If there is one thing I fucking hate, it is a cloaked passive-aggressive dig statement at the club.Just jossing mate.
No really ;-)
He’s done neither, but you’re entitled to your opinionI have been frustrated by his game all season. And regularly questioned why he is on the pitch. Out of respect for his apparent personality though, and some bit of loyalty, I wouldn't say negative things about him or our other players (or manager) that have done so much for the club previously.
Now he has shat on his personality and loyalty.
I love the little fella, yes he is a shadow of a once great but that's down to us abusing him, he is shattered but people questioning his effort, love of this club should hang their heads in shameI want to give this post 100 likes! :-)
Equally just as presumptuous.Shocking take on a legendary player.
Just remember those early minutes against Chelsea on Khusanovs debut, the way Bernardo took responsibility for the team and helped out his teammate was magnificent.
Maybe look at a 500 k a week striker scared to take a pen, or a 100m flop who is more worried about his next drink and not care about the club that invested do much on him.
If there is one thing I fucking hate, it is a cloaked passive-aggressive dig statement at the club.
Be that by Bernardo, Yaya, Kdb, the 1894, Pep even, whoever. Particularly a terribly timed one.
That's how I see his comments, and my reaction is to that. Having held back on his lack of performance all season, a bit of frustration release on my part.
It's cool, off my chest now.
He cares and he hates what he sees and what we have become, everyone at this club should be looking in the mirror, the drop off has been appaling, arrogance, shear incompetence from top to bottom.Equally just as presumptuous.
He has for me. But not everyone has to agree, it is my opinion as you say, and such is my reaction.He’s done neither, but you’re entitled to your opinion
Him saying that, I would have been totally ok with fwiw.He cares and he hates what he sees and what we have become, everyone at this club should be looking in the mirror, the drop off has been appaling, arrogance, shear incompetence from top to bottom.
Sorry. Old piss canFergie? FFS
Respect to for rewatching that crap!I rewatched the final and I was harsh on a lot of our players, but Silva was more active in around the Palace penalty area this game than he has in any other game this season for me! He was everywhere trying to make something happen, but like we seemed to do this season, we played too slow, players holding on to the ball way too long when the pass was there to play!
No problems. What you said makes sense. I just don’t seem to be able to perceive the positive contribution from Bernie in recent games. I can observe that Bernie being everywhere to provide the extra man situation which is really useful by itself. But my problem is that when he has the ball or when his teammate is having the ball, Bernie tends to play the static tikitaka which is very out for both winning the match and audience’s eyes. And Bernie had a lot of ball possession in recent games and his lack of proactive ball movement lead to low threatening chances to me. Him, KDB and Doku having the majority of ball possession of the City side is the biggest problem to me. If he can just do the dirty jobs but quickly release the ball whoever teammate is in the good position instead of just KDB he will earn more respect from me.By all means call me out if I’ve wrongly characterised you as a JCL - your username and joining date and your opinions lead me to believe that you perhaps don’t have a fully developed understanding of the game gained over many years and decades of watching football at different levels.
Football’s more like a game of chess than a game of basketball. You attack then we attack isn’t how it’s played at the top level. Bernie, even a sub par Bernie plays a crucial role in the team. He’s the bravest man on the pitch, physically and mentally. Never hides, never gives up, never passes responsibility. He does the dirty work that often goes unnoticed by newer fans who are understandably more seduced by Big Erl smashing in goals left right and centre or KDB splitting defences with wonder passes.
He has long forgotten more than you will ever know about top quality football. He’s one of the best, most valuable players in the team.
“You learn a lot of new things,” said Silva. “In the bad moments you learn new things. Who you can go to war with, first of all. Because it's in the bad moments that you see who the real ones are. And a lot of things that were good for us to not take things for granted, for our fans, for the club. And yeah, don't lower our standards.”
“I know we've got people used to winning every year,” said Silva. “And people demand this team to win every year. Football is a tough sport and it's not easy to beat these teams, especially in the Premier League. Like today, this team has a lot of individual quality. If you go and look around teams in the Premier League, all of them have two, three players that are unbelievable players. Our level needs to be very, very high to be champions again. And that's the level that we want to reach again.”
“It's a really, really bad season for us,” he said. “Something has to change next year. It's for the big bosses to decide. I have my opinion but definitely something needs to change when you don't perform at this level.”
I don't see it as much more than a call for the whole club to fight to get back to the top.
He, like most of us, is frustrated that we are not at the level we were. He will be frustrated with himself, and at the board for releasing his comrade, KDB.
Shut up you entitled meltI'd rather rid of the majority of that rubbish, overly satiated, hungover on success dross of a squad before Pep goes.
I’ve edited your quote down. But isn’t the point Bernardo making is that when some players had were tired, in the red zone or had knocks, the went missing. Especially during our bad run.This year he has done that maybe one game a Is this because he's been overplayed for years? Is it because he's carrying injuries? - in which case he shouldn't have played - I have no idea