47 | Phil Foden - 2025/26

Lkzerinho said:
I think the Dele Ali comparison is both lazy and very very very drastic.

But there is a reality in which if he has another year like he did last year, and he has 1 year left on his deal and he is going to want to be one of the top earners in the squad, there may have to be a tough conversation if he doesn't at least begin to show more of what we saw in 23/24 and less of what we saw last year.
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We are two games into a new season.. give it some time yet.

No one played well last year, so based on what your saying everyone’s at risk of being sold
 
eastmanc said:
Crazy isn't it . This place is either full of rags and dippers or certain blues are off their heads.
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I think it’s a mix mate. Some ‘blues’ seemingly can’t handle not winning a game or league anymore (it’s only been one season so far). Some of the things I’ve been reading on here have been ridiculous
 
Whether he likes it or not, he is now one of the established stars of this side who, especially right now this season has to take control on the pitch and help the new signings by leading



That goes for some of the others as well
 
tackeds said:
This thread really does bring out the moaners. He did his ankle ligaments last season and visibly got his ankle done again when he equalised against Al Hilal (just as he scored his 100th goal for club but yeah he’s just our Rashford isn’t he).

No argument that he needs a better season. But there’s constructive criticism then there’s just bed wetting about him being another Dele Ali based on a five second clip of him laughing on the bench when none of us know what he was laughing at or what the others were doing 30 seconds later.

Don’t know a thing about him being at creamfields. Was he staggering out pissed? If not I don’t really see what the issue is.
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On the topic about Dele Alli, let's try to keep that name out of talks like this. The struggle in his career isn't just down to footballing reasons, the young man is having to go through some healing for traumatic experiences from his childhood.
 
Foden looks softer as he gets older, not as aggressive anymore. Feels like his best game is already behind him. And after all these years with Pep’s overthinking, I still don’t know if he’s an attacking mid or a winger.
 
clarion said:
Foden looks softer as he gets older, not as aggressive anymore. Feels like his best game is already behind him. And after all these years with Pep’s overthinking, I still don’t know if he’s an attacking mid or a winger.
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What? He's been a consistent upwards trajectory until last season. It's one bad season, where he was bad along with literally everyone else in the squad.
 
Another season where he starts with a mysterious injury and never really comes off the gate strong. needs to start vs Brighton if he's fit
 
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang said:
On the topic about Dele Alli, let's try to keep that name out of talks like this. The struggle in his career isn't just down to footballing reasons, the young man is having to go through some healing for traumatic experiences from his childhood.
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Funny how that trauma only came out when he started playing shit? The trauma allowed him to become a professional footballer, a very good one at that, an England starter but out of the blue childhood trauma put the brakes on all that? Nah, not for me.

Foden needs to step up this year. One bad year out of 5 or 6 quality seasons wont see me write him off. He needs to take a lead which I am sure he will and that will feel like a new signing all together.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
Funny how that trauma only came out when he started playing shit? The trauma allowed him to become a professional footballer, a very good one at that, an England starter but out of the blue childhood trauma put the brakes on all that? Nah, not for me.

Foden needs to step up this year. One bad year out of 5 or 6 quality seasons wont see me write him off. He needs to take a lead which I am sure he will and that will feel like a new signing all together.
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I'm not a psychiatrist but my understanding is that's how trauma works sometimes. People can suppress it for a long time when they're constantly busy, working for something, life is going well and you have structure and routine etc.

Then as people get older (further away from the trauma), life slows down a bit, you go through a bad patch of mental health or lose that structure (ie having a spell out injured and not training, travelling, playing for a footballer) and it all comes up to the surface again and you have to deal with it.

IIRC Alli's problems started around lockdown (which fucked with a lot of people's mental health) and got worse after he was held at knifepoint during a burglary, which could bring back past trauma.

It's also possible that it resurfaced when he was doing well, and the drinking and drugs was an attempt to avoid it that cost him his career.

I'm sure you're not doubting that being sexually abused from age 6-12 and being exploited as a drugs mule from 8 would create a lot of trauma for anyone, so not really sure why you'd take issue with when he chose to reveal it to the public.
 
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BillyShears said:
Absolutely

Unfortunately the Van de Ven block aggravated his injury and he's out again. Hopefully just a minor set back but he was in real pain at the end of the match.
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So we do ignore that the whole attack we initiated in the last minutes came from Doku? And Foden gets the credit ?
 
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