u/colourfulsevens

Alright everyone! Hope this is alright to post.

I'm a City fan (ever since 1999 before any of you start, haha) so I thought I'd give my two pence about what to expect from Nico Gonzalez, having watched him basically every week for the last 18 months. To be honest, I'm really sad he's gone. I liked him, he wanted to stay, but Maresca has other ideas.

When he first came to City he'd been playing in a more advanced midfield role for Porto and we expected him to start there, but Pep clearly saw him as a DM and - after getting over an injury picked up on his debut - he started lots of games there, filling in nicely while Rodri was out injured.

I actually think, in this country, he'll be better off staying as a DM rather than an advanced midfielder. The game in England has suddenly gone very fast, physical, and aggressive again, and honestly Nico's ball control and passing isn't quite technical enough at high speed to fully cope.

BUT (pros) he reads the game really well. He's a good "stopper"-type midfielder. Very static with his overall positioning so never roams forward really. He will happily and dutifully sit behind Joelinton, Willock, Ramsey, Miley etc. while the other lads go forward and get the goals/assists.

He screens well in front of the back four and protects his defenders. He has a good eye for tracking runs rather than following the ball, but can read through balls and block them well. You'll rarely see him getting caught out of position because he's a disciplined, classy DM who stays where he's meant to stay.

For cons - ultimately what's done for him at City, I think, sadly, is linked to what I said there. He can be slow off the mark, physically and mentally. He's not that quick over 10 yards and he tends to need 2-3 touches before he's comfortable enough to get a pass off. He can get caught on it.

Over his time at City, midfielders like Rodri, Kovacic, and now Anderson have been preferred to him because they're just happier to have the ball at their feet and look more settled under pressure. Pep dropped him as soon as Rodri was fit (including for both FA Cup and League Cup finals) and Maresca didn't seem to fancy him either.

And I will admit that there have been times when he's received a pass with one or two attackers pressuring him, and he's just sort of frozen in position and lost the ball. But, when he's got the room and space and time, he can sometimes find good passes through the lines, over the top for runners, and out wide.

He isn't a blood and thunder tough-tackling DM but he's got upper-body strength and can use it if needed. He doesn't go haring into tackles, he tends to just nick the ball off players after reading their movements. He's limited in his passing but he keeps things ticking over nicely with 5-10 yard shuffles to players nearby.

But all in all, you're getting a good 7/10 almost 8/10 player. On an occasional good day, he looks strong, composed, and classy. On an average day (most common), he looks comfortable, patient, and diligent, if unspectacular. On a (rare) bad day, he looks clumsy, panicked, and uncertain.

He immediately makes that midfield stronger though. And hey, every now and again he ends up 25 yards out and has a mean shot on him. His best moment in a City shirt came at Wembley on the way to the FA Cup vs Southampton, when he just whacked it in from 25 yards.

You're getting a good player. You're getting a lad who won't make a load of fuss and noise, and won't always get you on your feet, but will get you politely applauding and nodding in approval at his quiet-but-effective role in the team. Think Gareth Barry. He's not a guy you build a team around, but he's the kinda guy who more easily allows you to build the team around others.

I'm gonna miss him. He had a future at City, I think, maybe just under a different manager. Look after him for us!

Released 10 years ago by Glasgow artist Larks, better known as Kay Logan - she was also in the bands Herbert Powell and Anxiety, if anyone from Glasgow remembers them, and also made solo electronic music under the name Helena Celle.

She briefly recorded under the name Larks and released one album, A Town for Tomorrow. This was the title track from that album, which is still available on BandCamp. https://larks.bandcamp.com/album/a-town-for-tomorrow Definitely for fans of BOC.

Hey everyone. Hope this is okay to ask here. I recently set up a new account on BlueSky, but I accidentally put a typo in the email address when I was starting the account.

Now, whenever I try to update the email address in order to correct the typo, BlueSky says it needs to verify my current email address... which is the incorrect email address.

So whenever it sends out a 2FA code to verify my account, it sends it to an email address that doesn't exist, and I can't change the email address because I can't verify my account.

What do I do?

Alright everyone. Hope it's alright to come here and make this post.

I'd already done one of these "Savinho overview" posts earlier this summer but then things went quiet during the World Cup and it seemed like the move was gonna die down, so I deleted it. Now it seems the move is back on so I'll do a condensed version of my earlier post.

Erm, so, Savinho to Spurs. Right.

I've been watching City since 1999. That's not to brag or anything, it's literally just to say that I've seen my fair share of City wingers over the years. From the excitement of Shaun Wright-Phillips and Martin Petrov, to the workmanlike mediocrity of Lee Croft and Kiki Musampa, to the almost total anonymity of Scott Sinclair.

Savinho ranks somewhere towards the bottom for me. When he first came in he looked great. Nippy, nimble, good first touch, nice interplay with the other forwards, always looking to break into space with neat tricks. But then weeks went by without a goal for him and his confidence went off a cliff. He's never looked as good as he did in those opening few weeks of 24/25.

His eye for goal has been non-existent. He'll get into good positions with some tricky footwork down the wing, but then the cross or shot will end up miles away from its intended target. Full-backs started working out that he wasn't bulking up so they just started shoving him off the ball or letting him run it out of play.

He did alright again over Christmas 2024/New Year 2025, when he was played wide on the left, and he turned into a decent outlet again for a few weeks. But then his season fizzled out, Pep starting opting for Doku, Marmoush, and Bernardo Silva instead as we got closer to the final day, and so we all thought we'd have to wait until 25/26 to see Savinho come back.

Instead he just got worse. His appearances were a bit more limited in the 25/26 season (36 apps instead of 48 the previous year) and his time on the pitch became more and more frustrating. The potential is there - on his day he has that slowFASTslowFASTFASTslow style that full-backs hate - but the chances of it all coming together look very, very low.

The night the fanbase turned on him was when we beat Bournemouth 3-1 at the Etihad last season. Savinho was subbed on after 72 minutes. If you can find the footage of his performance in the last 20 minutes, goodness me it's a painful watch. It's now famously remembered among City fans as being one of the worst substitute appearances of all time.

He had some shiny moments - for instance he was brilliant vs Newcastle away in the FA Cup in the 25/26 season, scoring a bizarre goal that night - but while many of us expected him to kick on this year, he's gone backwards. He still has good potential but frankly none of us can believe we're getting £60m for him, if not more than that (judging by some press figures).

I hope for all your sakes that he improves even marginally from his time at City because you will be clawing your hair out if he doesn't.

Hey everyone! I hope this is okay to post about, and I hope that it's specific enough to justify starting a new thread. I was at the Wembley Stadium show on July 10 and, while I had a fantastic time, I saw certain things that made the evening quite bittersweet.

To start, I'm just gonna be up front and admit that, while I would definitely consider myself a My Chemical Romance fan, I don't feel the intense love and dedication that you all show on this subreddit (and what you showed at Wembley on Friday).

I was a pre-teen when MCR exploded in the UK. The singles from Three Cheers were on alternative radio stations all the time, the big hits from The Black Parade were all over TV and, of course, Welcome to the Black Parade was a number one hit on the UK charts.

I was 16 and a full-on emo kid right around the time Danger Days came out, and I picked up I Brought You Bullets along the way. I think Three Cheers is a great record and I love The Black Parade, so seeing that album in full was a wonderful experience, but I could definitely be accused of being a casual.

Which is all to make the point that, as much as I love some of their stuff and was excited to see them live, I'm not really in touch with the MCR fandom. Last night I was expecting the audience to mostly be people my age (32) or above, so I was surprised to see just how many kids under 18 there were.

It really was beautiful to see that, despite them not releasing a new album for 16 years now, MCR's music has still made it to the next generation of kids who love alternative music and alternative fashion. But looking at these kids - some of whom were as young as 16 - brought up some bittersweet feelings.

Now, it was WARM yesterday in London, so obviously everyone was in loose-fitting clothing (or not much clothing) and just trying to stay cool. This meant that a lot of arms and legs were on show, and I noticed that quite a lot of the kids under 18 were bearing scars. And it really got to me.

15-20 years ago, MCR spoke loudest to the kinds of teenagers who struggled with the world, who had scars of their own, and who turned to MCR's music as a way of coping with the way life can be. I remember how it felt to be trapped by all these existential thoughts and all these depressive feelings while not even being old to drive.

And as much as I was comforted, knowing that MCR's music is still there to save kids who need it, it did upset me. Because having lived through that period of my life with those feelings, I look back and I can't really believe I got through it at that age. Kids under 18 just look like babies to me now.

I just wanted to stop each of these kids last night and tell them that it gets better. The pain gets easier, you'll feel more comfortable in yourself one day. The depression might never go away but you'll get better at dealing with it. You'll come to realise it's just a part of you, and that it's a part of yourself that you CAN learn to live with. So I guess I can try to tell you here.

All the elder emos in the crowd at Wembley, who are all in our 30s now - we all went through the same things and we all turned to MCR (or Mayday Parade, or Paramore, or Linkin Park) for those reasons. Please, please know, if you're a teenager on this subreddit that's struggling with big feelings and thinking that MCR are one of your only escapes: we know how it feels and we're looking out for you.

It gets better. We promise it does.

And one day, maybe in 15 or 20 years, you'll be able to go to a nostalgic emo gig as someone in your 30s, who lived through everything you're enduring, and have the night of your lives. And you'll see the under 18 kids of tomorrow, bearing the same scars as you, and you'll be able to tell them that it does get better. Because you know scars are a sign of continuing strength and survival.

Stick around. It really is worth it in the end.

What happened to Dels?

Gob was a solid record, Petals Have Fallen was a decent follow-up. Then nothing.

Looking at his social media he seemed to move more into video directing and content creation?

Thought he really had something and could have gone further/been bigger. Glad he seems happy in life, though!

Hey everyone. Hope you're all well.

My wife and I are coming to Disneyland Paris at the end of July. We last visited in 2023 and got engaged in Paris, so we're returning this time for our first wedding anniversary.

We stayed off-site in the centre of Paris in 2023, just visiting Disneyland for the day, but this time we're staying on-site at the Cheyenne Hotel.

We're coming from the UK and heading to Paris, and at the moment we're slap bang in the middle of a horrendous heatwave that's battering both our countries.

And by the end of July and beginning of August we could be in the middle of a heatwave that's even worse than this current one. The UK just had its hottest ever June day!

I've seen online that the Cheyenne Hotel has air conditioning in the rooms, but I've also seen online that France's laws about air conditioning are quite strict and particular.

I'm just asking really, do you have control of the AC in your own room? I don't like to get excessive with it, I'll only drop it to about 19c/65f - is this allowed at the Cheyenne Hotel?

I should add, my wife is fine. She's blessed with brown skin and a cool inner temperature, but I'm pale with partly ginger hair and I'm incapable of sleeping in a room that's hotter than 22c/70f, lol.

Thanks in advance for all your advice!

How was the venue?

Air conditioned? Enough water? Better places to stand to avoid the heat? Did the staff let you take water in?

Just curious because I'm going down tomorrow with friends. I'm prepared to watch near an open door to the outside.

etc. etc.

As the title says really - what does each album feel like to you? What comes to mind when you listen to them all?

For me, Music Has the Right to Children feels like being stuck in a room with only an old Panasonic 14" TV and a VHS player for entertainment, and all the tapes contain are complete replays of the Protect & Survive information broadcasts from the 1980s. I can't leave the room until I've watched every tape.

Geogaddi feels like I'm being followed through the jungle by a giant insect of some kind. It's not chasing me, but I can feel it keeping track of me. I can feel that sense of paranoia of something creepy closely paying attention to my movements. Will it catch me and kill me? Is it just curious? I have no idea.

Perhaps the biggest outlier of their discography, The Campfire Headphase feels like I'm terminally ill but have chosen to spend my final days in a beautiful seaside town. I can hear the waves, I can feel the wind, I can taste the salt in the air. I know I'm dying, but the environment is relaxing and gives me a sense of peace and tranquility.

Tomorrow's Harvest feels like I'm walking through the Nevada desert after a series of atom bomb tests in the 1950s. The air is cold and desolate and infected with something, and all I seem to be able to bring to mind when I think about the future is ruined landscapes and broken skylines destroyed by nuclear war.

I've not spent as long with it yet, but Inferno feels like I've been invited into an ostensibly benevolent cult that gathers round a fireplace every night to talk and sing and debate. The cult turns out to be fairly benevolent after all, but there's still this creeping sense that I'll find out the dark truth soon.

I dunno. I'm rambling now, I fear. What about you guys?

Alright, everyone! Hope this is alright to post.

It seems like you're on the verge of signing Savinho from City, so I thought I'd give an overview of how City fans feel about him and how I feel about him personally? Delete if you want, mods.

I'll be honest, virtually no City fan is sad about this deal. 99.9% of us are fine with him going. Getting £60m for him is honestly being seen as a really unexpected surprise.

I'll start with the pros. There are some. He's got that ability to run in a slow-FAST-slow-FAST-slow-FAST-FAST manner that full-backs absolutely hate. He's good at nipping away from people and finding space behind his full-back.

There have been occasional patches of good form, especially over December to February in the 24/25 season, where he's worked really hard in a good run of games and has managed to combine his attributes with consistent effort for a few weeks.

He seems to have a decent relationship on the pitch with Haaland, too. He's provided more than a few assists for our big Norwegian number nine, which is something even Doku initially struggled with. It's only really De Bruyne who's really been in full sync with Haaland.

And the main headline, I suppose, is that he's still very young and has time to develop. He's 22 years old and won't be 23 until the end of next season. A manager like De Zerbi should be able to get something out of him, and might be forgiving with him than Guardiola ever was.

Now for the cons... Erm, honestly, we (the club and the fans) just don't think he's got it. That X factor wingers need. He's got all the individual ability and skill to be a top class wide player, but getting all the dots to connect at the same time seems like something he'll never quite manage.

He's definitely better on the left, where he can go on the outside of his full-back, but when the goal gets near it's like something takes over him. His finishing is nervy and weak, his crossing can be erratic. When he beats his man and gets a chance to cross, it's 50/50% that it'll even go near the right person.

He just has this annoying tendency to get himself into really good positions and then produce nothing. Then that missed chance gets in his head and he can't get it out. When he goes through on goal there's very little faith that he'll go round the keeper and score, or provide the perfect cut-back for a tap-in.

And on the right he just seems to get lost nowadays. Miscontrols the ball, struggles to beat his man, doesn't fully understand where he's meant to be, doesn't have that creative spark to beat a packed defence, and can't really be trusted to find something big when the chips are down.

He seems like a decent kid and he should have a really high ceiling in the right set-up, but a lot of Blues just don't think he's got that dog in him. The potential is mostly there, but he's not kicked on this year after a patchy but sorta promising first season. £60m this is a big risk for you guys.

Playing for a Spurs team that won't faced parked buses as often as City do might be the making of him. He definitely plays best against teams who don't sit in the box and leave a bit of space behind the full-backs on the counter. It might be the case that Pep was holding him back.

But... yeah, you guys will need to be patient with him.

Further reading:
The Bluemoon Forum transfer thread about Savinho: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/savinho-may-2026-spurs-linked-again-p218.369146/page-218

Savinho's Bluemoon Forum performance thread from the 25/26 season: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/26-savinho-2025-26.368689/