Talking garbage Sterling Stones KDb Gundogan good buys! All clubs make mistakes in the transfer market. If want bring the scum up for the example of spending half fucking billion and being shite I can just so i can call the fkkers SCUM.
There's no doubt that they're good buys.
But it seems Sane and Sterling both favour the right. If Silva or De Bruyne are used wide, they're both more effective on the right and Navas can only play on the right.
We have signed good players but yesterday we had £60 million of right wingers on the bench. No left sided attacker, no centre back and Delph and a kid to cover a midfield with just YaYa and a washed right back in it.
We have signed some decent players but until Pep and even he's abandonded it, all our key players want to play in the same positions.
These are whom I consider our elite level players.
Stones, Otamendi & Kompany all want to play right sided centre half. All have struggles at left sided centre back.
Sane and Sterling want to play right wing. Sterling has looked dreadful left and Sane prefers the right.m
Fernandinho has no help and hasn't since 2014.
De Bruyne and Silva want to play in the same position. Or in the 100% successful system we've abandoned to accommodate players out of position or due to Fernandinho having zero adequate back up.
Gundogan was shoehorned in. If we played him deep, he was in Fernandinho's way, advanced and he was in Silva's way.
On paper the recruitment has looked good, exciting in fact. but age and positional balance in the squad are not good and for me, that's why under Pellegrini & now Pep we are effective flat track bullies.
If we haven't got Fernandinho we simply can't compete physically in midfield and we resemble Arsenal.
Full squad, all flying we're good enough, miss Kompany we can't defend, miss Fernandinho we can't run. This is not reactionary, it's been the same for two and a half seasons. As one is injury prone to say the least and the other is in his 30's we should really have sorted it.
Last season it was Pellegrini's fault, many calling him all the names under the sun. He was slaughtered for relying on Toure, we'd never see him in a two again. We'd never see him and Fernando together. Any decent manager would walk the league with this squad.
Pellegrini tried the simple system of putting players in their favoured positions. Sometimes we looked great, lovely football. A fast aggressive team walked through us.
Pep has tried everything, sadly he is finding what many have said, a pacey aggressive talented side will normally rip us apart.
Pep is getting no better results in general than Pellegrini, however where Pep is better, he's looking to combat our problem. Adapt & transform us. Something Pellegrini never did.
BVB ripped Mancini's side apart.
Spurs, Liverpool ripped Pellegrini's side apart.
Pep is fairing no better. Despite trying everything.
Said it for 2 years plus now, our squad really has no balance in age or positionally.
Everton & Koeman exposed that. He changed his tactics to expose our weaknesses. Flooded the midfield with energy, pace and directness up top and a tight narrow back 3. Limiting our attacking options. Spurs will do the same.
Who in our current squad has the physical capabilities of matching Wanyama? Dembele? Who's going to track the runs of Ali? YaYa? Zabaleta? Fernando?
Pep loves midfielders and to have any chance Saturday we need to keep the ball away from midfield.