This is what happens when you leave making such a key signing until a week before the end of the window shuts. Back-up for Kompany was a key requirement because he's vulnerable to injury, and the other central defenders go to pieces without him. However, I have no problem with Evans. He's the ideal type of player who could come in and replace Kompany and organise our back 4. He's far better than the critics on here suggest whose prejudice against him comes down entirely to the team be used to play for.
Seems to me a deal has fallen through and we now have the money to do this.
I'm getting really sick of saying this but if Tosin isn't mentally good enough then there's very little Pep can do. Players who cannot concentrate for more than twenty minutes at a time are too risky to play in the Premier League.
Find this odd... not a single presenter/pundit/radio broadcaster that I have heard has said it would be a bad signing- in fact some have said it would be a good signing, with Pep obviously impressed. Yet the majority on here has slaughtered the guy...
Allegedly we're up to £30m for him now. Can't see it myself, but I'm sure the papers aren't making this up.....
Allegedly we're up to £30m for him now. Can't see it myself, but I'm sure the papers aren't making this up.....
Oh boo fucking hoo, I am getting sick of people making excuses as to why some youth team members can't get a minutes game time, he would be fucking cover not first team and you know a top coach would sort this out sharpish, if it can't be sorted he should have been moved on by now, saying youth team players are not ready for the first team is getting extremely boring, of course they are not ready for 30 games a season but by keeping them held back it stagnates them until you get to a point all potential has evaporated, they need some sort of game time in OUR team, whether that be in the shape of the league cup and I don't just mean firing 7 of them in the team and 4 wasters like Fernando and Bony etc a decent mix of firsts and youth, let us see if they can shine in an environment with real players alongside them.
Again Tosin looked good against Chelsea in the 5-0 surrender, him and Garcia (A) showed enough that they should have been given another look but that didn't happen either, thanks to Pellers, I don't think it would matter as much if Pep wasn't heralded as some kind of youth guru coach, so far at City that isn't the case.
Some sympathy with that view but then I think about the disarray our defence was in last season when Kompany was out. We need a solid team into which we can introduce young players.Oh boo fucking hoo, I am getting sick of people making excuses as to why some youth team members can't get a minutes game time, he would be fucking cover not first team and you know a top coach would sort this out sharpish, if it can't be sorted he should have been moved on by now, saying youth team players are not ready for the first team is getting extremely boring, of course they are not ready for 30 games a season but by keeping them held back it stagnates them until you get to a point all potential has evaporated, they need some sort of game time in OUR team, whether that be in the shape of the league cup and I don't just mean firing 7 of them in the team and 4 wasters like Fernando and Bony etc a decent mix of firsts and youth, let us see if they can shine in an environment with real players alongside them.
Again Tosin looked good against Chelsea in the 5-0 surrender, him and Garcia (A) showed enough that they should have been given another look but that didn't happen either, thanks to Pellers, I don't think it would matter as much if Pep wasn't heralded as some kind of youth guru coach, so far at City that isn't the case.