blue b4 the moon
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Me neither, irrelevant of how good Sanchez is and he is very good a Centre Back with the attackers we already have is a much much bigger priority in my eyes.I can't get my head around it.
Me neither, irrelevant of how good Sanchez is and he is very good a Centre Back with the attackers we already have is a much much bigger priority in my eyes.I can't get my head around it.
The weird thing is, I have been on here in the past when Wenger has gone out and got another attacker when he clearly needed some decent defensive players and people on here have been pissing themselves laughing. Now the majority seem perfectly happy for us to essentially do the same thing.I can't get my head around it.
The weird thing is, I have been on here in the past when Wenger has gone out and got another attacker when he clearly needed some decent defensive players and people on here have been pissing themselves laughing. Now the majority seem perfectly happy for us to essentially do the same thing.
I agree we need a top reliable centre back, but it would need to be instead of Kolarov or Otamendi. There is no way we will go into the season with only Sane, Sterling Jesus and Aguero as our front three options. We need 5 up front so the only way the squad can have a new centre back is if one goes we haven't got room in the squad to carry 5 centre backs for 2 positions and only 4 for the front three just because we aren't confident in the players we have, 4 should be plenty.I have 'hope' due to the potential new fullbacks & likelihood of better all round team play. My hope is that the cbs will have less to do, with more athletic help to do it.
But I think it's a glaring mistake & I would sacrifice Sanchez for a cb (if we can find a top one) any day of the week. But it would have to be a relatively proven one.
Hopefully we are on it & will get both.
If we are not, it's also odd because Pep himself is one of the many people who said we need one.
Haha, that's absolutely spot on.
Just about everybody else, everywhere, thinks we do, pretty urgently.
So many seem perfectly happy to be one injury to Kompany away from being back to Stones and Otamendi despite the two of them being borderline shambolic together last season. I genuinely think lots of City fans over the last 2 or 3 years have forgotten what we should be expecting from centre backs at the top level.
I agree we need a top reliable centre back, but it would need to be instead of Kolarov or Otamendi. There is no way we will go into the season with only Sane, Sterling Jesus and Aguero as our front three options. We need 5 up front so the only way the squad can have a new centre back is if one goes we haven't got room in the squad to carry 5 centre backs for 2 positions and only 4 for the front three just because we aren't confident in the players we have, 4 should be plenty.
Me neither, irrelevant of how good Sanchez is and he is very good a Centre Back with the attackers we already have is a much much bigger priority in my eyes.
It's not a bigger priority in Guardiola's eyes, he made that clear at every possible moment. He could not have been more clear all through the season as to what our problem was, scoring goals. In fact, as others have pointed out, we only conceded 2 more last season than we did in 13/14, but we scored 22 fewer goals.
He also detailed plenty of times how he thought we were conceding a lot of those 39 goals because our forwards weren't killing off games when we had the chance.
And then on top of that he's buying 4 defenders and a keeper.