How would you assess Rodri's season?

[Wayneclarkemunchescarrots]

He’s still our player of the season

 

[johnevans]

He’s still our player of the season

Nah.. I've not seen him track back once for months.. (!!)

 

[invisibleandalone]

Short !!!!

 

[ufo]

Invisible

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

First 20 minutes against Arsenal were the last time we looked like the real City.

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

Only just occurred to me that in Rodri’s case the ACL Injury he suffered was referring to ‘A Crucial Loss’.

 

[CheshireExpat]

This aged horribly

I thought your injury was getting better. You must be bored to make an account on here

 

[Shazza458]

Inter Milan at home seems like a distant memory now. Fuck me, after the run we’ve been on that was a remarkably solid performance. Foden and Gundo missed sitters - we should’ve won that game. People were complaining after that - ended 0-0

The period Rodri was on for the pitch for the Arsenal game where he did his ACL was the best we’ve played all season. I thought we were going to put them to the sword.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Inter Milan at home seems like a distant memory now. Fuck me, after the run we’ve been on that was a remarkably solid performance. Foden and Gundo missed sitters - we should’ve won that game. People were complaining after that - ended 0-0

The period Rodri was on for the pitch for the Arsenal game where he did his ACL was the best we’ve played all season. I thought we were going to put them to the sword.

We were gonna absolutely dick them we were running riot. Rodri going down in such obvious distress put a cannonball through our sails. We went to bits instantly and if that panda eyed prick didn't get himself sent off for being an idiot on half time it would have been ugly.

 

[Middedon]

Everyone should be forced to read this thread before they make a comment on a new player.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

They old wait until next Season Chestnut. Not good enough, end off. A shining example of what is wrong with our Scouting System. It's obvious Pep never bothered looking at him personally if you read his comments on him when we bought him. Skilful, quick thinking,strong in the tackle, able to pick a forward pass and the clincher for me "dangerous at set pieces".
Good grief.

To be fair, nobody could have anticipated that he’d be a future Ballon D’Or winner but, with hindsight, your assessment looks brutal.
We’ve all been there :-)
Anyway, hopefully we get the player back that we all want to see. Treble winning Rodri.

 

[B\connellblue]

To be fair, nobody could have anticipated that he’d be a future Ballon D’Or winner but, with hindsight, your assessment looks brutal.
We’ve all been there :-)
Anyway, hopefully we get the player back that we all want to see. Treble winning Rodri.

At the time of writing it was a fair assessment. I was wrong and I have no problem admitting it. There were few sign of the colossus he was to become in that season. I've been wrong about others too and I've been right about a fair few as well. Then again so have Txiki and Pep.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Some hilarious takes in this thread!

 

[Centurions]

Some hilarious takes in this thread!

Agreed, with some hilarious backtracking and justifications :)

 

[Sir peace frog]

At the time of writing it was a fair assessment. I was wrong and I have no problem admitting it. There were few sign of the colossus he was to become in that season. I've been wrong about others too and I've been right about a fair few as well. Then again so have Txiki and Pep.

nothing wrong with opinions, but it is a bugger when they go wrong :)

have you changed your mind on the scouting system since 2020, we seemed to have done ok considering how shite the scouting system is :)

 

[B\connellblue]

nothing wrong with opinions, but it is a bugger when they go wrong :)

have you changed your mind on the scouting system since 2020, we seemed to have done ok considering how shite the scouting system is

There's room for improvement there still. The replacements and back ups for the old guard haven't set the world alight and then there's a few really poor ones. A general reluctance to sign the powerful athletic type players has been detrimental to the squad. Pace and power is where football is at at the moment, particularly when you no longer have the players in their prime to play the possession game. Anyway that's deviating from Rodri. It's hands up on that one!

 

[SWP's back]

They old wait until next Season Chestnut. Not good enough, end off. A shining example of what is wrong with our Scouting System. It's obvious Pep never bothered looking at him personally if you read his comments on him when we bought him. Skilful, quick thinking,strong in the tackle, able to pick a forward pass and the clincher for me "dangerous at set pieces".
Good grief.

lol

 

[Manc in London]

I don't believe there is a bad take from me on this thread but I do remember telling friends he was too slow to make it here. Ah well, I was very wrong but what do I know about football?

 

[eastmanc]

Never write players off in their first season,also be is not dinho nor is he expected to be so it is an unfair comparison,pair him with legs and he will be fine

Looking through the reaction to Rodri's first season and your post is the the only one that is sensible and has aged well. City fans on Bluemoon are far too quick to criticise City player, 99 percent of the post in the fist 10 pages of this thread are so dismissive of our Balon dor winner, I have been guilty of it myself, A lesson for all of us with these new players we have just signed we have to have more patience.

 

[eastmanc]

Everyone should be forced to read this thread before they make a comment on a new player.

This.