I'm on the fence a bit, splinters in arse and everything. I thought we would struggle this year, only because I thought it was going to be a transitional season. I thought I could see building blocks appearing.
1) We had a brand new exciting CB pairing in dias and laporte. On paper looks a great balance. Ake and stones to back them up with thb progressing nicely behind them. Garcia wasn't even in the picture. I even thought that tosin might even get in the squad replacing garcia. Exciting
2) We experimented with tommy doyle in CDM. He looked decent, covered the ground well, showed bits of skill, solid passing range. We gave palmer minutes in midfield. Again looked promising. There were talks of aouaer and Douglas Luiz. Exciting
3) We brought in torres young, flair player, decent pace, looks to have an eye for goal. Delap came in, scored a peach, roughed up defenders. Braaf was being talked up. Jesus was progressing well, kun was there as the calm senior figure for our attackers, raz came of a seasons personal best. I fancied us picking up another winger/forward but hey we didn't look to bad. Exciting
4) We brought steffan into the fold. Wow name another club with 2 goalkeepers of that standard. Exciting
5) Next transfer window we look at bringing a new forward in to replace kun, we look at LB, we look at CDM. Only 3 positions in our squad that we either need 1st teamers or backup. That's it we have it cracked. Pep 2.0 he signs a new contract and the evolution is complete with city fans taking up 4/5/6 positions in the squad (doyle, foden, palmer, tosin). Exciting
Fast forward 4/5 weeks and I saw what I never thought I would see again. A starting 11 with garcia, gundogan (as well as rodri) and mahrez as the starting 11, not for 1 game but consecutive matches. We play shite in 1st match and foden and torres come on, Change the game. We play shite in 2nd match foden comes on only because kun is injured and again the game changes. yet we couldn't win because mahrez and gundogan just went missing. Mahrez' performance was one of the worst I've seen in years. Yet he's still on at the end running the ball out of play instead of fucking passing it, cause he can't pass or cross without adding to his YouTube highlight reel 1st.
Why can't Pep see that garcia, gundo and mahrez have a negative effect on our play. They go off, we improve, every time. I genuinely can't remember an exciting match we have played when 3 or 4 of them have started. They strangle our attacks.
So are we transitioning is my question. If we are why are we playing 2 30 year olds who can't press, can't do anything quickly apart from enrage me. Why are we playing a shite kid who doesn't want to be here.
If we are transitioning yes I want to keep pep.
If this is just another season of mahrez and gundogan, no I think its time to leave.
