could possibly be wrong, you say it's more than 6-7 that disagree with me, that's fine, I accept that some people don't even bother engaging but you pretending your opinion is any more relevant than mine is self delusion I am afraid, you know just as much as I, or anyone else here does, fuck all.
You're right, he could be wrapping Jan up in cotton wool and I could be wrong but why do you consider my opinion to be drama and your opinion to hold more relevance because you consider it to be the "positive way" to look at things?
The reason I am coming to the conclusions I am is because of numerous factors
- Jan has never been dropped unless it has involved injury in the entire time he has been at this club under Poch and even during rotation he has made the bench, that in itself is incredibly suspicious, even more so considering the amount of time he played preseason and how hyped he was on social media about playing the first game.
-Poch answering questions about his absence seemed disingenous and like he wasn't giving a straight answer (using Serge Aurier as an example of how we need to rotate to be fair to the squad and how he only puts players in who he thinks deserves the game time is a prime example of why I believe there is something more to this, unless of course they think Aurier would get in ahead of Verts.)
- All this happening after Eriksen and Toby contract issues, it having the same feeling of when Toby was dropped before for those issues and a week after Verts saying he wants to stay with the club and sign a new contract all are red flags for me.
Now I realise this is all guesswork on my behalf and all assumptions, I could be completely wrong and probably am but I am just struggling to comprehend why you believe my line of questioning is "negative" or is me assuming the "sky is falling down" simply because I came to a different conclusion to you when assessing the situation?
I mean, was "the sky falling down" when I suggested in the match day thread we would go on to win the game against Villa after equalizing? Or was that me making a positive observation based on how our performance levels had improved?
This is the problem with the black and white thinking some posters here indulge in, they believe they have to stick to a "side" and that "side" is infallible and never wrong, that's a truly pathetic way of viewing things in life and a sad way of approaching a debate on an open forum.
You say "I have been proved wrong on many occasions" well that makes two of us and there is nothing wrong with that, to err is to be human after all.
But then you go on and say "I have been right on many, like this one" that is pure arrogance and shows that actually, the only individual here between me and you that believes they are right is you because I have never claimed to be right in my assesment whatsoever, I offered my opinion, I am not claiming it's accurate or calling people names if they disagree with it.
However, when people come into a thread and essentially say "You're negative because my opinion is the right one" what does that say about them?
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