It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[I'm Blue]

I can see us agreeing something for Haaland with Kane staying put

Fingers crossed

 

[Blue Maverick]

"Pep Guardiola selects player with no footballing brain 40+ times per season for five straight seasons" seems a slightly hard to swallow headline, unless The Onion is doing football headlines now

just because he can play football doesn’t mean he has a footballing brain like KDB, Bernardo Foden or Mahrez, time and again he picks the wrong option, he’s easy to play against get his head down he’s fucked, name me a time he’s dribbled past players on the wing like Sane or Mahrez Foden does. Like said he’s instinctive and he’s fast put the ball over the top and he can run on to it, never seen him beat a keeper one on one though as he second guesses himself just look at the chance against Everton last game of the season. Great if we play counter attack and he doesn’t have to think, absolute gash when it’s the false 9 intricate passing and control, he remind me of Vassel with his control.

 

[mosssideblue]

I can see us agreeing something for Haaland with Kane staying put

That works

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

just because he can play football doesn’t mean he has a footballing brain like KDB, Bernardo Foden or Mahrez, time and again he picks the wrong option, he’s easy to play against get his head down he’s fucked, name me a time he’s dribbled past players on the wing like Sane or Mahrez Foden does. Like said he’s instinctive and he’s fast put the ball over the top and he can run on to it, never seen him beat a keeper one on one though as he second guesses himself just look at the chance against Everton last game of the season. Great if we play counter attack and he doesn’t have to think, absolute gash when it’s the false 9 intricate passing and control, he remind me of Vassel with his control.

But the point wasn't "Sterling doesn't have a football brain like De Bruyne," was it? I think even Raheem Sterling would concede on that point. It was that he had no football brain full stop. Which is, given his career as a footballer, a ludicrous proposition.

If it's not the constant polemics based around utterly unsupportable absolutes ("Sterling has no football brain"), it's the mindless projection of motives and character traits onto him (e.g. he's greedy, he's too big for his boots, he doesn't want to be a winger anymore (genuinely suggested in his player thread)).

Think that Sterling can be improved upon? That's a perfectly reasonable position. Think it would be a good time to sell him? Again, that's a good conversation.

But we have no idea what's happening with his contract negotiations, so let's not accuse anyone of anything on that front.

We have the greatest manager of his generation and a cadre of incredibly savvy operatives running the club who have all bought in to Sterling. The idea that he is utterly useless or lacks the intelligence or application to play for City is frankly laughable.

 

[doobyedoobye]

So as it stands we are only... signing Kane this window if nobody else leaves...

 

[DMA's]

Conte loves Kane. Below is a quote from him in 2017.



if conte comes in to spurs no chance we get Kane imo. seriously doubt he takes that job without being promised Kane stays

 

[Deleted member 87819]

If it is true that we are considering “the cheap option” André Silva for the striker, I have to ask why not also consider Wout Weghorst, from Wolfsburg (which finished ahead of Frankfurt in the Bundesliga). Bundesliga numbers: 34 games, 20 goals, 9 assists. Only two of those goals from penalties. He’s 28 and has practically no injury history (https://www.transfermarkt.com/wout-weghorst/verletzungen/spieler/228645). His positioning is very good, he’s taller than even Haaland.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Conte loves Kane. Below is a quote from him in 2017.



if conte comes in to spurs no chance we get Kane imo. seriously doubt he takes that job without being promised Kane stays

I doubt Kane thinks Conte has the capability and budget to turn this Spurs into title challengers

 

[supercity88]

Do you think Sterling is searing pace though, bud?

I think he is rapid over the first three or four yards when he stands a man up, or because of his intelligence to see the run.

After that, I am always seeing a player who cannot run away in a sustained sprint, like Foden.

If anything, I think he over rotates, panics at being caught, another reason why he maybe falls on top of the ball looking for the foul or wanting to cut back inside too early on to his favoured right foot.

Sterling is rapid. Let him run a 100m race and he'd beat most people. His issue is that his mind slows his legs down. He doesn't know what he plans on doing with the ball and even when he's miles ahead of anyone they'll get back. Was it late on in the Dortmund away game he was played through? No one near him but he just didn't know how he intended to score and ended up doing exactly what you said - cutting back and the chance was gone.

 

[Deleted member 87819]