Struggling to see what he adds at the minute. Don't think he improves us offensively, and he's practically none existent in defensive situations.
Starting to worry that he is like Nasri was. Looked a world beater when we were a couple of goals up against a weaker side, but struggled when it came to the crunch in the big games.
Got to remember that he hasn't had a pre-season, but he's been disappointing so far.
Yeah we were shocking against Barcelona at the Etihad, and this fraud couldn't even score a fucking hattrick!Our best performances this season were without him with Fernandinho, Silva & Kdb as midfielders and Sterling, Aguero & Nolito upfront.
Yeah we were shocking against Barcelona at the Etihad, and this fraud couldn't even score a fucking hattrick!
Also, conveniently missed out the West Brom game where he got another two and we actually managed to keep a clean sheet.
He was a passenger on Saturday but if blues are looking for their new favourite scapegoat then they need to look elsewhere because Gundogan is one of our most talented players and he will be phenomenal once fully settled.
He wasn't exactly invisible either though admittedly I'd want more from him when we enjoy so much of the possession. But still, he was involved in that Kante incident which never really got replayed but looked like a possible penalty. He played a nice first time pass in our most beautiful attack which ended with the infamous De Bruyne miss, and he attacked the free space in their area brilliantly, only to not find anyone in the box and as our luck went, that bad cross was eventually the start of their winning counter...Hardly scapegoating. He was invisible when we were dominating. We've called out at least 5 or 6 other team members consistently this season who have been garbage and this lad isn't impressing some over the course of his games. He may well turn it around, but this forum remains and there are talking points day in, day out, and currently he needs to add consistency to his few decent games in between annonymity; hence the points being raised.
Hardly scapegoating. He was invisible when we were dominating. We've called out at least 5 or 6 other team members consistently this season who have been garbage and this lad isn't impressing some over the course of his games. He may well turn it around, but this forum remains and there are talking points day in, day out, and currently he needs to add consistency to his few decent games in between annonymity; hence the points being raised.
Debate all day long, that's why I went from lurking to joining the forum in the first place.
And, although I pretty much agree with your points, some of the posts correlating our form dropping with him getting back from injury have a whiff of aimless finger pointing especially when you consider how vital he has been to some of our best performances.
He's had some good games and some bad games so far and the same can be said about the rest of the squad without implying that his introduction to the team has been a defining factor for the downturn based solely off coincidence.