Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[RayCTID]

You parrot the same shite every time. Must be shite because Pep thought so. Not even logical you daft get.

Lay off the insults mate. He hardly ripped it up at City. Take off your Cole Palmer tints.

 

[blueabdi]

Pep your destroying your own legacy by playing finished walker and gundo everyweek. Keep playing bro

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Think about it for a minute.

If you were a world class top player, I'm talking world class, would you really want to come to City knowing you could be playing in the Championship next season?

Damage limitation. Try and scrape top four this season, have a reasonable FA cup run, get 115 out of the way and start afresh next season.

 

[Fordyboy46]

All we are saying is give O'reilly and Mcatee a chance, and I don't mean just one game if they fail

 

[ScottSinclair]

I completely understand your point.

It's all about timing too, The likes of Palmer would have got more game time now at City than he was two years ago, He wasn't prepared to wait around for his opportunity and credit to him for moving on.

Pep loves to work with a small squad and be narrowed down to squad to players to have gone on and won the Treble and 4 In A Row so his moves were obviously the correct ones.

Chelsea squad was incredible around those years too and they were very successful, They has players in the squad that still had years at a high level so decided to move Salah and De Bruyne on (at that time).

Timing in football is the most important and when you are so successful everything has to fall into place especially to do what we've been doing in recent years, Right now "some" of the players we've moved on we could actually be doing with right now, The reality is we didn't need them 2 or 3 years ago. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I agree, and it is a fair point. But cold hard truth is that there aren't even 2-3 year periods where we see the results of our sales. Palmer were already finding his form in our shirt last season before we sold him. Perhaps not good enough in the long run but we could absolutely do with Delap on the bench this year when Alvarez were going. PSR is obviously a factor, but our decisions seems to be catching up to us quicker and quicker these days

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

I agree completely mate, but the decline has been far too quick for my liking.

We were - very clearly - the best team in the world until the FA Cup final in May. We were a shadow of our best in that game, and performances have been largely below our expected standards ever since then.

Injuries or not, there's absolutely no excuse for a club of this size, wealth, and experience allowing a squad to drift 'past it's best'.

Succession planning has been non-existent.

We never win at home
And we never win away
We lost last week...

Man City
Man City
We’ll support you ever more
We’ll support you ever more

 

[Lavinda Past]

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe they are just mentally and physically shot, and what they need is patience and understanding, especially given that the last three years have probably been the best of those 63?

Football is a business, not a charity. You can't afford to stand still or you get left behind.

They're multi millionaire professional footballers. They're big enough and clever enough know when time is up.

Patience and understanding? Are they sick? Did you feel the same about Danny Mills? Michael Johnson? Paul Lake?

If players are done, they're done. There's no room for sentiment at elite level - If they're not good enough anymore, get rid and replace them.

 

[Petetheblu]

Think about it for a minute.

If you were a world class top player, I'm talking world class, would you really want to come to City knowing you could be playing in the Championship next season?

Damage limitation. Try and scrape top four this season, have a reasonable FA cup run, get 115 out of the way and start afresh next season.

And sue the arse off the PL...(^;

 

[JTFactsPlz]

Await the
"He wanted to go."
"He wanted to go".
Pile on.

Palmer decided to go because the club bought Doku to replace Mahrez rather than giving the RW spot to Cole. (People seem to have forgotten Doku was actually bought as a RWer because that's where he'd been playing at his previous club. He wasn't expected to become mainly a LWer, as Pep decided after he arrived.)

Understandably, the decision to, in effect, screw Palmer over following Mahrez's departure didn't sit well with Cole and he took a decision which has worked out very well for him. Palmer leaving is on Pep.

 

[sir baconface]

He's telling the truth. Palmer had zero fight. Mahrez left it was his chance.

His chance for a few minutes here and there. He had so little fight that he left his long term club and home city to back himself elsewhere…and end up winning the fight hands down.