Ermmm the behaviour of Phillips having one job to turn up for training at the correct weight.What behaviour?
Maybe, just like the manager of the England team, the backroom staff aren't as good as the ones at City.Just how do you manage to go away with your national team for 4 weeks in the World Cup of all competitions and come back fatter than when you went? They have nutritionists, fitness coaches the lot the same as the clubs. It beggars belief.
Methinks that city’s set up is probably more professional than Englands shambles……Please tell me all the times the manager of an elite club has said in a press conference that a £50m player couldn’t train or play cause he was overweight.
It doesn’t ‘happen all the time’. Far from it. I’m first to slag the unfair media coverage City get, but this is valid story.
I think it’s a fucking joke that Phillips has come back from Qatar overweight and hopefully the headlines will sort his head out. I’d be very concerned that a player that has so far contributed fuck all to City is not professional enough to keep his weight correct.
You've not heard? They've put in an appeal about Thursday's result. The trauma caused by Gundogan pushing over one of their players resulted in them losing the game. Apparently, they want the tie to be awarded to them, and Gundogan to get a 15 game ban.Just a shame Liverpool won't be anywhere near those 2 games ;-)
Klopp is whinging yet again because he knows that everybody who watched that game last night saw with their own eyes that City are a better side than Liverpool.
It really is that simple
Bit concerning this but you may be correct about England when really they should be stepping it up even more for a WC. Maybe explains some of the English lacklustre play.Methinks that city’s set up is probably more professional than Englands shambles……
It's probably more likely that they took a player that had just come back from injury to the World Cup, instead of putting him through a tailored training regime to get him back to full match fitness he just did the same tactical training and match practices as the other England players.Bit concerning this but you may be correct about England when really they should be stepping it up even more for a WC. Maybe explains some of the English lacklustre play.
I wasn’t having a dig, it was just comment. I saw a lot of pages of comments from various peeps saying about the press mentioning Phillips but not the girl and the few sites I looked at have both. seemed to paint a one sided story.I said the Mail but carry on.
Absolutely agree with this. I think we all find media behaviour appalling now.It's probably more likely that they took a player that had just come back from injury to the World Cup, instead of putting him through a tailored training regime to get him back to full match fitness he just did the same tactical training and match practices as the other England players.
Southgate was only ever going to use him as a substitute so all he had to worry about was him being up to speed with the tactical plan of the team and that he could play for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Southgate and the England staff have no interest in making sure players are fit and ready to play a full league season, their only remit is the tournament they're managing these players in, not the competitions their parent clubs are involved in.
Pep then used a phrase in his conference that a native English speaker may not have done (isn't the first time) then the press make a huge thing of it because there's no football on and they've got a 24 hour sports news channel to fill/papers to sell/clicks to gain and the only other football news is related to Liverpool fans misbehaving yet again. Can't have negative headlines and stories about Liverpool so suddenly every easily manipulated football follower is up in arms because Phillips is suddenly an unprofessional fat bastard.