He was not often complete fuckin shite. That's a massive exaggeration. He was our best CB last year when it's all said and done with Kompany going in and out of lineup. He made mistakes but so did Bonucci and Boateng. When defenders and keepers make mistakes it got put on spotlight cause usually we concede goals as a result. But forwards make mistakes too. Aguero missed sitters after sitters during a tough patch last season before scoring 5 against Newcastle. He also didn't score in the CL much. Does that make him complete fuckin shite? Of course not.
No because I didn't say Otamendi is complete fucking shite I said he 'often' was, last season. Which is true. And people trying to rewrite it, as if folks were wrong to mention it, are taking the piss.
Otamendi has played more genuine top quality games for City this season already, than he did in the whole of last season.
He was being arse kissed by fanboys for often routine defending, but also letting players run off him at set pieces for free headers, chucking himself over trying to win free kicks instead of doing his job, rushing out of position leaving gaps behind him for oppo to run into, being bitched in the air by journeyman cfs, outpaced, outhought, & sitiing on his arse when he should be holding players up. The shiteness at times of our other top players like Aguero, Yaya or Silva didn't harm him, it helped him stay under the radar.
He was lauded for any decent games he played, & praised heavily for average ones whilst his constant stream of mistakes were put down to Pellegrini telling him to do stuff or Fernandinho or Yaya not doing his job for him. He was all over the place.
He isn't allowed to be, anymore. If he goes back to that level, he's out the door. So far, he's looked like a real top cb apart from 20 mins v West Ham, where he reverted to last season. On Saturday, he was heroic. Hopefully that will be his futute standard & then he will become one of the best around. His standard last season, was Johnny Evans with a beard.
