players/managers attitudes.
Apart from tevez, zaba, kompany and hart, how many of our players actually seem to care, 3000 blues made the trip tonight to see half-hearted, lazy efforts from players who earn more in a year than most do in a life time. I dont know about you guys but i saw a great oppurtunity against a weak dortmund side tonight to get three points and then the chance to give players like rodwell, sinclair, even young evans invaluable european experience, but they wont have it now. Im fuming to say the least.
you have a squad that is worth 300 million, against ajax who spent 11m on theirs, they outfought us, wanted to win more, tried harder than us. Real spent similar money to us, but if you look at the way they play with each other, they press without the ball, play with a high tempo with it, WHY DONT WE? Weve been a complete embaressment in europe this season, Im not even buying into the whole group of death idea, because Ajax arent a great side, this dortmund team, as good as they are, sit 6th in their league domestically.
We will be different against united on sunday, but i worry that the likes of tevez, zaba, kompany will be burnt out, and to be honest i dont fancy seeing dzeko starting against the rags. Nasri i like a lot but as good as his ball retention actually is he slows our tempo down, as does the likes of Garcia and lescott who cant seem to comprehend what a forward pass is.
Said it all for me tonight that Jurgen Klopp was hugging, applauding his players tonight, he really got them going, when dzeko, nasri, sinclair all went off they didnt get any form of acknowledgement whatsoever. and yes you can say its because we were loosing but i hardly ever see Mancini do that when were winning a game, his distant man management skills really do not help players confidence.
I might be over-reacting, but a team worth 300 million should qualify from their champions league group. Dont forget we got knocked out of the EL last season by sporting Lisbon and the year before that by Dinamo Kiev, this shouldnt happen, its ludicrous.