He's become James Milner. Runs a bit and gets the plaudits for effort. He's meant to be an attacker. Actually the worst attacking output of all of our forwards last season. He's going backwards.
Your lack of football knowledge is breathtaking.
He does a job. As an attacking midfielder his contributions have been poor especially for a player of his ability. You don’t know more than anyone else because you appreciate someone running a lot more. It’s a great part to his game however I’m pretty sure we didn’t sign him to be just an engine. Love the guy and hasn’t produced consistently since his amazing season.
As some of us have been saying his job last year was ball possession and closing down, he did it brilliantly but some of you live in a Harlem globetrotter world of assists and goals. Our winning streak which took us from mid table to actually winning the league was down to silva and Gundogan in midfield. This was helped by KDB getting injured and then Sergio.
So I was right, you haven't seen us play much then. You don't have to score or assist to play well, the game isn't just stats. Aside from when he's played in the false 9 position, he's not played as an attacker, he's played in central midfield with different roles. You go watch any big game we've won over the last 2 seasons and you'll see Bernardo put in a phenomenal performance. He enables everybody around him to play. His loss will become very apparent if he goes.
Totally agree about last season, unfortunately I don't think he likes this role and therefore wants to go, and seeing him playing with the EDS last night was a sorry sight.
So we said oi Bernardo you just keep the ball and close down please lad, fuck scoring or assisting or contributing in that way, you just keep it simple. Bollocks, what’s the excuse for the year before then? The one where Pep dropped him quite often as his form really struggled since the Mendy incident? Got any snippets of wisdoms for us mere peasants who clearly don’t see what you do through your gifted eyes? Blind loyalty is scary. I’ll say it again, love the guy but many on here will be eating their words once Grealish is in, be sure to stick about for it.
No idea whether he enjoys it or not but I do think him being shifted into different roles not just on a game by game basis but often multiple times a game isn't something he's going to especially enjoy. It disrupts rhythm and makes it hard to build form and take your game on to the next level.
FOC.... It's all downhill for him now
Yep whoosh, what was that?
No coincidence Mahrez form took a huge upturn when Bernardo was getting a regular run
Bernardo is part of that group of City players who have selflessly put the team first. Rodri, Fernandinho, Gundogan (the non-scoring version), Jesus, Walker, Bernardo, Mahrez at times, Foden, Aguero at times, Zinchenko (and probably others) are all players who could be a lot better on the eye but they help others out.
Where'd you see that mate? Not able to find anything.