10 | Rayan Cherki - 2025/26

[CΛL]

Amen. The games gone boring. The more like him the better

Was watching some clips of France vs Brazil the other day from the 2006 World Cup, the likes of R9, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Zidane, Henry amongst many other talents that completely outshine anybody that plays today.

It’s really become too financially motivated I feel, the pressure is such that it’s been reduced and analysed and stripped back so much in order to gain any tiny advantage possible - from ownership to coaches to scouts to players to nutritionists and even now set piece coaches

Everybody has collectively lost track of the fact that it’s a game. The game we all enjoy playing in the street with our mates when we’re kids, it’s supposed to be about joy.

Now more than anything it’s really all about chasing relief, even for us fans. Whether you’re at the top, the bottom or somewhere in between, every game you play is to avoid losing, not to play a game because you love it.

That’s why I love players like Cherki, Doku and the Phil we knew from a couple years ago, because they go against that grain and get you off your seats for their pure love of having the ball at their feet, to score, to entertain.

 

[CΛL]

Beatles the most overrated boy band of all time

Come off it

 

[oldius]

Was watching some clips of France vs Brazil the other day from the 2006 World Cup, the likes of R9, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Zidane, Henry amongst many other talents that completely outshine anybody that plays today.

It’s really become too financially motivated I feel, the pressure is such that it’s been reduced and analysed and stripped back so much in order to gain any tiny advantage possible - from ownership to coaches to scouts to players to nutritionists and even now set piece coaches

Everybody has collectively lost track of the fact that it’s a game. The game we all enjoy playing in the street with our mates when we’re kids, it’s supposed to be about joy.

Now more than anything it’s really all about chasing relief, even for us fans. Whether you’re at the top, the bottom or somewhere in between, every game you play is to avoid losing, not to play a game because you love it.

That’s why I love players like Cherki, Doku and the Phil we knew from a couple years ago, because they go against that grain and get you off your seats for their pure love of having the ball at their feet, to score, to entertain.

Nostalgia is a powerful force: the players mentioned do not outshine Messi.
Time will tell what players like Cherki will become.

The great players would be great in any era, but it is true that as coaching develops to the nth degree, so difference becomes finer and finer. As Syndrome said - when everyone's super, NO ONE IS!

 

[Manchester_lalala]

The CL shows us that if your technical players are good enough, no team based on physicality alone will get near you. We speak about the game changing, and teams are using physicality and excellent coaching to try to bridge the gap, but highly technical players, like Cherki, backed by some physicality to win the ball and cut out the counters before giving it to him, will always win the day, and we are on our way back, IMO.

Just having a physical back line and a really good ball winner in the middle of the park will give the flair players enough steel to cope.

 

[CΛL]

Nostalgia is a powerful force: the players mentioned do not outshine Messi.
Time will tell what players like Cherki will become.

The great players would be great in any era, but it is true that as coaching develops to the nth degree, so difference becomes finer and finer. As Syndrome said - when everyone's super, NO ONE IS!

Messi is gone as well mate, who is left?

Also I was on about Cherki being in that bracket, as in the players I mentioned, not only were they supremely talented but fun as fuck to watch.

He’s a dying breed, so is entertainment in football.

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

Am, watch news, google War, Scott Mills, pm smile at Cherki highlights.

 

[oldius]

Messi is gone as well mate, who is left?

Also I was on about Cherki being in that bracket, as in the players I mentioned, not only were they supremely talented but fun as fuck to watch.

He’s a dying breed, so is entertainment in football.

Football is always cyclical, and there is always some nostalgia clouding objectivity: for every Maradona there was a Pollock!
There are some supreme talents in Cherki, Yamal, Guler, Pedro, and there are many more emerging, like Echeverri, Yildiz, and Smit, and it is arguable that they have to be even better than before because defences from front to back are more tactical.

 

[havefaith]

I’ve translated the French website page into an English website page.

Rayan Cherki : début de carrière, Manchester City, salaire

Transféré en 2025 à Manchester City depuis l'Olympique Lyonnais, Rayan Cherki est entré dans une nouvelle dimension

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Cheers for this, was pissing around with an Italian B&B website earlier translating various sections as I went through it :-)

 

[bg1968]

|Has become a hate figure for the Goons , it doesnt take much to wind up the soft cunts , but players like Cherki are worth the admission cost , mavericks of the game who do the unexpected , Pep doesnt like his showboating , but i love it , a nice Rabona against the Goons in a couple of weeks and the Goons will have a contract out on him , wankers

 

[DTKOAG]

 

[Master-Lotus]

I love this guy's attitude, he's already becoming my favorite. Definitely buying 2026-27 home kit with his name on it.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

I can’t believe he’s not been a regular in this side.

 

[Chak19]

Phenomenal today, ripped them a new one, our 10 for many many years hopefully.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Love him. He’s a maniac and we’ve needed a character like this for a bit.

 

[Ric]

What a player we’ve got on our hands. Fucking love him.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

It's like somebody crossed Balotelli with Zidane.

He craves the chaos and makes it the canvas for his art.

 

[Georgian Maestro]

 

[dave_blue12]

It doesn’t always come off for him but it doesn’t affect him. Just keeps being himself.

What a player, fucking love him.

 

[denTTony]

Excellent, much more involved, great pass fir 2nd

 

[bg1968]

Used to believe we would never see an individual talent like Kinkladze again , the difference is Kinkladze looked brilliant in a poor team , Cherki is brilliant in a top european team , its early days , his first season but what a start he has made.