What about not basing your chances of winning 4 trophies, on his, or Kolarov's ability to perform to the required level or alternatively, score so many goals that it doesn't matter ?
That's what we are doing next season if Kompany gets injured, which he usually does. We are assuming then that Stones will step up. If he doesn't, we'll.be ok with Kolarov.
The 'rock' that holds them together, is Otamendi.
If we treated the main striker position with the same lack of interest & based that on hope, what would our chancs be ?
Why are we doing it with the central defence ?
Oh so Neville Kneville gets to have a moan about "this is a forum, I have a right to my opinion" but when someone else posts their opinion, and backs it up with objective facts, Neville Kneville tries to shut it down as a "waste of time". That's not hypocritical in the slightest.
If you don't like football stats then that's your problem. Plenty appreciate them, value them to various degrees, and accept them as a legitimate form of discussion. If you want to leak your vagina all over another player thread just because a few stats are presented, then might I recommend doing so in PM to a mod instead.
Criticise the lad if he has bad game fair enough but getting the impression that some think he isn't going to improve? The lad is 23 at least let mature as a player he will improve. Oh even the best players make mistakes seems Stones can have a good game and few bad passes he's called out on it where as another play can make few bad passes and not even get mention! Some fickle fuckers out there.
I don't see Kolarov & Otamendi getting off lightly tbh.
As said countless times getting full backs are the priority then with quality either side it takes some of the pressure of the center half's this will help stones more as he will be less under pressure consistently.
We do need another center half but that isnt because of Stones it is because there are still lingering doubts about Kompanys fitness.
I know Pep wont be worrying about stones half as much as some of our fans are thats for sure.
No I'm saying you are trying to make out as if everyone who was unimpressed by Stones's performance is some kind of misguided character who somehow watched the game 'wrong' because your rudiculous stats prove it & rather than discus what actually happened i the game, you will dumb it down to a few meanigless numbers & then fell superior having done so.
But you are actualy dumbing it down & insulting people's intellingence with irrelevant schoolboy nerd claptrap rather than enlightening anyone.
I have no idea what you're talking about, I said he had a relative defensive weakness and the statistics were provided as a footnote. The crux of my argument is that he's likely to be better for City than England, nothing more or less.
But you know what? I am going to go ahead and insult your "intelligence" because you need taken down a peg or two. You came in here and started harassing me and have yet to use one single argument to the contrary. You shut down discussion with your contrarian bullshit. You stifle debate with your endless, tired, pontificating about stats. It's boring. You're boring.
So, sadly, you're unable to either use your natural abilities, or the forum's, to ignore those who use footballing stats to backup their opinions. In that case, consider yourself ignored by me and know that I'll continue to use them and you'll continue to make yourself out a right dickhead on here by continuously moaning about it.
I couldn't believe my ears when Hoddle said Jones had been positionally fantastic, despite the previous replay highlighting how easily Mbappe had pulled in behind him.