7 | Joao Cancelo - 2022/23 Performances

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Maybe I'm reading too much into it but can't help but feeling that Cancelo leaving benefited us more than we thought. After the January window closed, we started playing some of the best football we have seen, putting on an amazing streak and set of results. Out went Cancelo, in came Dias and cemented his place like the leader he was when he first came and the rest is history.
 
He must feel a right knob, but we would have never won what we did this season if he didnt throw a tantrum and fuck off to Bayern. The tactical changes his departure forced turned our season on its head.
 
Arguably our best player in 2021-22 but someone who played far too much football in a condensed time and, when his form consequently dipped, someone who could not handle losing his place to a teenager. There should be no hard feelings to him.
 
Poor Cancelo I liked the guy last year and before but he must have football attitude issues and ego about playing etc so this is obviously very bad.
When he left we saw less disorganization from the team and more proper focus but I guess we can't put all the blame on him.

But in football area only, his defensive ability was NOWHERE near as good as Ake's or Akanji that replaced him. We started being MUCH more solid. Sure we lost something offensively form our left back, BUT we gained Grealish I think, as he started be activated, since Ake was passing to him and allowing to do his job in the offence while Cancelo brilliant enough many moments in attack but this never let Jack gain any rhythm.

Cancelo was also VERY unstable in his performances. Apart from being a mediocre defender, offensively had some GREAT moments, but his consistency on that was poor and much more times he was making bad decisions offensively. But the great passes and assists, tend to stuck to the brain more than the others.
And all these many of us were saying them BEFORE he left. So it's not degrading him because he left.

I prefer a City without him to be honest, now that I have seen this City :)
 
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