Should be careful with judging players off pre-season.People keep mentioning letting Palmer go - in hindsight, obviously an error - but I think it was decided that Oscar Bobb was going to be a better bet. Bobb was looking superb pre-season and if it wasn’t for his unfortunate injury this season’s narrative may have been very different. We really have been devastated by injuries.
It is of course Txikis fault that X, Y and Z were a miss because of injuries, player not settling, manager deciding on a different direction mir season and so on.Went through all of Txiki's summers.
Well we will never know. I refuse to believe that the club "didn't work very hard", performance analysis and recruitment is continuous, they aren't contractors we bring in for a summer. Pep has been given everything he has wanted since he arrived, signing after signing and hundreds of millions spent and then all of a sudden it stops. What was the reason?They go back and earn their wages by finding someone Pep is happy with, or could coach to be better at scoring goals than everyone we have now apart from Haaland.
There must be discussions within the club, I can’t see Pep just being shown a list and having to choose one or nobody. There are plenty of decent players out there, it’s the club’s job to find out who’s good enough and then if they’d be interested in signing. I’m sure lots of good players would be interested in playing for the champions and managed by Pep. It seems we didn’t try very hard to find them.
So you make a statement that prejudges the outcome negatively for City I might add. I refute that post and then you come back at me and say let’s wait. Why did you not wait before making a negative judgement ? Rag ?You know what mate let’s just see what happens . Hopefully it’s thrown out and we then start again .
Based on???? Are you using precedent & if so which teams?It’s very possible mate
We’ve been regarded as the best team in the world in recent years (along with Real Madrid) so the players were pretty good to start with.The quality of injured players goes up directly proportionately to the length of time they are injured.
I suspect that you've got two different posters mixed up there bud.So you make a statement that prejudges the outcome negatively for City I might add. I refute that post and then you come back at me and say let’s wait. Why did you not wait before making a negative judgement ? Rag ?
Are for real . Why is it if someone makes a post and it seems negative they are a fucking rag ! What I said was we could get hit with a transfer ban and I used the word could not would and suddenly your all over it about what do I know but tbh I know the same as you which is fuck all zilch nothing . Rag ha get a fucking grip .So you make a statement that prejudges the outcome negatively for City I might add. I refute that post and then you come back at me and say let’s wait. Why did you not wait before making a negative judgement ? Rag ?
Might all be part of the 115..we drop out of everything..prem may go easier on usI cant help but very angry at him. as a director of football surely squad planning, transfer planning is part of his main tasks. setting overall football philosophy was done early on across all age levels so thats not something actively needs doing each year, but squad planning does need yearly follow up, changes, new ideas etc.
our transfer performance on the incoming side is pretty bad since the treble win. we used to say judge players in their second season as they might flop in their debut season but come to life in the 2nd season and have been examples of that, well Nunes, Doku, Gvardiol, I am not sure they have great seasons. Gundo and Savinho neither.
leaving the squad rely on quite old players in multiple positions, not enough alternatives for the crucial Rodri and Haaland, we have to use very old number 8s in umber 6 or a winger in striker position is our alternative. selling Alvarez without replacement..
I still dont understand what was our plan with Rice or Bellingham if we managed to get any of them. or even Paqueta. surely not to give them the role and minutes of Nunes.
not much makes sense since the treble win. but we are paying now the price of it.
This is the man that should be sacked tomorrow if we still want to be a ambitious club that holds people accountable for their perfromances.