I dont think Pep ever had a slump like this. he never had to manage through this brutal bad form at Barca, Bayern or here before. 1 win in 10 games.
remember how livid he was when we lost a Carabao game to Soton 2-3 years ago? how he must feel now losing every week.
40% of our issues are injuries. another 40% is the awful transfer windows, squad planning, no one to blame on that than Txiki and Pep. last 20% is the form of the players that are playing. cannot imagine Bernardo, Foden, Walker, Ederson form is off a cliff really. Savinho aint much better, yet to score, and honestly wont surprise me if he goes all season without scoring. he had a spark around August, but his form kind of went down a lot.
Grealish very poor imo, this was supposed to be his redemption season after missing the Euros and working hard in the summer to be in top form, where is that top form?
Gundogan past it really. could be useful in rotational role but being flogged for 90 mins multiple times a week, wow.
Foden POTY last year, yet to have a real good 45 mins this season mid December. nonsense.
while others in his level like Palmer, Saka scoring and assisting almost every game they play. Foden has 1 goal in PL, no assists. who is replacing all his input from last season?(what about Alvarez's input while we are at it?)
back to Pep, his solution to the current slump aint working. we try to play same way as previously just with worse, older, slower players, badly out of form. its a risky way of play as it works with specific set of players playing close to top of their form. then you can camp on opposite half with your defenders passing around and break down buses by raising tempo of passing, making moves around the box looking for gaps.
a rebuild should have started already, what was the plan on KDB, Walker, Gundogan, keep them 3 more seasons?
dippers had a very old midfield of Henderson, Fabinho, Keita, all reached past their best, Fabinho wasnt even 30 maybee when they shipped him out to Saudis.
they went in big with Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, McAllister and dont forget they were in for Caicedo and Zubimendi just missed out on both.
I wish we had signed Raphina from Leeds who is very good in G+A, rather than Doku or selling Palmer.
current squad ran its course, did very well part from this season, but now Viana in for a shock with the mount of changes need to be made and lets be honest we made some shit transfers, so its all well to say Viana will sort it and bring in 4 players the summer but what if those 4 are just as god as Nunes, Phillips, Doku, and someone old like Gundo. will that help to rebuild? not at all.
