Spurs (A) - Post-Match Thread

I'm hoping the lack of goals is a lot to do with Aguero and Jesus' injuries, wasn't that Jesus' 2nd PL start back from injury? Sterling up front, with a well out of form Mahrez in support, seems to have ruined the form of all our front line, it's almost as if they've forgotten what it feels like to have a goal scoring threat. To me, it looks like they don't believe they are going to score when they reach the final third at the moment and they wont do if that's how they're feeling. Mahrez needs to be benched, that worldie he scored on international duty, was the worst thing that could have happened from a City perspective.

Defensively, it's just left back where we are struggling, DM too. I'd have put someone next to Rodri in a 2 today personally, but then again, nobody had a good game today, so I don't know what good that would have done.
 
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kanovic said:
Play less fifa career mate. It’s not that easy, when we got aguero etc you can also say that other teams were a lot weaker. In the last 3-4+ yrs epl has exploded and even mid table teams are buying 40mill+ players. We looked a lot better back then because aside from United when fergie was there we didn’t have too much of a challenge imo
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One - never played Fifa ever!

We are a team in need of huge transition - its not just one issue there are a number of issues....Other teams have improved and gone beyond us because their investment has been sound....

Liverpool - Mane, Salah, Firmino - all bought since we had aguero - who have we got that is at their standard on a weekly basis? Sterling is one....but Jesus isnt (and im not blaming him for today but he aint at their standard). Sane could have been but left......Mahrez (HAHAHHAAHAHAHA) - the guy is a joke he is that bad.

Midfield since we bought Dihno?.....Rodri and Gundogan - would either of those two get in Liverpools team or Chelsea or Leicesters? - No is the answer = Chelsea, liverpool have both invested very wisely buying decent players.....

left back - we simply havenot got anyone in at all - Mendy is the worse buy of the modern era

it took us a season (two summer trnasfer windows) to replace Kompany.

We also have coming up to replace Aguero and Ferna - make no mistake about it...get that wrong as wrong as we have in buying Rodri, Gundogan, Mendy and Mahrez (and there are others as well) and we will have regressed back to just above the point where we were when we first started.

David Silva - have we replaced him? - Pep said Foden but he aint playing him....so again it comes down to Gundogan and Bernardo Silva(who has regressed hugely) - neither are cutting it and Foden isnt getting the cahnce to prove whether he can or not.

you can throw baseless remarks around all you like but the regression of the squad is there for everyone to see

Aguero> Jesus
Ferna> Rodri, Gundogan
Zabba> Walker (and he aint played bad)
Clichy> everyone since and Kolorov (who i didnt rate)> everyone
Yaya> Gundogan, B.Silva
Dejong and Barry> Rodri and Gundogan
Kompany> Laporte and Dias (though he has started very well)
Navas (who was wank) > Mahrez


Sterling ,KDB and the centre halves and maybe walker are the only ones who I believe are good enough to have got into a peak city team in the last 10 years
 
SidJames said:
I thought Maureen was done at the Top level.

I am thinking maybe i got that wrong.

This shit continues,The Christmas Tree might last longer than Pep does.

We are regressing at an alarming rate.

Pep body language,and cheesy smiling screams he dosent give a fuck.

And it is trickling down to the team,half of them are on easy street,

Why the fuck did we extend whilst in decline for 18 months.

What is the plan...try and stay in contention.Until 35 year old Messi rocks up to put a smile on Peps face for the next 2 years.
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Pep seems to think that because we're in the midst of a pandemic that football has become irrelevant, in a way it has but it's still happening and you're still earning megabucks as are the players, so you have to still try to perform. I just get the feeling of " oh fuck it" from our lot
 
Guys, it's not end of the world..

Pep is staying till 2023 - we will come back..

At least now it's obvious what we need and for example in the second half of
18/19 or during whole 19/20 season we didn't know what was the reason and
where we had the problems..

Now it's obvious that Sane was the best winger we had and unfortunately Sterling isn't
that kind of player. Also Mahrez isn't good at all and Sterling was way better there..

Bernardo isn't gonna happen on David Silva`s position and otherwise - Debruyne is out of his natural position..

and etc and etc.

Now club has to address solutions to these problems and we will start to improve definitely..

The most important and painful stuff is behind and that's something I am happy about..

For example, when I saw from the February of 2019 that Sane was on the bench constantly and
we were playing with inverted wingers and etc - couldn't sleep and eat and live well, had some
depression and didn't want to live any more :D

Now I am happy that Pep understands that and maybe he will solve this problem :)
 
No different to many games as the pattern is so familiar.

Dominate having the ball without actually hurting the opposition, pass or ponder when an opening looks like presenting itself. Then get caught with the first attack and they score. We just continue playing the same way.

Total reliance on Kev as those around him are not on the same wavelength. Good individuals but just don’t complement each other as a team. We seem to tire in games which was previously the fighting spirit and play till the end.
 
Alarming isn't the word. We need to face it, we're a bang average team. The 18 month regression is obvious. I think it may be down to a bit more than the effects of the back to back title winning seasons that some clowns on here assume. They'll still be rolling that one out in 2027. The game plan isn't obvious to me. Much more of this and Top 4 looks dodgy.
 
SidJames said:
I thought Maureen was done at the Top level.

I am thinking maybe i got that wrong.

This shit continues,The Christmas Tree might last longer than Pep does.

We are regressing at an alarming rate.

Pep body language,and cheesy smiling screams he dosent give a fuck.

And it is trickling down to the team,half of them are on easy street,

Why the fuck did we extend whilst in decline for 18 months.

What is the plan...try and stay in contention.Until 35 year old Messi rocks up to put a smile on Peps face for the next 2 years.
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Messi would just be another passenger in a side that plays this way.

He isn't the answer to our many issues that need addressing.

Pep has to change as well on a lot of levels and if he cannot or won't you can be assured he won't be in charge next season.

His worst start as a manager and by some margin after 8 games.

We have no fight and are way too easy to play against and create nothing in the areas of the pitch that matter.

Too many sides know how to pick us off now and we have no answers.

Obviously a large number of this squad are at the cross roads in this team.
 
Beanhead said:
No but people always want more. Why does anyone manage past their prime in that case? Or play past their prime? Naive thinking mate.
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So you don’t believe that Pep is an honourable man, that he is cheating his friends and the Chairman someone he obviously has a lot of respect for, also that he is lying to the fans and the players just to get more money when he probably more than enough already?
 
simon23 said:
One - never played Fifa ever!

We are a team in need of huge transition - its not just one issue there are a number of issues....Other teams have improved and gone beyond us because their investment has been sound....

Liverpool - Mane, Salah, Firmino - all bought since we had aguero - who have we got that is at their standard on a weekly basis? Sterling is one....but Jesus isnt (and im not blaming him for today but he aint at their standard). Sane could have been but left......Mahrez (HAHAHHAAHAHAHA) - the guy is a joke he is that bad.

Midfield since we bought Dihno?.....Rodri and Gundogan - would either of those two get in Liverpools team or Chelsea or Leicesters? - No is the answer = Chelsea, liverpool have both invested very wisely buying decent players.....

left back - we simply havenot got anyone in at all - Mendy is the worse buy of the modern era

it took us a season (two summer trnasfer windows) to replace Kompany.

We also have coming up to replace Aguero and Ferna - make no mistake about it...get that wrong as wrong as we have in buying Rodri, Gundogan, Mendy and Mahrez (and there are others as well) and we will have regressed back to just above the point where we were when we first started.

David Silva - have we replaced him? - Pep said Foden but he aint playing him....so again it comes down to Gundogan and Bernardo Silva(who has regressed hugely) - neither are cutting it and Foden isnt getting the cahnce to prove whether he can or not.

you can throw baseless remarks around all you like but the regression of the squad is there for everyone to see

Aguero> Jesus
Ferna> Rodri, Gundogan
Zabba> Walker (and he aint played bad)
Clichy> everyone since and Kolorov (who i didnt rate)> everyone
Yaya> Gundogan, B.Silva
Dejong and Barry> Rodri and Gundogan
Kompany> Laporte and Dias (though he has started very well)
Navas (who was wank) > Mahrez


Sterling ,KDB and the centre halves and maybe walker are the only ones who I believe are good enough to have got into a peak city team in the last 10 years
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Can’t argue with much of that.
 
Metalartin said:
I'm hoping the lack of goals is a lot to do with Aguero and Jesus' injuries, wasn't that Jesus 2nd PL game back from injury? Sterling up front with a well out of form Mahrez seems to have ruined the form of all our front line, they've forgotten what it feels like to have a goal scoring threat by the looks of it. Mahrez needs to be benched, that worldie he scored on international duty was the worst thing that could have happened from a City perspective.
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Not being a doom monger here but I have a horrible feeling this will be the season where Sergio declines drastically. I think he’ll rarely be fit and when he does feature he won’t be match fit. Just a Hunch but I feel the days of him having any impact on our seasons have sailed.
 
stan bowles said:
Today the defence was the problem. Conceding that first goal allowed them to funnel everyone behind the ball, to defend for their lives and then pick us off when we turned the ball over.
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Nope. There will always be games where we concede the 1st goal. We had 85 minutes to score two and we didn't score any. We didn't concede 3 in 30 minutes. There were many games in 17/18 and 18/19 where we weren't leading, but the team fought back to win the game, often in the last few minutes of the match. We're not creating enough, and when we do create the finishing is dogshit.
 
Jim Tolmie's Underpants said:
Won't that ruin the taste?
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Certainly would of tested better with a victory, Would of been a nice pick me up with all thats going on. Not going to let the result get to me tonight, Spent too many weekends in the horrors after a bad result and letting it get to me all weekend, Gradually I have tried to learn not to ruin my weekend completely. Before you know it your in work Monday again...

It is what it is, The players are going home with an extra 200k in their bank whilst I'm at home pisssd off...Nah that's not happening anymore.
 
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