Kalidou Koulibaly

Burtonblue said:
Porto are not a weak club but it’s not exactly the world’s strongest league is it...
It’s easy for a player in the strongest team to look good against relatively weak opposition is what I meant.
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Still on the same level as Napoli although you could say the Serie A is a stronger league. there have been players and manager from Napoli who struggled to adpt/cope in Premier League as well.
 
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CenturyClub said:
The first thing i want City to change for next season is that ridiculously high line we play. I always say that if the opposition hit a ball over the top or play a pass through the middle, if the defence are standing in a straight line and the opposition attacker times his run perfectly, one ball can take the whole defence out of the game leaving the attacker bearing down on goal.

I really do think we need to tweak our tactics as they were absolutely suicidal against Lyon and have been on a number of occasions this season. Liverpool don't play such a high line like us, i don't see why we need to do the same. At least have one or even 2 defenders sitting 5-10 yards behind to sweep up anything that comes through the middle or over the top of our defence.

I do think Koulibaly is a very capable defender and will improve us, but it is up to Pep to make a few tweaks and not make us look so susceptible to being counter attacked.
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that ridiculously high line won us everything domestically and back to back titles with 198 pts,18 then 14 in a row
 
Tevez City said:
For God Sake, Lyon reached the semi final with Denayer ! but somehow we need to spend +60m on Koulibaly to match their achievment !

& Even Angelino who is not good enough to be our 2nd LB has reached the semi final ( Good luck to him )


I am sure buying KK will add nothing except more losses of club resources & extra pressure to deliver.
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Wumming 0/10
 
Napoli fans are speculating he's off based on this post by a backroom staff member - they think the shirt is a goodbye present. Apparently it's a thing their players do before they leave and Higuain did it before he left for Juve? Twitter replies are full of their fans acting like it's a confirmation

 
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kaz7 said:
that ridiculously high line won us everything domestically and back to back titles with 198 pts,18 then 14 in a row
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And we lost Kompany, Stones went strange & now Laporte is off his game, whilst at the same time, the teams in the Prem have been watching videos of us & have graduated from playing deep, just hoping for a draw, to playing super deep & whacking it over or past our slow, high line, hoping to nick 3 points.

And nowardays we rely on offsides doing our defending for us rather than actually defending with a high line like we used to.

Times are changing & we have to get back to being one step ahead imo.
 
kaz7 said:
that ridiculously high line won us everything domestically and back to back titles with 198 pts,18 then 14 in a row
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I think we got away with it because we actually played creative midfielders. When we play Gundogan and Rodri together it doesn't work. We played Liverpool at home without KDB last season, and we went with a midfield 3 of Fernandinho, D Silva and B Silva and Bernardo was box to box all game and did not give that Liverpool midfield to run through us. We had runners alongside Fernandinho all game.

The problem is peps way of thinking. No defender to cover Kompany when he left and playing more conservative than usual. If we go with a midfield of Fernandinho/Rodri, with runners alongside such as B Silva/Foden and KDB then it would work. We can't be playing this 2 defensive midfielder shit. We will get away with it against the poor sides but we won't against the better sides as shown this season.
 
93:20blue stated that Koulibaly would be signed next week, nothing is done but now there is a report saying he’s destined for City
 

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It seems like i was right about Koulibaly.

Where has Ezzy gone ?
 
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