Match Thread | Real Madrid vs. Manchester City (11/03/26)

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We've not replaced De Bruyne.
We've not replaced Gundogan.
We've not replaced Mahrez.

We replaced Fernandinho with Rodri who's unfortunately a shadow of his former self.

No wonder we are worse off.
you cant replace de bruyne but we’re attempting to with cherki, reijnders is supposed to be the gundogan replacement. savinho doku and semenyo all attempts to replace mahrez and grealish. rodri is better than fernandinho
 
I agree

I dont think many of our players are at that level to win trophies

Like I just said in another post:

We have potential in NOR, Khusonov and Cherki - but no one knows whether they will or wont be

We have Donarumma, Haaland and Rodri that are world class (not in this game) but overall throghout their time in the game

We have a lot of 6 and 7 (Semenyo, Dias and some others) out of 10's as you said and a few worse - the issue is none of this lot are goingto improve beyond that

the likes of Rejnders, Sav just need to be sold asap -
Yeah, there’s a lot of corrective work, it’s a sobering thought.

I’ve got to be honest, Cherki, whislt I like some of his work, unless he grows a lung, his lack of energy will always mean he’s a luxury and not a mainstay.

On the plus side, I think the squad is such, that we have players that mean we won’t drop to the depths of pool in the 90’s and United more recently…but that only lasts so long.

Lower prem teams can’t be our bread bin.
 
Wisdom of hindsight but RAN and Cherki should have started.
Its out of fear, he plays defensively, which ironically made us worse.

Pep should have stuck to his principle of ballers to retain the ball.

Unfortunately I think he got burned by Cherki in some big games where he looks out of it but I think he needs to persist with the "theoretical" best players, and just make it work.
 
So many things to be disappointed about, but the way that we went from slicing through them at will to being on the back foot as soon as we conceded one goal speaks volumes about our confidence.

Not too many teams collapse like that against us, do they?
 
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