Blue Moon Rising [Official Manchester City Thread]

[Rudi]

KUN AGUERO!!!!!

And perhaps the best news for City today is Valencia being out for a month with a strained hammy. He had been playing very well for United of late too.

[1ke]

KUN AGUERO!!!!!

And perhaps the best news for City today is Valencia being out for a month with a strained hammy. He had been playing very well for United of late too.

Tony out for a month...But Nani, Ashley Young, Cleverly, and Phil Jones all made comebacks tonight.

[Rudi]

2nd leg of the Porto matchup tomorrow. I don't expect many of the regulars to play with the upcoming home match against Bolton in the Premier league on Saturday

[Rudi]

Great performance from City today. I was kind of surprised to see Kun starting with the upcoming EPL match, guess this shows Mancini does want to win the Europa. Aguero was masterful today.

[NAHSTE]

Kun is really making a name for himself lately. Glad I purchased his shirt instead of Kolarov.

[Rudi]

Clinical performance today from City. If not for incredible goal keeping early on this game could have been much more than 3-0.

[Rudi]

Gotta take care of things against Bolton tomorrow. United could face a tough game at White Hart Lane.

Word on the street is Tevez will be held out this week and will be returning next weekend against Swansea.

[Rudi]

Cruised to a 2 goal victory against the Wanderers...Could have easily had a lot more goals, especially in the opening as Balo and Nasri missed numerous chances. Goals coming off an own goal from a Clichy cross and a great backheel pass from AJ setting up Balo for an easy tap in.

[Rudi]

There’s no g-string on Earth worth paying that much to see! An Italian soccer star is tipping his team big time after his coach learned he broke curfew to visit a gentlemen’s club:

You may know Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli from such hits as driving his car into a women’s prison and throwing darts at a group of kids. Now the Italian star has been fined 250,000 pounds by the team for breaking curfew, as he was photographed with a group of friends leaving a strip club at 2:45 a.m. on Friday morning.

Club rules prohibit players from engaging in late-night shenanigans within 48 hours of kickoff. Balotelli played and scored the second goal in City’s 2-0 win over Bolton on Saturday. But following the game, City manager Roberto Mancini was questioned by a reporter about Balotelli’s late night. He hadn’t heard about it, but he said he would impose the maximum fine of two weeks wages if the story was true.

Once he confirmed that the outing did indeed take place, Mancini fined the player who he regards as one of his sons. It is the latest in a number of off-field incidents involving the talented Italian star.

Balotelli is now feeling the pressure from the public and his coach to marry his girlfriend and get his life together.

Can you imagine if we imposed these kinds of fines on the NFL and NBA for players hitting the shake joint before a game? That ish would put KOD and Onyx out of business!

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I thought Mancini's post game comments were funny. He said that if Mario had been home, then maybe he would have scored more goals.

[wr50l]

Super Mario never change!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17295000

[Rudi]

Europa league action today for City as they play at Sporting Libson at 1 EST.

[Rudi]

FFS Savic is awful. fuck him

[Rudi]

Welp, City and United both crashed out of the Europa today. Going to be a fun finish to the Premiership, thats for sure

[1ke]

United didnt crash out, they got their fucking heads caved in. Well in Bilbao, they fucking crushed.