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Is this true? If that's the case, Pep will kick him out and with good reason. Not too worried. Ortega played 9 PL games last season. 7 wins and 2 draws. Tough matches like Liverpool, Tottenham, Palace and Newcastle away, or Arsenal, West Ham and Brighton home. People thinking we will downgrade...

Honestly, Perrone should be playing with the starters and not Phillips. At least with Perrone, he might be useful. Getting rid of Phillips will be very difficult with his salary and this level.

For all the people who think we will be considerably weaker with Ortega as #1, how do you explain that he played 9 games in PL with no defeats (against Tottenham Liverpool or Newcastle away, Arsenal home...)? 7 wins and 2 draws there. Pure luck I guess...

Remember the penalty that Ederson cost us against Liverpool who could have cost us the league or Tottenham away last season where he gifted a goal with a bad pass? Guess what? GK make mistakes. Such a big revelation...

Are our players the worst penalty takers in world football?

At home: Brighton, Arsenal, Aston Villa and West Ham. Away: Forest, Crystal Palace, Tottenham, Liverpool and Newcastle. Pretty tough schedule, right? Those were the games that Ortega played last season for PL. 2 draws (Liverpool and Arsenal where he kept a clean sheet) and 7 victories. People...

You give this team to Pep, and it would be a historical national team and we all would be watching great football. How can you have such good players offensively, and yet Switzerland is more entertaining to watch... You have a top 3 City player and POTS, a top 2 RM player (and contender for...

Also, Xabi Alonso will never come. He has a huge chance of being either Madrid or Liverpool next manager, and he will want that before managing us.

It makes too much sense. He gets 2025 as a sabbatical (or manages MLS team which is still mostly a sabbatical for someone like Pep), and then in 2026 starts managing a national team for 2030 WC. If he doesn't go now, then 2034 WC will be his next chance, and I doubt he wants that.

F off. Madrid is the biggest club in history and their fans will insult and boo their own team if they are not playing well. They are vicious when a player is not at the level required. Vinicius, Cristiano, Bale, Benzema, Ramos have all been insulted while they were on the pitch. When we are...

I think it's fair to criticize him (and I've done it plenty) when the rest of the team is playing well and he is ghosting. Today, he was the least of our problems. He has to train on how to win the duels though. Any above average defender beats him more often than not.

I remeber how I posted here that I would sell him fir certain and most people told me how wrong I was. The match today from Bernardo has been the most typical this season. Dribbling no one, creating zero danger. His teammates ignoring him because they know that. Great positioning, pressing and...

Rodri is far above anyone else. But that doesn't mean we cannot find someone better than Kalvin Phillips, and i just mentioned several achievable players (I am not saying Rice or Camavinga or Tchoaumeni) who would be really useful olaying alongside Rodri or giving him some rest.

I agree. Bad on Pep today, just mentioning that it is always the same users who never come to congrat Pep when we win

Phillips, the guy who can't even start with West Ham has been the only sub for Rodri. Kovacic is not a DM. I am sure if we had a Jorginho or Xhaka or Guimaraes or Chalanoglou or Barella or Kimich...Rodri would not olay every damn minute. When he doesn't play we tend to lose a lot!! Yes, this is...

The guy who is always on this thread on our defeats and never here on our victories. What a surprise!!

Would you disagree with any of my ratings? I post both on victories and defeats and I tend to defend most players when I think criticism is unfair (I just defended Walker today for example). I am not a downer. But anyone can see that our individual performance was very low today.

Week end of the season, which shouldn't surprise anyone. He never rests. Thanks for Foden and Rodri because they carried us all season long. I don't remembwr the last season where we had 2 players so far above all the others.

Strong performance today anf the only of our starters that can hold his head high. Great squad player that will be really useful next season. We need a world class CM though. Kovacic is elite as a rotation player, but he cannot be a starter for us.

I think he should be our Doku next season. We really need a world-class MF + Foden + Rodri to be our starting 11 with Grealish and Doku on the wings. Father time gets us all, but he is still an incredible footballer when he is in the zone. If he accepts the Doku role, he can easily give us 2-3...