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Guardiola to Axe Kompany (Various Sources)
- Thread starter BillyShears
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Eccles Blue
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Maybe he's been fit a while but he's yet another dressing room leader about to be hoofed.
Yep, that has been my thinking since the manager said he was fit and was still not getting on the bench or, more importantly, the pitch. This manager doesn't like strong personalities around does he? Definitely doesn't like leaders on the pitch as we found out the other night.
I am still saying Emperor's new clothes and definitely reserving judgement on this best manager in the world rubbish. I support him because he manages Manchester City but I do not wear blue tinted spectacles. Managers come, managers go, players come, players go but Manchester City is who I support and Manchester City remains.
Joe can't play his football.
It doesn't matter how good or bad he is or how much or little leadership he has, that disqualifies him from playing for the club.
If we had Andy Carroll on the books and he was not only the biggest yes man but also a City legend who scored a goal a game for us he'd be gone too because he doesn't play our football.
I don't know under what pretence people wanted us to keep Hart upon. He'd never be on the pitch, he'd be the third choice keeper. If we all love him so much like everyone is making out, is that what you want for him? To throw his international career away and rot not even in the reserves because we should hoard players?
He didn't need to handle Joe because he was going. He has handled Yaya though, and Kompany, and Zab and Aguero, and all of those who are fit are performing for him.
So not only has he not thrown out these dressing room leaders but instead he's got them playing for their places for the first time in 5 years. That's leadership.
He's a better keeper than both Willy and Bravo. You're going on as though Hart was a terrible keeper, he isn't. What I wanted was for him to be given a chance. If it was proven he couldn't hack it, fine. He wasn't given a chance though, he was fucked off as soon as.
BillyShears
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Why not do it at the time and back the manager who took the banner down at the swamp? Oh, I keep forgetting that he wasn't their man.
Because the players weren't past it then. Which the title the following season proved. Hope that helps.
Hart was the least of our problems on the pitch. Plenty of positions needed sorting before him. He wasn't booted for football reasons.
I disagree. Pep might have been willing to work on Hart's distribution but I just dont think that he rates Hart that highly as a keeper. First and last impressions count. Hart was terrible gainst Bayern in the 1-3 in 2013 (and was shaky in a couple of other games against Pep's Bayern). He was terrible for England in the Euros. My guess is that Pep sees Hart as the sort of keeper who is capable of a few spectacular games (eg at Barca) but is also quite error prone. I just dont think he rates him highly enough to be prepared to invest the time needed to improve his distrinbution.
Sure, if Pep knew how poor Bravo would have turned out he might have re-considered selling Hart. But I'm fairly sure that he thinks that the mistake wasnt in offloading Hart, it was in not replacing him with someone better than Bravo.
Blue Til Death
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I would go for as fit Kompany over any of the others in our defensive catastrophe, he's streets ahead of them in every department (when he's fit) therein lies the problem ...!
Hungarian blue
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Well, with all due respect to Bobby who I love of course, thank fuck for that, being obviously the worse coach in comparison with Pep.Why not do it at the time and back the manager who took the banner down at the swamp? Oh, I keep forgetting that he wasn't their man.
that's a different argument though @stony , i agree at the time maybe he should have had the clubs backing but do you get rid of the one guy falling out with everyone or the everyone falling out with one guy?
We were told at the time that certain players got him the sack, now we're being told those certain players have too much influence and are being fucked off.
BillyShears
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We were told at the time that certain players got him the sack, now we're being told those certain players have too much influence and are being fucked off.
Because they're past their peak. The timing suggests it's almost as if someone planned the whole thing.