Cole Palmer

[Cobra]

Never mind Palmer, Maresca is doing pretty well.

And Lavia

 

[BedsBlue68]

And those mentioned would have been doing what the past 2-3 seasons.?

Spot on - not developing into the players they are now whilst sat on the bench.

 

[Tolmie scores]

I wasn't talking about Palmer. I think you'd better read my post again. I was talking about Jackson at Chelsea.

Sorry pal, thought that was the case- was meant to respond earlier with an apology.. Jackson's weird, great pace ...can run i=with it and cause problems BUT e can't kick a ball!!

 

[Tolmie scores]

For me he had a reasonable game but not outstanding. A good dribble for the Fernandez goal.but the deflection took it into his path. He's ice cold and excellent at penalties I'll give him that. He'd certainly be getting game time here due to our injuries. World class? Not yet.

No where near world class - he's a baby in football terms - may never be. BUT and here's the big but, players who play with confidence like him are rare - i think that through ball after a turn v Newcastle - I mean Haaland would just love those opportunities. That pass came from a corner Chelsea were defending. He turned quickly, had the courage and vision to play that through ball very quickly. Teams drop deep v us BUT not when they have a corner!. Palmer would be a god send to Haaland..and us.. tbf... but he's gone, I think we may end up keeping lesser players McAtee for e.g. to prevent same mistake BUT Palmer was a junior star at jr International level..won a jr u20 cup plus years of being in that set up = a very rare talent. England youths are some of best in the world tbh. So... more work counselling, working out needed as he would have helped us massively this year

 

[blue by birth]

Yet Foden was afforded more game time even whilst not playing well at times. Yet has regressed

Yeah he's regressed so badly ..I'm sure lots of young players have the trophies Phil has..
He's having a bad run due to injuries illness and being out of form..he will be back soon and back to his best

 

[blue by birth]

Why the fuck bring Rico Lewis into this ?

Oakie mate, you must know by now that Rico is the fall guy.. everything points to Rico being shite..
It must be true i keep reading it on here..

 

[blue by birth]

By the way, have City run out of money or something ? all i'm hearing is we are struggling with players and so on, get some of the millions upon millions the club has won and not really spent is the last few years and bring some in ffs.

Hard to buy players when the transfer window isn't open

 

[Xhavenjoe]

And those mentioned would have been doing what the past 2-3 seasons.?

Hindsight says they'd be playing last season and this season.
It doesn't really matter now but what I find confusing is the deals we put in place that sometimes don't work in our favour.

Lavia Chelsea bought him. The buyback clause we put in place didn't come into effect until end of his second season with Southampton

THB Loan spell with compulsory purchase if Southampton got promoted.

Palmer No buyback clause, as far as I am aware

At the end of the day, we made a good profit on all these players and you may be correct in thinking they may have got little game time had they stayed with us. I think the " problem" is that we play with a small squad, particularly small at the moment, yet Pep appears reluctant to play any of the youngsters, even when he seems to have little choice.
Pep is completely in his right to do this and he hasnt been proved wrong over the last 8 seasons.

Our predicament at the moment is exacerbated when you see 3 of our more senior players at Arsenal and 4 of our former youths on the Chelsea panel at the weekend.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

He's moved on, it's time some of our fans did the same.

You'll soon be telling us we can't discuss Frannie Lee, SWP or Peter Barnes.

 

[jimharri]

You'll soon be telling us we can't discuss Frannie Lee, SWP or Peter Barnes.

It's in the pipeline.