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DavidBrightwell said:
Is it possible to realise that we are the best run, best managed and best coached side in world football and be underwhelmed at the prospect of a signing at the same time, or are the two mutually exclusive? Not everyone that has signed on Pep’s watch have worked out. Claudio Bravo, Nolito, Philips… and the list is longer if you go back just 2 or 3 years before Pep came and the Barca boys were still running the show. Anyone remember Patrick Roberts??
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Bravo was essential to what you see before you today, obviously the levels of quality and consistency were lacking but in fundamentally cemented the foundation to how pep wanted to play, ballsy as fuck

Nolito the same, an introduction to high press that served its purpose to the squad; this evolution was about example and playing proverbial chess, which is the whole philosophy of what we see today, a mechanism of a system, that can be the wrong part of the engine but the engineer upgrades the part…

These weren’t bad recruits, far from it, just not long term solutions to the well oiled machine..

As for Phillips, who knows, 99% said the same about Grealish with a season under his belt, how did that pan out?

Believe in the model as it’s the envy of world football!
 
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
Bravo was essential to what you see before you today, obviously the levels of quality and consistency were lacking but in fundamentally cemented the foundation to how pep wanted to play, ballsy as fuck

Nolito the same, an introduction to high press that served its purpose to the squad; this evolution was about example and playing proverbial chess, which is the whole philosophy of what we see today, a mechanism of a system, that can be the wrong part of the engine but the engineer upgrades the part…

These weren’t bad recruits, far from it, just not long term solutions to the well oiled machine..

As for Phillips, who knows, 99% said the same about Grealish with a season under his belt, how did that pan out?

Believe in the model as it’s the envy of world football!
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Difference with Philips seems to be we are actively trying to sign reinforcements the window after signing him which we never did with Grealish.
 
JDV said:
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Other difference is Grealish was given plenty of playing time to actually adapt. Philips is given 3 minutes when we’re 4-0 up. If he’s lucky. It’s very obvious he is not ever going to be even given a chance to prove if he can step up.
 
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JDV said:
Difference with Philips seems to be we are actively trying to sign reinforcements the window after signing him which we never did with Grealish.
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Grealish was underwhelming in his first season but still played a lot of minutes and started a lot of games.
 
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Difference with Philips seems to be we are actively trying to sign reinforcements the window after signing him which we never did with Grealish.
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Neither Nunez or Eze would be a threat to where Phillips would play. If City wanted to sell the lad, he'd be gone by now

Let's be honest Rodri Fernandhino and Grealish didn't actually hit the floor running. And none of them suffered the injury set backs Kalvin had
 
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
Bravo was essential to what you see before you today, obviously the levels of quality and consistency were lacking but in fundamentally cemented the foundation to how pep wanted to play, ballsy as fuck

Nolito the same, an introduction to high press that served its purpose to the squad; this evolution was about example and playing proverbial chess, which is the whole philosophy of what we see today, a mechanism of a system, that can be the wrong part of the engine but the engineer upgrades the part…
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I agree with Bravo, we wanted and needed someone like him, and once he was no longer number one actually played well when called on.
Didn't play well but essential to our playing method.
Not so sure about Nolito, possibly something wrong with his attitude. Played some decent games but then never reappeared for us.
 
eastlandsblue said:
Neither Nunez or Eze would be a threat to where Phillips would play. If City wanted to sell the lad, he'd be gone by now

Let's be honest Rodri Fernandhino and Grealish didn't actually hit the floor running. And none of them suffered the injury set backs Kalvin had
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Fernandinho had a great first season.
 
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
Bravo was essential to what you see before you today, obviously the levels of quality and consistency were lacking but in fundamentally cemented the foundation to how pep wanted to play, ballsy as fuck

Nolito the same, an introduction to high press that served its purpose to the squad; this evolution was about example and playing proverbial chess, which is the whole philosophy of what we see today, a mechanism of a system, that can be the wrong part of the engine but the engineer upgrades the part…

These weren’t bad recruits, far from it, just not long term solutions to the well oiled machine..

As for Phillips, who knows, 99% said the same about Grealish with a season under his belt, how did that pan out?

Believe in the model as it’s the envy of world football!
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Totally agree. Phillips not had so many set backs at the beginning as well. I'm sure Pep sees him has Rodri's back up
 
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