Angelino was ours anyway & returned from a loan spell. He spent a season, hardly played & was loaned out again with an obligation to buy.Vs Angenino and Cancelo. i.e LB isn't any more a neglected position than RB.
Angelino was ours anyway & returned from a loan spell. He spent a season, hardly played & was loaned out again with an obligation to buy.
My point is this... I don't think it's an unreasonable ask to think we need 8 senior defenders at a club of our size.
Why does 4 full backs & 4 central defenders to provide competition & cover over a 60+ game season seem to trouble some of our fans?
My point is why does having 8 senior defenders, 4 full backs & 4 centre backs providing competition & cover over a 60+ game season sound so unreasonable & unachievable. I just don't get it. \0/Think it is as much a question of luck as it is effort.
We got lucky that Walker worked out as expected and has stayed injury free. We got unlucky with Mendy. Danilo did his bit, at times on both sides. Cancelo has worked out well on bith sides, for the best part. Angelino may have been brought in as a low risk to flip a profit yet again, perhaps. But I do think the club thought he would replace Mendy with a bit of time. The kid was inpatient and Pep wasn't having it. That's it for me.
Cucurella hopefully changes things this year, and hopefully equally strong on both sides.
Yeh, Guardiola confirmed they had a goodbye dinner yesterday & he's on his way to hook up with Arsenal in Orlando for a medical & to sign. So as it stands we only have 2 CB's & a RB as LB cover. :-|Didn't know he had gone or about to, tad gutted can't see us signing 2 left backs. We need the Brighton lad big time.
My point is why does having 8 senior defenders, 4 full backs & 4 centre backs providing competition & cover over a 60+ game season sound so unreasonable & unachievable. I just don't get it. \0/
You have a point that going into a crazy season why would we start with 3 full backs and cover rather than 4.My point has been totally missed. I'm not one of City's scouts. It's their job to find these solutions to these problems, but what I'm saying is are any of the aforementioned players any worse than Mendy or Zinchenko? \0/
It’s that they think cover will do. They might be correct. If we don’t have the depth of other squads (numbers not quality) and get injuries we will suffer more than most. Pep telling us last season how little fit players he had but the club not, as yet, increasing the numbers is a weird one for me.Angelino was ours anyway & returned from a loan spell. He spent a season, hardly played & was loaned out again with an obligation to buy.
My point is this... I don't think it's an unreasonable ask to think we need 8 senior defenders at a club of our size.
Why does 4 full backs & 4 central defenders to provide competition & cover over a 60+ game season seem to trouble some of our fans?
Only to name a couple :Name a couple world class full-backs we could have signed in recent seasons?
Defensively sound ones at that?
Tony Bloom is the prototype of Dan Levy and he'll do everything to make our lives difficult.You have a point that going into a crazy season why would we start with 3 full backs and cover rather than 4.
In terms of signing a full back after Cuc I do wonder what is going on. Possible solutions (excluding out of position cover) are;
1. There is a full back in the Academy (left or fight) ready to come into the squad.
2. We are waiting on the result of the Mendy trial (hard to believe but possible)
In terms of finding a 4th full back I’d actually say it’s even harder to find a good right back than left.
Not every player has to be World Class and I would think we could improve on Zin without breaking the bank.
The window closes on 1st September so as long as we sign Cucurella I think we will be OK until then by which time the picture may have changed.
If City still have just 3 when the window closes then I think it’s a gamble but one which City must be happy to take.
Right now I’d be relieved with one left back but Brighton will of course be very interested to see Zin on his way and I wish we had signed Cuc before we did that deal.
Only to name a couple :
- Lucas Digne (would've been a fantastic addition to the squad and Villa got him for 25 mil)
- Theo Hernandez ( he recently penned a new contract. However city could've got him for ~60 mil if they really tried )
The aforementioned players have the potential to go on and become one of the best out there. Pep improves every player that wants to be better.
Which world class left-backs?
Real Madrid held on to Marcelo for a decade for a reason.
Give me four our five that were either available or not at an elite club already.
I'm not disputing left back is an issue for us, just that the world class solutions haven't been there.
That we can agree on. We're not that far off reaching that goal, so I'm at a loss why some on here are looking at having 8 senior defenders as being profligate & living in the world of fantasy football.But we Have always had 8, sometimes even more. Apart from 2017 and last year when Mendy was taken out the equation.
Agree, we Should have 4FBs and 4CBs, been saying so on these threads myself consistently.
Agreed 8 senior defenders over a 60+ game season to me just seems sensible.You have a point that going into a crazy season why would we start with 3 full backs and cover rather than 4.
In terms of signing a full back after Cuc I do wonder what is going on. Possible solutions (excluding out of position cover) are;
1. There is a full back in the Academy (left or fight) ready to come into the squad.
2. We are waiting on the result of the Mendy trial (hard to believe but possible)
In terms of finding a 4th full back I’d actually say it’s even harder to find a good right back than left.
Not every player has to be World Class and I would think we could improve on Zin without breaking the bank.
The window closes on 1st September so as long as we sign Cucurella I think we will be OK until then by which time the picture may have changed.
If City still have just 3 when the window closes then I think it’s a gamble but one which City must be happy to take.
Right now I’d be relieved with one left back but Brighton will of course be very interested to see Zin on his way and I wish we had signed Cuc before we did that deal.
We bought Mendy not so long ago. He was crap on the field and off it. This need to create a false narrative around 1 position is crazy. Cancelo can play both sides, Zin was effective to a degree, throw Ake into the mix aswell.That we can agree on. We're not that far off reaching that goal, so I'm at a loss why some on here are looking at having 8 senior defenders as being profligate & living in the world of fantasy football.
It's defenders we're talking about here, not a request for Mbappé, Messi, Ronaldo & Neymar. Defenders are the foundations of any decent team & I just want us to solidify that problematic LB position.