Cheltenham Town (A) | Post-Match Thread

[ancoats]

Thing is, Pep has handled him brilliantly.

There is a standard he requires, there is a standard he can accept, then there is a standard he reserves for only those players he knows cannot be sold short.

When you have worked with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, Pep knows when your natural ability is from a different sphere.

Txiki worded him up, Pep was able to recognise it, but Foden is so lucky to have a manager who doesn't suffer fools, who knows what it takes to take the greats to the top.

Phil can be a true great. One day we could be speaking about a generational talent who can win England another World Cup and City a couple of Champions League titles.

And all from a skinny lad from Stockport who just wanted to play for City.

He can live out the dreams of thousands of Blues.

Stay away from the birds and booze, get yourself some proper Italian suits, ditch that horrendous wardrobe of scally shite and everything else will take care of itself.

if am right foden was one of the fast tract players that city put up a couple of levels and he still stood out from the older lads. he was a small build and short so only needed to grow and bulk up. but now he is so powerful and strong you see players bounce off him

city and pep still have to be very careful with foden and look after him because from now on he demands a place on the team sheet. yes at that age you can play every day or every game. but keeping him hungry and earn his place in training will be the next step

 

[Vienna_70]

if am right foden was one of the fast tract players that city put up a couple of levels and he still stood out from the older lads. he was a small build and short so only needed to grow and bulk up. but now he is so powerful and strong you see players bounce off him

city and pep still have to be very careful with foden and look after him because from now on he demands a place on the team sheet. yes at that age you can play every day or every game. but keeping him hungry and earn his place in training will be the next step

I doubt Phil will get like that, as he is very grounded and knows he still has a lot to learn.

He said as much in a post-match interview recently.

 

[toffee balls]

get yourself some proper Italian suits, ditch that horrendous wardrobe of scally shite and everything else will take care of itself.

Not going to happen fella.
“You can take the girl out of Adswood , but you can’t take Adswood out of the girl”

Direct quote from his mum when being asked about living in Alderley Edge.
His families use of the shell suit attire is a thing of legend.

Good on them.

 

[Nellies left peg]

The number of times Phil took the ball under pressure on the half turn and got away from his man was unreal. This kid is total class and I can see him only getting better

 

[M12Blue]

That last sentence makes me proud to be a blue. He fights for the club the way we all would given the chance.

I suspect when he finishes his career there will be a lot of ex-teammates who will be telling there grandchildren that they once played with Philip Foden, England’s greatest

 

[TheBlueCat]

Thing is, Pep has handled him brilliantly.

There is a standard he requires, there is a standard he can accept, then there is a standard he reserves for only those players he knows cannot be sold short.

When you have worked with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, Pep knows when your natural ability is from a different sphere.

Txiki worded him up, Pep was able to recognise it, but Foden is so lucky to have a manager who doesn't suffer fools, who knows what it takes to take the greats to the top.

Phil can be a true great. One day we could be speaking about a generational talent who can win England another World Cup and City a couple of Champions League titles.

And all from a skinny lad from Stockport who just wanted to play for City.

He can live out the dreams of thousands of Blues.

Stay away from the birds and booze, get yourself some proper Italian suits, ditch that horrendous wardrobe of scally shite and everything else will take care of itself.

Wonderful talent. Unfortunately i think the horrendous wardrobe of scally shite is the kid’s preferred style. Needs some tips from Shay Given.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I doubt Phil will get like that, as he is very grounded and knows he still has a lot to learn.

He said as much in a post-match interview recently.

Thing is, I know it's the standard thing for youngish footballers to say, stay humble and all that, but it genuinely seems to correspond to Foden's temperament. He knows how good he is, but he also knows where he comes from, and grew up being a blue when it wasn't too glorious to be one.
Too much shouldn't be placed on his shoulders, even now. This can't be emphasised enough. Kev's got to be around, doing what he does, for the next three or four years (he's already getting towards thirty! Time has flown). Bernardo as well. I see him moving into midfield at a certain point. Phil is still a good five or six years off being in the full flowering of his ability. It's mind boggling. Pep will be there to watch over that for the next two, three years.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Seven years ago, then?

;-)

I love pedantry.

Excellent work.

 

[Lavinda Past]

BBC will be furiously scouting for an ex-dipper with connections to Swansea for the co-commentator role.

Step forward Saunders, Molby or Joe Allen.

I'd happily pay double the licence fee if they got Wilfried Bony in as co-commentator

 

[Ihearye]

Pep

respect due, Duff and Pep must have been cut from the same cloth
“And don’t ask why but footballers nowadays like taking a shower wearing their pants – but our lads would then just leave them lying around in the showers for the kit-man. I told them, ‘It’s not his job to clean them. He’s here to provide you a kit.’

“I wanted the team to show humility, talk and treat the cleaner the same way they would the chairman and have one common goal like we had at Burnley.”

 

[OB1]

Spot on mate, but I think in ten years time there will be a consensus he is City's greatest-ever player and an England great.

I've been very lucky down the years with my job to have watched some of the greatest players live.

His feet don't even look like they touch the floor.

The biggest thing to note in recent months is his increased upper body strength, he is a strong little bastard and very wiry.

Phil no longer looks like the kid who is undoubtedly talented but just being given a game, he is already leaving some of his more experienced team-mates behind, and I include Sterling and Jesus in that, when it comes to fundamental importance to how this team is now set up.

There's no doubting that he looks to be prodigiously talented and, just as importantly, has a good head on his shoulders.

Funnily enough, my favourite Phil moment from the Villa game was when he shrugged off Traore, I think it was, who tried to barge him off the ball.

I'd guess that one of the reasons that has Pep has rationed his time has been around waiting for him to develop physically; and another reason that I think we are in a new Phil phase.

 

[Ihearye]

Lads, if there is any doubt at all about young Phil, surely the answer is to tell him to pop down the M5 for a loan spell :) Promise we will play him every week

 

[OB1]

Not going to happen fella.
“You can take the girl out of Adswood , but you can’t take Adswood out of the girl”

Direct quote from his mum when being asked about living in Alderley Edge.
His families use of the shell suit attire is a thing of legend.

Good on them.

Phil can wear whatever he wants and live where he chooses. However, if the lad is as good as we hope, he's going to be very rich and famous so the Golden Triangle and smart designer wear may well beckon. Either way, it's fine so long as he keeps his feet on the ground. For now, he still just a kid from Stockport and we love him for it.

 

[toffee balls]

Phil can wear whatever he wants and live where he chooses. However, if the lad is as good as we hope, he's going to be very rich and famous so the Golden Triangle and smart designer wear may well beckon. Either way, it's fine so long as he keeps his feet on the ground. For now, he still just a kid from Stockport and we love him for it.

By all accounts, he is a grounded and very decent lad.
He has real star quality about him and a sparkle in his eyes.

That performance was a notch up for him as he revelled in the greater responsibility he was given and he stood out in the centre of the pitch, second half especially.

He‘s 20 FFS.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Except that two of them never really played full back.

Book played as a sweeper behind the defensive line. Pardoe largely played as a midfield ‘spoiler’ dropping back into defence when needed.

That's your opinion mate and I respect it fully.However,having attended my first City game in 1957,I followed the careers of all three start to finish and was privileged to do so,including every league game,home and away,of the 1967/68 season.By my reckoning they were all full-backs,I'm not even sure sweepers and spoilers were even considered back then.Any time we needed anything approaching a player to do a spoiler-type job,i.e shadow the other team's danger man,Dave Connor was drafted in.Could be that I'm an old-timer with old fashioned views,and if so, I'm sure you will forgive me.
How are things in the Grass Market by the way? (the place,not the dope)

 

[richardtheref]

With my refs assessors head on I noted that the lad who was taking the long throws seemed to have his foot on the pitch. Also, every time their keeper cleared the ball out of his hands he was out of the box.

 

[big gaz]

I suspect when he finishes his career there will be a lot of ex-teammates who will be telling there grandchildren that they once played with Philip Foden, England’s greatest

And Merlin will say to Mateo " son I thought him that " ;-)

 

[ancoats]

I doubt Phil will get like that, as he is very grounded and knows he still has a lot to learn.

He said as much in a post-match interview recently.

what i meant was his quality demands he plays every week not foden himself

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

With my refs assessors head on I noted that the lad who was taking the long throws seemed to have his foot on the pitch. Also, every time their keeper cleared the ball out of his hands he was out of the box.

He was also allowed to towel down the ball?

That was stopped when the lad at Tranmere a few years ago started it.

 

[give it to gordon]

He was also allowed to towel down the ball?

That was stopped when the lad at Tranmere a few years ago started it.

I thought the towel was allowed as long as it was offered to both teams ? That might be an old rule ;)