Atletico Madrid | Friendly (N) | Post Match Thread

[Thaksinssoldier]

The pluses:

First team looked very good
Foden was bang up for it
Grealish looked good

Minuses:

Phillips needs going asap. Made everyone around him look poor.
Very concerned about the depth if we get injuries
Rico Lewis exposed there today. Young talented lad but he’s not the messiah some think he is and today showed a flaw. If we saw it, opponents saw it.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Yawn

Although your contributions tend to be concise and repetitive, on this occasion I think it is warranted and I agree.

 

[oldius]

Loved that game for it is exactly what you'd want a pre-season match to be, bar the result.

Please realise that we won't be replacing 8 players at once in a competitive match, but I have seen enough to say that McAtee will fit in well, brought into a full strength outfit, as will Bobb. We played a top-class, sharp and strong team and it was an excellent workout.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Expecting this game to be the top football headline on the BBC sport app very soon, this after them not even mentioning the game was taking place

 

[Centurions]

you want to see what he posted yesterday , looks a right idiot or a wum

I don't know why the mods haven't fucked the **** off yet.

 

[Fordyboy46]

This is why spending 100M on Gvaridol makes little to no sense to me. I understand the need to get younger there but we have bigger needs elsewhere in the squad IMO.

Yep, why sign Gvardiol if there's little interest in Laporte

 

[Paul1970]

why the fuck is pep playing macatee? it is clear he is not good enough. playing him over perrone who has shown great potential is abysmal.

It’s a bloody friendly for Christ’s sake .

 

[DMA's]

Agree squad depth is lacking but I think gomez really has something and he can make a career from himself at city as a squad utility player.

phillips is still miles off the level, his lack of athleticism is a huge issue imo,

rico isn’t a rb and if we let Walker leaver we are playing with fire

Bobb, mcatee both no where near the level of mahrez need a top level replacement for him

 

[sir baconface]

I didn’t see a single kick but…

Phillips, Gomez, Cancelo, Dias, Pep and Txiki out!

Swales and Ball in!

 

[Brad mcfc]

Of the youngsters only perrone and palmer is ready for the first team. everyone else needs to go on loan. and so our clueless board should pull their fingers out of their ass and start behaving like a big club and buy the necessary players.

Get a grip.