7 | Joao Cancelo - 2022/23 Performances

[Jazzyblue]

Memories? He'll quickly be forgotten.

Thoughts turn to Bernie now. He is Cancelo's mate, also unhappy, also great last season and patchy this season, but will be much harder to replace.

Cancelo is certainly a talented player, but I can well imagine him being remembered here for getting sent off at Fulham before we came back with ten men.

 

[Mancity1980]

Take the blinkers off, he's playing better, and most likely (we don't see that) training better than Jao is. If there's been trouble from him, then it's best he goes, his contribution this season has largely been zero.

I think you may have wrong there @cleavers. You don’t think it is possible that everything you said and I said can all be true? Cancelo has smelled the place out with both his performances and what we are hearing in training and I admire that Pep had the strength of character to get rid. Dropping him for a kid (the different positions are irrelevant) both improved us as a team and punished Cancelo, win-win as far as I can see.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Not that well if it only hit the Catalan's stomach.

It was another foul throw :-)

 

[urban genie]

Memories? He'll quickly be forgotten.

he already is ;-)

 

[Mancity1980]

You need to stop thinking
Pep doesn’t pick a player to punish another he deals with them as he sees fit Cancelo has been disruptive and was told to find an out his agent sorted it for him

It looks like he picked him for both reasons. Rico has done well.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Will be interesting to hear how Pep publicly handles the entire affair as you know it will unfortunately be the main topic of the Spurs pre-match presser.

Press: "Pep, what are your thoughts on Cancelo leaving?"
Pep: "Who?"

 

[Coatigan]

very much so

No they are not. Arsenal haven't made any meaningful signings.

 

[urban genie]

No they are not. Arsenal haven't made any meaningful signings.

Huh?

 

[Mancity1980]

Are you saying that Pep would cut off his nose to spite his face ?

Give the young lad some fucking credit as he has performed really well in the team for a player so young and inexperienced.

No, I am not saying that!! And yes the lad deserves enormous credit.

 

[Coatigan]

Yes. He's not exactly been tearing up trees this season and he was causing problems with other players. Now he's gone they can hopefully get back together as a team and concentrate on hunting down Arsenal. It may generate that siege mentality where we just grind out win after win and put pressure on them.

I don't think they are wrong as such. And that is a dig at arsenal as much as it is at us.