It's Quiet thread 14 - 'do one' edition

[City Raider]

Give us some names then pal

He must mean Chelsea

 

[KennyG]

Give us some names then pal

All 18yr old nobodies according to him.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

messi on the right,sergio in the middle,raheem on the left,kev feeding,rodri sweeping,kyle and mendy giving width,eric and koublakhan holding the line,aour/foden buzzing around, fucking hell what a team.


sergio

raheem messi
kev
aouer
rodri
mendy walker
eric koublekhan

eddi

Who's this Koublekhan fella?
Just checked,can't see a thread.

 

[Sir peace frog]

And Ederson sat on a deckchair, reading woman's weekly, getting tattooed and smoking a pipe.

edited

 

[Gio's mate]

No i in team but 4 in individual brilliance!

5

 

[Sir peace frog]

Who's this Koublekhan fella?
Just checked,can't see a thread.

ffs
its koubally koubally, or whatever his name is :)

 

[Neville Kneville]

I see there are 2 sides to this argument so I thought I'd make a summary of the pros and cons.


+ Greatest player in history plays for Man City.
+ Scores 30 goals and gets 30 assists a season.
+ Plays the best football you're ever going to see.
+ Tends to make everyone around him play better.
+ Will probably make Pep stop doubting the side.
+ Brings in a ton of money.
+ Upsets millions of rival fans.


- People might be mean about us buying him.
- We don't know how much of someone's else's money it will cost.

Rarely played a decent game with Aguero.
Plays in a free role, with team built around him.
KDB often plays a free role in our team.
Will be playing in a higher intensity league, at 34 where many of our younger attackers have picked up injuries.
Takes all the pressure off Pep , to build a new team & allows him to do a Pellegrini, seeing out a 3 year deal tied to Messi, then leave, with whatever situation behind him.
Teams will be more keen to stop us, again rather than stopping Liverpool, whose turn it should be for the treatment.

Players who don't fit in with Messi, will effectively be finished at City, even if they are key members of the 'team' with all the possible resentment that brings in, with their team mates.

Pep might go mental & leave, if results don't go his way & he loses inspiration (we do still have to defend & Barca can't do it for example) .

Imo Messi will have no problem in the Prem but no guarantee the team will not lose out in other areas.

 

[Akpowell]

thats the eternal question mate....... ;-)

Nudge, nudge,

 

[alexmcity]

He is still the best player on the planet

In the attacking phase of the game, yes, mostly against crap La Liga teams. Did he look like the best player in the world when Barca got smashed by Roma, Liverpool and Bayern? Has he been the best player in the CL since 2016? NO.

This season in the CL, Messi contributed a goal/assist every 110 minutes. In comparison, the much maligned on here Jesus contributed a goal/assist every 60 minutes.

However, and here comes the really bad part, football is also about defending well, and modern football about defending well from the front by high pressing. When it comes to defending, Messi is literally worse than a conference player. An U18 player would be more useful than him when defending.

Hope our bosses do not invest 250m in a 33 y.o. player who contributes only in the attacking phase of the game and whose career in England might be ruined by a daft challenge by some random old-style defender.

 

[trumpton]

5

Bloody fat fingers. That was meant to say 5! I'll edit it!