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[jimharri]

Bit defensive that James ;)

A bit?

 

[Fordyboy46]

Heard it all before.

People said the exact same when we started not that well the last 4 seasons. This is actually our best start to a season for a while…

The season we won the treble people on here were questioning whether Pep should go as late as February.

Then you get classic threads like this…

Dullest Football Since Pearce?

Ever since we moved to the double pivot, I have to say this has got to be the dullest City side since the Pearce days. We were obviously worse under Sven and Hughes but there was a far more positive approach to the way we played. This double pivot just sucks the life out of our game, our...

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Thought you'd bring my post up that I've since apologised for and admit I was wrong. You can't let it go though can you, so I'll just say fuck off

 

[i8rags]

Could easily of been a 4-0, last ten made it look reasonable for us. Got dicked imo.
Pep played the cards all week that we were fucked and he got his rewards, no excuses from me.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Heard it all before.

People said the exact same when we started not that well the last 4 seasons. This is actually our best start to a season for a while…

The season we won the treble people on here were questioning whether Pep should go as late as February.

Then you get classic threads like this…

Dullest Football Since Pearce?

Ever since we moved to the double pivot, I have to say this has got to be the dullest City side since the Pearce days. We were obviously worse under Sven and Hughes but there was a far more positive approach to the way we played. This double pivot just sucks the life out of our game, our...

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Like everyone else, I hope it’s a blip, but today it felt like a passing.

It exposed Gundo, it showed how old some players were, even though they’ve still got the occasional game in them, and it showed how the “modern approach” to the high speed counterattack…WHICH IS HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD IS PLAYING FOOTBALL NOW…is death to us.

I LITERALLY called for a loss today and even said it would come down our right side and be a cross in behind us. I can’t remember the last time I thought we would lose a game?!

It’s been coming and the injury situation has only exacerbated it. The Spurs game showed how frail we look and Bournemouth no-names went to town on us.

This is structural and strategic, not tactical. Structurally, we have not spent the money on, or the time to cultivate, the players we were clearly going to need to start filling holes that were developing.

You saw them developing, I’m sure, last season, and nothing was done to start addressing those issues. A free Gundo felt like a great little stop gap measure, but he’s currently being asked to be Prime Gundo and he just doesn’t have it in him anymore…and the flashes of it are getting fewer and further in between.

KDB certainly has brilliance in him, but for both club and country, we are seeing it less and less.

Phil Foden clearly has some personal demons/issues he’s trying to get over, because he’s a pale imitation of the POTY we saw last year. He could have won the game today, but his shots were wayward and he needed too many touches at other times.

Kova was always seen as a back up midfielder, yet has become pivotal (no pun intended) to us not being literally over run in every game. I thought he was superb today in a game where we got battered in midfield, so that felt like a big waste!

Bernardo? Love him to death! But, not only did he never have pace, but he’s lost a step, so if you’re a defender you just need to keep him in front of you because he’s going nowhere…yet he’s a WINGER for us, who steps into a second 6 role late in games to shore up the midfield when we take the old, tired fuckers off!

And then we have the likes of Grealish, who divides opinion worse than Trump, but seems to laugh off his own mediocrity. Or Walker, whose domestic woes are only bested by his on field woes, which tells you just how bad his season is going. His contribution to games was always “catch the rabbit that runs in behind” but that’s been laid to rest by multiple players this season, and it is not like his “positional sense” was ever going to get him out of a wet paper bag, let alone a football match where he’s getting toasted. If I see one more push or arse bump or bend when he’s supposed to go up for a ball or ease it out of play, I’ll scream!

So far this season, it’s looking like Gvardiol is our POTY. Think about that and what it says about who we are so far this season…

 

[eversince 76]

It's Crazy that you are not allowed to lose anymore, Toys out of the pram, The blame game,

I hate what we are becoming and I never thought in a million years believe what some people on here write after we don't win, Yes it hurts losing a game of football, But think about all the bad years City fans have had and even the fans back then that have never got to see all of this glory because they have passed over,

I know loads of City fans and mates that have passed over that would have died happy seeing us just win the League Cup again, So when you are feeling shit after a loss, THINK about how dam lucky we all are living and witnessing greatness that this club owners players and managers have giving us over the past 15 years,

Mate it’s not about the past 12 years or so. I think fans of my generation (I’m 65) recognise how good we are and have been since the sheik took over.

But today’s performance was simply poor. Very poor. We looked slow, wanted it less than the opposition. And it was not about an injury-hit squad. We could’ve lost by a much larger scoreline. 2-1 flattered us and we certainly didn’t deserve an equaliser. That to me and many others, moreso the ones who travelled, felt hard done by. I think mist fans understand it can happen. But they are allowed to moan about it. We lost to Spurs last Wednesday and still many were proud. Not so today.

I do hope the team will reacts the way the normally do. If so this loss might prove to be a positive omen afterall. But lets be real, today was really poor and far from the battling standards we are used to from a Pep team.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Mate it’s not about the past 12 years or so. I think fans of my generation (I’m 65) recognise how good we are and have been since the sheik took over.

But today’s performance was simply poor. Very poor. We looked slow, wanted it less than the opposition. And it was not about an injury-hit squad. We could’ve lost by a much larger scoreline. 2-1 flattered us and we certainly didn’t deserve an equaliser. That to me and many others, moreso the ones who travelled, felt hard done by. I think mist fans understand it can happen. But they are allowed to moan about it. We lost to Spurs last Wednesday and still many were proud. Not so today.

I do hope the team will reacts the way the normally do. If so this loss might prove to be a positive omen afterall. But lets be real, today was really poor and far from the battling standards we are used to from a Pep team.

You aren't allowed to criticice a performance though because of what we've won over recent seasons, you should be congratulating them for running Bournemouth close

 

[John Wayne]

A lot of people have compared this season to 19/20 - losing such a key player early in the season and being vulnerable thereafter - but I am hopeful it is more like 20/21. If I remember rightly, we were actually indifferent that season and way off the pace until the turn of the year. We then clicked into gear at Stamford Bridge and never looked back.

We do have to remember that the lads are coming off the greatest feat in English football history - winning the biggest prize four times consecutively. We have had lots of players on international duty playing very late into the Copa America and Euros. It all seems to have just caught up with us at the moment. I don't think we can underestimate the loss of Rodri AND De Bruyne at the same time. I do feel we need a midfielder in January and to embrace the arrival of Echeverri.

We need bodies back and players to find form. But you'd be a fool to write off this team. The last ten minutes could have seen us go on to win the game in spite of all of the above and an inspired performance by Bournemouth. We were banging on the door. Lewis and Doku changed the game.

Hang in there, blues. Win the 115, watch Pep extend, watch us buy a cog in the midfield, and watch us motor on in 2025. You wouldn't be surprised, would you?

 

[malg]

Is there a single thread on here that doesn't mention Trump. Can you fucking cunts with your political fixation just fuck off to Off Topic. Leave the fucking football threads alone please.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

It's Crazy that you are not allowed to lose anymore, Toys out of the pram, The blame game,

I hate what we are becoming and I never thought in a million years believe what some people on here write after we don't win, Yes it hurts losing a game of football, But think about all the bad years City fans have had and even the fans back then that have never got to see all of this glory because they have passed over,

I know loads of City fans and mates that have passed over that would have died happy seeing us just win the League Cup again, So when you are feeling shit after a loss, THINK about how dam lucky we all are living and witnessing greatness that this club owners players and managers have giving us over the past 15 years,

All sounds great….AND?

Yep, it’s BEEN great! Today wasn’t just about today, though, was it?!

Today was the culmination of what’s been coming, and almost happened against Wolves and Southampton and, and…

This team, this season, is not like any of the other teams we have lauded. It’s old, tired, injured and has lost its best player…the Best Player in the World, no less, AND a guy who was Top 10, while the #2 is struggling mightily…but is still trying to plug away with the possession game.

At one point today, we had 75% possession, yet had ZERO attempts on goal and 2 touches inside the opposition box. They had 25% and 8 attempts on target…and 27 touches(?) inside our box!!

Our first shot on target was at 79:20!!!

Today was poor…tactically, structurally, mentally and physically. Had Ederson had an off day, it would have been a cricket score. As it was 2-1 SOUNDS like we took part in a game that even the most casual of observers would say we were only in for 10 mins of normal time and the 6 mins of injury time!

3/4 possession, yet only in the game for less than 1/4 of the time! THAT is what we have become…a toothless tiger.

 

[chickaroon]

Not sure where you’re getting these observations from. Mental issues?
After winning consecutive 4 PL titles just after the treble, there are bound to be tired players who take some time to be motivated. I understand that.
Rodri & Bobb’s injuries could NOT be foreseen & no top player would have come knowing they would not get in the team in Rodri’s position. However- the situation is different now IMHO & we SHOULD buy a top replacement in January & it would be up to Rodri to fight for his place.

City fans aren’t known as entitled fans so let’s stop pretending we know what our owners & Pep are thinking

I think the player that has been mentioned as a target in January, Ricci, could replace Rodri until he returns and could also play with Rodri. He plays defensive midfield for Italy, is quick and can adapt to other midfield roles. He is 23 years old.