“City in crisis”

Crisis talk is strong. It’s been a week.

This is a culmination of poor recruitment in my opinion, that would’ve been exposed sooner under a different manager. These results have been coming. Our midfield just isn’t up to it. Old with similar profiles, this is on Txiki and Soriano. Just look at the amount of misses we’ve had in that midfield.

Injuries haven’t helped but let’s not pretend it isn’t an ageing, old and small midfield.

I think we played poorly for vast stretches of last season, we needed that Gvardiol level signing for the midfield this summer and it didn’t come.

Get to international break and regroup. I fear this might be one of those situations where it gets worse before it gets better though.
 
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failsworthblueboy said:
Other than injuries I would hardly call this a crisis, we are having a bad spell after a really good start and will be back to winning ways very soon. Pep and the players will sort this out have faith in the best team in the world.
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The results aren’t a crisis. What’s a crisis is that the midfield is nowhere near good enough and we don’t have the options to change things. And I doubt he’ll sign anyone in January. Probably need a midfielder and a striker.
 
supercity88 said:
In the grand scheme of Pep's era there are worrying signs. But a youthful side went up against a very good Spurs side and gave them a game. A depleted side went to Bournemouth and were battered but still a whisker away from equalizing at the end. And then another depleted side went and battered Sporting before being picked apart in the second half.

The last time we lost three was twice against the dippers in the CL knockouts and at home to the Rags. That was really fucking disappointing but not seen as a crisis at all.

We are 2pts off top, out of a competition we didn't need to be in and still have the ability to make the knockouts of the CL so there's no real damage done just yet.

If we were miles off top 4 and CL qualification I would suggest we had bigger issues. With the injuries we have and the wider squad issues we are having to adapt and that's going to be a challenge. Nothing more than that.
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Pep's era has to end at some point but the Club will still go on and on

Who knows what the future holds ?? Like I said earlier, 15 years ago was not so long ago and we had won nothing for such a long time, We faced relegation battles and promotion battles and the only dream was getting 40 points,

We could find a new manager who wins more than Pep or We win nothing, But being a Manchester City fan is like no other club and their fans, The Dark Days we all could handle with ease, in fact, we were a happy-go-lucky club, But taste Glory and it's like a drug and we are all hooked and the in house fighting starts when the drug is gone,

You know what in the international break I am going to watch all the dark days from the 1980s up to 2008 just to get the feeling back that Manchester City was a normal football club
 
inchy14 said:
I think the club will prioritise it personally plus a lot of prize money at stake.
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I am not sure fifa even have a sponsor yet for CWC to put the prize money on the table. FIFA set a price for sponsors to pay and none came forward. Maybe that has changed I haven’t heard.
 
blue ranger said:
The results aren’t a crisis. What’s a crisis is that the midfield is nowhere near good enough and we don’t have the options to change things. And I doubt he’ll sign anyone in January. Probably need a midfielder and a striker.
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We will sign a few in January and a couple of young players already signed will join us but this is no crisis, it’s no more than a bad spell.
 
Panic. Panic. A blip. So many written us off last season, after an uninspiring start.

Really think we'll regroup and some January freshness from Argentina will help. Pep knows how to adapt and he's best when he has a challenge.
 
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