him wanting a small squad and happy faces all around when we knew extra CL games and added club world cup will me immensely hard on the fixture list and cause more injuries as we especially with the shit pre season most our players missed due to Euros.
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Pep Guardiola - 2024/25
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citymad
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You might get one or two with that one, made it too obvious with that ridiculous last comment.You what, he gets paid handsomely, we want players to sign 5 year contracts, not 2 year contracts. No wonder we are struggling to sign quality players (and we are), if the manager keeps saying he's going to go in two years time.
No wonder we look a shambles and players don't look arsed, the manager (as good as he is), is taking the piss.
super_city_si
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Watched the goals back and they were all pretty much bad mistakes. Even the last one, grealish gives it away on the half way line. He never does that. We were so sloppy. Injuries, yes, but it looks like everyone’s concentration has gone. Maybe the cost of 4 on the run has caught us.
This is why we needed fresh blood. Quality fresh blood.
This is why we needed fresh blood. Quality fresh blood.
‘This is not a team created to do box-to-box 40 times in a game - we are not good at that.’
Which begs the question what was the team created to do? We’ve been signing players that aren’t best suited for patient, possession football (Phillips, Nunes, Doku, Savinho) and allowed others to leave who were.
Very good point
You might get one or two with that one, made it too obvious with that ridiculous last comment.
It's a forum. I've made a comment, and got it out of my system.
Fookinell. Who ever thought the best manager in football would spend 10 years in M11? We have been blessed.
We have, but it's City not Pep who we follow.
kaz7
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You are only interested when things are going wrong , a jokeWe have, but it's City not Pep who we follow.
69FACUPfinal
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For me the mid - or lack of is the main problem. I still wonder why we didn't go for McAllister the other year. Need a gutsy tackling player with am eye for playing the right ball forward. Whose name is not Rodri.We’re playing twice a week now until the end of the year, that’s nine games.
He won’t have enough time on the training ground to drill a new system so he needs to start picking the players that suit one of his drilled set ups
Yesterday we went with the 2-3-5 in possession with Gvardiol and Walker providing the width , walker hasn’t got the legs anymore and Gvardiol was our best attacker but worst defender
Lewis , Bernardo and Gundogan has no physicality and were constantly late on the press when we turned over posession
Foden and Savinho were shite as inside forwards and could affect the game at all apart from the first 10 mins
I think the biggest issue is the midfield 3 , we need at least two players in there who can get about the pitch and squeeze the play . He’s going to have to bite the bullet and play either Nunes or on or two of the kids
If not we’re staring down the barrel of going on a long winless run
His comments about trusting older players also worries me as it’s plain they don’t have anything left to give at the moment.
Ideally we need at least one midfielder and a right back in January, probably a back up striker as well
Injuries don't help, but neither does constantly changing the defensive line up.
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‘This is not a team created to do box-to-box 40 times in a game - we are not good at that.’
Which begs the question what was the team created to do? We’ve been signing players that aren’t best suited for patient, possession football (Phillips, Nunes, Doku, Savinho) and allowed others to leave who were.
It's obvious in big games teams play us man to man so we bet on players who could beat their man.
Nunes, Doku, Savinho can do that..
But Philipps is the major disaster.
Rodri's ACL disaster ^2
Gundo struggling ^3
Kovacic injury ^4
I guess it's fitting we lost 0-4
We can't even get close to commit the good old tactical fouls.We struggle so badly against teams that transition quickly from defence to attack. The worst thing for us is that teams have just started playing that this season. Quick transitions and counter attacks have become popular again from managers.
Remember Pep saying that it’s so important to win the ball quickly to stop teams quickly breaking, we just don’t have the players to do that in the team right now. So teams have a free hit at our defence