52 | Oscar Bobb - 2025/26

oldius said:
Oscar Bobb is a seriously talented player.
We MUST learn that players at this age are not the finished article. They will have good days and off days. They will do some great stuff, and will fall.
There are posters here who seem to thrive on a loss and immediately start criticising individuals.
This was a collective defeat. It was possibly a flawed team selection against one of the best teams in the league who also defended extremely well. It happens.
That I haven't a clue who to vote for in the MOM thread, just like many others, demonstrates exactly that.
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I don’t think people ‘thrive’ off defeat - but putting that to one side. As for MOTM, it would have to be Donnarumma wouldn’t it? A couple of good saves and no chance with the goal..
 
Blue Hefner said:
I don’t think people ‘thrive’ off defeat - but putting that to one side. As for MOTM, it would have to be Donnarumma wouldn’t it? A couple of good saves and no chance with the goal..
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Possibly, Donnarumma, yes.
Perhaps people don't thrive on it, but there are certainly posters who reappear in individual player threads the moment we drop a point.
 
Blue Hefner said:
I don’t want to critise him or make sweeping generalisations on his future as I’m not sure what the plan is for him, the injury has clearly effected him and he is extremely inexperienced at this level

Whilst he looked a million miles away last night, he should be nowhere near the starting 11 for a game like that

Is the plan for him to be a first team starter or a squad player? He looks neat and and beat a man but as I’ve mentioned we’ve got 3 players like that. So I’m not sure what we do with him
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I. think the long term plan is he is out main man on the right of the attack, last yeaes injury set him back, but he started this season well but has drifted off.

age and lack of games are a factor and I. beleive he will come good, unlile Savinho. I would let him play his way through his adjusting as you can see the effort and enthusiasm is there just the application is off at times
 
Apart from a good song ,offers absolutely nothing of a goal threat or assists,one trick pony with his turns then looses the ball.
 
mrtwiceaseason said:
Apart from a good song ,offers absolutely nothing of a goal threat or assists,one trick pony with his turns then looses the ball.
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I still think he’s got the ability to come good. Not disputing how much he struggled yesterday though. It was absolutely baffling why he wasn’t subbed at half time.Clearly if he’s going to play from the right he needs an overlapping fullback. So with Pep’s plan yesterday to have Stones spending most of the game in midfield with Nunes making up a 3 at the back it had to someone else,probably Doku from the right not Bobb
 
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I still think that’s young and in terms of actual game time - hes not played much.

Sterling played tonnes of games by that age and started when he was like 17. Most young players don’t get that chance
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He’s not going to get game time if he keeps playing this badly and getting long injuries so I’m not sure how long “he’s barely played” can be an excuse.

Ask 100 neutral football fans if you’d rather have kept Bobb, Palmer or Rodgers from an academy year group and I doubt anyone would pick Bobb.

Realistically he’s got 6 months to come good or the club will go big on buying wingers who can actually score and create goals in the summer and Bobb will be 4th/5th choice and his city career pretty much over.
 
domalino said:
He’s not going to get game time if he keeps playing this badly and getting long injuries so I’m not sure how long “he’s barely played” can be an excuse.

Ask 100 neutral football fans if you’d rather have kept Bobb, Palmer or Rodgers from an academy year group and I doubt anyone would pick Bobb.

Realistically he’s got 6 months to come good or the club will go big on buying wingers who can actually score and create goals in the summer and Bobb will be 4th/5th choice and his city career pretty much over.
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He’s not a winger though…..whether he’s good enough to start over the likes of Foden and Cherki in his proper position is another debate.

There is definitely a player in there with fabulous quick feet but someone that is strugging with form, confidence and a return after a long lay off.

Not that I’m a fan of Savinho but in fairness all our wide players struggle due to our delay in getting the ball out wide quickly enough, meaning they are usually faced with a couple of defenders.
 
domalino said:
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Ask 100 neutral football fans if you’d rather have kept Bobb, Palmer or Rodgers from an academy year group and I doubt anyone would pick Bobb.

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So, with hindsight then ignoring his full season out with a broken leg? Yeah, that would be a totally fair comparison.

No neutral fans would have watched them much whilst playing in the academy, those who had, would have likely picked Bobb over Palmer, Rodgers name being thrown into the pot would have got you laughed at.
 
domalino said:
He’s not going to get game time if he keeps playing this badly and getting long injuries so I’m not sure how long “he’s barely played” can be an excuse.

Ask 100 neutral football fans if you’d rather have kept Bobb, Palmer or Rodgers from an academy year group and I doubt anyone would pick Bobb.

Realistically he’s got 6 months to come good or the club will go big on buying wingers who can actually score and create goals in the summer and Bobb will be 4th/5th choice and his city career pretty much over.
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He played a couple of games two seasons ago and then had a major long term injury. I don’t think they are excuses.

We have had players like palmer and rogers. They didn’t make it at city either. I think part of it is management decisions and part of it is luck.

This is his first proper season, so let’s see where we are in six months. 8 or 9 games isn’t enough to judge someone
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I still think that’s young and in terms of actual game time - hes not played much.

Sterling played tonnes of games by that age and started when he was like 17. Most young players don’t get that chance
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That’s something to consider. Look at Sterling since he turned about 27… career nose dived when at one stage he looked like he could become the club’s top scorer by the end of his career.

Maybe Bobb will have the opposite career to Sterling and have a great end after a non-existent start?

There aren’t any signs yet though.
 
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.db. said:
That’s something to consider. Look at Sterling since he turned about 27… career nose dived when at one stage he looked like he could become the club’s top scorer by the end of his career.

Maybe Bobb will have the opposite career to Sterling?

There aren’t any signs yet though.
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He's got the first part right, now all he has to do is find any form at all score 20 goals in a season and he's golden.

In reality we'll be lucky to get 5 goals out of him with a fair wind behind him though.
 
mexico1970 said:
He's got the first part right, now all he has to do is find any form at all score 20 goals in a season and he's golden.

In reality we'll be lucky to get 5 goals out of him with a fair wind behind him though.
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True. But the way our wide players play now is totally different from when we had Sterling and Mahrez. Their job now is more or less to stay as wide as possible to stretch the defence, but the opposition just respond by dropping their midfielders into the gaps, so it's pretty pointless.

Our wide players now barely get opportunities to have a shot and if they do, there's usually a crowd of defenders in the way.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm not sure any of our wide players are to blame. The best wingers in the world would struggle with the way we set up (and what we come up against) at times.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
He played a couple of games two seasons ago and then had a major long term injury. I don’t think they are excuses.

We have had players like palmer and rogers. They didn’t make it at city either. I think part of it is management decisions and part of it is luck.

This is his first proper season, so let’s see where we are in six months. 8 or 9 games isn’t enough to judge someone
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This is his 3rd season in the team, he missed one through injury.

If he’s not a reliable goalscorer by the end of this season, we will spend £60m+ on at least one winger and he will be 4th choice at best. That means very limited game time and he’s unlisted to progress much not playing so that’s the end of his City career pretty much.

If we’d sold Savinho and bought someone with the money, it’d already be over.

I like him, I want him to become the player we thought he would be, but time is running out.

I don’t think anyone actually thinks we’d go into next season with the wingers we have now playing the way they are, but people get upset when you point out that means they’ve got a few months to come good or get replaced.
 
mattcity5 said:
True. But the way our wide players play now is totally different from when we had Sterling and Mahrez. Their job now is more or less to stay as wide as possible to stretch the defence, but the opposition just respond by dropping their midfielders into the gaps, so it's pretty pointless.

Our wide players now barely get opportunities to have a shot and if they do, there's usually a crowd of defenders in the way.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm not sure any of our wide players are to blame. The best wingers in the world would struggle with the way we set up (and what we come up against) at times.
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Maybe if our central midfielders scored more that would help mate ;-)

But seriously if we stick to the system we are playing with the players we have out wide we'll not win a thing at all.

No amount of tactical training makes players fall down like Savinho and Bobb do, they live on the floor.
 
Centurions said:
So, with hindsight then ignoring his full season out with a broken leg? Yeah, that would be a totally fair comparison.

No neutral fans would have watched them much whilst playing in the academy, those who had, would have likely picked Bobb over Palmer, Rodgers name being thrown into the pot would have got you laughed at.
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Breaking a leg makes me feel bad for him but hundreds of promising footballers have had their careers changed by a bad injury and you cannot excuse the fact he’s got zero goal threat and very few assists in a position that lives and dies by those contributions and we are desperately in need of a world class winger to support Haaland.


Would you be happy taking the wingers we have, at their current level into next season?
 
domalino said:
Breaking a leg makes me feel bad for him but hundreds of promising footballers have had their careers changed by a bad injury and you cannot excuse the fact he’s got zero goal threat and very few assists in a position that lives and dies by those contributions and we are desperately in need of a world class winger to support Haaland.


Would you be happy taking the wingers we have, at their current level into next season?
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Personally, I think the way we set up, and the way opposition teams set up against us, means whatever wingers we have will give us the same results.

The approach needs to change somehow. We need to be creating 3v3 chances, not stuck with 7v10 situations all game.
 
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