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@DxBruyneSZN And you wanted to sell Rodri… 🤯🙄

Manchester City won Domestic treble is on Arsenal bottling the premier league as they lost to Bournemouth We beat them next week and only go 3 points behind Manchester United lost to Leeds Spurs can genuinely get relegated Great weekend for City fans

@DxBruyneSZN Knob head

@henrywinter Well said, Henry. Still some uneducated observers who only seem to remember those first five minutes against Chelsea…. He’s not the finished article but has been broadly outstanding since those five minutes

In praise of Abdukodir Khusanov. The Manchester City centre-back turned 22 only last month, is still developing his game, still ironing out mistakes, but increasingly impresses with his speed, athleticism and determination. Also his simple but effective distribution and love for the physical fray. At Wembley, his sprint back to dispossess the breaking Kai Havertz was pickpocketing at pace. Khusanov did well in the Carabao Cup final as he gradually got to grips with Viktor Gyokeres. Still prone to a rash challenge. He took out Gyokeres but the booking didn’t faze him. Re-focused on winning his duels for the next hour. His character has never been in doubt. On his City debut in Jan 2025, he didn’t speak the language and had had only two training sessions. He made two early mistakes, gifted Chelsea a route to goal and was then booked for fouling Cole Palmer. But he got on with the game and his career at City. “Our Uzbek warrior” the club calls him. Good scouting. City recruited him from Lens for £33.6m after he’d played only 31 games. Also great initial scouting by Lens when he was at Energetik-BGU in Minsk. Khusanov still has elements to improve, especially in aerial challenges (he’s 6ft 1in), but looks to have many of the strengths to mature into a top centre-half. And he is only just 22. Khusanov is in competition with some heavyweight names such as Ruben Dias and John Stones (when fit). Josko Gvardiol was playing well before suffering a tibial fracture to his right leg. Gvardiol better at left centre-back where Marc Guehi has landed successfully. Gvardiol also plays left-back well (where Nico O’Reilly, who prefers, is flourishing). Nathan Ake, 31, partnered Khusanov at Wembley. Guardiola has outstanding options at centre-back, great role models for Khusanov to learn from. Guardiola Also academy graduate Max Alleyne. Khusanov can also play right-back. He seems very humble. Khusanov had to be encouraged by Foden, Haaland and Donnarumma to go across to take the acclaim of the City fans at Wembley. Almost bashful. Nothing diffident about his defending, though. Khusanov looks a big prospect for City. #MCFC

@ronnieo147 Congrats Ronnie - you’re an absolute genius and pleasure to watch - fantastic to see you back in such amazing form 👏🏻🙌🏻

Thank you for the messages….#153

@DomFarrell1986 @9320pod

@9320pod You honestly need to stop booking me. It's ridiculous.

Stinger. Review tomorrow.

@viagogo I haven’t got an order number as I’m trying to browse the App! I am on the latest iOS and the latest iPhone 17 Pro… Seriously, has no one ever reported this to you?! It’s been happening to me for months…

@TheBlueMagpie We apologize for any issues that you are experiencing. If you send us a DM with the order number along with the email address and phone number on your account, we can certainly look into this. twitter.com/messages/compo…

@viagogo This has been happening for months on your App… does no one report it or are you choosing not to fix it? This pop up appears and will not scroll down to accept so it disappears. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wordlers. Come at me… can anyone top this? 💪🏻🧐

@howiehok3434 Looking forward to the full 1 hour and 22 minute review on Monday 😮‍💨

Let's never talk of that again

@lloyd_scragg @9320pod He’s a hell of a signing… 😍

This was Guehi’s excellent defending / footwork vs. Ekitike in the first-half, as mentioned on yday’s @9320pod. So well judged.

@9320pod Been here c25 times. Missed 2003 so never seen us win. I now need never to come to the place ever again. 😍

We’ve won at Anfield.

@DomFarrell1986 Only one problem. You Derren Brown style cracked my high security passcode for all my devices and cards… 😉

@TheBlueMagpie Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it.

Hugely enjoyable read for all Blues…. Thank you @DomFarrell1986 for a really well balanced, informative and beautifully written book that spoke to my 45 year passion for the Blues 🙏🏻🩵

@AndyBurnhamGM Surely Moysey has banned you from entering the stadium in case you now want his job in the near future?😉

Given the weekend I’ve had it feels very much like a Dominic Calvert-Lewin hat-trick is now incoming. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

@Jack_Gaughan @KevinP184 Personally no problem with the decision. Wasn’t deliberate in any way and we should have scored anyway from it…

@KevinP184 they looked absolutely bewildered in the box and seemed to just pass it on

Farai Hallam's first Premier League game today. Feel a bit sorry for him here, didn't seem to get any help from Stockley Park.

One of my favourite ever sit coms. Nice little story about Richard Briars. 22 years ago, when I was running Music Zone, we had a customer who ordered every box set he had ever been in. “What’s your name please?” we asked “Yes… it’s Mr Richard Briars” he said quietly and humbly

@JerseyCityzen @9320pod @lloyd_scragg I’m still reeling at the pair of you only giving Big Erl 8/10 for the season so far! 😮 To be fair, he’s normalised the scoring of an average of a goal a game but I don’t agree with the scoring being based on a “for him” scale…

@9320pod @lloyd_scragg Heavy goal Gundo!

🚨*𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧*🚨 🎄𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧:- 𝗫𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡🎄 🎙️This is the 1st 10 minutes of the show, as Ahsan and @lloyd_scragg discuss the news around Antoine Semenyo, other potential January signings, plus loads more! ➡️soundcloud.com/9320pod/the-ma…

Such a privilege and a pleasure for the brilliant Magpie team to be working with the incredible and inspiring @VixMyers and @ErinShanagher on #SecretSantaHampers Lots of deliveries to do to our incredible Stockport school partners over the coming days 🎅🏼🎁🙏🏻

@slbsn Don't want to join the pile on for the lad but his whole attitude and body language is appalling at the moment. We will be lucky to get half the money previously offered in January....

Never noticed at the time but check out the intensity of Savinho in trying to block the cross 😳

@BestOfUKComedy Halcyon days…

As Channel 4 celebrates its 43rd birthday today, my question to you is when you see this 4, what programme from the era does it remind you the most of?