Benjamin Mendy (Back In Training)

[shemnel]

fuck's sake Kolarov, track back!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just when I was thinking that things were running our way this season.

Possibly the biggest impact signing of the summer in the area we most needed, and the ONE fucking position we didn't manage to secure the backup player for.

 

[Wolfkin]

Don't worry we still have Delph :(

 

[Blue Llama]

Presumably Mendy will have been insured to the hilt, leaving us with ample funds to buy another left back in January. Also, in the mean time, aren't we allowed to sign a player who is out of contract. There must be one about somewhere in Europe.

A player good enough for the PL just sitting around waiting for an offer! I don't think so.

 

[chaddblue]

A player good enough for the PL just sitting around waiting for an offer! I don't think so.

I believe Bacary Sagna hasn't got a club at the moment

 

[PW]

Didn't fool Inspector Ducker of the DT! A more than sizeable chunk of his report this morning is about the Mendy injury and how 'the months and months and months' out will impinge very unfavourably on our season. But then goes on to make the point that Fabulous Delph was an adequate replacement. Delph will be a decent left back as far as defensive duties go, but I can't see him burning down the wing like Menders!

One thing that amuses me is the player scoring these people indulge in. If you add up the individual player scores Shaktar scored two more than we did! How does that work? Must be down to the one or two players who outscored their opposite numbers?

Just had a look at the article and the amount of subtle negativity is typical of the media in this country. A good professional performance against a half decent European side side and another clean sheet, so as no areas of play to criticise, I know lets concentrate on potential negatives instead.

 

[ancoats]

its 2017 and if its a ACL then we send him to the best and the doc in barca who is getting great results in time scale and could be back at the end of the season long term ACL are now a thing of the past and we should not fear the worst but its a blow but like i said no big club should be a one man team or squad

we move on and we know pep is the master at seeing something other dare not dream about and delph was a master stroke and if gives sane and sterling a bigger run in the team at playing on the wing and delph just sit back we will miss mendy but come on chin up we just beat a very good team in europe last night without mendy

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Typical City to get a long term injury in the position where we only have one top class option.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. We never learn

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

Presumably Mendy will have been insured to the hilt, leaving us with ample funds to buy another left back in January. Also, in the mean time, aren't we allowed to sign a player who is out of contract. There must be one about somewhere in Europe.

I would be staggered if there was any insurance. I would be almost certain that clubs like City because of the amounts involved would just take the risk themselves. It makes absolutely no difference to whether we can buy a back up because availability of funds is not an issue.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Gareth Barry took lessons off him for the "bump in the back and fall over" trick.

I loved watching Gaz Baz do that. As a harvester of cheap free kicks when the pressure was on in the latter stages of games, he had no peers!