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Bournemouth Blue said:
I wonder about some of the posts on here, we have lost the Ballon d’Or winner for the season, Alverez quit, Bobb got injured pre-season, Kev and Kyle struggling to stay fit in their 30s to cope with workload, Dias, Ake and Akanji, normally the mainstays of our defence, out injured, Gundogan not up to speed and maybe never will, and Phil still getting up to full fitness. Grealish and Doku out too. There is an argument to suggest we should have a bigger squad, but this is a uniquely challenging situation, so little wonder we are struggling to stay SECOND FFS!
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I used to stay in the Miramar. I like Bournemouth but it was full of rags from my experience.
 
Cole didn’t do much today. Didn’t do much against us or the rags either
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
I wonder about some of the posts on here, we have lost the Ballon d’Or winner for the season, Alverez quit, Bobb got injured pre-season, Kev and Kyle struggling to stay fit in their 30s to cope with workload, Dias, Ake and Akanji, normally the mainstays of our defence, out injured, Gundogan not up to speed and maybe never will, and Phil still getting up to full fitness. Grealish and Doku out too. There is an argument to suggest we should have a bigger squad, but this is a uniquely challenging situation, so little wonder we are struggling to stay SECOND FFS!
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Which is fine to admit. Personally I think we have too many issues this year. We don’t look great even when we win this season and we are too reliant on Haaland scoring. The return from the rest of the forward players is abysmal.

Add to that Foden’s mystery dip in form and it’s not looking great for me.

We have to change tactics as the current ones are leaving us too vulnerable!
 
Nightmare Walking said:
Mahrez was playing for Le Harve 2nd 11 at the age of 20. At that time Le Harve were a 2nd Division, French team. There is absolutely no comparison between rhe pair of them at the same time in their careers.

He does not need to buck up, hes a 20 year old kid who has shown more than enough to suggest hes going to be a great player. What he needs is support and encouragement so that he reaches his potential.
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He could do with some end product extra training though. It's his first season so far to early to j7dge him. CTID
 
RayCTID said:
Not quite the quality and a position that we don't really have to strengthen.
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Haaland and rodri are the only two players who specialise in their respective positions. Not sure which positions you think we need additions but I’d say most would say midfield and up front.
 
Out in the USA here so had to see the game later…
First half on top no doubt
Problems started around 60 minutes- Lewis was going forward every opportunity, total lack of appreciation of the situation.
Walker looked fooked and was not moving well so the brain farts set in.
Simpson - Pusey was rabbit in the headlights. Ederson was the only one able go clear the ball, so it was only a matter of time before Brighton found a chance.
As many have said already, no midfield cover for the back line when they were at their weakest point.
 
It's far from being panic stations but we've simply gone a bit stale. Haven't brought in the quality we usually do, don't have sufficient replacements in all areas, held onto a few ageing players a bit too long and re-signed one of them too. We're increasingly boring to watch and our play is boring and monotonous.

We're due a down year and if anything I feel it might light in a fire in Pep to carry on and make sure he ends on a high.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
I wonder about some of the posts on here, we have lost the Ballon d’Or winner for the season, Alverez quit, Bobb got injured pre-season, Kev and Kyle struggling to stay fit in their 30s to cope with workload, Dias, Ake and Akanji, normally the mainstays of our defence, out injured, Gundogan not up to speed and maybe never will, and Phil still getting up to full fitness. Grealish and Doku out too. There is an argument to suggest we should have a bigger squad, but this is a uniquely challenging situation, so little wonder we are struggling to stay SECOND FFS!
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Injuries aside (and there's an argument that injuries were inevitable due to workload, squad depth etc) those are just examples of squad management issues. It's not as if KDB, Kyle and Gundogan were going to be younger; Stones & Ake are persistently injured; Dias was injured during a game he didn't need to play and Grealish has had personal issues since the treble win. Alvarez left during the transfer window and Bobb was injured during it. These were either known, persistent issues, aspects that were raised during a transfer window or would have been predicted. Even with Rodri, everyone, including Rodri, knew he was being overworked which increases the likelihood of an injury.

I'm not stating we should have bought a load of players etc but we didn't get this situation unexpectedly.
 
In the new Pep book, when things were going wrong in 2016/17 (for the start of 17/18) and then again in 20/21 he put a massive emphasis on passing. And controlling the game.

No loose passes, nothing silly, just pure control so we weren’t too open. And it worked. I presume he went back to that for Brighton because the first half was pure football. Control, chances and suffocation.

Then it went to shit in the second half because they made a sub and we didn’t change our game to suit it at all. Plus, it felt like when we were punched once then we were wobbling for the rest of the game. No leader out there.

Can’t wait for people like Dias to be back.
 
skillman said:
In the new Pep book, when things were going wrong in 2016/17 (for the start of 17/18) and then again in 20/21 he put a massive emphasis on passing. And controlling the game.

No loose passes, nothing silly, just pure control so we weren’t too open. And it worked. I presume he went back to that for Brighton because the first half was pure football. Control, chances and suffocation.

Then it went to shit in the second half because they made a sub and we didn’t change our game to suit it at all. Plus, it felt like when we were punched once then we were wobbling for the rest of the game. No leader out there.

Can’t wait for people like Dias to be back.
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Christ, surely we can't pass much more than we already do. We pass every team to death and need 30 plus passes to get to the edge of the opponents area.
 
OK, we are still second in the table, though the last eight or nine games have, mostly, been disappointing. There may be all sorts of reasons, injuries, coupled with a couple of players dropping a bit in form and maybe a bit of discontent from one or two players. The essential problem is that you can’t keep two world class players for each position happy - hence a relatively small elite squad with backups who are good but not world class, at least at the moment.

It maybe that we have underestimated Rhodri’s importance in the way our system works - the statistics certainly back this up. Without him we seem much more frail to rapid breakaways and also seem to have lost some penetration up front. When Rodri plays Haaland is a real asset, when Rodri doesn’t play he is perhaps a luxury that we can’t afford especially without an on form de Bruyne. With all our players fit and firing Pep’s system makes us probably the best team on Earth. But with the current players available perhaps we need a plan B system.
 
Morning Fellas & Fellettes, was at the Amex on Saturday. City were fabulous first half and deserved a more than 1-goal lead. Brighton were fabulous second half and deserved their goals. It was a great game of football played by two excellent footballing sides. Reports of your demise are wildly premature. From a friendly voice on the south coast.
 
skillman said:
In the new Pep book, when things were going wrong in 2016/17 (for the start of 17/18) and then again in 20/21 he put a massive emphasis on passing. And controlling the game.

No loose passes, nothing silly, just pure control so we weren’t too open. And it worked. I presume he went back to that for Brighton because the first half was pure football. Control, chances and suffocation.

Then it went to shit in the second half because they made a sub and we didn’t change our game to suit it at all. Plus, it felt like when we were punched once then we were wobbling for the rest of the game. No leader out there.

Can’t wait for people like Dias to be back.
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The book is a great read and this theme does come up numerous times. Grealish is known in the squad as the 'rest area' as they know they can rely on him to take the ball in and get up the pitch.

Having tortured myself watching 65 mins to 80 mins again, we had 4/5 chances to establish possession and 'defend with the ball' but gave it away cheaply.

We're also asking a 19 year old making his PL debut to direct the play - not Dias or Stones as you mention.
 
Erling9 said:
The mods here have always encouraged people to call fellow blues who aren't 100% positive about city all the time ever, rags or dippers. Of course followed by the mods actually banning those accounts too.
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But but but they are the biggest and bestest blues in the whole wide world.
 
This team doesn't have the mental strength to stay ahead or not concede.

We NEED stones and Grealish and Kevin and dias, and ake and akanji and Rodri back.

Get those players back and we don't melt in these games and moments.

It's crazy how nearly our whole defence are out. (The sort of injury crises that lfc and utd and arsenal get headlines about)
 
RayCTID said:
Don't need another striker at all. Another midfielder is priority.
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Don't think we can expect Haaland to be continually performing at his very best playing 90 minutes 60+ times a season for club and country. Also increases the risk of injury, and what do we do if that happens? Need a backup option who can take the weight off his shoulders when needed like alvarez did
 
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