the rot wont stop until we work as a unit, press harder than now, track back off the ball to help defence, move the ball quicker and with urgency and drive instead of countless passes from wingers to fullback to CB to Kovacic rinse and repeat.
when we do this opponents know we are out of ideas and we fall back to this nonsense slow aimless passing which is often one press away from losing the ball (unless we give it away ala Gvardiol) and we can sprint back to our box and even if we do there wont be anyone to block a cross. we are so slow we dont even have the time to do a tactical foul on these counters we face. we cannot catch them even for that.
can Bernardo, Doku, Grealish work their ass off, can Gundogan, KDB do it at their age? I dont think so and it shows. some of them cannot even stay fit to start 3 games in a row.
some players past it and tired and were looking at Saudi payday with 10% of responsibilty (Walker, Ederson), some others just burnt out after last few seasons and probably need a change of scenery.(Bernardo, after wanting to leave for so long)
stil this collective drop of form says to me there is something wrong in the dressing room and fair enough it didnt get out into public. nothing explains that every single player turned to shit between mid October and today. its a bit like downing tools etc.
when a side is in a bad period there are always a few players that still doing ok nd better than the rest. I cant say anyone is better than the rest. Gvardiol, Haaland were kind of these until a 6weeks ago but now they are shit too and getting worse.
our best players are now Rodri and Bobb who had only a few minutes between them this season. Carson is the top performer. lol