47 | Phil Foden - 2024/25


Don't act so surprised..

Pep has proven he can win a treble with academy kids provided they believe in him while selling off Ronaldinho, Deco and others.

FFS even the rags sold their golden boy to Madrid when there was friction that could not be resolved.

But I think people are overreacting here.. I don't think there's friction between the two but then again what do I know? I'm just a fan.. not an ITK.
 
Foden plays football for the joy of it, or at least he did. Personally think we are as side very mechanical at the moment and it's bringing him down.
 
Foden plays football for the joy of it, or at least he did. Personally think we are as side very mechanical at the moment and it's bringing him down.
We’ve been mechanical for about 3 seasons. It’s served us well and if it’s to the detriment of some individual performance then that’s just the way it is.
The team comes first.
 
Form is temporary, class is permanent. Again a lot of strange kneejerk reactions about, a player who has been absolutely fantastic for us. He's just going through a poor patch at the moment.

Yeah seriously but the Pep out clowns have to be told to shut the hell up!
 
We’ve been mechanical for about 3 seasons. It’s served us well and if it’s to the detriment of some individual performance then that’s just the way it is.
The team comes first.
And we wouldn't change what we have won even though I though in the season we won the treble there were some magnificent performances.
 
No where near good enough.

Can be said for most of the squad.

Need to stop this tired shit, it’s already knocked us out of the league cup so less games.

Time we started the season.

Injured, too many games blah blah.

Football is season after season. Time to go again.
 
Hot take alert, but I think pep has failed Phil a little bit. There just always seems to be that little bit of doubt and he flat out refuses to play him centrally with KDB the way he did with kev and david silva. It took kev's injury last year for Foden to become the man and even then Pep flirted with Alvarez in the 10 for ages before giving in and playing phil when alvarez was just crap there game after game.

He is moved to accommodate inferior players all the time and watching bernardo try and create centrally yesterday while the player of the season is booted to right wing is in infuriating. If he isn't as confident as he should be at this point in his career its because he's been doubted frequently by the manager.

The treble season he got lumped to the bench and yes we won the treble and that means any criticism of how we played for much of that season (we were crap till february lol) is null and void but Phil might have helped in some moments maybe.

I don't know, I don't like how pep treats Phil and I know everyone will be like 'oh rag, he treated him so badly he won player of the season' but Foden isn't as consistent as he should be at this point in his career, he seems way more full of doubt and is meeker than he should be with his level of talent.

I actually wonder if Phil will be the rare player that will actually benefit from pep's departure, even if Man city as a whole won't. The team should be built around him now, but pep is clinging on to his 30 plus personal favourites instead.
The reason he didn't play near the end of the treble season is because he got appendicitis and needed an operation. When he recovered City had settled on a team that took all the way, it was just unfortunate for Phil. Phil is out of form at the moment, he will be alright.
 
Had a couple of chances yesterday in areas we saw him excel in last season. The chances are starting to come and hes getting in the right areas again. Hes still below his excellent level but I dont think hes too far off.
 
I watched a different match than most. I thought he played really well yesterday, and after watching his highlights, I feel the same. His effort was great throughout.

 

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