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[bennyboy]

I hoped everyone’s irreplaceable Gundo would be slightly better than this. And must-starter Lewis was invisible - which is a compliment comparing to Gundo. Akanji is a liability when we are under pressure. Doku is predictable with his unpredictable dribble to nowhere every single time. Others are pretty good especially Jack.

Cracking 23rd post.lol.

 

[chesterbells]

Read one page of this bollox. That’s enough! Jesus Christ we have a fucking awful brand of fans coming through. Today was a decent point all things considered. We ALWAYS have a little run in a season when we don’t win for three games. Like clockwork. Our fixtures are kind for 3 or 4 weeks now. Stop worrying and being entitled twats like those over the road. Gundo was awful today. We have been 3 up of he’d have been on it at all. It happens in real life football. We’re still miles better than anyone else even without Kev and Rodders

‘Entitled’ has to be one of the most common insults used on here (aside from the obligatory four letter one).
In fact ‘entitled twats’ vs ‘happy clappers’ is what it often seems to boil down to.
Or ‘be grateful, you’ve never had it so good, be thankful it’s not York away’ vs ‘there’s nothing wrong with having high expectations, we’re not the same club, we’re not in Kansas anymore’ etc.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Need to start with a set piece coach before we worry about new players.

Our set pieces are absolutely dire. Wasted chances, and very frequently from our corners we cede possession and face an almost immediate counterattack.

Dips scored from one today and I noticed Brentford got 1 in a minute again from kick off - 3rd time in 3 weeks.

That Jovier bloke was useless here imo on set pieces, so why is he suddenly having shedloads of success at Arse?

We need it sorting, as well as the leaky defence and the ponderous way of playing. We really aren't presenting much of a threat ATM.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Our set pieces are absolutely dire. Wasted chances, and very frequently from our corners we cede possession and face an almost immediate counterattack.

Dips scored from one today and I noticed Brentford got 1 in a minute again from kick off - 3rd time in 3 weeks.

That Jovier bloke was useless here imo on set pieces, so why is he suddenly having shedloads of success at Arse?

We need it sorting, as well as the leaky defence and the ponderous way of playing. We really aren't presenting much of a threat ATM.

Arsenal have tall players on the physical side. Only our defenders are relatively tall +Haaland and Rodri but Haaland has a 50p head and Rodri is out. And out of our defenders Dias, Walker and Rico Lewis are just not good serially.

 

[pride in battle]

Pep will continue using that midfield we saw today, its the perfect midfield for control which Pep loves, it means teams can't hit us on transitions. Foden doesn't fit, he makes the risky pass we don't have a midfielder who can stop transitions against us if that pass doesn't come off.

Nonsense, going forward Phil will always start.

 

[The Black Shed]

Chill out guys. City haven't lost a league game since 06 Dec LAST YEAR! Things are still ok you know

 

[Inca Roads Bert]

Blatant dive and typical PiGMOL suspectful officiating, and the resident wet fannies and flappers are slagging off our team. Cunts.

In Pep I trust.

 

[Damanino]

not enough bite upfront,expected a hard game, we got that, albeit when found out both Botman and Isak re out injured we should have made it count but not keeping a clean sheet cost us.

bit worried in all those games when Haaland doesnt score, other will chip in hopefully a lot more. Gundo, Foden, Bernardo, KDB and all wingers need to bring in goals. and assists for Haaland.

rivals as expected used our draw to motivate them, all Arse, dippers, Chelsea delivered the win, what a shit round for us, hate these weekends.

another game where we would have brought on Alvarez around 65th minute mark, I still dont get the decision not to replace him, its telling that apart from Carabao games and maybe some CL games vs Slovakian teams Mcatee and Nunes are simply not an option, not even to throw them on to win us the game. neither came on vs 10 man Arse (so Dias can continue to shoot lol) or today chasing a win. its telling.

if anything bites us in the arse this season it will be the transfer window, record net spend, but whats the benefit? more to spend on lawyers? we had a big warchest this summer which we shit on, so dont come with big warchest next summer. we bring back Mahrez lol.
dont feel like Kova and Gundo has the legs to fill in for Rodri in this league, Kova will start his smaller niggling injuries soon he aint one with 30+ league games but more as a rotational role which was great for us next to Rodri who was rarely off until now, while Gundo is 34 years old. also age catching up with Walker too. would have not hurt in the summer to bring in some hungry young players.
few more injuries which is inevitable imo with 3 days a game for a quite log period + internarnational useless 2x games coming up soon in October and 2x in November as well for most our players.
feels like we were way too relaxed during the window, wonder if someone like Bernardo would have brought a great offer like JA did, would we have said ok we hve McAtee and Nunes and they are so nice we dont want them not to play so we dont replace Bernardo.

biggest problem which is usual for the season starts under Pep is most players not in form yet. Gundo, KDB, Foden are not firinig yet, Foden just had his best season ever, bit of drop off from that is not unlikely. other two are getting on with age but still has a lot to offer, now the small injures of KDB will be a theme. watch him fuck himself up in the useless Belgium games with just returning before the break again.
and Walker, Ederson, Doku also in quite mediocre form at the moment. Doku especially need to deliver, bedding in period is done, second season improvement us much needed, Gvardiol is doiing it, Doku I am a bit worried. he was more fearless last season and to be fair more between August and December only. that was the best Doku we have seen, since then its a bit flat.

apart from Haaland, Savio, Gvardiol cannot really praise many, maybe Lewis but he really needs to learn his new role, its a complex role, and its hard when ther 5-6 players are out of form.

given our play our results actually not bad, mostly down to Haaland scoring form, 14 points from 6 games is ok. but still dont get why we make it harder for ourselves in the transfer window. if Atletico doesnt come with with that great offer we would have JA in The squad, and if Haaland gets an injury we need Gundo and Foden to score all our goals which might happen, might not. and apparently our best idea was that Japanese guy from Celtic who might not even good enough for Brentford and likes. this is all a bit strange to me.
if Pep is renewing this passive window makes little sense, why not start the big rebuild asap.

 

[pride in battle]

I hoped everyone’s irreplaceable Gundo would be slightly better than this. And must-starter Lewis was invisible - which is a compliment comparing to Gundo. Akanji is a liability when we are under pressure. Doku is predictable with his unpredictable dribble to nowhere every single time. Others are pretty good especially Jack.

Akanji is shit hot, brilliant player

 

[dom]

Our set pieces are absolutely dire. Wasted chances, and very frequently from our corners we cede possession and face an almost immediate counterattack.

Dips scored from one today and I noticed Brentford got 1 in a minute again from kick off - 3rd time in 3 weeks.

That Jovier bloke was useless here imo on set pieces, so why is he suddenly having shedloads of success at Arse?

We need it sorting, as well as the leaky defence and the ponderous way of playing. We really aren't presenting much of a threat ATM.

Errr..didn't Stones score a crucial one just the other day v the Arse?