Benjamin Mendy - 2019/20 Performances

[markbmcfc]

I was sat right behind the net that went it. Wonderful goal

Why did we sell him? And who did we replace him with, Tarnat?

I can’t remember actually. Think he found himself on Keegan’s hit list and that was the end of it.

to be fair top left backs are hard to come by, if you consider how many there are and how many you’d put in a team of the decade.

 

[Blue Hefner]

I can’t remember actually. Think he found himself on Keegan’s hit list and that was the end of it.

to be fair top left backs are hard to come by, if you consider how many there are and how many you’d put in a team of the decade.

We sold him to Dortmund for £750k in 2003. From memory that is when Tarnat and the rest of Dad’s Army came, Fowler, McManaman, Siberski, Sinclair etc. The beginning of the end for Keegan

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

He's actually regressing. I thought it'd take time for him to get back to the player we thought he could be, but that just isn't happening. He's getting worse by the game and that can't be good for either himself or the rest of the team.

 

[Trojan1962]

I'll risk naffness and quote myself from a couple of years back on the topic of City Left Backs. I believe the record is something like....

Delph - Frequent Liability
Zinchenko - Just not good enough in defence
Danilo - Really bad at LB, can't really defend full stop.
Kolarov - Permanent 'weakest link' and fan target. Soft, slow, etc.
Clichy - Shite, can't pass, same defensive mistakes as Delph, therefore worse.
Bridge - Worst buy in a decade.
Garrido - Weak as piss.
Ball - Poor. Baloon gate.
Ben Thatcher - FFS
Stuart Pearce - 39 years old.

And now Mendy, who has at times resembled an actual, trained, professional circus grade clown, when required to defend.

It's our worst position. Tactically, LB is frequently the weakest, most exposed link in many teams, not just us. But without either Barry or Fernandinho, (and then, without a true left sided CB), we simply don't cover it.

BUT BY ECK CAN WE BUY ANYONE WORSE THAN THIS LATEST ONE?

(Probably)

You missed off Granville- he was awful as well :)

 

[lancs blue]

We never replaced Willie Donachie

Fixed. ;-)

 

[Mikejl]

Was a good signing and before very early injury his crossing and interplay was excellent, absolute liability at the moment - slows the play down with his sideways or backward pass, barely bombs forward and pings it across which was his strength. Injuries finished him at the top level, probably, hope not but not looking good.

 

[Fame Monster]

I'll risk naffness and quote myself from a couple of years back on the topic of City Left Backs. I believe the record is something like....

Delph - Frequent Liability
Zinchenko - Just not good enough in defence
Danilo - Really bad at LB, can't really defend full stop.
Kolarov - Permanent 'weakest link' and fan target. Soft, slow, etc.
Clichy - Shite, can't pass, same defensive mistakes as Delph, therefore worse.
Bridge - Worst buy in a decade.
Garrido - Weak as piss.
Ball - Poor. Baloon gate.
Ben Thatcher - FFS
Stuart Pearce - 39 years old.

And now Mendy, who has at times resembled an actual, trained, professional circus grade clown, when required to defend.

It's our worst position. Tactically, LB is frequently the weakest, most exposed link in many teams, not just us. But without either Barry or Fernandinho, (and then, without a true left sided CB), we simply don't cover it.

BUT BY ECK CAN WE BUY ANYONE WORSE THAN THIS LATEST ONE?

(Probably)

Kolarov was a class above Mendy and all those you listed.

Also Ball was a good servant for us as was Clichy although he couldn't cross the ball.

Plus, I wouldn't write off Zinchenko yet. We've done well with him in the team so far.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Kolarov was a class above Mendy and all those you listed.

Also Ball was a good servant for us as was Clichy although he couldn't cross the ball.

Plus, I wouldn't write off Zinchenko yet. We've done well with him in the team so far.

Not really fair to include Zinchenko as he isn’t really a left back. He has done ok. Not this season though. Before his injury he was equally as shit as the other two. I wouldn’t expect too much when he comes back but he can’t be any worse than Mendy.

 

[quiet_riot]

Kolarov was a class above Mendy and all those you listed..

Are you for real? A man whose ONLY football knowledge was "hit it as hard as possible, no matter what the situation"?

 

[BlueTG]

Are you for real? A man whose ONLY football knowledge was "hit it as hard as possible, no matter what the situation"?

How he made as many appearances for us as he did, I will never know.