I Know It’s Over

Sk@mcfc said:
Do some blues not remember virtually every season what we do ok absolutely shite last night but pep gets it right when it matters
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Not in the first season and the club has once again saddled him with players who arent good enough.

Phillips, Kovacic, Nunes - if in doubt.
 
MarcIsTired1986 said:
Wasn't sure if a new thread was needed, or whether this is a relevant enough thread to post in, but...

I might be overthinking it, but our downturn in form seems to have come immediately after Everton's points deduction. I just wonder whether the players have got wind of something, and realise that we may actually be getting absolutely f**ked by the PL - and are losing interest in playing for us, knowing we'll be in the National League North in 18 months time!

Or, it might just be hugely distracting/uncertain for them.

Either way, I don't think it is helping and think we should be trying to get the whole thing resolved ASAP for the good of the club.

(I know some people will say we actually kicked on last season after the 115 charges were brought against us - but this is a new season)
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It has nothing to do with the PL charges
The reasons are very clear
We have a paper thin squad, with knackered players (see Rodri's comments about 60 games a season) and our recruitment to replace key players such as Mahrez and Gundogan has been woeful

What does Phillips bring to us apart from a lovely smile when he's bench warming behind Pep?
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Ha ha, had plenty of grief following the blues. All I'm saying is we've seen these performances every so often when the team looks a bit lost, disjointed, not carrying a threat but of course always gone on to do great things in ghe end. But recently we've not been seeing out games. Added to that is that history tells us the greatest teams/squads in ghe English game don't go on forever and its interesting to see how we do cooe with dips - that's all.
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You called it the beginning of the end...that's a bit premature don't you think? Let's wait and see how we look when everyone's available and fit.
It seems people are mindlessly mixing two different things.
Is the team that took the pitch last night capable of winning anything" IMO absolutely not.
Is that the City we'll be seeing the rest of the way? Again IMO absolutely not.
The idea that we should be outplaying Villa away without arguably our 2 best world class players plus Doku and Grealish being out and an unfit Stones is insane. We're not beating any top 6 side away with Alvarez and Rico in the 8s and Akanji floating around the back side of the midfield and Gvardiol impersonating a LB, simple as.
 
argyle said:
Not in the first season and the club has once again saddled him with players who arent good enough.

Phillips, Kovacic, Nunes - if in doubt.
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Are Rico and Alvarez "good enough" for City as 8s? Is Akanji good enough to play in the midfield? Should Walker be playing every minute of every game? Should Gvardiol be playing at LB when Ake is fit and available? Should Foden play on the left ever again? Though injuries and suspensions are causing him major problems Pep straying further and further from convention isn't helping one bit. No way Alvarez should have been on the pitch at 1 nil in the 80th v. Liverpool and no way should Foden be coming off when he did v. Spurs...let's keep it real...
 
jacko74 said:
Exactly my thoughts.

There's no lack of effort, we just look a bit shit.
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It's easy to look like you're not trying when you're not good enough and you know it. Too much of that for us right now...
 
Paul1970 said:
It’s not the same as last season . We have cone off a treble win and we finally landed the champions league which was our so called holy grail . No hunger on the pitch to even compete atm which wasn’t there last season and the new players are not on the level of players such as gundo and Mahrez . Putting Alveraz in midfield week in week out is totally fucking us and I don’t care if pep is the greatest we’ve ever had because he needs calling out on this . Also I have a feeling Haaland will be gone in the summer as since the back end of last season he has fell off a cliff but he will still goals in bunches to hide this . It’s early doors in the season but we have got massive problems
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The same gripes last season about a lack of hunger in the early part of last season and we showed what we were capable when it mattered.
 
mancityscot said:
seems in some people's eyes you cant come on here and criticise the team after being taken apart by aston villa.
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Of course you can. I was disgusted and unnerved by what I saw last night. At the same time I know Rodri was unavailable, as were Doku and Grealish. I also know KDB will be returning in 3 to 5 weeks, maybe not in top form yet, but no longer worrying about a hammy that was on its last legs and chomping at the bit to get back to doing what he loves. Stones was rusty as fuck and trying to replace Rodri instead of playing next to him.
If anyone wants to tell me we aren't going anywhere of significance with Alvarez and Rico playing in the 8s and Akanji pushing into midfield with Foden playing in his worst position they can save their breath and get in line behind me.
But trying to tell me we're done is a whole different story and IMO simply a knee jerk reaction by people you would hope know better...
 
Been on an early shift today,spoke to my young son after the game last night and asked him how he felt about our chances of the league, he laughed and said of course its still on,he said right us off at your peril.Good enough for me.
 
Tbh I only started this as I thought of good Morrissey shoe-horn. Some slapped arses in here taking football way too seriously.

We do look shit though.
 
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