24 | Joško Gvardiol - 2024/25

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The overall quality is horrendous isn’t it - we managed to acquire a lot of genuinely world class talent like Tevez, Toure and Aguero because they were either surplus at or not needed by the established elite teams at the time.
what a load of nonsense. this whole ‘ooh we had ballers back in the day Pep has ruined football’ is entirely driven by nostalgia glasses
 
what a load of nonsense. this whole ‘ooh we had ballers back in the day Pep has ruined football’ is entirely driven by nostalgia glasses
Nowt to do with Pep but there has definitely been a drop in truly great players in most positions during the last few years
 
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Nowt to do with Pep but there has definitely been a drop in truly great players in most positions during the last few year
I disagree.
Judge the club as champions and four-peat winners: we are not far away at all, but have been decimated by injuries to key personnel in CDM and defensive roles, for the entire season. Even right now - Ake, Akanji, Stones, Gvardiol, and Rodri ALL injured. If that lot had an injury free year, this season, we would not be in anything like the position we are in.
 
I disagree.
Judge the club as champions and four-peat winners: we are not far away at all, but have been decimated by injuries to key personnel in CDM and defensive roles, for the entire season. Even right now - Ake, Akanji, Stones, Gvardiol, and Rodri ALL injured. If that lot had an injury free year, this season, we would not be in anything like the position we are in.
Sorry, i wasn’t on about City. I agree a couple of good signings in the right positions and we’ll be back challenging.

I was talking about football in general. I think there’s been a big drop off as greats have retired or gone past their best. Can’t think of many truly great players at the moment across most positions.
 
This guy is a version of Cantelo, without the attitude.

Love him for his flair, goals and assists.

Hate him for his defensive lapses.

Or accept him as an unorthodox, non-defensively minded defender.
 
This guy is a version of Cantelo, without the attitude.

Love him for his flair, goals and assists.

Hate him for his defensive lapses.

Or accept him as an unorthodox, non-defensively minded defender.
I like him. As long as peps being here we've been vunerable down that side. it doesn't seem too bother him for some reason.
 
I disagree.
Judge the club as champions and four-peat winners: we are not far away at all, but have been decimated by injuries to key personnel in CDM and defensive roles, for the entire season. Even right now - Ake, Akanji, Stones, Gvardiol, and Rodri ALL injured. If that lot had an injury free year, this season, we would not be in anything like the position we are in.
When Rodri was injured vs Arsenal we were top of the league and prior to the injury in that game we were very much on top. In the title-winning season, Rodri was critical to our performance level.

There's more to City's current performance than injuries but it is a huge part of it.
 
When Rodri was injured vs Arsenal we were top of the league and prior to the injury in that game we were very much on top. In the title-winning season, Rodri was critical to our performance level.

There's more to City's current performance than injuries but it is a huge part of it.
Rodri was the best player in the world without question and it's a huge loss but our form this season goes far deeper than losing him.

Manager, players,and execs have all dipped, the perfect storm and the drop off has been shocking.
 
He is a cb. He should play cb. Defense is much better with he and Dias centrally. Then you get Nico time. Something very obvious and very easy yet pep will not consistently do it
 
Won every single header at CB, with O'reilly playing like this he should play in his natural position.
 
Won every single header at CB, with O'reilly playing like this he should play in his natural position.
Yea, you want your centre halves to win those headers but he did it all well and was calm and assured. We looked like we had a proper defence again, and o reilly gave us extra pace and directness at left back so it all worked out well. Hopefully we stumbled across something that works today but we'll see
 
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