cleavers
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Yes, Genoa have just signed Ballotelli, nothing to suggest he can't be registered.
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Injuries 2024/25 | 8 players injured | Grealish, KDB & Walker unlikely to return until after international break
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cleavers
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We might not have to recall him, Ipswich were threatening to end his loan anyway.Can we recall Phillips from his loan? Unleash him on unsuspecting defences!
would rather recall perrone from his loan tbh lol.Can we recall Phillips from his loan? Unleash him on unsuspecting defences!
jimharri
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After the first half hour, I felt we gave as good as we got.It was true though, for most of the game I watched, we were much the better team, and those youngsters some of the better players. The reason we lost last night was our poor finishing (not for the first time recently, though luckily we've been doing just enough to win).
If you have a worry about not currently being good enough, perhaps have a look at Gundogan, and Foden (Bernardo when he came on wasn't great either).
supercity88
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I don't know what you watched, but I thought he had a good game, it'll take a while to be ready for regular first team appearances, but he can still fit in with the more experienced players quite well.
I haven't been impressed with O'Reilly in recent performances for us. Has given the ball away when not under pressure, is quite slow on it and doesn't seem to offer much. He's excellent off the ball and a physical presence but that's not enough at this level. Jacob Wright looks a much better proposition for me, I think he could easily take a place in the squad.
to stick with the small squad mantra when the squad is getting on with age, KDB injury prone big time, the Gundo that left is not the Gundo who came back, and we new we will have little time for proper pre season due to Euros(where this club sent the most players) and also we knew that new format CL and CWC is bringing quite a lot more games into the schedule. these are all things we knew.
thing is we only signed Gundo as he became surplus to requirement at Barca, otherwise we wouldnt have even made an offer. he had a contract there but wanted to get rid at the time thought only due to financial reasons to be able to sign and register Olmo but now looking at Barca it had tactical reason as well. we play much slower football and lot less pressing than Flick's Barca, and Gundo looks slow in this as well.
so who knows if this unplanned Gundo transfer doesnt provide itself early August out of the blue our only signing is Savinho on his own?
that with the previous summer planning of going from Bellingham, to Rice, to Paqueta to Nunes, we certainly could have made our squad much stronger past two summers making much better decisions.
even the fact we only looked at some Japanese guy at Celtic as potential attacker and brought in a free agent who was released by WHU (has anyone heard of him since), I dont understand the logic. Feels a bit Txiki checked out early.
record sales, record net spend, its all great, but this squad is older than it was, and also weaker at least with JA's input.
thing is we only signed Gundo as he became surplus to requirement at Barca, otherwise we wouldnt have even made an offer. he had a contract there but wanted to get rid at the time thought only due to financial reasons to be able to sign and register Olmo but now looking at Barca it had tactical reason as well. we play much slower football and lot less pressing than Flick's Barca, and Gundo looks slow in this as well.
so who knows if this unplanned Gundo transfer doesnt provide itself early August out of the blue our only signing is Savinho on his own?
that with the previous summer planning of going from Bellingham, to Rice, to Paqueta to Nunes, we certainly could have made our squad much stronger past two summers making much better decisions.
even the fact we only looked at some Japanese guy at Celtic as potential attacker and brought in a free agent who was released by WHU (has anyone heard of him since), I dont understand the logic. Feels a bit Txiki checked out early.
record sales, record net spend, its all great, but this squad is older than it was, and also weaker at least with JA's input.
City won't recall anyone, they'd rather suffer than change course I think. But I do think there's an argument for bringing back say Issa Kabore till January. Could cover at RB and on the wing in an emergency. two positions we are suffering in
John Wayne
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I'm certainly confident about the latter two. Savinho feels a bit touch-and-go, but we may have actually come through last night unscathed.Take Savinho, Gvardiol, and Akanji off the list imo.
cleavers
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Unfortunately (or not it seems) my stream broke for about 20 minutes, just got it back for their second goal, thought we were better than them (largely for the rest of the first half, and long periods of the second - let down by our poor finishing).After the first half hour, I felt we gave as good as we got.
cleavers
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Yet he's running second in last night's motm thread ?I haven't been impressed with O'Reilly in recent performances for us.