Player Topic: Eliaquim Mangala (2015/16)

[Dax777]

If you can't control a football and make simple passes it doesn't matter who is in charge or what system we play. Can't believe I'm typing this about a £32m footballer

I don't know why so many were so high in him in the beginning. I said it back before we got him, that at best, he is a more athletic Sahko at Liverpool. We had no interest in Sahko, nor did many think he was any special. Yet too many were sold on his physicality.

Once we got him, I just hope he'd become the greatest physical defender there was, a cross BTW Vidic and Pepe. True there have been good defenders who weren't very skilled on the ball. But tonplay for a top team you kinda need that.

Co when teams sit back, its the CBs who are open and able to make runs with the ball and disrupt the opposition. Kolcieny did it to us all game when we dropped back. We simply are short 1 on the ball with Mangala

Hopefully if he stays, he becomes the athletic monster he is capable of becoming. But he'll never be a ball playing CB. Just doesn't have it in him.

 

[01cravend]

If he doesnt improve drastically, in a few years time, his name will echo in the halls of expensive flops with the likes of Jo and Santa Cruz.

 

[argyle]

Actually Delph's first touch is shit now you mention it.

Our club should be buying better players than both Mangala and Delph.

 

[Proy]

I also called it live in that Delph chose the wrong pass. Couldn't believe it. However, whilst he's also culpable, at least the execution of the pass was OK.

Mangala did 2 things wrong. He chose the wrong pass, but he also executed it fucking terribly. Criminal phase of play with a minute to half time.

I think the club are prepared to swallow this one. It's a waste of 40 million and I'm not at all surprised they tried off loading him in the Otamendi deal

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Our club should be buying better players than both Mangala and Delph.

wheres this suddenly come from ? every top team needs players like delph, he's more than good enough for the squad and he's played well tonight apart.

 

[Dax777]

I also called it live in that Delph chose the wrong pass. Couldn't believe it. However, whilst he's also culpable, at least the execution of the pass was OK.

Mangala did 2 things wrong. He chose the wrong pass, but he also executed it fucking terribly. Criminal phase of play with a minute to half time.

I think the club are prepared to swallow this one. It's a waste of 40 million and I'm not at all surprised they tried off loading him in the Otamendi deal

Yup. That was a clue.

 

[Dax777]

wheres this suddenly come from ? every top team needs players like delph, he's more than good enough for the squad and he's played well tonight apart.

Nothing wrong with Delph. He is a workhorse midfielder. Kinda like the dude at PSG lots of City fans pine for.

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

Wonder how many points he has costed us single handedly. Turning out to be a bad, bad transfer.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

If he doesnt improve drastically, in a few years time, his name will echo in the halls of expensive flops with the likes of Jo and Santa Cruz.

I can already hear it. He will never come good for the simple reason he is awful.

 

[flb]

He's wank, well under this manager anyway, in fact the whole team are wank at defending under this manager.