Is red/white slimming?
He's never going to be the player he was before injury but he may move better if he was in the same shape he was when at Monaco.
He will only have a year left in the summer and with his history of bad injuries he'd be smart if he could get a 3 or 4 year contract elsewhere. Then there is a signing on fee and pay off from City. We need to move him on and bring in a quality LB, Zinchenko deserves to stay over Mendy as back up.
Leg injuries - affecting speed - impact some players much more than others.When you spend 50 Million on anything, there must be risk calculation.
All players might be injured with all kind of injuries, and it doesn't mean they will lose their ability after the injury.
Look at Gundogan, no player got injured as much as him but he still manage to get back to his best.
It's a 5 year contract mate, I double checked before posting. I checked both the BBC 2017 article that announced his signing and his Wikipedia page, both state a 5 year contract was signed.surprisingly he signed a 6 year deal in 2017 so in the summer he’ll have 2 years left unfortunately.
I checked also and while most sources do say 5 years, the club site confirms it’s a 6 year deal.It's a 5 year contract mate, I double checked before posting. I checked both the BBC 2017 article that announced his signing and his Wikipedia page, both state a 5 year contract was signed.
Might be difficult to shift on a permanent deal then, perhaps a season long loan if we bring in another LB, which we should.I checked also and while most sources do say 5 years, the club site confirms it’s a 6 year deal.
Might be difficult to shift on a permanent deal then, perhaps a season long loan if we bring in another LB, which we should.
You mean, apart from Loserpool'sit would be interesting to know if he has lost pace. Anyone got access to their training stats
I disagree totally.Leg injuries - affecting speed - impact some players much more than others.
Mendy was great because he could beat almost anyone for pace and then deliver a random pacy cross into the box which - owing to pace - met with few defenders and often resulted in a scoring chance.
Nowadays, Mendy isn't a speed merchant - and his poor footballing skills means that his days as a top player are done.
Gundo - on the other hand - never was pacy. His skillset was as a deeper lying attacking mid - able to link play, deliver passes and to offer a midfield scoring threat. It's not clear to me that Gundo has lost pace due to injury - but even if he has - pace was never a big part of his game.
Your English is quite fine. I disagree with you though - but this is what makes for good footballing discussion.I disagree totally.
I'm french and i did follow Mendy since Marseille before he went to play for Monaco. His attribute has never been the pace but the timing. Mendy has nothing to see with Walker which attribute is really pace. Mendy has two qualities: the timing and the delivery(pass).
His problem actually is not physical at all but mental. He didn't play for almost two years cause of the two injuries(knees), he just need time to have the confidence back. When you don'y play for so long of course you lose the confidence. Mendy is not finish at all , he should play more to have his confidence back but it will be hard cause Zinchenko is a hell of a player (even if people don't really realise)
Sorry for my english , i'm pretty sure i've made huge mistakes.
I would agree with you. When you see how Mendy is deployed, it's unique to all of our fullbacks. He's essentially out wide like a winger. Lots of times a pinged ball would come out to him and he'll 1 touch pass it to the inside midfielder or try to flash it across goal first time. He doesn't bring it down like a winger and make an outside run to the byline. This has to be instructions from Pep. If he times it right, the defence doesn't have time to react and it can get behind the back line.I disagree totally.
I'm french and i did follow Mendy since Marseille before he went to play for Monaco. His attribute has never been the pace but the timing. Mendy has nothing to see with Walker which attribute is really pace. Mendy has two qualities: the timing and the delivery(pass).
His problem actually is not physical at all but mental. He didn't play for almost two years cause of the two injuries(knees), he just need time to have the confidence back. When you don'y play for so long of course you lose the confidence. Mendy is not finish at all , he should play more to have his confidence back but it will be hard cause Zinchenko is a hell of a player (even if people don't really realise)
Sorry for my english , i'm pretty sure i've made huge mistakes.
Pep Guardiola: "I am happy that Aymeric is back, he played really well. But it’s not just Ruben and John. It’s everyone. Nathan, Aymeric, the full-backs - Joao, Kyle and Oleks. The team is alive."
No mention of Mendy. Hopefully it means we're gonna offload at the end of the season.
Friendship with wide attacking fullbacks is dead.Pep Guardiola: "I am happy that Aymeric is back, he played really well. But it’s not just Ruben and John. It’s everyone. Nathan, Aymeric, the full-backs - Joao, Kyle and Oleks. The team is alive."
No mention of Mendy. Hopefully it means we're gonna offload at the end of the season.
Fair play. He’s had shed loads of chances this guy. Time for him to goPep Guardiola: "I am happy that Aymeric is back, he played really well. But it’s not just Ruben and John. It’s everyone. Nathan, Aymeric, the full-backs - Joao, Kyle and Oleks. The team is alive."
No mention of Mendy. Hopefully it means we're gonna offload at the end of the season.
I’ve noticed Gundo getting more stuck into tackles recently. Whether that’s a result of having more faith in his body, or the self-confidence that comes with top form, I don’t know.Leg injuries - affecting speed - impact some players much more than others.
Mendy was great because he could beat almost anyone for pace and then deliver a random pacy cross into the box which - owing to pace - met with few defenders and often resulted in a scoring chance.
Nowadays, Mendy isn't a speed merchant - and his poor footballing skills means that his days as a top player are done.
Gundo - on the other hand - never was pacy. His skillset was as a deeper lying attacking mid - able to link play, deliver passes and to offer a midfield scoring threat. It's not clear to me that Gundo has lost pace due to injury - but even if he has - pace was never a big part of his game.