Will we win the league this season?

Our midfield is too slow and ponderous especially if we are going to continue with Gundogan and Bernardo, we need a quality specialist right back to help out and overlap with Savinho, and a quick centre back to help with our high line, Dias is too slow and error prone, tactics, a right back and a centre half are key.
 
balotellishaircut said:
Our midfield is too slow and ponderous especially if we are going to continue with Gundogan and Bernardo, we need a quality specialist right back to help out and overlap with Savinho, and a quick centre back to help with our high line, Dias is too slow and error prone, tactics, a right back and a centre half are key.
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Our current midfield is not slow and ponderous. I agree a quick central defender would be useful but perhaps that's Khusanov? We don't know how he will develop. Stones is still here although I realise his future / injury situation is unclear. I am not interested that much in a right back. We can win the league without a right back if Rodri comes back to his best. Before all the Jan, and June signings were made, City were top before Rodri was injured.
 
Winning the league got harder when Chelsea won the CWC. It will get harder still if Liverpool buy Isak. I have a feeling they are going to sell Nunez and or Diaz and make an offer Newcastle cannot refuse. If they do then I think they will be very strong. However, the flip side of that is that is Newcastle resist, Liverpool are very reliant on an ageing Salah. I find it difficult to believe that Ekitike is going to score 20 goals for either Liverpool or Newcastle when he has only 1 decent season behind him. Wissa is the man to get imo.
 
celf said:
Down to pep and his tactics, the squad is good enough
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That's what worries me. The squad is plenty good enough, but Guardiola's natural response to losing is more and more possession, never lose it.

Unless he has some eureka moment, I can't see us winning the league if we lose too many games to a quick counter from almost any team when we inevitably lose the ball, or for that matter any cup competition where such can be "fatal".

I do hope I am wrong, but I can't help thinking something new is required. And it isn't new players.
 
If I go onto any other club forum, they are complaining about the level of our spending and about the quality of players that we have been able to acquire. We are among the favourites to win the league, ABSOLUTELY. Time will tell who else comes in, and who else leaves us, and then we can make a proper judgement.
 
halfcenturyup said:
That's what worries me. The squad is plenty good enough, but Guardiola's natural response to losing is more and more possession, never lose it.

Unless he has some eureka moment, I can't see us winning the league if we lose too many games to a quick counter from almost any team when we inevitably lose the ball, or for that matter any cup competition where such can be "fatal".

I do hope I am wrong, but I can't help thinking something new is required. And it isn't new players.
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We won four in a row and the treble due to Pep and his tactics.

We have some very good news signings and our best player back. I'm pretty confident we will be better than last season.
 
oldius said:
If I go onto any other club forum, they are complaining about the level of our spending and about the quality of players that we have been able to acquire. We are among the favourites to win the league, ABSOLUTELY. Time will tell who else comes in, and who else leaves us, and then we can make a proper judgement.
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Forums are weird places ha, i can only go by my chats with other fans & not one of them is worried about any of our signings.
In fact, most are surprised at the sorts of signings we've made considering how much money we've got, yeah, i know, it's always about the money ( sigh).
Most think we'll struggle to make top 4, in fairness, that view is held by quite a few on here ha
 
A lot depends on how quickly the new players adapt. I’d also like to see us buy a right back. But I think we will be better than last year, and we finished third. Dippers will be the one to beat.
 
I think it will largely depend on whether, and how quickly, we find a settled shape/system that works. If Pep can do that early doors, no reason we can‘t win it. If we continue to churn through ever-changing permutations of where the full-backs and wide attackers play, then we won‘t.
 
Jonny Blue said:
We won four in a row and the treble due to Pep and his tactics.

We have some very good news signings and our best player back. I'm pretty confident we will be better than last season.
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Obviously fair comment. I am just considering the view that the level of performance in the four in a row season was already being put down to tiredness, and last season down to tiredness and injury. Maybe it was just as much a tactical shift by opponents, which will be carried through to next season unless something changes.

I'm not complaining. I have experienced more success these last ten years than I ever thought would be possible. I am just not sure we will be able to get back to winning next season playing the way we have been.

But I know fuck all about tactics, really, so it's probably better to ignore me :)
 
halfcenturyup said:
That's what worries me. The squad is plenty good enough, but Guardiola's natural response to losing is more and more possession, never lose it.

Unless he has some eureka moment, I can't see us winning the league if we lose too many games to a quick counter from almost any team when we inevitably lose the ball, or for that matter any cup competition where such can be "fatal".

I do hope I am wrong, but I can't help thinking something new is required. And it isn't new players.
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City were conservative last season because we couldn't defend against transitions. If you can't a good coach will be more cautious. Pep did what his detractors claim he cannot do, and pragmatically responded to City's strength and weaknesses. Do you remember City losing 4-0 at home to Spurs? That's what happens if you take risks in possession. Pep deliberately reduced risk as the season progressed. That's a strength in his management, not a weakness.
 
Marvin. said:
City were conservative last season because we couldn't defend against transitions. If you can't a good coach will be more cautious. Pep did what his detractors claim he cannot do, and pragmatically responded to City's strength and weaknesses. Do you remember City losing 4-0 at home to Spurs? That's what happens if you take risks in possession. Pep deliberately reduced risk as the season progressed. That's a strength in his management, not a weakness.
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We will find out soon enough, I suppose.
 
Kamikaze Blue said:
A lot depends on how quickly the new players adapt. I’d also like to see us buy a right back. But I think we will be better than last year, and we finished third. Dippers will be the one to beat.
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Liverpool's form like City will be difficult to predict because their 2 best players are deep into the midwinter of their careers. Last season, the massive fall-off of Walker's game was entirely predictable. City did nothing about it and received criticism for doing so, Liverpool have done worse in that they extended the contracts of VVD and Salah. They won't get Isak. And then they will look weak.
 
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