Yes but I wonder why we cant just sign new LB now considering he is not on high wage and we have free spot left even if we dont sell anyone!He's shit ?
Pep has the most work to do of anyone associated with City right now. Far too much of what is wrong is about him rather than about the players.
I haven't written this up yet because for some reason he seems to have been made chiefly responsible for a 5-2 loss where 4 goals were nothing to do with him, but I thought for the first time since he came back from his last injury, Mendy was starting to hit early passes and cross first time again vs. Leicester, culminating in the great cross for Delap.
I also dug out this old video from 2018 when Mendy was recovered from injury and looking at his best, and we were all optimistic, and I don't think he looks physically any different. People always complain about him being awkward and leggy and clumsy, but he always was, and was still bloody effective despite that -
I think he's lacking fitness right now at the beginning of the season, but genuinely I still think that in a month he could be playing pretty well again. I want to see him play more with Delap, and he needs Jesus and Aguero back, because his main strength was deliveries into the box, and he's got no one to put them into right now.
I've got a lot more hope for Mendy fulfilling his potential than Stones.
Agree and thought you handled this perfectly on your podcast yesterday. When one or two play badly you can blame them, when it's the whole team it's the managers issue.
He needs to evolve for me, I feel as though to a degree our system and shape has been found out. He has to reinvent how this team plays whilst reinvigorating himself.
He's the best coach in the world. Coaching the best squad in world football. It's time we started getting the best out of the plethora of talent that we have.
Maybe we want 2 in.Yes but I wonder why we cant just sign new LB now considering he is not on high wage and we have free spot left even if we dont sell anyone!
why do we need to sell him before getting lb?
Put him on the stands if nothing else!
Yes but I wonder why we cant just sign new LB now considering he is not on high wage and we have free spot left even if we dont sell anyone!
why do we need to sell him before getting lb?
Agree and thought you handled this perfectly on your podcast yesterday. When one or two play badly you can blame them, when it's the whole team it's the managers issue.
He needs to evolve for me, I feel as though to a degree our system and shape has been found out. He has to reinvent how this team plays whilst reinvigorating himself.
He's the best coach in the world. Coaching the best squad in world football. It's time we started getting the best out of the plethora of talent that we have.
He's shit ?
Out of curiosity, if Ake plays there for example and against Leeds and plays well, will you then change your opinion?
On a more general note, anyone who watched the Leicester game should be painfully aware that our problems can't be solved in the transfer market. We have plenty of quality players. They have to be play better, be better organised, and be better coached.
I think teams have figured out how to beat us, just sit back and counter attack like leicester did. Peps got to change tactics or something.
I disagree here.
we’ve undone something with our dealings and it needs to be rectified.
Walker and Mendy can only work like this when there are players with speed in front of them (and at DM).
Pep has been buying Busquets clones. He thinks a quick release can unlock all, but it’s proven absolutely useless against counters.
With a Sane, Jesus or even a Navas in Pep’s first season, we could get back fast and help the defense.
right now we’ve only Sterling and Foden capable of that.
Rodri and Gundogan are the biggest culprits, but we need to put better legs into this team and it’s not a coaching thing for me.
Only if you're crowbarring him in at left back.
Never thought would hear that last sentence whilst Pep at the helm, but you’re dead right, we looked completely unprepared on sunday
We reinvented the team when we didn't have to. Sane and Raz on the wings were unstoppable. We decided to buy Mendy and Mahrez and went away from something that was working brilliantly to something that has become a big issue. The only reinventing we need to do is backwards but good luck finding someone to replace Sane.
I’m surprised the club hasn’t announced Otamendi leaving yet? He left a day ago.
Teams are defending better against us than anyone & we are defending worse agsinst them than anyone.I disagree because fundamentally we need to be able to score goals and create chances more importantly than we need to be able to defend counter attacks. Too much emphasis is being placed on a defence which hasn't had a stable partner for Laporte almost since he joined.
Our attacking play has been too patchy for too long and we are too quickly frustrated by a low block. One of the big reasons that we are suddenly so susecptible to goals on the counter is that we can't fucking score or create at the other end. City are at their worst, their most weak, when they aren't threatening the opposition goal.
We reinvented the team when we didn't have to. Sane and Raz on the wings were unstoppable. We decided to buy Mendy and Mahrez and went away from something that was working brilliantly to something that has become a big issue. The only reinventing we need to do is backwards but good luck finding someone to replace Sane.
We went from pipping Liverpool by 1 point with 98 points / 95 goals in 2018/19 to scoring 102 last season and finishing a very distant 2nd...I disagree because fundamentally we need to be able to score goals and create chances more importantly than we need to be able to defend counter attacks. Too much emphasis is being placed on a defence which hasn't had a stable partner for Laporte almost since he joined.
Our attacking play has been too patchy for too long and we are too quickly frustrated by a low block. One of the big reasons that we are suddenly so susecptible to goals on the counter is that we can't fucking score or create at the other end. City are at their worst, their most weak, when they aren't threatening the opposition goal.