Dullest Football Since Pearce?

[Fame Monster]

Ever since we moved to the double pivot, I have to say this has got to be the dullest City side since the Pearce days.

We were obviously worse under Sven and Hughes but there was a far more positive approach to the way we played.

This double pivot just sucks the life out of our game, our strengths, and reduces the chances that we create by having one less player in the box. It also makes us a far worse team imo.

 

[Falcao]

Way too reliant on De Bruyne.

 

[Brewster's millions]

It’s much more than this fabled double pivot.

The players look over-coached, frightened to make mistakes and the amount of backward passes we make isn’t a product of chance, it’s design.

None of the players look happy. Good players are bang out of form.

We’ve been on the slide for 18 months now and what we’re seeing now is just the continuation of the same trajectory.

i thought we needed to make a change at the end of last season and I’m more convinced with every week - the only difference is that it’s going to cost us 20-plus million now to sack the bloke.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Way too reliant on De Bruyne.

Still better than being reliant on Pogba. Do one ragboy

 

[Fordyboy46]

Dull as fuck, think Pep has done all he can now and can't get anything else from this set of players. It's the same tactics and style of play every game and the players are looking totally fucked off and bored with it. The two year contract extension is suddenly looking like a disastrous move on the clubs behalf, but Pep will be laughing all the way to the bank if he did get his marching orders or if infact he left off his own accord.
He should be concerned because this is turgid stuff he's churning out week in week out.

 

[ID70]

Pep changed football in this country when he first came but that time has been and gone, the current players, tactics, style is just boring to watch

 

[Blue Smarties]

Getting to the point where we’d likely pose more of a threat with Bony up front.

 

[toutmaster]

We have been spoilt but fair point it has been dull. Loved this charming man and his style of play

 

[Gordyola]

Takes two to make it entertaining

Ever since we moved to the double pivot, I have to say this has got to be the dullest City side since the Pearce days.

We were obviously worse under Sven and Hughes but there was a far more positive approach to the way we played.

This double pivot just sucks the life out of our game, our strengths, and reduces the chances that we create by having one less player in the box. It also makes us a far worse team imo.

virtually every team parks the bus concedes procession and hopes for a break away We aren’t making as many chances and not taking the ones we do make, the double pivot designed to stop the counters and it’s working My issue is it’s so slow Gundogan will always take the extra touch Sterling runs into blind alleys and is awful on one and ones Mahrez is not the answer to any question It’s all so predictable and like I said slow

 

[mat]

The PL is dull full stop. No fans in the grounds is ruining the game. I forgot we were playing until I turned on the Tele and saw the advert.


This thread is a dipper/rag magnet which some journo will be wanking over. Sometimes we bring the bad press on ourselves.

 

[Millo]

Getting to the point where we’d likely pose more of a threat with Bony up front.

Or Jo!

 

[red 2 hats]

When I look at the quality of our spine over the last ten years, then look at the current spine, absolutely miles apart, we've blew Harrods money on poundland players and were now seeing how shit our last few transfer windows have been, we are genuinely gonna struggle for top 4 this season.

 

[Fordyboy46]

The PL is dull full stop. No fans in the grounds is ruining the game. I forgot we were playing until I turned on the Tele and saw the advert.


This thread is a dipper/rag magnet which some journo will be wanking over. Sometimes we bring the bad press on ourselves.

Well what do you want us to say, everything is hunky dory with City, we're just unlucky,we'll be firing again soon?. We see it how it is and it's shit stuff and it doesn't look like we have any answers. We are allowed to criticise you know.

 

[Ban-jani]

Way too reliant on De Bruyne.

Who, bare the odd wonder pass every 3 games, isn’t good enough at the moment.

 

[Fame Monster]

This thread is a dipper/rag magnet which some journo will be wanking over. Sometimes we bring the bad press on ourselves.

Let them wank over it.

I'd much rather people acknowledge the blatant truth that's staring us right in the face that we're a worse team in every single way since we moved to this formation than happy-clap about how 'pragmatic' it is playing so negatively against fodder like Lyon, United and West Brom and many others that we should be turning over and playing to win.

 

[nellyonthewing]

If you watch like when Sergio came on Pep is jabbering like a demented dervish and serg is not even looking at him. Seen the same every game with other players. I think Pep is borderline mad and the players haven't a clue what he's on about.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Way too reliant on De Bruyne.

Could be worse, could be Robin.

 

[BimboBob]

Seems people are expecting us to hit heights every game, every season. Thats not how football works. Sure we were poor by our recent standards, but we are still in the top 5 or 6 teams in England. It will click soon. Everyone else is blipping as well.

 

[M18CTID]

I seem to remember plenty of dull games during the first 12 months or so of Mancini’s reign, and the handbrake only fully came off after we beat United in the FA Cup semi

 

[urban genie]

People forgetting the second half of Svens season was god awful football, Leslie was dull as fuck at times in pellers time we played some dour shite in hos final stage.

Still what we are watching atm it dull