87 | James McAtee - 2024/25

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Must be a great boost of confidence knowing the club turned down a lot of interest this window. If James can make around 10 starts this year he'll see it as progress & should be happy. I think with all the fixtures we could play that's achievable. He has the talent and I like that he looks a bit feisty too.
 
Mr HJ said:
Must be a great boost of confidence knowing the club turned down a lot of interest this window. If James can make around 10 starts this year he'll see it as progress & should be happy. I think with all the fixtures we could play that's achievable. He has the talent and I like that he looks a bit feisty too.
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I think he'll get more game time than many expect. Technically he was better than Palmer. Not sure he has the same belief, but Pep is more than capable of instilling that. I think he will get the chances, but if he doesn't take them.....We will take 30m next summer.
 
He's not good enough and the desperation for him to be good enough is weird. Unless he's your son. In which case fair enough. And anyone who thinks he was better than Palmer is a mental.
 
also not sure he will make it here even as a squad player, and before Gundo came back it made more sense to keep him around, but on the other side much better to give him game time than sign an expensive Nunes, Phillips again.

we will se how much game time that is McAtee will get, Echeverri also a factor from January, as a sub we will se McAtee mre often as a starter that will not happen much unless good few injuries. expect his next start being the Watford game and maybe one of Slovan, Sparta in CL. for PL, not sure we would bench others to start him is a number 8 or on the wing. as an 8 Foden, KDB, Gundo, Bernardo and possibly Nunes + Rico are ahead of him. Pep will also not subbing any younger in unless we are 2-3 goals up. Gundo will eat up a lot of minutes, despite his age he played lots of games at Barca, featuring 36 league games of 38 and 10 CL games think he has the fire in him still to play a lot here too and he wont be too happy with a heavy rotational role.
 
madloaf said:
Kalvin Philips says hi. So does Ben Mendy. So does Cancelo. Bravo...Lets not pretend these guys are flawless.
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That’s four out of how many?

Bravo was an emergency, as Pep had to act quickly to replace Hart, who clearly wasn’t fit for purpose.

Mendy was brilliant until his knee injury. And that’s not just my opinion; the general consensus on Bluemoon was that we had a beast of a full-back.

Cancelo was a brilliant player for us. He was equally adapt at either full-back rôle. His only fault was getting too big for his boots, expecting more minutes than Pep was prepared to give him.
 
Vienna_70 said:
That’s four out of how many?

Bravo was an emergency, as Pep had to act quickly to replace Hart, who clearly wasn’t fit for purpose.

Mendy was brilliant until his knee injury. And that’s not just my opinion; the general consensus on Bluemoon was that we had a beast of a full-back.

Cancelo was a brilliant player for us. He was equally adapt at either full-back rôle. His only fault was getting too big for his boots, expecting more minutes than Pep was prepared to give him.
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"Cancelo was a brilliant player for us"

He has one brilliant season but that apart was incredibly inconsistent.
 
madloaf said:
He's not good enough and the desperation for him to be good enough is weird.
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I believe City supporters wanting a City academy player to succeed is entirely what Kafka based his early works on.

What's the next stop on this rollercoaster ride through this dadaist hellscape? Humourous chants in praise of our players? The communal celebration of a goal scored? A trophy parade?
 
In our short passing game he's competing on the right as a left-footed AM with Phil, Bernie, Savinho & Oscar.
On the other side Jack & Doku will always be picked ahead of him and in a couple of months Echeverri arrives.
He needs to play and for that he needs to move on asap.
 
Who knows what the season holds. He needs to keep working in training and grab his opportunity when it comes. He won't be short of suitors next Summer if he decides to move on so this season can be used to hone his game under Pep's tutelage.
 
Will definitely start against Watford but I’d like to see him off the bench against Brentford. Savinho may need time to adapt to the physicality in England and Doku is much better on the left, and while we know that Bernardo can go out on the right, it wouldn’t hurt to give McAtee game time out there as well, even off the bench. If he can mirror what Grealish does but on the right, then we can have Doku on the left and allow Bernardo and Foden to stay in the centre. I also suspect McAtee will dovetail nicely with Lewis and Walker.
 
johnny crossan said:
In our short passing game he's competing on the right as a left-footed AM with Phil, Bernie, Savinho & Oscar.
On the other side Jack & Doku will always be picked ahead of him and in a couple of months Echeverri arrives.
He needs to play and for that he needs to move on asap.
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He doesn't need to play, he's been playing for 2 years and it's put him further down the pecking order as he's seen the likes of Rico and bobb stay here not play and now they're playing ahead of him.

He needs to be around the team daily, accept he's probably not going to feature but take on board everything he needs to do to get himself to the level where he can make it here and show pep that in training. He's never going to show that playing elsewhere, no matter how well he does he'll always have to then show Pep.

In pre-season he said he needs to be here even if he's not playing much, i took that to mean he knows thats his path, loan players generally don't come back and go straight into the side.

we've got a big midfield overhaul looming, 33 yr old kdb, 34 yr old gundogan, 30 year olds bernardo and kovacic are all going to have to be replaced in the next few windows so there's an opportunity for him on the horizon, best thing he can do is take the cameo role this season, make an impression in training and put himself next in line so he takes one of those replacement spots.

If we sell him. He's never coming back
 
ninjamonkey said:
He doesn't need to play, he's been playing for 2 years and it's put him further down the pecking order as he's seen the likes of Rico and bobb stay here not play and now they're playing ahead of him.

He needs to be around the team daily, accept he's probably not going to feature but take on board everything he needs to do to get himself to the level where he can make it here and show pep that in training. He's never going to show that playing elsewhere, no matter how well he does he'll always have to then show Pep.

In pre-season he said he needs to be here even if he's not playing much, i took that to mean he knows thats his path, loan players generally don't come back and go straight into the side.

we've got a big midfield overhaul looming, 33 yr old kdb, 34 yr old gundogan, 30 year olds bernardo and kovacic are all going to have to be replaced in the next few windows so there's an opportunity for him on the horizon, best thing he can do is take the cameo role this season, make an impression in training and put himself next in line so he takes one of those replacement spots.

If we sell him. He's never coming back
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Spot on , we’re going to be playing twice a week now from here on in, there will be minutes available for him to take - he just needs to take his chance when he gets them
 
He has time on his side.

We got some older players in his position, he just needs to play well in the minutes he gets, and the trust is clearly there.

It would be a nice dream to see a starting line up include:

Foden
Bobb
McAtee
Lewis
O Reilly
 
madloaf said:
He's not good enough and the desperation for him to be good enough is weird. Unless he's your son. In which case fair enough. And anyone who thinks he was better than Palmer is a mental.
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He’s barely kicked a ball this season and you’re saying he’s not good enough. I think that is more weird than City fans wanting another academy graduate to succeed.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
He’s barely kicked a ball this season and you’re saying he’s not good enough. I think that is more weird than City fans wanting another academy graduate to succeed.
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He's kicked balls for other teams though and I didn't see anything that makes me think he'll be a difference maker for us. I have been wrong before though!
 
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