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But it goes back to my point that we take a player based on his performances in THAT TEAM, then try shoehorn the player into being a “Pep player.”
Pep didn’t have that problem at Barca, because they were raised that way. At Bayern, he inherited a top, top team that had the finances and contacts to get the very best at the price of their choosing!
At City, you need an “oil money convincer” to get the player from the club, then a fat contract for average players to slot them into the wage structure.
Meanwhile, the Academy has produced ONE STARTER, but we live in hope!
Going forward, we are often scintillating when it’s working, but when it’s not, we just keep trying the same thing but “harder and more desperately!”
Defensively, we finally now have a big back line of actual defenders (Walker, Dias, Laporte, Ake).
Who knows what might happen next?!
Need a big strong midfielder (Aouar) and a goal scoring CF (TBD), and we SHOULD have the 16-18 players to keep us at the very top!
Im not one who thinks we should win everything every year, because that simply disrespects quality opposition. However, I DO want to see progress in personnel and evolution on the field. We have not been seeing that!
City’s “job” is to be challenging for the PL every season, with Top 4 as a minimum. From there, a cup run for the dubs is nice, and keeps them fit and interested, although I honestly don’t care about the domestic Cups that much.
Plus, we simply have to be in the Top 8 in Europe every season, if not Top 4, 2, or (pinch me, I’m dreaming) CL winners. That takes luck as well as quality on the field, and we are stumbling out through poor decisions on AND OFF THE FIELD.
Pep seems to have created a CL monkey for his back, instead of realizing it is a tournament MADE for him!
The officials are hypersensitive you fouls, the teams are all high quality and confident in their ability to go forward, thus leaving the spaces for Pep to exploit, yet we seem to choke at the final hurdle every season...fall to a lesser opponent, where Pep is often out-coached!
That simply should not happen!
Doesnt read well, does it?!
But it goes back to my point that we take a player based on his performances in THAT TEAM, then try shoehorn the player into being a “Pep player.”
Pep didn’t have that problem at Barca, because they were raised that way. At Bayern, he inherited a top, top team that had the finances and contacts to get the very best at the price of their choosing!
At City, you need an “oil money convincer” to get the player from the club, then a fat contract for average players to slot them into the wage structure.
Meanwhile, the Academy has produced ONE STARTER, but we live in hope!
Going forward, we are often scintillating when it’s working, but when it’s not, we just keep trying the same thing but “harder and more desperately!”
Defensively, we finally now have a big back line of actual defenders (Walker, Dias, Laporte, Ake).
Who knows what might happen next?!
Need a big strong midfielder (Aouar) and a goal scoring CF (TBD), and we SHOULD have the 16-18 players to keep us at the very top!
Im not one who thinks we should win everything every year, because that simply disrespects quality opposition. However, I DO want to see progress in personnel and evolution on the field. We have not been seeing that!
City’s “job” is to be challenging for the PL every season, with Top 4 as a minimum. From there, a cup run for the dubs is nice, and keeps them fit and interested, although I honestly don’t care about the domestic Cups that much.
Plus, we simply have to be in the Top 8 in Europe every season, if not Top 4, 2, or (pinch me, I’m dreaming) CL winners. That takes luck as well as quality on the field, and we are stumbling out through poor decisions on AND OFF THE FIELD.
Pep seems to have created a CL monkey for his back, instead of realizing it is a tournament MADE for him!
The officials are hypersensitive you fouls, the teams are all high quality and confident in their ability to go forward, thus leaving the spaces for Pep to exploit, yet we seem to choke at the final hurdle every season...fall to a lesser opponent, where Pep is often out-coached!
That simply should not happen!