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Left back too unless I& Reilly is given a chance. Gvardiol was never great defensively but this season he's regressed.
You see that's where I see it differently he's a marauding fullback who creates and scores.
We are currently playing with no defensive mid so everytime he attacks teams just play it into his channel so the lack of no cover in front means we are to easy to get at.put rodri in there and and different ball game.
 
Didn't think it was the worst performance today. But we really should have taken a point at least. Poor errors from Josko and Eddy for their goal. He has to get over to his winger quicker and being beaten at the near post is criminal. Other than that I thought it was a pretty solid away performance against a tough side given our front 3 were having an off day. Feel Kova or Gundo should have started alongside Marmoush and Foden and Bernardo who were poor again.

Won't make or break our season, we need to dust ourselves off and get ready for the next game. Fixtures start to get a little kinder now.

Where to start...
Thought we controlled the game,despite offering nothing up top, until Nico went off.I understand why as he was walking a tight rope as he had been booked. Simple fact is we don't have anyone to come on in the middle. Gundo to old.
Players who are simply not performing as follows:-
Defence all solid today. Ederson made an error but I can't criticise him. He will more than likeley be moved on. Won us a champions league. Lets not have short memories
Khusanov. Outstanding again. Ferdinand criticised him so I put out a post on X telling him to wind his neck in.
Doku. Not for me at all. Sell. Show pony with hardly any final product. Injury prone aswell. Couldn't cross the road.today let alone the ball.Awful.
Savio. Reserving judgement. Has done ok. Not as well as I thought. Is he too ligjtweight for the prem. Showed glimpses today but nothing major.
Bernardo. Sell. Kept hold of for a season to long.
Foden. I will say it again. Not stepped up when the chips are down. Great when we are cruising etc but he is pissing me off to some tune this season. Really really dropped off.when he is 24. Should be getting a grip of these games.
Haaland was wank. Don't dress it up. Yes service was poor but come on has to do more.
KDB. Keep if happy to play reduced role and reduce wages. If not sell.
Rico. Shit. Nowt more to say
Nunes. Utter garbage. Rash,wreckless.
Marmoush needs a really good run of games.
Grealish . Should have been played in the middle from the off as per the home game but no. Not even brought on to draw tackles fouls to create space.


I could go on. Forest are going on as if they pumped us 4-0. Dont believe the hype. 2 poor teams today however fucking good they celebrated. Trust me we will finish above them. 10 game season now plus FA cup.
5th place is the target ( whatever anyone says) and winning the cup however I fear Bournemouth.

Enjoy your evening blues. Do not engage with the media outlets. It will literally wind you up.
on what basis do you think we will finish above Forest?. I don't rate them but were even worse.
 
It’s disappointing to see us seemingly shy away from our struggles.

It’s a tough period but I think we have all learned a lot from this season.

Some of the players don’t have the fight needed when things are not quite going their way. Disappointing and I think we all expected much much better.

Excuses have been allowed to grow and fester. What excuse will be used next season? Club World Cup probably.

I still don’t understand, for seemingly world class players, the inability to pass a simple ball or to find an attacker in or around the box to make a goal scoring chance? Another match where we could still be playing and not score.
 
I would like to see City emulate Real Madrids 4 3 3. To do that we will need a Right Back, a top class GK plus a couple of changes to the first team.

Ederson. Until we replace him we will have to put up with his mistakes.
Right Back. Any ideas guys? Kharsonov maybe.
Left back. I’d go with Gvardiol solid and reliable
Defender. Diaz. A rock at the back.
Defender. Riise. He could be immense
Def Mid. Rodri our Rolls Royce. The best player in the world
Midfielder. Nico. With a run of games he could become a DM/ Midfielder rotating with Rodri
Att Midfield. Echeverri. A free role in midfield encouraging him to attack as much as possible
Winger Oscar Bobb. More of an inside forward
Inside forward Marmouch. A roaming inside forward free role.
Striker. Haaland. He needs feeding the ball over the top of defences. With the players behind him he would score tons of goals.

EDERSON, KHARSONOV, GVARDIOL, DIAZ, RIISE, RODRI, NICO, ECHEVERRI, OSCAR BOBB, MARMOUCH, HAALAND.

At this moment in time with the right tactical setup aka Real Madrids tactics that team would have so much potential at no cost.

Foden amongst the subs until he recovers his form. Grealish sold.
 
As a fucking winger as
Where do you even begin with that absolute shite.

Forest were evwry bit as bad and a 0-0 would have been a fair reflection on the game.

There's absolutely no way Gvardiol can be standing 10 yards away from his man from a crossfield ball, Secondly, There's no way a keeper should be getting beaten at his near post...But yet we've managed both.

Is Khusanov and Nico Gonzalez the only two players on our team that know how to fucking tackle? Seriously the lack of aggression in the side is pathetic!

The usual with Phil Foden again today, He decides to do a few sprints when he sees De Bruyne stripped ready to come on and yet has a face on him when he's taken off, He was on 70 minutes longer than what he should have been.

To top it all off we've the best striker on the planet that we never fucking use, He's making runs off the ball continuously and we keep playing the ball fucking sideways.

Stick a pair of glasses on Doku and he's like fucking Stevie Wonder with a football...

Rant over...

Great start to the weekend.
 
I've said this before we have to be very careful where we go from here, it really could tip either way. There are similarities to the rag side at the end of Ferguson's reign. An ageing side which was allowed to go on too long. They then spunked shit loads of money on so called proved superstars like Pogba and Sanchez and it failed miserably.
Good point and so important, that’s why I think we need to have more faith in our young players let them a chance, keep buying young talanted players and be very sure when you splash the cash on allready superstar.

If we do think Wirtz is going to be the new superstar signing I really hope we get it right, We do have the striker we need, we seems to have got it right with Kuzhanov think he will be the real deal,

Not so sure on Doku and Savhino they need to develop more to convince me they got what it takes to play in team that want titles. Marmoush not fair to judge, Gonzales looks solid and surely will get even better but not fair to judge I'm also think we got that position well covered when rodri get back.

We all now what Foden can do he just has a shit season some summer time off will do him good.

We need fullbacks, defenders, midfielders and backup striker.

Ederson, Bernardo, Ake, Gundogan, Kovacic, Nunes they can all Go for me.
 
My one take away.....and I'm not usually one to moan.....but why is Haaland never in the centre of the goal or even the near post?

The amount of times the ball was put in those areas with no one there is inexcusable.

It maybe a game plan, Haaland going to the back post....but no one gets in the middle.

Frustrating to watch.
Haaland seems to be immune from criticism but what you've said is bang on.
 
Left back too unless I& Reilly is given a chance. Gvardiol was never great defensively but this season he's regressed.
The thing is we know how good Gvardiol is offensively and yet Pep hasn't allowed him to bomb forward except on a few occasions like the Forest game at home or Chelsea and no surprise he was one of our most dangerous attackers.

Imagine if someone told Marcelo or Dani Alves to just defend and not attack, it would've been ridiculous because that would maximize their weaknesses and minimize their strengths which is what Pep is doing with Gvardiol when he's asking him to be a defensive FB.
 
It’s amazing how whenever any team decides to up their tempo by even a little bit, we struggle and gaps start opening up all over the place.
 
Good point and so important, that’s why I think we need to have more faith in our young players let them a chance, keep buying young talanted players and be very sure when you splash the cash on allready superstar.

If we do think Wirtz is going to be the new superstar signing I really hope we get it right, We do have the striker we need, we seems to have got it right with Kuzhanov think he will be the real deal,

Not so sure on Doku and Savhino they need to develop more to convince me they got what it takes to play in team that want titles. Marmoush not fair to judge, Gonzales looks solid and surely will get even better but not fair to judge I'm also think we got that position well covered when rodri get back.

We all now what Foden can do he just has a shit season some summer time off will do him good.

We need fullbacks, defenders, midfielders and backup striker.

Ederson, Bernardo, Ake, Gundogan, Kovacic, Nunes they can all Go for me.
Please tell me how Foden is going to have the summer off ?
 
Agree in general but a week off and I even with injuries expect us to put a shift in.

Win or lose in the bad old dark days we'd put effort in....most of the time.

The standard of some performances this year and I know we set a very high bar over the last 11/12 years has been disgraceful.
I think having a week between games does us no favours.
Weds/Sat seems to keep us ticking over but we've obviously trained more than we normally do and it looks on todays showing it's had the reverse effect.

When Nunes passed the ball out for a corner on 5mins I didn't have much hope but like I said to a previous poster this season is pretty much done for me, top 4 and see how far we get in the FA Cup.
 
Judge him at the end of the summer and the start of the season not now. We still have a decent shout of still qualifying for the Champions League and winning the FA Cup despite being below our standards.
We do mate, I agree as far as qualifying for the Champions League goes. I don’t think we have enough fight to win the cup and we’re very predictable so I expect Bournemouth to be licking their lips again. It’s difficult to watch because we still have a hell of a lot of talent and ability in this team.
 
If you could stick David Silva in this side Haaland would be flying.
He’d play to Haaland’s strengths not his weaknesses.
Through balls for him to run onto is where he thrives, not stood static in a packed penalty area waiting for a quality cross that hardly ever comes.
Ah what we once was : (
exactly my point, with the attackingmidfield we have at present, haaland is wasted because of his style of play, not his fault but an aguero would ne better ihmo
 

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