7 | Joao Cancelo - 2022/23 Performances

[Coljj]

especially if they go for Bernardo too.

 

[Nour]

 

[Maldeika]

Bitter reality check for Cancelo.
I'm dead sure such a "difficult personality" (he about himself!) will be a complete outsider in a Bayern team with vocal leaders like Muller and Kimmich who will show him his place...

He could have played his role in a City squad when he would have trusted Pep to handle his strengths/weaknesses. But no, his personality didn't allow that route. He couldn't handle competition from 18yo Lewis, now the same shite happens with Stanisic (who?).
Cancelo will find himself a level below or 2 and can remain the #blessmemommy loner. A sad story somehow.

Actually it is not Stanisic but Coman and Davies. You would for sure not give Cancelo a position as centre back in a 4-3-3 or play 2 offensive minded fullbacks without a real no. 6 sweeper with four in the back. With Pavard being booked and Hernandez out with an ACL Stanisic (who still has Mbappe in his pocket from a Croatia-France match where he really played great) is the only matching possibility.

If you do not play him as one of the three in the back - would you play him on the sides when you have Davies and Coman available? Coman right now is in a very good scoring form - and Davies is Davies and a natural left foot for the left side. You even know more of Cancelo's strengths and weaknesses as we do!

Maybe Müller is a great example for him. After he was injured in autumn and things worked fine without him they even talked about a new reign without him. He did not start the first two matches after the break and the first match against PSG. But the results without him weren't great and things just run a lot better with him back in the lineup. He has 2 goals and 4 assists in about 450 minutes (in some matches he did not have many minutes - but every match he started and played more than 30 minutes he scored) since the restart - and especially Musiala thrives when he is in. Müller really kept calm during that time even if the degradation was a big media topic. He even gave some interviews or media posts in which he emphasized how important the team is.

 

[Keeper!]

A talented but very flawed individual.

 

[aguero93:20]

Actually it is not Stanisic but Coman and Davies. You would for sure not give Cancelo a position as centre back in a 4-3-3 or play 2 offensive minded fullbacks without a real no. 6 sweeper with four in the back. With Pavard being booked and Hernandez out with an ACL Stanisic (who still has Mbappe in his pocket from a Croatia-France match where he really played great) is the only matching possibility.

If you do not play him as one of the three in the back - would you play him on the sides when you have Davies and Coman available? Coman right now is in a very good scoring form - and Davies is Davies and a natural left foot for the left side. You even know more of Cancelo's strengths and weaknesses as we do!

Maybe Müller is a great example for him. After he was injured in autumn and things worked fine without him they even talked about a new reign without him. He did not start the first two matches after the break and the first match against PSG. But the results without him weren't great and things just run a lot better with him back in the lineup. He has 2 goals and 4 assists in about 450 minutes (in some matches he did not have many minutes - but every match he started and played more than 30 minutes he scored) since the restart - and especially Musiala thrives when he is in. Müller really kept calm during that time even if the degradation was a big media topic. He even gave some interviews or media posts in which he emphasized how important the team is.

Poor Muller, you've gone and jinxed him now, he'll be shite for the rest of the season.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Actually it is not Stanisic but Coman and Davies. You would for sure not give Cancelo a position as centre back in a 4-3-3 or play 2 offensive minded fullbacks without a real no. 6 sweeper with four in the back. With Pavard being booked and Hernandez out with an ACL Stanisic (who still has Mbappe in his pocket from a Croatia-France match where he really played great) is the only matching possibility.

If you do not play him as one of the three in the back - would you play him on the sides when you have Davies and Coman available? Coman right now is in a very good scoring form - and Davies is Davies and a natural left foot for the left side. You even know more of Cancelo's strengths and weaknesses as we do!

Maybe Müller is a great example for him. After he was injured in autumn and things worked fine without him they even talked about a new reign without him. He did not start the first two matches after the break and the first match against PSG. But the results without him weren't great and things just run a lot better with him back in the lineup. He has 2 goals and 4 assists in about 450 minutes (in some matches he did not have many minutes - but every match he started and played more than 30 minutes he scored) since the restart - and especially Musiala thrives when he is in. Müller really kept calm during that time even if the degradation was a big media topic. He even gave some interviews or media posts in which he emphasized how important the team is.

That's quite a lot of Bayern talk in response to my Cancelo post... ;)

Bayern wanted to have him as a cheap option to cover some minutes (we know Comans injury history) while the funny thing is he would have played more minutes for City if he just had worked on like before as part of a team.

Maybe he wins a CL medal sitting on the bench though, before joining Milan or whatever on loan.

 

[KingGeorge]

I suspect Cancelo and Sterling are finding out how good they had it at City. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side gentleman, and neither Potter or Naglesman are as good as Pep.

 

[fuskarn]

 

[hcblue95]

Seems pretty crazy we didn't include an obligation to buy or at the very minimum some sort of loan fee. They're not going to stump up the 60m? euros option so they've just got 6 months of him for free.

 

[BLUEisville]

Oooh I dunno about that
A few months in Munich with it not going so well may make Cancelo wake up to the real world
I& he comes back humble and Pep let’s it go and decides on a fresh start, who knows

This is probably the only good outcome for City, sadly I can't see it happening.