Rodri Injury Updates | City say ligament injury (pg117)

[Inter Me Nan]

Giving Grealish 300k per week who cannot score 5 goals per season, giving Stones 250k per week and not having room for signing Rodri’s back-up. Incredible planning.

Go and have a lie down, maybe tuck your pussy in too.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I think we'll see Pep sacrifice one of the attacking players and go to two holding midfielders. Why try and cover for Rodri with one player when he's the best in the world at what he does? It will likely take 2 players to make up for it in that area of the pitch. IMO anyway.

A line-up like:

GK: Ederson/Ortega

RB: Walker/Lewis
CB x2: Stones/Dias/Ake/Akanji
LB: Gvardiol/Ake

DM x2: Kovacic/Lewis/Gundo/Stones/Gvardiol
CM (attacking/sole 8): KDB/Gundo/Lewis/Foden/Nunes

RW: Foden/Savinho/Doku
ST: Haaland/KDB/Foden/Gundo
LW: Grealish/Doku/Savinho

I also wouldn't be surprised to see Akanji used as a coupled-up DM at some point. His reading of spaces and pace to recover is vital. And his passing range is fantastic with both feet.

Yeah from recollection Akanji was better as the DM of the DM pair of you know what I mean than Stones.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

We have Kovacic, Gundogan, and Stones (and Lewis) who are every bit as good as Partey, Jorginho, and Endo. Rice not even a sole number six, lol. Arsenal fans largely hate Partey and think Rice is unreliable as a lone six, which is why Jorginho and Partey constantly partner him.

Might be time for Stones to step up to the plate. See if he has what it takes for the roll.

 

[manimanc]

Yeah, let’s use more and more players out of their position because the club cannot plan properly for ages.

 

[Dodge]

Giving Grealish 300k per week who cannot score 5 goals per season, giving Stones 250k per week and not having room for signing Rodri’s back-up. Incredible planning.

Mods, come on, fuck this knobhead off and restore some sanity to proceedings.

 

[chesterbells]

you can sign free agents whenever

Is there a list anywhere or on any website of which free agents are out there at the moment?
Be surprised if it’s high on quality.

 

[come-on-barney]

Look at the risk of getting flamed I don't think Pep will have been happy to see Haaland stoke the fires in that way and provide extra motivation. Clearly personal rivalries are developing on the pitch (even if the managers share great mutual respect and friendship) and so I think it's safe to say matches between the 2 will from now on need to be watched from behind the sofa. Haaland seemed out of control at times and whilst no doubt City fans will love to see that, it does indicate him getting wound up and it's one thing doing that at his home stadium but he's now created a viper-pit atmosphere for the game at the Emirates. City are more than capable of handling that but why make it even tougher than it would otherwise be? It's like creating an extra trip to Anfield from a City perspective.

Likewise Arsenal's shithousery guarantees City away will from now on be even harder than it was before as the fans will be even more up for it than they were before. I'm thinking City-Madrid of a couple of years ago levels of crowd atmosphere which makes it almost mission impossible.

Viper pit at the Emirates. I was there the night of the beast from the east, and you lot never showed up at home. Viper pit…

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Stones/Akanji step into CM from CM
Rico steps in from RB
Gundo/Kova play the 6

reasses at Jan if needed.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Yeah, let’s use more and more players out of their position because the club cannot plan properly for ages.

Haven’t you got some homework to do?

Christ almighty.

 

[wattle]

Giving Grealish 300k per week who cannot score 5 goals per season, giving Stones 250k per week and not having room for signing Rodri’s back-up. Incredible planning.

Lol