I just hope targets are sewn up for the summer.
If you have a 35 year old centre back who's proving to be a bit of a liability you have two choices:It just goes to prove that the players available to him aren't good enough then.
I said earlier in the week that i'm amazed how we're still fighting on all four fronts with the defence we've got.
To go the rest of the season having to play a 35 year old as centre half, left back that can't defend with no pace and a right back in decline then we will be doing well to make top 4 to be honest.
Yesterday was a shameful performance. End of. I don't give a fuck about looking at Chelsea, I'm concerned about our total lack of desire.Shameful?
You want shameful look at the current champions
We are not even close to 'shameful'
right back in decline?It just goes to prove that the players available to him aren't good enough then.
I said earlier in the week that i'm amazed how we're still fighting on all four fronts with the defence we've got.
To go the rest of the season having to play a 35 year old as centre half, left back that can't defend with no pace and a right back in decline then we will be doing well to make top 4 to be honest.
It's the ridiculous injuries that have potentially derailed our season
Never known anything like it
If we had a full strength squad we would be breezing this league
We have constantly had either injuries or players coming back from injury
So much so that we have barely had a settled first 11 since the beginning of the season
Look at Leicester yesterday..they played like a team..a consistent one who have been fortunate not to have any long term set backs on the physio table..coupled with the fact they are not fighting on all fronts for trophies..fit..rested and hungry for it..it doesn't matter how many world class individuals you have in your team..if there is no consistency you will lose as often as you win
It's the elephant in the room that nobody is seemingly acknowledging
We have been desperately unlucky with injury this season
If we have a squad of 21 senior players with one of them being Richard then please tell me how we have two players for every position.
Another question, Pellers got it right at Leicester a couple of weeks back, didn't he? Better finishing and we'd have won that one ( or maybe being awarded the penalty we should've got ). So tell me did he gauge them before playing?
The Pellegrini apologists now rewriting history. It's the team that's not good enough apparently. Even Manuel stated that we had the best squad at the start of the season.
The only attacking play we had came from Sterling and Kolarov's overlaps. Time and again they'd get the ball in an advanced position but the cross never went in, or was poor. Perhaps the midfielders weren't running into the box. But had Clichy played you think it would have been better? No it would have been worse. Clichy is not as good as Kolarov going forward and we were chasing the game at that pointKolorov should have been hauled off at half time but gradually got worse and worse. He could have subbed him but didn't. Really bad decision
You mean replace him with a 32 year old and risk burn out to not only another centre half cover but also a right back that'll be needed in weeks to comeIf you have a 35 year old centre back who's proving to be a bit of a liability you have two choices:
1. Take him out of the firing line and play a younger more athletic player in his place (Sagna), or change your approach and offer some protection to this potential weaklink by playing an extra defensive midfielder in front of him.
2. Do nothing.
The Pellegrini apologists now rewriting history. It's the team that's not good enough apparently. Even Manuel stated that we had the best squad at the start of the season.
Well said - a bit of perspective. It's not just that we have had injuries - it's the fact that our best players have been out at the same time.
If you have a 35 year old centre back who's proving to be a bit of a liability you have two choices:
1. Take him out of the firing line and play a younger more athletic player in his place (Sagna), or change your approach and offer some protection to this potential weaklink by playing an extra defensive midfielder in front of him.
2. Do nothing.
I agree although I think we compound the problem by not using our squad players effectively: Sagna should be the man to cover for Kompany and Mangala, not Demichelis. And Toure should not be starting full stop. But the major problem is injuries.
The injury list published by the BBC and Skysports recently shows that City are by far the worst affected team, and there doesn't seem to relate entirely to numbers of games played either. We have either been very unlucky, and maybe there's an unknown(s) reason for our injury problems.
Okay can you list the number of games this season when we have had a team that is weaker than the opposition? Can you also do it for last season as well? I will then happily accept our manager is indeed a good manager and he has been unlucky and not bleeding useless
Do you believe a different manager with those performances from the players yesterday would have got a different result?
Pellegrini is gone. I will shed not one tear as a look at my post history for the last 3 years whilst supporting him has always said he is holding the fort until Pep arrives. Not hindsight, my opinion in writing on here for all to see.
The performances from the players yesterday where an utter disgrace, end of.