Kalvin Phillips

fulabeer said:
Really feel for the lad, but he needs to move on for his own sake and ours. I genuinely hope he finds happiness somewhere else.

I don't think we have ruined him. I think he was always at his level, but maybe had others around him that made him look better. He does seem like a great guy. But we will only know once he does leave and see if he bad mouths us.

One trait that nobody can deny is his ability to hide behind an opposition player.
Playing out from the back, he has a habit of moving to a position that he isn't available to accept the ball.
It's like he his marking a player instead of moving into space. Once seen, i cannot watch him without seeing it every game.
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Same. It's not Kalvin's fault he's not on the level required to play at City. He didn't suddenly become a shell of himself overnight, he just was never good enough to begin with.

This might be the most disastrous transfer I can remember our board making in a long while when you factor in wages, contract length, and the fact that Rodri is getting run into the ground because Phillips can't even spell him in the cup games without us looking like we're playing with 10 men.

Need to move him on this summer and quickly. Would sell him for £10m if that was the offer (doubtful that any club would want to buy him though). Leeds not getting promoted kind of fucked us over because they were the one club that might've been interested in a permanent transfer this summer.
 
JTBlue1999 said:
Same. It's not Kalvin's fault he's not on the level required to play at City. He didn't suddenly become a shell of himself overnight, he just was never good enough to begin with.

This might be the most disastrous transfer I can remember our board making in a long while when you factor in wages, contract length, and the fact that Rodri is getting run into the ground because Phillips can't even spell him in the cup games without us looking like we're playing with 10 men.

Need to move him on this summer and quickly. Would sell him for £10m if that was the offer (doubtful that any club would want to buy him though). Leeds not getting promoted kind of fucked us over because they were the one club that might've been interested in a permanent transfer this summer.
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Factor in the sale of Lavia as well and it is even more disastrous
 
Bill Walker said:
"This fuker"
"Bad smell"

The lads a City player.
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Reading this thread it seems that we are terrible at identifying real talent, which obviously we are not because if you haven't noticed, being City fans , we get the majority right. One or two are not going to workout the way we want them to.
 
fulabeer said:
Playing out from the back, he has a habit of moving to a position that he isn't available to accept the ball.
It's like he his marking a player instead of moving into space. Once seen, i cannot watch him without seeing it every game
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Unfortunately that's the way I saw it too - no idea if he was just terrified of making a mistake
Didn't watch enough of him at Leeds to know if that's the way he played there, but if he did our scouting report was way off.
Needs a change of scenery to revive his career, and wish him all the best - situation isn't all his fault
 
Bigga said:
It's not as if he's "crap" because he wouldn't ever got as far as he has to catch the eye of City. City are the loftiest football club in the world, right now. It takes levels of self assurance to play with pressure that none of us on BM can comprehend or we'd be out there in his place.

I think Phillips has a mental block and is, possibly, suffering from 'Imposters Syndrome'; where he doubts he should be worthy of where he is. Maybe Grealish is suffering a little bit of the same (I thought he's said as much before?).

I find it ridiculous reading the arseholes that tear him down when they're not out there doing his job.
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Excuse me and let this "arsehole" have a say. I am not really concerned if he suffers from imposters syndrome or whatever syndrome you care to mention but this was far from an inspired choice of signing for us. Now maybe we can be excused for believing he was better than what has transpired but I would not have stumped up what we did and offer such a lucrative contract. His performances for England were overestimated and I personally could not see how he set the place on fire at Leeds. I think I and others are entitled to what is fair comment and I have no wish to tear the lad, a nice chap by all accounts, down.
Not sure why you mention Jack who I think has done well for us but as I have often stated in the past we overpaid for.
 
He does need to leave however...for the sake of his own career as much as anything...he aint getting game time with us and is taking up a squad place and wages when essentially he brings nothing to the playing side of the squad.

Same with cancello but with the added issue he causes disharmony in the squad so i feel ok with telling him to do one! ;-)
 
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