4 | Kalvin Phillips - 2022/23 Performances

[dhruvblue]

Why are people going after Southgate? Had Phillips not gone to wc people would have abused Southgate for not taking him and he is still getting abuse because he went there?

 

[SambaStyle]

What a waste of money

 

[domalino]

This is an all time classic Bluemoon thread.

For all we know Phillips wasn't fit to train because he was getting over the flu, but the overactive imaginations on here have managed to spin it up into him turning up 3 stone overweight, throwing up on the side of the training ground with a 3 day hangover because he spent the week he had off on some combination of a lads holiday to Ibiza, a stag night in Blackpool and a meeting of the Bullingdon club.


This happens every single time we sign someone who has injury problems at the beginning. Go read the first few months of Nathan Aké's 20/21 performance thread and it was exactly the same. "Waste of money", "Jack Rodwell", not forgetting the cries of "he needs to pull his finger out" from people who've never met the guy, let alone know what he's like behind the scenes.



I do not understand why such a large % of people on here are always so desperate to create a villain in the City squad to be angry at.

 

[alexmcity]

The club bosses have decided that the best way to counter the negativity in the media is to sign as many English star players as possible. This explains why we spent nearly 150m on Grealish and Phillips. Both are good players, personally I like Jack, but arguably we could have signed better players for such money. Alvarez cost us 15m, and we could have signed Enzo Fernandez for 10m!

 

[Cityfan]

He owes us big time.
We allowed him to get the op so he could be in contention for the World Cup.
He did and now he's not 'ready' to play.

I'm not defending Phillips in general if he has returned from the world cup with a fitness problem that is his responsibility and unprofessional.
But in terms of timing of his operation it must have been in everyones interest to have it done as soon as possible once it was realised he needed it.

 

[Cityfan]

This is an all time classic Bluemoon thread.

For all we know Phillips wasn't fit to train because he was getting over the flu,

We don't know the problem but Guardiola does not usually say someone returns unift if they have just been unwell or injured he generally says he is unwell or injured. I suspect he is a bit fed up with the situation.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

The club bosses have decided that the best way to counter the negativity in the media is to sign as many English star players as possible. This explains why we spent nearly 150m on Grealish and Phillips. Both are good players, personally I like Jack, but arguably we could have signed better players for such money. Alvarez cost us 15m, and we could have signed Enzo Fernandes for 10m!

Maybe the club bosses didn't choose to sign English players due to " media negativity ", but because they thought they would be good additions for the team ?

And perhaps they didn't think that Fernandes was a good enough signing for us, or there was another reason why they didn't bite ?

Do you know for a fact that your opening statement is correct ?

 

[domalino]

We don't know the problem but Guardiola does not usually say someone returns unift if they have just been unwell or injured he generally says he is unwell or injured. I suspect he is a bit fed up with the situation.

When Pep's unhappy about a player's conditioning he's not shy about it. He got asked about Mahrez earlier in the season and he outright said his physical fitness wasn't good enough and he'd not play until his body fat was down. He said the same about Nasri and Yaya when they were overweight.

It also makes zero sense that Phillips couldn't train because he was unfit unless it's ilness or injury. Training is exactly what you need if you're out of condition or lacking fitness.

 

[Brewster's millions]

This is an all time classic Bluemoon thread.

For all we know Phillips wasn't fit to train because he was getting over the flu, but the overactive imaginations on here have managed to spin it up into him turning up 3 stone overweight, throwing up on the side of the training ground with a 3 day hangover because he spent the week he had off on some combination of a lads holiday to Ibiza, a stag night in Blackpool and a meeting of the Bullingdon club.


This happens every single time we sign someone who has injury problems at the beginning. Go read the first few months of Nathan Aké's 20/21 performance thread and it was exactly the same. "Waste of money", "Jack Rodwell", not forgetting the cries of "he needs to pull his finger out" from people who've never met the guy, let alone know what he's like behind the scenes.



I do not understand why such a large % of people on here are always so desperate to create a villain in the City squad to be angry at.

If a player is ill or unwell, the club says that they are ill. They’ve done so many times over the past year or two.

Guardiola would very likely have said last night if he was ill, or had been struggling with illness and recovering. But instead he used very specific language to state that he returned unfit and in poor condition, and that he still wasn’t ready to train properly because of this.

 

[alexmcity]

Do you know for a fact that your opening statement is correct ?

It's a guess based on the players we have been after. Imo, our willingness to spend nearly150m on Grealish and Phillips speaks volumes.