Aleksandar Kolarov

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He's never been good enough and he's not reliable enough to be a backup. Sell him and keep Clichy - at least he can defend and actually gives a shit.
 
BigOscar said:
I agree he was awful and generally I'd agree with the suggestion that it's ridiculous to play him ahead of Clichy in these games, but in my opinion Clichy has been really poor this season. I can't recall him having a good game. Both our LB's aren't good enough
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I completely disagree. Clichy took some time to get match sharp after his lengthy injury, but against West Ham and Sunderland he played really well. The defence has looked a lot more solid with him in it.

The most glaring this about yesterday is that we were playing against a really fast opposition, it's not tactical genius to realise you need some pace at the back. Our manager chose to play our 4 slowest defenders. With our two fastest defenders fit on the bench.

Yesterday was yet another example of the absolute ineptitude of this manager. Woefully out of his depth.
 
Marvin said:
Without KDB and Navas we needed Kolarov yesterday to supply the width.

Against Leicester we had Sterling and Kolarov linking up throughout the game, but every time they came to deliver the cross they hesitated. As was said above perhaps there was no one in the box to find.

If Kolarov and Zabaleta had stayed back, then we'd have had zero attacking impetus.

The goals we conceded did not come from poor fullback play, they came from two corners and a great goal through the centre of our defence. I didn't watch MOTD
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I assume you missed him needlessly giving away the free kick from which they scored their first goal.

We also didn't need him for the kind of width he gave us yesterday. Sterling could have played wide and Clichy could have given us additional width from LB if need be.
 
Easily the most frustrating player I've ever seen. So predictable as well, you can see from a mile away that he is going to one of them stupid long range shots that go no where near the goal.

He need to realise that if he can't attack, he's being sold to Verona.
 
Not good enough and never has been.

I also question his mentality and possible disruption in and around the dressing room.

Not a snowballs in hell chance he gets anywhere near a Pep side.
 
I think Kolarov is a top player and leader for City, I don't think he should have played yesterday given he came back from injury only recently but with so many games in Feb, needs must. I see him and Clichy as different options, Clichy being a fast, defensive option and Kolarov being the opposite. Yesterday against Vardy and Mahrez, Clichy should've played as it would've suited him more, we may still have lost but I feel it would've suited him.

I'm nearly 100% sure we'll see a new LB in the summer, if for no other reason than Clichy and Kolarov are both 30 now and although we can afford to keep one I don't think we can keep both. I think it's easily forgotten how good some players are after 1 or 2 bad games, after all there is a group calling for Silva to be dropped(!)

I think a lot of the criticism is over the top, which is understandable considering we've just been destroyed at home by a title rival, but he doesn't deserve to be ousted over one poor match straight after injury.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Thankfully.
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He is the equivalant of a special teams kicker in American football. You bring him on now and then for the odd dig at a 25/30 yeard free kick and thats about it as he cant defend and he is no winger either.

I just fail to see what he offers us as a player other than the odd left foot special?
 
Stevieatlasblue said:
Kolorov wasn't that bad yesterday..sterling was shite..the 3 other defenders weren't good.yaya was shite.kolorov always shows and at the end he raised his arms and clapped our fans for the support..blue through and through..he's had more minutes on the pitch than most..just come back from injury..give this true blue a break. Liverpool laughed at us when we payed all that money for sterling..no where near as good as swp.
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I can only assume that you`re still pissed from yesterday or the tablets havn`t kicked in yet.Kolarov was gash and that putting it midly and then for Toure to pass him the captains armband was a slap in the face to someone like Zaba.
 
Shaelumstash said:
I completely disagree. Clichy took some time to get match sharp after his lengthy injury, but against West Ham and Sunderland he played really well. The defence has looked a lot more solid with him in it.

The most glaring this about yesterday is that we were playing against a really fast opposition, it's not tactical genius to realise you need some pace at the back. Our manager chose to play our 4 slowest defenders. With our two fastest defenders fit on the bench.

Yesterday was yet another example of the absolute ineptitude of this manager. Woefully out of his depth.
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Can't say I agree about him against Sunderland, I thought he was awful, his pass completion rate was barely above 50% iirc and I've never seen us so bad at passing out from the back. We put ourselves under huge pressure and got away with it because Sunderland are wank.

Although I agree about Vardy's pace being a problem, I don't think Kolarov's lack of pace was ever an issue in the game. Leicester have pace down the middle, but your left back can't cover in behind your CB in those situations. Mahrez has pace but he doesn't run in behind, he gets it deep and runs at people, usually down the middle. I don't think they use pace down the flanks particularly, nor do I think lack of pace was Kolarov's problem at all yesterday. General shitness was his biggest problem, particularly by wasting about 10 fantastic crossing positions, but I wouldn't have expected Clichy to do any better in those positions because he's a non-entity going forwards.

We should have had some pace at the back, but for me it should have been Sagna instead of Demichelis as that is the area in which Leicester use their pace.
 
We need 2 new fullbacks to start next season. The only one I'd keep in the squad would be Sagna. We need energy, speed and technical ability and none of the other 3 are up to it any longer.
 
I think there is a genuine case for starting Angelino ahead of him if we want an attacking leftback.
 
Stevieatlasblue said:
Kolorov wasn't that bad yesterday..sterling was shite..the 3 other defenders weren't good.yaya was shite.kolorov always shows and at the end he raised his arms and clapped our fans for the support..blue through and through..he's had more minutes on the pitch than most..just come back from injury..give this true blue a break. Liverpool laughed at us when we payed all that money for sterling..no where near as good as swp.
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Kolarov had an off day in terms of accuracy but he's just back from injury.

However, I completely disagree with your Sterling comment. Furthermore, no one tried harder than Rahim.
 
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