He’s fed up of us doing fuck all with the ball and going nowhere constantly.Despite his ridiculous numbers, I’m still not convinced he’s a great fit for the way we play. I think he’d been more effective at a more direct team like Liverpool.
We have steadily over time got worse players behind him imo. Not his fault. We used to have wingers who could both create and score. Haaland has only played with Mahrez of them who were winding down that season. The Haaland-KdB link-up were absolutely phenomenal but the last 2 seasons KdB has been crocked most of the time. Gündo played some off his best football of Haaland but then left and returned and are now useless. Foden had his best goalscoring season playing off Haaland but is currently missing in action. Bernardo has lost pretty much all ability to create anything and has become a workhorse.I think I’m right in saying that if you compare the 2 full seasons before he signed with the 2 full seasons after, we got 8 more goals and 1 more point with him in the team. Yes he has scored loads but, the rest of the team dried up.
Totally agree.He’s fed up of us doing fuck all with the ball and going nowhere constantly.
The amount of runs he makes and bernado/gundo just don’t make the pass and ten seconds later it’s back with ederson
We are boring as fuck, we have no energy or legs in midfield, we have no one who can make a pass and we don’t even press the ball anymore
He’d be fucking mental to sign a new contract here unless there are wholesale changes to our squad and our playing style.Think they wanted him to extend his contract next year, I have a feeling that won’t happen unless things improve and we change our style to get the most from him, which frankly I can’t see happening.
Unfortunately I agree, Madrid would snap him up, playing fast over the top football wpuld play into his hands, I know Pep has reinvented football with tic tac, but he needs to seriously reinvent it to get the most from this lad who looks frankly lost on the pitch.He’d be fucking mental to sign a new contract here unless there are wholesale changes to our squad and our playing style.
He makes runs forward, the ball doesn't come, he gets frustrated but yes he does then walk back onside. We should try the ball over the top like most other teams do, we may lose possession but we may also pin a team back, win a free kick or a throw in. Scum tried it in the last minute and look what happened.Never said he was flagged but from my seat in East 3 could see him clear as day stood miles off everytime we broke forward and therefore the team had to stop the attack to let him get back on which he did in no great rush.
This brought back memories of Yaya, he would chip the pass over the great wall of China if Aguero or Silva was on the other end. Inner foot, outer foot, tip toe, there was no stopping Yaya. Only KDB makes an effort to put in those type of passes, everyone else does the typical "grasscutter" tiki taka pass.He makes runs forward, the ball doesn't come, he gets frustrated but yes he does then walk back onside. We should try the ball over the top like most other teams do, we may lose possession but we may also pin a team back, win a free kick or a throw in. Scum tried it in the last minute and look what happened.
I think he will never be regarded as a truly great player but he will always be a great goal scorer. That'd do for me. I'll just carry on counting the goals.Success came to easy for him, so he's not really looking to change what he perceives as the perfect playing style for him, I mean why change something that's worked so far for him since he got here, right?
Unfortunately, the reality is that he has to take his own advice, stay humble and admit that, despite being a great goal scorer, there are still many areas of his play that he has to improve to be considered a truly great player.
Are you kidding?I'd like to think him and Doku speak on the training pitch or before games over where the ball should be played in but it looks like they're completely alien to each other on match day
Are you kidding?
Doku hasn't the first fucking clue what he's going to do with the ball at any point, or where it's actually going to end up once he's made his decision.
In a side like ours, you need to be almost pinpoint accurate, as we have been over the last 5 or 6 years.
He couldn’t have walked back any slower if he tried.There was an situation in the first half; De Bruyne had the ball at an angle, on his right foot, on the left of the pitch as we were attacking. He looked up for options - Haaland was stood offside.
Kev obviously realised this and had to make a different decision. By the time he had done so, Erling was still stood offside and eventually walked slowly to get himself back onside. The lack of effort, urgency and unwillingness to do something was astonishing.
What a strange sequence of events.