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Gabriel Jesus rejects new contract offer - The Times
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daztrueblue91
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Say what?
I don't think he is anywhere near as good as some people make out. If he wasn't young and Brazilian he'd be nowhere near our first 11 IMO.
On his day, he works hard and links up well with the others but aside from that he offers very little. He's petulant and has zero awareness of the offside rule.
However, Pep and Tite clearly see something in him and I fully expect him to come good in the end but he's nowhere near the finished article.
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I don't think he is anywhere near as good as some people make out. If he wasn't young and Brazilian he'd be nowhere near our first 11 IMO.
On his day, he works hard and links up well with the others but aside from that he offers very little. He's petulant and has zero awareness of the offside rule.
However, Pep and Tite clearly see something in him and I fully expect him to come good in the end but he's nowhere near the finished article.
Top quality player and future star. All a storm in a tea cup and he will get the deal he "wants"
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On a marketing level it makes perfect sense to sign him up. However, on a footballing level he's done nothing to warrant a deal.
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form dips especially when he's recovering from a knee ligament injury. Exceptionally gifted player who makes goalscoring look easy. he just needs a run of games now, and then he'll start firingYep
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Speculation, or fact?Top quality player and future star. All a storm in a tea cup and he will get the deal he "wants"
At 50, and after supporting City for 44 years, in which I've attended somewhere around 750 games, this will be my last season!
And why?; well it is because of the modern day footballers like Jesus and Sterling, coupled with their agents. I simply can no longer stand anything that modern football offers. Whether it's the player's ego, the agent's greed, pationless sanitised stadia, ridiculous kick off times, media saturation and the business philosophy and commercialism of it all, it's simply extinguished my fire for the game.
This from someone, who at the age of 12, often used to walk for 2 hours to attend games at Maine Rd, just so I could save my bus fare to ensure I could buy both a match programme and then a football pink once I was back home. That's the pation I once had for City, fuelled by the mystique, that our club could once generate within me!
My only consolation I suppose is that whatever he earns, and whoever he plays for in the future, it won't be funded by me.
This has to be the biggest most exaggerated post i may have ever seen just because a player has postponed contract talks untill a later date....
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You'd think we have a really important window of games coming up. Is there a player who actually wants to play for us any more, or indeed any fans who watch enough games to care?
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I feel for you mate, I really do.At 50, and after supporting City for 44 years, in which I've attended somewhere around 750 games, this will be my last season!
And why?; well it is because of the modern day footballers like Jesus and Sterling, coupled with their agents. I simply can no longer stand anything that modern football offers. Whether it's the player's ego, the agent's greed, pationless sanitised stadia, ridiculous kick off times, media saturation and the business philosophy and commercialism of it all, it's simply extinguished my fire for the game.
This from someone, who at the age of 12, often used to walk for 2 hours to attend games at Maine Rd, just so I could save my bus fare to ensure I could buy both a match programme and then a football pink once I was back home. That's the pation I once had for City, fuelled by the mystique, that our club could once generate within me!
My only consolation I suppose is that whatever he earns, and whoever he plays for in the future, it won't be funded by me.
Football has changed beyond belief for us older fans, players can demand seemingly crazy wages for doing very little. Its now a world of agents and as you say commercialisation.
I suppose we decide to either go along with it or do what you have obviously decided to do.
City have obviously given you a lot of pleasure for many years and I suspect a lot of memories, so I suspect you will still be a City fan, even if it is an armchair one.
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Glory hunterI feel for you mate, I really do.
Football has changed beyond belief for us older fans, players can demand seemingly crazy wages for doing very little. Its now a world of agents and as you say commercialisation.
I suppose we decide to either go along with it or do what you have obviously decided to do.
City have obviously given you a lot of pleasure for many years and I suspect a lot of memories, so I suspect you will still be a City fan, even if it is an armchair one.