Rodri Injury Updates | City say ligament injury (pg117)

[chickaroon]

Time to have Stones in midfield. But honestly, we knew something like this could have happened for the last 2 years. Why didn’t we sign a backup? It’s astonishing.

We would have to find a back up who was willing not to play 80% of the games and yet still be good enough to take Rodris place. Not many of those around.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Can sign them but don't think they can play until January

only if you dont have a space in the squad for them,

 

[DD]

Because the reality is Begiristain did nothing to make City better. Spending money on Phillips and Nunes is ok? The problem is lack of top planning in the recent windows and the board is paying for their sins to have no plan B. EVERYBODY told it, nobody from the club has done it. The fact is we are lacking pure pragmatism in this board. We have not signed no Rodri’s and Haalands back-up and for everyone it was fine. Open your eyes.

What defensive midfielder player of top quality would have signed for City, knowing that he had almost no chance of playing instead of the best defensive midfielder for the big games?

The reality is that we also need somebody who can adapt to the one-touch passing game that we play very quickly. That's why it went wrong with Phillips, because just couldn't do what the manager wanted him to do.

Whilst we all know what we need to have to have an ideal squad, unfortunately, so do many other clubs, and to get a player who is happy to bench warm for us rather than be first choice at another big club is not an easy task.

 

[oldius]

Nobody is in the same universe as Rodri, so what do you do?
You come up with a different plan:



Have a dabble - www.buildlineup.com

 

[CC1]

Time to have Stones in midfield. But honestly, we knew something like this could have happened for the last 2 years. Why didn’t we sign a backup? It’s astonishing.

Because a decent player who knew he was being signed as a backup for Rodri, wouldn’t come on that basis. Great players want to play every game

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Yep it's not on the official website ?

Nothing official from City pal. Like a earlier poster said, shear weight of numbers, but it could just be a social media pile on for easy clicks.. I'm praying.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Arteta has Partey, Rice and Jorginho. Liverpool has Endo as a back-up. At least they have someone. Our midfield is crap without Rodri, but it’s up to the club who did nothing.

No it's not.

 

[oldius]

Why have we all suddenly accepted that Rodri is out for the season without an official club statement. ? I'll prefer to wait until its official rather than hang on the words of these City hating click bait BASTARDS!

Well said.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

We would have to find a back up who was willing not to play 80% of the games and yet still be good enough to take Rodris place. Not many of those around.

The one player on the market who meets that criteria we signed.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Why have we all suddenly accepted that Rodri is out for the season without an official club statement. ? I'll prefer to wait until its official rather than hang on the words of these City hating click bait BASTARDS!

I can see your logic and really hope that it's not serious
However, City tend to be relatively slow with their official statements and recently (Ake and Bobb etc) we've discovered the full extent of injuries via other channels