Still I find it hard to swallow we need to sign another world class players for 30-40-50m prices to be comfortably better than the Ajax, CSKa, Sprting, Dinamo Kijev type of opponents. Or one level above but still nowhere near close to us in terms of expensive squad, high wages, so the likes of Napoli, Roma...
Yes we are behind to Real, Barca, Bayern, for that we would need to spend a lot. But our struggle in CL is not vs them. We struggle against the Napolis, Romas, CSKAs, Ajaxs of the CL...
If we could finish ahead of them comfortably which cannot simply be a big ask from a top manager with our squad and would reach knock outs stages and there we would come up short versus the Bayern, Real type of opponents I would understand we need to sign some extra talented players.
But now we need do to it to get us out of the laughing stock role we got ourselves into and hope that when we have Pogba, Reus, Pepe and other top players we will be at least able to finish ahead of a good but far from top class team like Roma.
I doubt it. If current manager or previous manager can only get this much out of it from current squad in CL level in terms of tactics, desire, mentality it would be stupidly optimistic to think they would done much better with Reus, Di Maria etc in the team. They still wouldnt get tactics wrong and teams still would punish our weaknesses.
With Pellegrini I am getting fed up he constantly makes clear mistakes in the first eleven set up that he has to correct around 50th minute all the time. Not even mentioning the way he lets our complete defence being exposed trough lack of any real help from the other 5-6 outfield players...
I think they arent asked to work hard, track back off the ball. If they would be they wouldnt let this happen all the time. Or they just dont listen to the manager and that makes Pelle a dead man walking instantly.
Teams did adapt to us, dont let us score 5-6 goals so frequently anymore, not even 3-4, and also found our weaknesses or the system's weaknesses thats why we keep conceding so many counter goals. Will we adapt tho? Will we change as our opponents change?
Roma-CSKA 5-0.
City-CSKA 1-2.
Roma didnt need world class player to beat them 5-0. Roma manager could say they need world class player to beat a club like City with all their highly paid top stars.
CSKA and Roma manager at the draw could thought ohh fuck we got Bayern and City, so we can decide which one of us is 3rd and 4th then because those two English and german Champion will just go to next round.
But no, because City is in real danger of finishing 4th with only collecting 2 or maybe 3 points in 6 games.
Pellegrini needs to sit down and think it trough what is he doing. Chelsea this season seems lot stronger than Liverpool last season or even United 2 seasons ago. There wont be many more chances to lose/draw league games and hope ohh we turn back around April.
Soton and Sunderland away games are in less than 1 month, Pelle will have to have plans how to go those places and come away with 6 points. Or at least 4 points.
