27 | Matheus Nunes - 2023/24

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Plain Speaking said:
Anyone competing for places in our starting team is going to be facing world class competition, City are the best team in the world.

With respect, whether you think Ake was 'underwhelming' is irrelevant, (personally he's impressed me throughout), but Ake has had the trust of Pep, which Nunes hasn't.
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Garcia (who benched Stones in 19/20) and Stones were anything but world class at that moment. It wasn't difficult to trust Ake over them back then.

We had an utterly important game this season immediately after the club world cup, namely vs Everton away. That game was supposed to show whether we could compete for the title. We had to win there. Pep started with Nunes instead of Kovacic. So, even though Nunes didn't convince him in that game, he must have had Pep's trust to feature in a crucial game like this.

Ake was underwhelming in his first season, get over it.
 
Missing out on the euros when they've picked a handful of players who have spent all season having a kick about in Saudi is odd and just another example of Martinez managing to sabotage what should be one of the favourites for the competition.

It's good for us though as it means he'll be back in pre-season day 1 giving him the maximum amount of time possible to learn from Pep. That should help him more than anything. If he has a good pre-season and is doing what Pep wants him to do, he can easily find himself starting the early games next season as others return late and then he gets the chance to be a significant part of the team.
 
alexmcity said:
Garcia (who benched Stones in 19/20) and Stones were anything but world class at that moment. It wasn't difficult to trust Ake over them back then.

We had an utterly important game this season immediately after the club world cup, namely vs Everton away. That game was supposed to show whether we could compete for the title. We had to win there. Pep started with Nunes instead of Kovacic. So, even though Nunes didn't convince him in that game, he must have had Pep's trust to feature in a crucial game like this.

Ake was underwhelming in his first season, get over it.
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I said Pep only played Nunes against the lesser teams, even if you add on their 8 point deduction Everton are firmly in the bottom half of the table.

You should 'get over' the fact Pep has demonstrated throughout the season he doesn't trust Nunes.

Pep has trusted Ake since he's been at the club, rightly so.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Missing out on the euros when they've picked a handful of players who have spent all season having a kick about in Saudi is odd and just another example of Martinez managing to sabotage what should be one of the favourites for the competition.

It's good for us though as it means he'll be back in pre-season day 1 giving him the maximum amount of time possible to learn from Pep. That should help him more than anything. If he has a good pre-season and is doing what Pep wants him to do, he can easily find himself starting the early games next season as others return late and then he gets the chance to be a significant part of the team.
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Thought Portugal were in it? If all our squad though take 4 weeks off after the 2 summer tournaments we aren’t going to have many with any pre season anyway.
 
Can't see any way he'll be here next season, genuinely got no idea how or where he's meant to fit in for us. A weird panic type signing and one we'll hopefully be able to move on from
 
Im sure he will be very disappointed to miss out on the Euro’s. Not really gone as planned this one. He has this season to improve or he will be off.
 
I'm not sure he'll have been surprised by his omission from the national squad. He's only been in the 3 of the last 14 Portuguese squads and only played in one, 63 minutes in a meaningless friendly against Sweden when other players were out. His situation at the national level rather mirrors his situation at club level.
 
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