Martin Demichelis

[ChichesterBlue]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

 

[RandomJ]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

 

[pee dubya]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

Lescott 18 starts
Demichelis 19 starts
Nastasic 20 starts

Not a fair crack?

 

[grim up north]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

Lescott 18 starts
Demichelis 19 starts
Nastasic 20 starts

Not a fair crack?

Never let the truth etc etc

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

Which is stubborn and ridiculous.

I've just said a lot of this in another thread but Demichelis has interspersed elite performances amongst a chunk of average and woeful performances. That level of inconsistency is just not good enough.

We've got a potentially elite young defender at the club who just needs time to get used to playing alongside Kompany in this system, a system he may never have played under in his whole life. Yet Pellegrini gives him one game a month and doesn't allow him to get used to it as well as shooting his confidence all the time.

I also hate how people abbreviate Martin Demichelis to MDM. It's just MD! (Random pet hate!)

 

[pee dubya]

I also hate how people abbreviate Martin Demichelis to MDM. It's just MD! (Random pet hate!)

Probably because his last name is actually 2 words joined together.

 

[shevtheblue]

He's in there because he can pass better than all of our centrebacks, even vinny. That's the only reason pelle keeps playing him, he still feels we will out score the opposition. I don't think playing nasty right now would've been a good idea, he was shite last game. I understand people think demichelis was as well, but he's more experienced and in theory shouldn't let that affect him as much...although as it turns out it probably did. If the kid from Porto was available in the champs league I reckon we might have paid the ridiculous money being asked, as it is we've made the mistake of not fixing our weak points in the hope that we will just keep scoring. Big gamble.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Manager doesn't rate our other options....so we've got him in there alongside Vinny until the end of the season, when we'll clearly sign another CB and MDM will become a squad player only.

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

Lescott 18 starts
Demichelis 19 starts
Nastasic 20 starts

Not a fair crack?

Well Demichelis only started playing on 27th October so we can only go from there and how many Prem games have Nastasić and Lescott played since the next game at the start of November?<br /><br />-- Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:25 am --<br /><br />

I also hate how people abbreviate Martin Demichelis to MDM. It's just MD! (Random pet hate!)

Probably because his last name is actually 2 words joined together.

His surname is Demichelis, one word, like Joe's is Hart but his abbreviation isn't JHR.

 

[Thenumber1blue]

He plays him because he is streets ahead of Lescott and doesn't treat the ball like a hot potato and because Nasty is a little out of form and not so imposing.

 

[sir baconface]

I don't think Pellegrini has given any of the other defenders a fair crack of the whip. He favours Demichelis because he's one of his signings. Lescott or Nasti have only been given the odd game when they need a run of games next to Vinnie to show what they are about.

Lescott 18 starts
Demichelis 19 starts
Nastasic 20 starts

Not a fair crack?

Well Demichelis only started playing on 27th October so we can only go from there and how many Prem games have Nastasić and Lescott played since the next game at the start of November?

-- Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:25 am --

I also hate how people abbreviate Martin Demichelis to MDM. It's just MD! (Random pet hate!)

Probably because his last name is actually 2 words joined together.

His surname is Demichelis, one word, like Joe's is Hart but his abbreviation isn't JHR.

You tell em, K. Or should that be "KC"?