This is pretty much how I see it. I feel like he's playing well within himself and quite happy to pass responsibility onto others like KDB.It’s not that he’s bad. He doesn’t dribble down blind alleys, constantly lose possession, or blast easy chances over the bar… but he just does everything nice and safely, without any real aggression.
We need an opposition full back who comes out from the off and gives Jack and good few kickings. Wind him up. Get him going. I think he’ll then stand up and be counted.
Everything has been so laidback from him.
I also think there’s a bit of a lack of seeing himself up in the hierarchy of team importance and he dismisses responsibility and just does everything safely on his own part while he allows de Bruyne or others to try and win the game.
He needs to understand that de Bruyne is only 9.091% of the team just like he is and he has exactly the same amount of responsibility to win a game as each and every other player. He needs to be confident and take that responsibility.
If Pep wants the £100M out of him that we put in, he needs to let him play the way he played when we thought he was worth the money!
It’s great to collect great players, but why waste the talent?
I think like all players at City, Pep has to trust you and love you. I’m not sure he trusts Jack…or maybe it’s Jack that doesn't trust Pep to still love him if he goes for it and it doesn’t come off or he loses the ball? Or, maybe he HAS had a crack, lost the ball a time or two, and got a rollicking?
It’s impossible to know EXACTLY where the problem is, but it is clear that Foden and Bernardo and even Alvarez and KDB are having better luck on the wings than Jack and Mahrez at the moment.
I‘d like to see Foden play LM with Jack out wide left and Cancelo at LB. I think that trio is an inside outside triple threat down the left and frees them up to be more expressive. Currently, I’d have Bernardo and KDB playing on the right, interchanging inside and outside, as necessary.
It’s time to see if he can be a regular starter in this team before we try to create him into a star in the team. The only question is when, or if, that time runs out…for Pep, for fans, or for Jack himself?
I think you’re missing the point of the inverted fullback, which releases the midfielder to be an attacker. In the above, what I wrote was that with Cancelo playing the inverted role (LM), it frees up the supposed LM and LW to play their channels, switch, or interchange.I always thought inverted wingers play with fullback who overlap. I could just put up with that. Inverted wingers on their own IMO is terrible and makes the job easier for defender.
I’ll leave that for the Haaland thread. ;-)Also when when the fuck are we going to release this 6`5" version of Flash in Thors body on defenses. The ball between the two C/B`s he looks for every game, he`s open his body up and starts the run for a ball that has only come twice or 3 times that I remember.
When it doesn`t come his body language show his displeasure. While I don`t want this ball every time I would like it to be used more. This ball was used to brilliant effect by every team he`s played for apart from us.
All I hear from Pep is we don`t want to give Erling the ball early. Why the fuck not.
Don’t think so. The whole team played well for the last hour of the game. Mahrez was excellent but he didn’t single handedly carry the team through.Psg semi final?
I'm not disagreeing, but they don't play there with any kind of consistency so it's moot and irrelevant to the point I'm making.they could and are all better than Grealish at this time
I always thought inverted wingers play with fullback who overlap. I could just put up with that. Inverted wingers on their own IMO is terrible and makes the job easier for defender.
Also when when the fuck are we going to release this 6`5" version of Flash in Thors body on defenses. The ball between the two C/B`s he looks for every game, he`s open his body up and starts the run for a ball that has only come twice or 3 times that I remember.
When it doesn`t come his body language show his displeasure. While I don`t want this ball every time I would like it to be used more. This ball was used to brilliant effect by every team he`s played for apart from us.
All I hear from Pep is we don`t want to give Erling the ball early. Why the fuck not.
Exactly.I think it's stupid to think Pep picks a team based on anything but winning as many games as possible. If you think he'd pick a weaker team based on nothing but what the club payed for a player then he wouldn't have won nearly the amount of games and trophies he has.