Mancini’s Pastilles
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We all knew this before today. But club decided not to act
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Kalvin Phillips
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Bigga
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It already has,that's the problem.
We got away with it last season.
Are you affording Phillips the same grace as every other player under Guardiola's tutelage or just cos you don't like him, anyway...?
Bigga
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It’s just not gonna happen for him. We’re walking a dangerous line without Gundogan as it stands
Why's Phillips the exception to the well known rule of the 'first year under Guardiola'??
WTAF is going on with the fans with this player...??
The first half of this friendly? 3/4 are the B list and the team didn't lose, which means he had to have some sort of positive impact or he'd have been hooked, non...?
Good pressure for Alvarez's goal and a few nice passes.
Unfortunately, his game still looks too littered with errors - a wayward pass out of play, or getting easily muscled off the ball, or just being slightly too slow to react.
But it was a pre-season friendly, and he's hardly played for a year, so I think we need to be patient and keep trying to get him minutes during this pre-season to see how it goes and how much he can improve.
Rodri is so good that any other specialist CDM we could employ would be a big drop-off. The few big players in world football that might come close to Rodri wouldn't take the cut in playing time that being his understudy would entail. In a way it's a nice problem to have, but it does leave us very reliant on Rodri.
There is a player in there with Phillips but he's got to take his chances when they come, because nothing he's shown so far suggests Pep would trust him in a meaningful competitive match if he had another viable option.
Unfortunately, his game still looks too littered with errors - a wayward pass out of play, or getting easily muscled off the ball, or just being slightly too slow to react.
But it was a pre-season friendly, and he's hardly played for a year, so I think we need to be patient and keep trying to get him minutes during this pre-season to see how it goes and how much he can improve.
Rodri is so good that any other specialist CDM we could employ would be a big drop-off. The few big players in world football that might come close to Rodri wouldn't take the cut in playing time that being his understudy would entail. In a way it's a nice problem to have, but it does leave us very reliant on Rodri.
There is a player in there with Phillips but he's got to take his chances when they come, because nothing he's shown so far suggests Pep would trust him in a meaningful competitive match if he had another viable option.
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Good pressure for Alvarez's goal and a few nice passes.
Unfortunately, his game still looks too littered with errors - a wayward pass out of play, or getting easily muscled off the ball, or just being slightly too slow to react.
But it was a pre-season friendly, and he's hardly played for a year, so I think we need to be patient and keep trying to get him minutes during this pre-season to see how it goes and how much he can improve.
Rodri is so good that any other specialist CDM we could employ would be a big drop-off. The few big players in world football that might come close to Rodri wouldn't take the cut in playing time that being his understudy would entail. In a way it's a nice problem to have, but it does leave us very reliant on Rodri.
There is a player in there with Phillips but he's got to take his chances when they come, because nothing he's shown so far suggests Pep would trust him in a meaningful competitive match if he had another viable option.
People are often saying there's a player in there but he's almost 28 and has had one decent Premier League season in his entire career...
Certainly not a bad player but for me he seems to lack a bit of intelligence with his positioning and just seem a second too slow in decision making. it's really those split second things and footballing IQ that separates top players from decent players and I'm not sure at 28 he's suddenly going to jump a couple of levels in the departments like that.
I said before we signed him that I don't think he's of the level to be playing for a club in our position and I still don't think so...but I would love to be proven wrong and for him to show that he does belong. I've just never seen anything that suggests he is, even before he joined us.
blueparrot
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The club that see him every day in training, the club with the best coaches in world football decided not to act, what does that tell you?We all knew this before today. But club decided not to act
Mancini’s Pastilles
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It tells me that they cant find anyone to buy him and since we paid big money for him lets give him another season but its evident hes not good enough and pep knows itThe club that see him every day in training, the club with the best coaches in world football decided not to act, what does that tell you?
blueparrot
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Plenty of teams would buy him, he’s a good player even if they didn’t we’d loan him and bring somebody in. You want somebody to come and back up Rodri and be anywhere near Rodri’s level, well that’s not happening.It tells me that they cant find anyone to buy him and since we paid big money for him lets give him another season but its evident hes not good enough and pep knows it
You think we’d play or keep him just because we paid big money (it wasn’t, we’d easily get our money back) for him thats ridiculous, to think that’s why we ‘d keep him.
Pep knows it does he? good mind reading, well done.
Phillips is good at passing some very good passes today and keeping the ball moving etc but when we get countered with Phillips as a CDM we look wide open in midfield. Looks slow and lethargic. That was the same issue last season with him as a solo CDM. He can't win the ball as well as Rodri. When Rodri came on those gaps were nullified.
Phillips is good at passing some very good passes today and keeping the ball moving etc but when we get countered with Phillips as a CDM we look wide open in midfield. Looks slow and lethargic. That was the same issue last season with him as a solo CDM. He can't win the ball as well as Rodri. When Rodri came on those gaps were nullified.
For me, he is not a DM…